"Although I'd love to hack Tuoba Ao into eight pieces, since he's dead, I'll let it go. But just to be safe, we still need to cremate his corpse later! We don't want him crawling back up someday!" Tong Jiuyang said.
"Very well!" Huang Xiao said with a faint smile.
He understood what everyone was thinking. Once bitten by a snake, they feared even a well rope for ten years. In fact, had he not broken through to the half-step martial realm and been able to sense that Tuoba Ao was truly dead, he probably would have felt the same.
Only burning Tuoba Ao to ashes would put their minds at ease. After all, leaving his corpse intact would always leave them uneasy.
"Huang Xiao, take that scroll off Tuoba Ao!" Old Sun suddenly said.
"The scroll? The one that enraged Tuoba Ao?" Huang Xiao paused in surprise, but he soon found the scroll on Tuoba Ao.
Since Old Sun had brought up this scroll, he believed it probably wasn't as utterly worthless as Tuoba Ao had imagined.
"What other use does this scroll have?" Duan Siping asked.
Since Old Sun had specifically mentioned the scroll, they naturally also suspected that it still held some secrets.
However, Old Sun shook his head slightly and said, "There's no hurry about that. We'd best settle everything here first. What do you intend to do with Wu Longfeng?"
"What else? Kill him, of course. Tuoba Ao has been dealt with, so now it's time to settle our accounts with Wu Longfeng!" Ling Tianya turned to look at Wu Longfeng and Zhuge Zheng as he spoke coldly.
The Esoteric Sect had acted with such impunity over the years precisely because it had the Taixuan Sect's backing and Wu Longfeng's covert instructions.
Thus, Ling Tianya