Leaving aside Xiao Hua's return to the Thunder Control Sect, where he learned that he had nowhere suitable for secluded cultivation and could only seek out Chang Shu, spend spirit stones, and find an ordinary Alchemy Cave to cultivate in—within the sword domain of Huan Country, where dozens of Illusion Sword Swordsmen had once gathered, the mountains remained blanketed in ice and snow, and the water remained as still as green jade. Yet far fewer people remained. Only a dozen or so Illusion Sword Rank Three swordsmen stood expressionlessly above the pool!
Besides these differences, there was also the shrill cry that echoed throughout the entire valley.
"Caw caw! This old man knows you're that Terrifying Phoenix. Come, come, come! This old man will battle you for three hundred rounds!"
"Caw caw! Are you trying to flee? Take this old man's claw..."
It was none other than Yu Ming, who had escaped from Yin Yang Spring Mountain!
Yu Ming looked exactly as he had when he escaped from Xiao Hua's hands. He spouted incomprehensible nonsense, spiritual power flickering around him as he flew up and down from time to time. Piercing winds howled as he savagely attacked empty space! His figure nimbly flashed back and forth through the air, as though he truly faced Xiao Hua.
"Sword Friend Lian Ying!" After watching silently for a long while, Lu Ruochang sighed and spoke to the short old man standing some thirty feet away from her. "Sword Friend Yu... truly cannot remember anything from that time? He truly cannot distinguish who killed the sword friends from the Mingjian Sect that day?"
The old man wore gray clothes and looked utterly dreary. In a low voice, he said, "Junior Brother Yu not only cannot recall what happened then, he does not even know