As the footsteps above the Altar drew closer and closer, an aged voice rang out. "Since the Valley Master has invited me, of course I must go. But you should at least tell me—why have those fishmen suddenly become so violent that they have actually reached the point of attacking the valley?"
Zhang Xiaofan peered out from the shadow of the stone pillar and saw Li Xun and Yan Hong following respectfully behind an old man as they walked down from the Altar.
Zhang Xiaofan only glanced once before quickly ducking back. Then he heard Li Xun's voice sound out. "The Clan Chief of the Fishman Tribe died an unnatural death, and that was what drove those fishmen mad. That is why the trouble reached the valley."
"An unnatural death?" The old man's voice was filled with confusion and displeasure. "Do you know how he died?"
Zhang Xiaofan did not hear Li Xun's voice again. This time, Yan Hong's words drifted over. "Reporting to Martial Uncle, three days ago, after the Fishman Tribe's Clan Chief met with Martial Uncle Lü Shun and parted from him, he was ambushed and killed by an expert less than a li from the meeting place. Not a single survivor was left."
After hearing this, the first culprit Zhang Xiaofan thought of was Jin Ping'er.
As the voices of the three from Incense Valley grew farther and farther away, until they could no longer be heard, Zhang Xiaofan and the others finally stepped out from behind the stone pillar.
"Was it Jin Ping'er?" Zheng Dali looked at Zhang Xiaofan and asked. He called it a question, but in his heart he already had the answer.
Zhang Xiaofan nodded. "I think it was her too!"
It seemed that back then, Jin Ping'er had not told Zhang