Chen Ping's eyes brimmed with head-bobbing delight. His head trembled slightly, as though he were terribly excited, and his whole body convulsed as he walked over.
Sure enough, when the soldiers nearby saw Wu Yun approaching, their faces filled with fear. The tall soldier who had been responsible for patrols last night even bowed respectfully at the sight of her, without saying a word.
But just as Chen Ping thought he had lucked into an opening this time and could enter the Water Prison directly to obtain the highest level of control over it, he clearly sensed several people slowly emerging from around the street corner.
None of these approaching people had concealed themselves beneath cloaks. They were all familiar faces.
Leading them were none other than the Third Elder and Fourth Elder whom Chen Ping had met at the Mingdu Soul Engineer Elite Competition. Behind them were Huang Zheng and Mo Ke, from whom Chen Ping had won two Ranked Carving Knives.
"Wu Yun, as soon as I arrived last night, I heard you'd killed someone again. You were nowhere to be seen all night. Been at it the whole night, have you?"
The Fourth Elder, Nangong Wan, who had previously been the mastermind behind the Xishui Alliance, called out loudly when he saw Wu Yun.
Hearing the Fourth Elder greet him, Chen Ping first stiffened and wanted to turn around to answer. But after going over the information about Wu Yun that he had hastily memorized, he merely gave the man a wooden glance.
Then Chen Ping curled his entire upper body into an exceedingly bizarre posture, twisting and stretching one side of his waist. He looked like a caterpillar wantonly contorting its own body, with only the smile at the corners of his mouth unchanged.
The Third