The sight of a knight's beacon smoke meant battle, and battle at a time like this—whether against the Devil Race or from internal strife—was extraordinarily sensitive.
Before Mountain-Bearing True Person could say anything, everyone in Zhang Tie's team turned into streaks of light and shot toward the knight's beacon smoke.
Streaks of light also rose from the camps of the other two teams, rushing in that direction.
More than seventy kilometers took only four or five minutes at a knight's flying speed.
No one needed to point it out. The moment they arrived, everyone saw a corpse lying on the ground.
The corpse had been decapitated. It was dead beyond any doubt, with a pool of blood spread across the ground.
After the knights who had flown over surveyed the area from the sky and found neither ambushes around the corpse nor any sign of other people, they descended one by one.
Once they landed, Mountain-Bearing True Person, Zhang Anguo—the Supreme Elder of Heavenly Fortune Hall—and Qi the Old Freak exchanged glances before walking over together.
The three Earth Knights stepped forward. After only a brief inspection, they immediately identified the dead man. At the same time, they found no other traces here whatsoever. Apart from the corpse, nothing of value had been left at the scene.
"It's Sun Sheng!" Qi the Old Freak rose from his crouch, a layer of icy flame flickering in his eyes. His strange gaze swept across the faces of Mountain-Bearing True Person and Zhang Anguo. He had seen the two Earth Knights fly out of the camp alongside him just now; if they were to make a move, they seemingly had not had the opportunity.
Mountain-Bearing True Person and Zhang Anguo also stood up from the ground.
"This man was swiftly killed in a