"What did you say?" Sword Douluo erupted with surging sword energy, and a scarlet tinge crept into his eyes.
If not for the last shred of his reason, that sword energy might have injured the three people present.
"Uncle Li, what exactly happened?" Ning Fengzhi swayed and hurriedly asked.
Elder Li explained everything. After challenging a host of Soul Emperor experts from the Wind Sword Sect, one of the Lower Four Sects, Li Bai had set out to return to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Something had gone wrong on the way back.
Li Bai had encountered an Evil Soul Master: Black Bird, one of the Seven Shadow Assassins.
Elder Li had immediately tried to escape with Li Bai, but Black Bird was too fast. Elder Li had no chance to get away.
To protect Li Bai, Elder Li had even tried to blow himself up and buy him time. But Black Bird had denied him the chance, slowly tormenting him until he could no longer do it.
Elder Li did not know where Li Bai had fled after that, but he was certain that a group of Evil Soul Masters had surrounded him.
And Black Bird, who enjoyed tormenting people, had not killed Elder Li outright. Instead, he kept inflicting minor wounds and let Elder Li flee in a sorry state.
Then Black Bird had seemed to receive an urgent order. Rather than finish Elder Li off, he had flown toward Star Luo City.
Ning Fengzhi compared the timing with the news they had received from Star Luo City. He quickly surmised that Black Bird had spared Elder Li because something had happened on Gangzi's end, prompting the leader of the Shadow Organization to summon him back urgently.
But Li Bai, surrounded by so many Evil Soul Masters,