Ding Songyan had just returned to the Side Courtyard of the Prince's Residence when he saw Supreme Elder Wang Zhou sitting on a stone stool in the courtyard, waiting for him.
"Grand-uncle Master, what brings you here?" Ding Songyan knew perfectly well why his elder had come, but sounded thoroughly surprised.
Wang Zhou, whose hair was jet-black, glanced around and unconsciously lowered his voice:
"'Evil Through and Through' Sun Feiyang is dead.
"Was it you?"
Strong enough to kill the wounded Sun Feiyang outright, unwilling to reveal his identity, wielding a sword, not a Celestial Person, and possessing sufficient motive-after thinking it over, Wang Zhou felt there was only one person in the entire Flame Capital who met all five conditions:
The man before him!
"Grand-uncle Master, I was eager for revenge, but I didn't want to implicate the sect, so I didn't inform you beforehand." Ding Songyan admitted it on the spot.
My dear little sister, it wasn't me who wanted the Xiaoming Sect to know about this. If someone else guessed, there was nothing I could do.
Wang Zhou felt both gratified and moved at his words:
"Having that intention was enough. You didn't need to take this risk in the Flame Capital. You were right to conceal your identity, though. The Accumulated Evil Path repays even the smallest slight, and Sun Feiyang was their strongest man below the Four Great Fiends, one of their figureheads. A sect without a Celestial Person really couldn't withstand their reprisals, open or covert."
Amid his reflections, Wang Zhou asked in puzzlement:
"How did you learn where Sun Feiyang was hiding?
"Through Chef Shi at the Cheap Wine Shop, whom you mentioned before?"
*Grand-uncle Master, I've been waiting for you to ask that! A veteran of the martial world indeed-you went straight