Shifting Blame

"It's you!"

When the man in black saw Li Jianchi floating in midair, guarding the entrance to the canyon, his eyes widened in horror. He even forgot the pain of his severed arm and cried out. When he turned back, his gaze at Ye Tian brimmed with unwillingness and fury. Gritting his teeth, he asked again, "Just who are you, to be able to invite the Heavenly Sword Sect's Sword Maniac to escort you?!"

This time, the man in black did not speak to Ye Tian through his masked spiritual sense, but used his real voice. Hearing it, Ye Tian narrowed his eyes. It sounded extremely familiar, as though he had heard it somewhere before.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Other than the golden saber Li Jianchi had destroyed, the remaining two golden sabers flew back to the man in black and guarded him.

Seeing that similarly familiar saber-controlling art, Ye Tian suddenly thought of someone—the Jiang Yukun whom he had killed in the secret realm. Their saber-controlling arts came from the same source. No wonder not only the voice sounded familiar, but even the saber-controlling art did as well.

He remembered!

A flash of inspiration struck Ye Tian, and he finally recalled who the owner of that voice was.

When Jiang Yukun had come to the Heavenly Sword Sect and forcibly entered the Demon Sealing Tower secret realm, the elderly man following at his side had been this very man in black. He had also been the old man who later took away Jiang Yukun's corpse and ashes after Ye Tian and the others left the secret realm.

That day, relying on his cultivation, he had thrown his weight around in the Heavenly Sword Sect, long since provoking the dissatisfaction of the sect's disciples. Had Uncle Ning Suxin and the Fourth Elder