"Imperial Preceptor of Great Xia! Why are you here!"
Wuzi's pupils contracted when he saw Zhang Lanhe, who should never have been at the border, suddenly appear. His vicious, swift sword nearly sliced Wuzi's head off.
"You shouldn't be here, yet you've appeared a thousand miles away. What a marvel."
The spies he had planted in Great Xia's Capital City had kept reporting that Imperial Preceptor Zhang Lanhe had never left the city and was still secretly pulling strings and stirring up trouble. He could not possibly have returned to the border.
And yet, he had appeared.
Coming without a shadow and leaving without a trace, the silver-haired beauty strolled through the remote wilderness like a spirit given form. The danger within his beauty made them tremble all over.
Those vivid green eyes fixed on them like a dangerous beast that had spotted intruders in its territory and wanted to kill them.
"If you can appear here, why can't I?" Zhang Lanhe's attacks on Wuzi grew faster and faster, as though he wished he could kill his romantic rival on the spot. "Every day you remain alive, you keep coveting the man who belongs to me. I can't rest easy."
Zhang Lanhe had developed murderous intent toward this persistently pestering rival. Every strike targeted a fatal point on Wuzi's body.
Xie Huizhou was also deeply shocked by Zhang Lanhe's arrival, but the people at the border mattered more. He spoke up to stop Zhang Lanhe from killing Wuzi. "Imperial Preceptor, he's still of some use. Capturing him alive comes first."
After that, Xie Huizhou endured the flaring poison and decisively joined Zhang Lanhe in beating Wuzi.
When Xie Huizhou had been at the National Preceptor's Residence, Zhang Lanhe had personally taught him some killing moves. Clever as he was, Xie