"What?"
In a sprawling courtyard in the Outer Sect, Thunderclap, the foremost Senior Brother of the Outer Sect, sprang from his seat and asked another disciple in a dark green Daoist robe standing before him, "What did you say?"
"Say that again!"
Disbelief covered Thunderclap's face.
The disciple said, "Senior Brother Thunderclap, every word I said is true. It really is He Pingsheng. He's back!"
"Not only is he back, he even went to the Inner Sect to see Senior Sister Su Muyu of the [Heavenly Law Court]!"
"Senior Sister Su even gave him over a hundred low-grade immortal crystals in one go!"
"Phew..." Thunderclap drew a deep breath, then closed his eyes and began to ponder.
A year ago, he had sent Daoist Gui De and four others to deal with He Pingsheng, expressly ordering them to capture him alive.
He, Thunderclap, intended to make this man who had offended him unable to live or die.
But he had never imagined they would disappear!
Not only had He Pingsheng disappeared, Daoist Gui De and the others had disappeared as well.
Six people had vanished all at once.
At first, Thunderclap had thought Daoist Gui De could no longer endure his exploitation and had seized the chance to flee, so he had sent his subordinates searching everywhere, but they had found nothing.
But now He Pingsheng had suddenly appeared, while Daoist Gui De was still nowhere to be found!
What was going on?
What the hell was going on?
Thunderclap's sea of consciousness churned furiously.
After analyzing the matter, he finally arrived at two possibilities.
First, He Pingsheng had killed all five of his men, but had not dared return right away, so he had secretly waited outside for a year before daring to come back.
Second, Gui De and