Gu Nanhai stared at Xiao Wujiu, who had vanished from the spot. After a moment of stunned silence, his eyes widened in disbelief. "How is that possible?!"
He unwillingly spread his senses to their limit, yet still found nothing. The surrounding space showed no abnormalities. Other than the spatial fluctuation at the instant Xiao Wujiu vanished, there had been no further movement.
"Impossible, impossible! How could a Three-Star Dou Zun escape from my grasp?!"
Gu Nanhai could no longer maintain his initial kindly appearance. His heart was filled with fury. He had actually let a Three-Star Dou Zun escape right under his nose?
Absurd. Utterly absurd!
How vast was the gap between a Three-Star Dou Zun and a late-stage Four-Star Dou Sheng? What were the chances of the former escaping alive from the latter's hands?
Even fiction would not dare write something like this, yet the truth stood nakedly before him. The problem was that he was the very person who had let Xiao Wujiu go?
"If I report this to the clan, forget whether the clan leader and the other elders would believe it—even I wouldn't believe it myself." Gu Nanhai felt a headache coming on as he considered how to handle this matter.
At that moment, he suddenly recalled the gesture and words Xiao Wujiu had left him with before departing.
Although he did not understand what the middle finger meant, he understood those words well enough. Though he was angered by the insult, he remembered that Xiao Wujiu had said he would come back for him...
"Then there is no need to report this in a hurry. When the time comes, I can simply say that Xiao Wujiu has hidden himself somewhere, and that everyone connected to him has vanished as well. Then I will follow the