At first, the Strong Woman found nothing unusual in what she heard, but even she was startled when she learned that Hei Zi had died!
"You said Hei Zi was dead?"
The person hurriedly nodded. "The two people Hei Zi led the pursuit against were from the Ghost Refining Sect. That ghost cultivator was a madwoman, too. She actually destroyed her own divine soul to protect a mortal.
"Hei Zi was burned to ashes by her ghost fire."
"The two from the Azure Tide Sect knew that ghost cultivator?"
"Yes. Apparently, when those two first arrived on the Yin River Continent, they rescued the women from Hei Zi. Hei Zi recognized how powerful those two were and fled straightaway.
"That was also why their first mission failed. But since Hei Zi wasn't the main leader on that mission, the punishment for its failure wasn't severe."
At this, the woman began to understand.
"No wonder there was a second pursuit. Hei Zi was always the pettiest of men. He certainly wouldn't have given up after failing the first mission. He probably sniffed out the City Lord's auction and colluded with him, intending to wipe them out in one fell swoop.
"And the favorable wind he borrowed was the same one the Young Master intended to use to eliminate the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox."
"Who would have thought that having so many people inside the barrier would weaken the entire thing so much? That weakened barrier might have trapped other humans, ghosts, and demons, but it could never have trapped a Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox already at the spirit severing stage."
"Thinking of it that way, dying like that was letting him off easy. Otherwise, with the Young Master's methods, he would probably have wished he were dead."
The Strong Woman sighed. "We're the