"Crack..."
"Crack, crack, crack..."
Four crisp sounds of shattering came from a dim hall somewhere in the City Lord's Manor.
"Grandfather... this..." Before the hall, Wu Zhanyun's grandson, Wu Xiu, sprang to his feet and said in shock, "Grandfather... something terrible has happened. It's... it should be..."
"Not should be. It must be..." Wu Zhanyun looked rather grim.
He rose from his meditation cushion. Rather than sweep the area behind the hall directly with his divine sense, he took Wu Xiu with him and walked, step by step, into a compartment behind the hall.
The compartment was small, with a dozen or so luminous pearls hanging overhead.
Beneath their brilliant light stood a table!
On the tall table lay a hundred and twenty or thirty jade tokens.
These jade tokens were all his disciples' Life Tablets.
At this very moment, four jade tokens near the front had shattered.
They had shattered in a single instant, too.
A shattered Life Tablet meant its owner had fallen.
"They're dead..." Wu Zhanyun's eyelids twitched sharply several times. He asked, "Do you know what they went to do?"
"Yes!" Wu Xiu said. "Senior Master Feng Hua took them north of the city to pursue He Pingsheng, twelve people in all... Could... could these four have been slain by that bastard He Pingsheng?"
"But how is that possible?"
"He Pingsheng is only at the first level of the Earth Immortal Stage. Every one of them was a Heaven Immortal!"
"And there were so many of them!"
Wu Xiu felt cold all over.
But Wu Xiu was hardly the only one chilled to the bone. Beside him, Wu Zhanyun felt as though he had plunged into an ice cavern.
"Why would it be impossible?" Though Wu Zhanyun was chilled and shocked inside, and filled with even