After Xiao Yan and Xiao Li left, Yue Mei of the Snake-People Tribe did not dare linger either.
She immediately used Snake Art: Split to flee from Yun Yun and the others.
"Sect Master Yun, Master Gu He is already dead. Are we still going to look for the Heavenly Flame?"
Yan Shi, one of the Ten Great Experts of the Jia Ma Empire, spoke up.
"Let's head back!"
"That Dou Zong most likely came for the Heavenly Flame too. We'd better stay out of it."
Yun Yun shook her head. She had originally come here because of Gu He's invitation.
Now Gu He was gone, and a Dou Zong expert had appeared.
Getting involved any further would be nothing short of courting death.
Elsewhere.
"Third Brother, Gu He died so easily. He probably wasn't an Otherworlder, was he?"
Xiao Li flew up beside Xiao Yan and asked.
"I don't know yet. Let me investigate."
Xiao Yan actually found it strange that Gu He had died so quickly too.
He had been ready to unleash all five fingers of the Great Desolate Imprisoning Heaven Finger.
Instead, a single finger had killed the man instantly.
With that thought, Xiao Yan took out the jade bottle that sealed Gu He inside.
"Plunder Gu He's memories."
Xiao Yan did not waste words on Gu He. He directly used the system to plunder his memories.
Gu He's memories were mostly normal, except that half a month earlier, he had visited a place called the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion in Jia Ma Holy City.
A couplet hung outside its entrance, making some remarkably grand claims.
The first line read: versed in past and present, discerning yin and yang, all things laid bare.
The second line read: knowing what came before and what comes after, observing