At once, every Emperor Martial Stage expert preparing to plunge into the water came to a halt.
They stared fixedly at the corpse.
At the same time, Gong Ying's laughter abruptly cut off. She then sneered again. "A second assassination? Useless. There can't possibly be a third time. He must already have... What kind of joke is this?"
Before Gong Ying had finished speaking, bubbles surfaced again, followed by another corpse floating up onto the lake.
Then came a scene that horrified countless people.
One corpse after another floated to the surface. Every one of them had died in exactly the same way—their skulls had been pierced through by a sword. In the blink of an eye, dozens of corpses had all risen to the surface.
Upon counting them, every Emperor Martial Stage expert who had just entered the water had been slaughtered to the last.
More and more Emperor Martial Stage experts descended onto the lake's surface, but they all stood motionless, glaring at the mass of floating corpses.
A bone-deep chill ran through their bodies as they looked at the lake water gradually turning red. Not one of them dared entertain the thought of going down.
Damn it, dozens of Emperor Martial Stage experts had all been assassinated in the lake.
Who knew what horrifying thing lurked beneath the water? No one dared go down there to throw their life away.
They all had only one thought now: Sikong Jing definitely hadn't done this. There had to be some terrifying powerhouse in the water.
In the sky, Gong Ying's whole body trembled violently...
Suddenly, she roared at Duanmu Chun, "Other than the Four Great Mad Demons, who else do you have?"
Gong Ying likewise did not believe Sikong Jing had done it alone. She believed Duanmu Chun must