Ji Shan finally left. Yang Qing swayed, about to topple straight to the ground, but Bu Er and Jiang Zhizhou caught him, one on either side.
"Tell me, have we made it through this ordeal?"
Yang Qing gazed at the deserted courtyard entrance, sounding as though he were asking them, yet also talking to himself.
Although Ji Shan had intended to take them away from the very beginning, in all honesty, Yang Qing had not sensed much killing intent from him.
The ones who truly wanted them dead were people like Shen Yun.
No matter how gentle and harmless someone looked, the aura he gave off in a fit of rage could not lie.
Even when Yang Qing and the others turned Ji Shan's scheme against him, leaving him wounded and bleeding without respite, he had not shown any particularly strong killing intent.
Shen Yun, however, was different. When he led them into the Life-and-Death Path, he had intended all along for every one of them to perish there.
Perhaps it was because of the Rootless Wood, or perhaps something else.
Now, his plan to eliminate Yang Qing and the others through Ji Shan had clearly failed completely.
Thus, once Ji Shan released them from their restraints, Shen Yun vanished without a trace.
Naturally, the Shen Family's residence was empty too. The family members who had lived quietly in Xiangyang City had finally departed for somewhere even less known.
"Those bastards sure had long legs when it came to running away."
The moment they regained their freedom, Mu Feng darted out of the courtyard, then returned with the news that every member of the Shen Family had disappeared.
"Perhaps the Shen Family had already withdrawn before Shen Yun passed through the Life-and-Death Gate with us," Yang Qing said.
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