He Jianyun?
Ding Songyan looked at the face that had been peeled off and nailed to the wall, identifying its owner from the birthmark and other features.
This was the Ghost-Wyrm Path member they were pursuing, He Jianyun, the proprietor of the Secluded Perfume Shop!
Hadn't he come to Huaiyuan Street to verify a lead on the traitor? How had he ended up looking like this ghostly wreck-no, with nothing but this ghostly face left? Could it be... Ding Songyan suddenly had a conjecture:
The so-called lead had been planted by the traitor himself. If someone powerful came, he would hide; if only someone like He Jianyun came to Huaiyuan Street to verify the lead, he would assassinate them, striking back a little and trying to enrage the Ghost-Wyrm Path into searching even more frantically. That would make it easier for Heaven-Bearing Prefecture and the Martial Prohibition Bureau to notice something amiss, thus triggering a clash between the righteous and the wicked.
That Ghost-Wyrm Path traitor is ruthless, and remarkably bold... Most traitors from evil and unorthodox paths think only of hiding, rarely of striking back. Those who dare use the authorities to cut off their pursuers are fewer still... Ding Songyan offered a few words of inward praise.
"He Jianyun was killed?" Xie Fengchao had also seen the peeled-off face and could not conceal his shock.
A member of the Ghost-Wyrm Path, famed for assassinating others, had actually been assassinated?
And there had been no warning whatsoever!
Jiang Lanting and Bai Qilin exchanged looks, likewise not having expected this turn of events.
They had considered the likeliest outcome to be He Jianyun receiving a warning, fleeing Huaiyuan Street in time, and vanishing into the sea of people without a trace. In truth, their hopes of finding the Secluded Perfume