"Great General, once Helian Su comes out, he will surely present your Life-bound Item to you. Why trouble yourself to come in person?"
At the entrance to Black Wind Valley in Guifang territory, a gaunt old man with a head of white hair followed close beside a tall young man, walking into the valley with a fawning smile.
Behind the two, many powerful Guifang clan elders followed in lockstep. Quite a few looked at the gaunt old man with envy.
"That old monk Azure-Eyes had quite a feud with me before he passed away in meditation. He sealed my Life-bound Item inside precisely so that later generations of Guifang would humiliate me."
The tall young man smiled mildly.
"So until that thing is in my hands, any manner of unforeseen trouble is possible."
He stopped, folded his arms across his chest, and stared unblinkingly at the valley entrance shrouded in dense fog.
This young man was, of course, the clone of Goshu Miu, Guifang's Great General.
The old man beside him was Helian Zhi, patriarch of the Helian Clan.
"Roar!"
The young man had barely finished speaking when a gigantic black hound, fully ten zhang tall, charged out of the thick fog and roared at him, blood dripping from its jaws.
Boom!
The Gang Wind expelled from the black hound's mouth swept up sand and stones from the ground and battered the gaunt old man and the others.
"Beast, you dare act so insolently before General Geshu!"
The gaunt old man abruptly stepped forward, thrust out an arm as thin as a bamboo pole, and slapped at the black hound.
With a bang, the slap knocked the black hound's head sideways, slamming it into the cliff beside it.
But immediately, the enormous black hound used the force of the rebound