"Hold Liuer for a while!" Jiang Liuer was already sleepy and had long since fallen asleep in Xiao Xianrui's arms, utterly unaware that all his family save for his mother had been killed! Xiao Xianrui's injuries had not yet healed, and holding him truly left her somewhat short of breath.
"All right!" Zhang Qingxiao smacked his lips and flew over, taking Jiang Liuer from her amid Xiao Hua's faintly guarded gaze.
"Poor Liuer!" Xiao Xianrui watched Zhang Qingxiao hold the child rather clumsily and could not help sighing. "Half a day ago, his mother was about to be driven away, and he nearly recognized someone else as his own mother! Now his mother has been saved, yet his father and grandfather are gone..."
"Tch~" Zhang Qingxiao sneered. "Since a mother can be replaced, why not a father or grandfather? Even an aunt or the like can be found anew!"
"Mhm~" Xiao Xianrui already understood Zhang Qingxiao's meaning. By revealing his true form and true origins before the Hundred Herbs Sect disciples, he had long harbored the intent to kill them all and silence them. Jiang Liuer was still young, his memories unclear; finding several cultivators to serve as his relatives would be easy enough. Was that not precisely Jiang Jiantong's plan? So long as she, his mother, remained, would not all truth be whatever she chose to acknowledge?
After the time it took to finish a meal, a mid Foundation Establishment disciple of the Heavenly Demon Sect returned to report that all the Hundred Herbs Sect disciples at Huanghua Ridge had been slaughtered!
"Mhm. Was it cleaned up properly?" Zhang Qingxiao asked, eyeing the disciple sideways.
"Reporting to Sect Master! No traces were left behind. Please, Sect Master, enter the mountain and inspect it!"
"Good. You are to proceed to