Everyone around them looked surprised when they saw that Yi Zheng was leading the Enforcement Hall contingent. The Enforcement Hall was carrying out its duties in the middle of the night?
Su Jiu had already bound the man in black with the Ice Crystal Chain Meng Li had given her. Because of the chain's elemental effects, he was shivering slightly off to the side.
Yi Zheng strode forward and pulled down his black face covering. His breath caught. "Flying Eagle?"
His voice was filled with disbelief.
Though the darkness obscured his complexion, cultivators could use their divine sense to make out every contour of his face.
The Enforcement Hall brothers following Yi Zheng were also astonished when they recognized the man before them.
The man called Flying Eagle lowered his eyes slightly, his face betraying neither joy nor sorrow.
Yi Zheng's breathing, however, grew noticeably faster.
"Flying Eagle, why did you do this!"
Flying Eagle was now at the early Golden Core stage, but he was actually a senior who had once guided Yi Zheng. More than twenty years older than him, Flying Eagle had started in the Outer Gate alongside him, and they had advanced step by step to where they were today.
No one knew better than Yi Zheng how hard Flying Eagle had worked. Yet precisely because he knew what kind of man Flying Eagle was, he found it all the harder to believe he would commit such a grievous wrong.
But faced with his questioning, the mature, steady-looking man in black remained silent.
Yi Zheng drew a deep breath and controlled his voice, trying to keep anything unusual from showing. "Flying Eagle, you belong to the Enforcement Hall. You should know the punishment for harming fellow disciples," he said coldly.
For killing a fellow disciple, the