After obtaining Ding Songyan's agreement, Li Baima and Fan Chunlin immediately left the Side Courtyard to report to the steward.
Ding Songyan sat down and laid the Cold Shadow Sword on the stone table. His thoughts gradually took flight as he revisited every detail of his discussion with Sun Feiyang about the Betrayal-Trust Sword, along with the relevant passages the foremost of the Evil Envoys had recorded in his martial arts notes.
The sun gradually sank westward. Wu Mo returned to the courtyard first to practice his martial arts as usual, followed by Li Baima and Fan Chunlin, who hurried back.
"Have you heard?" Fan Chunlin asked, his face alight with excitement.
"Heard what?" Wu Mo dropped his stance, utterly baffled.
Seeing Brother Ding turn to look as well, Fan Chunlin spoke with the air of someone who had personally witnessed a momentous event in the martial world:
"'Evil Through and Through' Sun Feiyang has been killed!"
A man with such a fearsome reputation had actually died, just like that!
"Dead?" Wu Mo clearly remembered Fourth Brother Fan marveling just last night that Sun Feiyang truly deserved his place as the seventh-ranked Heterodox Path powerhouse in Evil-God Hell. Not only had he blocked Junior Minister Yi's shot from above, he had even seized the opportunity to escape through the water.
Not even a day had passed, and Sun Feiyang was dead?
Li Baima was rather excited too, as though hearing about it on the same day meant he had played a part. "He really is dead! His head was cut off and tossed into the courtyard. A worse end than a stray dog by the roadside!"
"After all the evil he committed, wasn't that what he deserved?" Ding Songyan said with a smile.
Li Baima and Fan Chunlin both fell