Heaven Seal Academy, deep within...
The gaunt old man Sikong Jing had seen earlier still stood before the ninth drum.
The difference was that someone else now stood beside the gaunt old man, a figure entirely concealed beneath a black robe.
The old man said in a low voice, "Imperial Envoy, I have silenced the two from the Red Wind Sect."
The black-robed figure nodded gently and spoke. "Mm. That Red Wind Old Monster truly was useless at every turn, good for nothing but ruining things. All he did was cause us trouble. He even told those two Red Wind pieces of trash about killing the Five-Seal War General."
"It would have been one thing if he had told them, but their operation even failed."
"Fortunately, the Overlord Seal Trial happened. Otherwise, there would have been far more people to silence, and we might even have exposed something."
The voice beneath the black robe belonged to a woman!
She was not the Imperial Envoy from Blood Evil Valley of the Red Wind Sect, but another one.
Because of the Overlord Seal Trial, Joy Soul had neither the time nor the opportunity to interrogate the Red Wind Elders, so silencing those two was enough.
After a brief pause, the female Imperial Envoy asked again, "No one saw that you were the one who silenced them, did they?"
At that, the gaunt old man smiled...
"You jest, Imperial Envoy."
"I am the dean of Heaven Seal Academy. Who could possibly discover me killing two people?"
Unlike the Red Wind Old Monster, the gaunt old man was extremely composed before the Imperial Envoy. Whether in status or martial realm, he far surpassed the Red Wind Old Monster.
Within the Seal Sovereign Empire, he was an immensely influential figure.
He was the dean of