There was a touch of anger in his reply.
He did lack experience in this sort of thing, true, but relatively speaking, he had handed the other man a chance to turn the tables. Yet the man had refused it and exposed him outright.
He did not know whether the other man was slow on the uptake or simply afraid.
Either way, he was displeased. So much for great, prestigious sects. What gave trash like this the right to stand above everyone else?
Turning back, he knocked Xun Lingyin unconscious again.
Elsewhere, Huyan Dao looked at the message on his Mother-Child Talisman and confirmed his suspicions. His heart instantly turned cold.
When he received the false message, he had considered going with the flow and turning the ambush back on them, but what could he possibly kill them with?
He could not let outsiders learn about this, so mobilizing a large force to surround and wipe them out was impossible. Was he supposed to rely on just himself and Jin Zaogong?
Four men had attacked over there, including one from the Suyuan Sect, and still failed. If the two of them went, they would not be silencing witnesses. They would be delivering themselves to be silenced.
He had also considered notifying Mulan Qingqing and having her bring Guan Yingjie. With the two men on his side added in, they would certainly be stronger than the previous four.
The question was, why was Wang Sheng not afraid? Was he not impersonating Huyan Dao's junior brother precisely to lure them over?
He decided caution was best.
However much deference they owed the Suyuan Sect, they could not put everyone from the Origin Sword Palace at risk, especially without knowing what Wang Sheng and his companions were capable of. This group from Wandering