Seeing Hu Yunyi barely clinging to life, Li Jian, Liu Qingyang, Wen Wenhai, and the others were all grief-stricken. Zhang Xiaohu's emotions were a tangled mess as well. Though Hu Yunyi had repeatedly obstructed him from becoming Great Sect Leader of the Misty Sect, and had even suspected him of being an Incense-Passing Cult spy, all of it had been for the Misty Sect, for the Misty Sect's direct lineage, for the legacy of Ou Peng, who had already died atop Misty Peak!
Therefore, putting himself in Hu Yunyi's shoes, Zhang Xiaohu did not bear much resentment toward him.
Perhaps he knew his days were numbered and that he could not last long, so he had insisted on finding the Misty Sect an absolutely reliable Great Sect Leader! Zhang Xiaohu thought. Shui Yupeng is pitiful too, being threatened by the Righteous Path Alliance! If I didn't have such a divinely capable younger brother, sigh, Abbess Jingyi of the Incense-Passing Cult would probably have had me firmly in her grasp by now!
Thinking of his younger brother, then seeing the filthy blood at the corner of Hu Yunyi's mouth, Zhang Xiaohu suddenly had a flash of inspiration. He shouted, "Elder Li, quickly, come with me! I have a way!"
"Great Sect Leader, y-you said you have a way?" Li Jian was overjoyed, yet he simply could not believe it.
"Yes, I truly have a way." Zhang Xiaohu looked up at the sky and said anxiously, "But there isn't much time left. Come, hurry and follow me!"
As he spoke, Zhang Xiaohu turned and ordered, "Deputy Sect Leader Wen, please bring Shui Tiantian and Shui Yupeng's bodies to the Council Hall. Also, what happened here must absolutely not leak out. Anyone who does so will be killed without pardon!"
Then he urged