Ye Jiuniang also noticed the pursuers had stopped, and joy rose in her heart as she hurried over to Aaron's side. "Fellow Daoist..."
What answered her was a streak of azure sword light and several fireballs!
Bang! Bang!
The fireballs exploded one after another, blasting a gap in the colorful ribbon protecting Ye Jiuniang. The azure sword light pierced through it and cleaved her beautiful face in two.
Splurt!
Ye Jiuniang's corpse collapsed to the ground. This sudden turn of events left the Black Blood Sect's senior brother behind her utterly stunned.
"Fellow Daoist, you truly show no mercy to a beautiful flower. Such a great beauty—I would have been somewhat reluctant..."
After a moment, the Black Blood Sect senior brother fixed Aaron with his hawk-like eyes and spoke in a hoarse voice.
"That venomous woman clearly saw me standing here, yet she still tried to divert the disaster onto me. Killing her was no injustice..." Aaron took out a wine flask and gulped down some Essence Recovery Wine, restoring his depleted spiritual power. "Besides... she was truly formidable. Those two junior brothers of yours also fell to her hands, didn't they?"
Seeing the Black Blood Sect senior brother tacitly admit it, Aaron continued, "Though joining forces with her would have given me a better chance of killing you, I'd have had to guard against her turning on me and selling me out the whole time. Better to kill her cleanly!"
"Hahaha... well said." The hawk-eyed senior brother burst into laughter. "The way you conduct yourself, you have quite the air of an unorthodox cultivator. Would you like to join our Black Blood Sect? The Sect Master favors talents like you!"
"I've long been used to drifting like an idle cloud or wild crane. I dislike being bound by sect