Madman

Of course, that was not why He Zhizhuo had hurried over to make their acquaintance.

"Hello, I'm Wen Xu, a fellow disciple of Chunchou's."

"Hello, I'm He Zhizhuo. Sorry to call on you unannounced, but..." He Zhizhuo had not expected seven people to turn up in Baigu City with empty eye sockets in the space of a few days. If it had been only one, perhaps it really was Heavenly Retribution. But six others had suffered the same fate. That was far too much of a coincidence.

If they did not resolve this soon, word would reach the ordinary people and likely cause a panic. After all... every one of the eyeless victims was a mortal man. Their ages varied: the oldest was in his fifties or sixties, while the youngest had barely turned sixteen. How vicious the culprit was!

"You're saying there are six more like him? Isn't this... Heavenly Retribution?"

"We don't know." The City Lord's Office had sent everyone it could spare to investigate, but they could not even trace the victims' origins. It was as though they had appeared out of thin air in Baigu City. The first victim had caused a huge panic. Even cultivators felt their hair stand on end at the sight of those hollow eye sockets, let alone ordinary people.

Bian Chunchou stared in surprise. "Ah, no wonder. When I asked the people watching, they waved me off or flat-out refused to answer. So they didn't know either." He had thought the townspeople were afraid of speaking about something taboo.

"So please leave him with me. The City Lord's Office recently set aside a place to keep watch over them."

Keep watch over them. That was a curious choice of words. Did the eyeless victims routinely go mad?

"That's even better. Your