A courtyard in the Heavenly Strategy Academy.
"What did you say? My husband, Luo Zhao, is dead?"
Huang Yi's face was filled with disbelief. She had never imagined that the first news she heard after emerging from seclusion would be that her husband, Luo Zhao, had died guarding the Jade Waters Cold Pool.
As the son-in-law of the Huang Family of Yellow Maple Valley, her husband, Luo Zhao, had carried the valley's great hopes after Lin Jingyu's death.
The Jade Waters Cold Pool was an important property of the Heavenly Strategy Academy, and nothing had happened there for years. How could disaster have struck just two months after her husband began guarding it?
Huang Yi's face filled with murderous intent. "Who did this? Who dared kill people at the Jade Waters Cold Pool?"
She, too, was a martial artist at the third Heavenly Origin. Rather than weep, she was consumed by barely containable rage and killing intent.
Her fellow student and friend, Peng Lianyun, said gravely, "It was Ma Daxing, the Weapon-Forging Master in the city. To get the Blackwater Spirit Loach King, he drugged the Jade Waters Cold Pool and led his men in to slaughter the guards-"
"Ma Daxing?"
Huang Yi's fury knew no bounds. "How did that beast dare? Wasn't he afraid the Heavenly Strategy Academy would raid his home?"
Peng Lianyun shook his head. "The investigation has confirmed that Ma Daxing had been planning this for years. His supposed wife, children, and family were all fake. He's already vanished without a trace.
"Of the eight students guarding the Jade Waters Cold Pool, only one survived. All the others died. Teacher Jin Yu just brought back their remains, including Brother Luo's."
Hearing that even the bodies had been brought back, Huang Yi had no choice but to