Inside the spacious tent, four or five cultivators wore grave expressions. The cultivators of the Lü Household looked especially mournful, as though their fathers had died...
But when Fairy Purple Smoke saw the mangled head on the table before them, still faintly recognizable as Lü Zijun's...
Perhaps!
To these cultivators of the Lü Household, this might have been even worse than losing their fathers!
Fairy Purple Smoke had weathered her share of storms. Seeing Lü Zijun dead actually gave her a flicker of secret delight. She had long despised him for buzzing around her like a fly, but out of courtesy, and because she still needed to make use of the Lü Household, she had found it inconvenient to fall out with him...
Of course.
Fairy Purple Smoke let none of this show. Her expression grave, she asked coldly, "What happened? How did Young Master Lü end up like this? Who did it?"
"Well...!" At her words, the cultivators exchanged glances, unsure how to answer. Suddenly, they all looked toward a Core Condensation Realm cultivator of the Purple Flame Sect. After a long pause, a cultivator of the Lü Household finally said, "We don't know either... Fellow Cultivator Fu brought the Young Master's remains back!"
"What happened?" Fairy Purple Smoke looked at that cultivator and asked in a low voice.
"This is what happened!" the Purple Flame Sect cultivator hurriedly replied. "When we reached the site of the explosion, there was nothing but the aftermath of exploding Explosive Fire Talismans. That was where we found Young Master Lü's remains. We suspect that the enemy had already captured him, and then...!"
"That's impossible!" Before the Purple Flame Sect cultivator could finish, an elder of the Lü Household interrupted. "Our Young Master's divine abilities ranked among the top five in the Lü