"Wen Yan is dead."
In the Wasteland Zone outside a small city in Northern Sky Province, two similar-looking figures met before a valley filled with jagged rocks.
Both had broad brows, wide eyes, and bold features, but the one on the left wore black clothes and a baseball cap, his gaze vicious; the one on the right wore a long trench coat and black-rimmed glasses, looking refined and mild.
They were Dai Muhun's two Dharma Bodies.
The Youjing Body was consumed by desire, savage and brutal, while the Shuangling Body was intelligent, perceptive, composed, and calm. Their differences were apparent from their faces alone.
They stood in a clearing in the valley, bathed in moonlight, seemingly waiting for something. As though making casual conversation, the Shuangling Body announced Wen Yan's death.
"Who did it?" the Youjing Body asked.
The Shuangling Body answered, "The Poison Snake Gang's Six Pythons of Gray Mountain. Apparently, people from the River City Five Ghost Gate supplied the information. Wen Yan was buying corpses from them, so the Six Pythons of Gray Mountain lay in ambush and killed him in one strike."
"Just them?" The Youjing Body frowned. "The strength Wen Yan showed that day was beyond anything they could handle."
"Perhaps something was going on that day, or perhaps the one they killed wasn't really Wen Yan. Either way, they'll say it was. Only a skeleton remained of the corpse, so all they could bring back was his Storage Artifact. Once they open it and examine its contents, they should be able to determine whether he really was the Flame Ghost Hall's Branch Leader," the Shuangling Body said calmly.
"He said he would muddy the waters in River City. If the brat died that easily, he hardly lived up to our high hopes for him,"