In the blink of an eye.
Three days later.
Early morning.
Flap flap—
The sound of wings beating came from the air.
The next moment.
A Skyborne Letterbird landed in Jiang Ning's hand.
"My letter?" Jiang Ning's gaze sharpened.
He then unscrewed the message tube tied to the letterbird and immediately saw the rolled-up letter within.
Spreading it open, he recognized the familiar handwriting as Xiao Emei's.
"It seems the Water-Moon Sword Palace has made its move!"
He muttered inwardly.
He was not surprised.
After all, Yu Manyun was already dead. So many days had passed without a trace of news.
The Water-Moon Sword Palace had surely noticed something by now. It was hardly strange for them to investigate and uncover the matter.
His gaze moved downward.
He scanned swiftly.
The letter contained barely a hundred words. With a single glance, he had read it all.
His heart tightened at once.
"Xiao Qiushui has made no particular move, but Xiao Qiuyue has come looking for me!!"
In that instant, he thought of He Jinyun.
Of everyone, the person most grieved by He Jinyun's death would undoubtedly be his birth mother.
That was Xiao Qiuyue.
"It'll be a bit troublesome if she's come for me!" Jiang Ning's eyes flickered.
No matter how strong Xiao Qiushui was, she was merely a folk expert at the peak of the fourth rank.
Though he had never fought Xiao Qiushui, he did not fear a fourth-rank martial artist.
By now, he already possessed that confidence.
But Xiao Qiuyue was different.
Although Xiao Qiuyue did not possess Xiao Qiushui's strength, as the wife of the Qinghe Count's estate, her status and influence were entirely different.
Given the chance, he would dare to kill Xiao Qiushui. But killing Xiao Qiuyue was something he could not yet do.