414. Killing Saint Qi Luo

Source City, Northern Region.

Several years ago, Ye Fan had entered the Ancient Mine of Absolute Beginning through an old snakehead named Old Knife Handle, seeking the supreme weapon-refining site once used by the Great Emperor Hengyu.

Using the earthfire of Fallen Sun Ridge, he had upgraded the Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi.

Given his good relations with the Ancient Jiang Family, he had not actually needed to sneak in through a snakehead. He had only done so to establish a connection with the Ancient Heavenly Court for the future.

Old Knife Handle's grandfather, Assassin Saint Qi Luo, was the last glory of the Ancient Heavenly Court lineage.

Now, it was time to make use of this connection.

"Old Knife Handle, you remember me, don't you?"

The human Sacred Body was in a fine mood upon revisiting this old place. He surveyed the noisy, crowded southern district with interest; nothing about it had changed in the slightest.

Old Knife Handle squatted beneath a low eave with both hands tucked into his sleeves, puffing away at a long-stemmed pipe. His skin was dark and rough, and he looked plain and honest.

"It's you—the man who vanished in the Ancient Mine of Absolute Beginning that day. You didn't die?"

Old Knife Handle, who looked just like an old farmer in the fields, had an excellent memory. He quickly recalled this strange man who had paid a lavish fifty thousand jin of source merely for directions.

"Allow me to introduce myself again. Ye Fan, Holy Son of Celestial Pivot."

Ye Fan casually removed his cloak, fully revealing his refined, otherworldly features.

"..."

Old Knife Handle froze in the middle of smoking, then promptly returned to normal.

With the shrewdness peculiar to an ordinary little man, he rubbed his fingers together and grinned. "So