Zhang Tie's words made Yan Feiqing hold him even tighter, tears spilling uncontrollably down her face. Before others, Yan Feiqing carried herself with the bearing of a mighty Sky Knight, but at this moment, she was merely a woman deeply in love. "You don't have to do this. Whoever you want to kill, whatever you want to do, tell me. I'm your woman—your business is my business. Whatever you can do, I can do too. I'll go..."
"I'm a man. Some matters have to be settled by me personally. This one, even more so..." Zhang Tie smiled, kissed Yan Feiqing on the lips once more, and wiped the tears from her face. "Don't think about it anymore. Get some proper rest first!"
After saying this, Zhang Tie stood up and left the cultivation chamber, allowing Yan Feiqing to recover by herself inside.
But the moment Zhang Tie stepped out of the chamber, he saw a steward from the Sect Master's Pavilion hurrying toward him, his face drenched in cold sweat. One sentence from the steward made Zhang Tie's expression change drastically. "S-Sect Master... Miss Ma... Miss Ma has met with trouble..."
Ma Aiyun's room was in a separate courtyard within the Sect Master's Pavilion. By the time Zhang Tie hurried to that courtyard, several maidservants responsible for attending to Ma Aiyun were already kneeling in the yard, pale-faced and trembling all over.
Dawn had only just broken. For the past two days, Ma Aiyun had risen at this hour. Today, she had yet to get out of bed. One of the maidservants called out from outside the room several times, but there was no response. She listened carefully, yet there was not the slightest sound within. Only when she dared to enter the room did she discover that something