Di Cangqiong set down the secret letter, his face so dark it looked as though two ounces of frost could be scraped from it.
"Bi Lingkong!" His voice rang with undisguised fury. "When she did not fly, she stayed on the ground; when she flew, she soared straight into the sky. When she did not cry out, she was silent; when she did, she shook the world. That thieving bird made no big moves for centuries because she was preparing in secret all along!"
The letter was only two thin pages. Most of its lines contained nothing but names.
Those names belonged to True Person Grandmasters who were virtually unknown in the Martial World.
They were called the Royal Secret Guard. Every one of them was formidable and utterly loyal to Great Xia's imperial family. They sought neither fame nor fortune, only to complete their missions. At a single command, they would kill even their wives and children without hesitation. They were the sharpest blades in the Di Lineage's hands.
Better still, the martial arts they trained in were a series of supreme arts created jointly by Lord Wenchao and Di Jiazi years ago. When those two peerless heroes created them, they had also left behind ways to counter them.
In other words, if one of these men betrayed the Di Lineage for any reason, the Di Lineage needed only to send an Innate Master who knew how to counter his martial arts to dispose of the traitor with ease.
To the Di Lineage, that was the most important thing of all.
A blade razor-sharp against outsiders but powerless against its owners suited the Di Lineage perfectly.
Now, however, almost all those Edge had been snapped in the span of two days.
Bi Lingkong was the one who had broken