As Li Xian rode his sword toward the place where the sea serpents had hidden their treasures, far away in the Great Luo Immortal Sect, everyone on Yan Cailian's True Inheritance Peak was gripped by constant dread!
When they first saw Yan Cailian disappear from the True Inheritor rankings, they had already realized something.
After questioning the Haotian Mirror Spirit and confirming that Yan Cailian's True Inheritor token could indeed no longer sense any signs of life from her, every member of the Yan Family on True Inheritance Peak, along with the cultivators who had thrown in their lot with her, felt as though the sky had collapsed. Filled with fear, they scrambled to find out what had happened.
Some quick-witted people with skills to their names swiftly severed all ties with Yan Cailian and sought other prospects.
While everyone was tormented by fear and uncertainty, Yan Zhenxing alone knew something of the inside story.
But...
Precisely because he knew something of the inside story, he was more terrified and more despairing than anyone else.
"How could this happen... how could this happen..."
He sat in his study, his face pale and his eyes vacant. His body trembled slightly as he felt a chill he could not shake.
Yan Cailian was dead.
The Yan Family's greatest pillar of support had fallen!
"How could she have died? Li Xian? Nangong Feixu? How could they possibly have killed Senior Sister Yan!? What gave them the ability to kill Senior Sister Yan!?"
To deal with a mere newly advanced Dao Foundation cultivator, Senior Sister Yan, a True Inheritor, had acted personally!
How seriously had she taken this!?
Even with Nangong Feixu getting in the way, Senior Sister Yan should have had more than enough strength to kill them both!
Yet how had the