Chen Xuan stepped forward and picked up the Storage Ring from where Zhao Jingang had vanished. After checking it, he found eight token seals inside. Added to the tokens he had collected before, he now had twenty-one tokens in hand.
"The remaining tokens of Subduing Dragon Temple should be with Qin Yuan and Liu Wuhen."
Chen Xuan murmured to himself.
The three leading figures of Subduing Dragon Temple were Qin Yuan, Liu Wuhen, and Zhao Jingang. All three were Condensation Origin Grandmasters.
Now that Zhao Jingang had died by his hand, only Qin Yuan and Liu Wuhen remained among Subduing Dragon Temple's leaders.
Whoosh—
Chen Xuan flashed and vanished from where he stood.
Behind him, the dense forest returned to silence.
Only the deep ravine on the ground and the lingering power of Five Elements Annihilation in the air proved that a battle had just taken place.
However, news that Zhao Jingang had died at Chen Xuan's hands quickly spread across the battlefield.
Before dying, Zhao Jingang had managed to send a voice transmission to Qin Yuan and Liu Wuhen.
The message read: Be careful of Chen Xuan, he...
Though the message was incomplete, containing only half a sentence, it still mentioned Chen Xuan's name.
Since Zhao Jingang had lost contact, he had most likely already fallen victim to Chen Xuan.
Zhao Jingang was dead.
This news spread through the battlefield like a plague, at a speed far beyond everyone's expectations.
Outside the battlefield, at Subduing Dragon Temple's camp.
Within the council tent, two Grandmasters and several upper-ranking members who had not entered the battlefield sat around a long table. They, too, had received word from disciples inside the battlefield: Zhao Jingang was dead.
The voice transmission Zhao Jingang had sent before his death had cut off after only half