"You're not too foolish," Huo Yi replied.
Outside Five Ghost Forest, across a million li of territory, the Luo Family ruled supreme.
There were only a handful of forces nearby capable of hiring the Five Fiends of Five Ghost Forest.
With a little deduction, the only ones they could have dealt with were likely the Luo Family.
The young lady was the flesh and blood of the Luo Family's head.
Someone did not want her to return, and had paid a hefty price to ambush and kill her on the road home.
The Old Man had originally anticipated this possibility.
He simply had not expected the other party to be so ruthless.
They had even hired Huo Yi, one of the Five Fiends. Their determination was plain to see.
"I am merely a mortal. This trip to the Luo Family is not to seize anything.
"It is only to fulfill my mother's dying wish."
A woman's soft sigh drifted from within the sedan.
"Why must it be like this?"
Yes, why must it be like this?
But she understood as well.
The human heart was unfathomable. Though she said so, whether others believed her was another matter.
The simplest answer was that the dead were the most trustworthy.
Dead people did not lie.
"Enough. It is time for you to hit the road," the Black Mist began to churn.
And during their conversation just now,
the Black Mist had stealthily surrounded the area.
It was to prevent them from fleeing.
"Wait," the Old Man hurriedly said.
"Senior, whatever price they offered you, we can pay several times over."
"You cannot afford it," the voice within the Black Mist said disdainfully.
"How can a bastard like you pay me?"
The Old Man's expression immediately darkened with fury.
Those words enraged him.