"Bastard!"
A roar brimming with fury exploded from a great hall deep within the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect.
Immediately afterward, a towering pillar of dark green Dou Qi shot into the sky. A figure flashed over like lightning and stopped opposite Xiao Qing and Hai Bodong.
The newcomer was a gloomy-faced middle-aged man clad in a dark green robe embroidered with savage scorpion patterns.
His gaze was as sharp as a venomous scorpion, and the aura radiating from him had astonishingly reached the peak of the Nine-Star Dou Emperor!
He was Xie Shan, sect master of the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect!
Xie Shan first swept his gaze over the charred palm print below and the corpses of the three elders, and the corner of his eye twitched violently.
Then Xie Shan fixed his eyes on Hai Bodong, his voice icy. "Hai Bodong! So it's you! Does the Jia Ma Empire intend to wage an all-out war against my Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect and the Chu Yun Empire?"
Hai Bodong folded his arms across his chest. Frigid air swirled around him, standing evenly against the other man's sinister poison-attributed Dou Qi. He sneered. "Xie Shan, stop twisting the facts! Your Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect has repeatedly invaded our borders and slaughtered our soldiers and civilians. Do you really think the Jia Ma Empire is made of clay?"
"Master Xiao Qing and I came here today to seek justice for those fallen soldiers and commoners!"
"Master Xiao Qing?" Xie Shan's gaze suddenly shifted to Xiao Qing, filled with uncertainty and surprise.
He had heard this name recently. Xiao Qing was the Jia Ma Empire's newly promoted sixth-tier alchemy master and was said to be extremely young.
But Xie Shan had never expected that not only was his alchemy extraordinary, but his strength