Chapter 522: The wager: "Please vote with your monthly tickets!"
Half an hour earlier.
A hazy shadow slipped silently through the Grand Mist Formation and arrived at the city gates.
"Who goes there?"
Xu Deling opened her eyes, golden radiance illuminating the space ahead.
A figure rapidly took solid form at the gates.
He wore a black robe and a mask patterned with strange designs, revealing only a pair of indifferent eyes.
His aura was concealed so well that even Ye Fan and the others could not see through to his true cultivation realm.
"As expected of the Phoenix Plume Fairy," the Black-Robed Man said in a low, hoarse voice.
"Who are you?"
Xu Deling's tone was hostile.
This man was no weakling, and he seemed skilled in concealing his aura and assassination.
He posed a far greater threat than an ordinary expert at great accomplishment of divine powers.
"Don't be nervous. I was hired to assassinate disciples and elders of the Celestial River Sword Sect."
"Were you responsible for the Celestial River Sword Sect members who died over the past year or so?" Ye Fan asked in surprise.
"About ninety percent of them.
"I was supposed to keep going for another few years," Black Wind said coolly, "but this uproar your Xu Family Fort has caused
"has forced the entire Celestial River Sword Sect to come pouring out."
Ye Fan felt somewhat embarrassed.
He now understood that even a gradual approach needed its limits.
He had also underestimated Heavenly River City's importance to the Celestial River Sword Sect.
Even Ye Fan and the others believed that a decisive battle with the Celestial River Sword Sect was ill-timed.
But things had reached this point. Abrupt as it was, they could only do their utmost.
Even failure would become experience he