"Thank you for your efforts, Pavilion Masters. Your guest rooms are ready. Please leave matters here to your subordinate," Liao Dunqi hurriedly said.
The Three Pavilion Masters nodded. Their failure to capture the Saint Thief had cost them face. They would probably find it rather embarrassing to return to Headquarters, too. Three against one, and they had still let the Saint Thief escape.
Yet they could not help marveling inwardly that the Saint Thief's strength truly surpassed theirs.
"Fourth Brother, how exactly did that Saint Thief escape our encirclement? How did he vanish in the blink of an eye?" Chilian asked with a frown as they prepared to leave.
Chilian had been pondering this question all along. He kept feeling that something was wrong, but for the moment, he simply could not figure out what.
He was not alone; the other two felt the same. None of them could understand it. It should have been like catching a turtle in a jar, a capture easily within their grasp. How had things gone awry, allowing the Saint Thief to escape?
But the Saint Thief had vanished without a trace. That was a fact. However bewildered they were, they had to admit that he had escaped.
"Boy, we'll meet again very soon. When that time comes, no one will be able to protect you." Seeing that the Three Pavilion Masters were preparing to leave, Yang Hengchang was about to depart as well. Before leaving, however, he left Huang Xiao with those words.
Yang Hengchang's words made all Three Pavilion Masters turn toward Huang Xiao.
They were somewhat puzzled. They thought little of Yang Hengchang's cultivation, but they had to acknowledge that he was, after all, a Void Martial Realm expert. Yet an expert like him was threatening a junior.
What surprised him