"Master, I suspect my senior brother most likely went to find Liu Wan."
"I found a Mountain Cave near where Liu Wan fell. Perhaps they're there!"
A Qi fought to suppress his panic and tugged at the corners of his mouth as he spoke.
As long as Master went to the Mountain Cave and saw his senior brother's corpse,
he could slip free and pin everything on Liu Wan and Xia Siheng.
Lie Ming nodded. He lifted one corner of his mask slightly and wiped his damp eyes.
"You're right. Let's go and look."
A Qi glanced over and saw hideous scars beneath the corner of the mask Master had lifted!
Master must have had some secret no one knew about.
Inside the Mountain Cave.
Xia Siheng asked Liu Wan to bandage Jing Er's arm, while he tended to Xie Jinqian's body with his own injured arm hanging uselessly.
Dawn was almost upon them.
The men Jing Wu and the others had sent would probably reach the Cliff Bottom soon.
Liu Wan bandaged Jing Er with reddened eyes.
Jing Er was so weak he had only a breath of life left. If he had not clung to his horse and used his lightness skill and internal energy when he fell off the cliff,
he would probably have died long ago.
And now, a chunk of flesh had been brutally torn from his arm.
Liu Wan dared not imagine how much pain he must have been in.
Or how much pain A Qian must have suffered.
As she thought about it, she turned to look at Xie Jinqian's body again, anguish filling her heart.
Years ago, Liu Wan had watched the light of life return to a dying boy. As she watched him walk away, she could not help offering him