Old He smiled faintly and replied, "Me? Naturally, I'm someone from one of the factions that obtained a fragment of the Qianyuan Battle-Killing Diagram."
He stopped there without spelling it out.
Granny Kui's brows furrowed deeply. Back then, Su Old Devil had torn the Qianyuan Battle-Killing Diagram into eight pieces. Aside from the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce obtaining two, every other faction had received only one—meaning seven factions had gotten a piece.
Setting aside their Ancient Sacred Peak and the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce, there were still five whole factions left.
With Old He answering so ambiguously, how could Granny Kui possibly know which faction he belonged to?
"My purpose is the same as yours: to find that reclusive figure hidden within Bright Dragon Stronghold and have him decipher and deduce our fragment of the Qianyuan Battle-Killing Diagram."
"I had thought that one-armed brat from the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce was precisely that reclusive figure's disciple."
"Now, it seems we were all wrong."
With that, Old He let out a soft sigh.
In truth, of course, he did not belong to any faction that had obtained a fragment of the Qianyuan Battle-Killing Diagram.
He had merely become too excited upon sensing the aura of the Qianyuan Battle-Killing Diagram contained within Sikong Jing's Army-Slaying War Chess, and could not resist striking out at Yang Li and the others who had been making a racket.
That had caused Granny Kui to fix her eyes on him. Everything he said now was simply to make up for that moment of impulsiveness.
Granny Kui stared at him without blinking. Old He's expression did not change, and in the end, the former tugged lightly at the corner of her mouth and said, "Farewell."
With that, she flashed away and vanished.
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