Nine-Poison Boy did not stay long. He seemed to have come merely to greet Su Che before hurrying away.
After he left, the previously relaxed atmosphere in Tiger Roar Hall immediately turned tense.
The hall still held Tiger Roar Hall's backbone members, as well as Zhao Gan and Yao Qin. None of them looked well.
The monsters of Peace Kingdom had always seemed more like fairy tales old grandmothers told their grandchildren. Those monsters raised living humans as livestock, wore clothes made from human skin and hair, and had turned the entire kingdom into a slaughterhouse for the living.
It was horrific, but very far away.
So far away that everyone had forgotten that Peace Kingdom was not actually very far from Wushi City.
"Hall Master."
Zhao Gan glanced over the surrounding disciples, rose to his feet, and said to Su Che with trembling apprehension.
"What do you think of what Nine-Poison Boy said...?"
"I think there really is something to it."
Su Che nodded. "The monsters of Peace Kingdom should indeed be making a move."
On the map, Wushi City lay directly west of Peace Kingdom, roughly three hundred li from its border. Five hundred li north of Wushi City was Little Green Mountain, a famed corpse-raising ground of the Seventy-Two Kingdoms.
The ghosts of Little Green Mountain and the monsters of Peace Kingdom had originally maintained a suitable distance from one another.
But after Wushi City was taken by the ghosts, there was no longer much of a buffer zone between the two sides.
It was only a matter of time before they collided.
Yet Nine-Poison Boy had spoken with such certainty, directly claiming that Peace Kingdom's monsters were coming straight for Wushi City...
Su Che felt there might be something between the two sides that he did