Hao Jinghai actually stopped paying attention to Huang Xiao for a moment, and Huang Xiao noticed it too: a figure was charging rapidly toward them from not far away.
When Huang Xiao saw who it was, he froze, greatly surprised. It's him? Fan Zhongkun!
The newcomer was none other than Fan Zhongkun. Huang Xiao had never expected him to appear here.
"Fan Zhongkun, hand over Inugami obediently, or death is your only way out!" Hao Jinghai had not expected to encounter Fan Zhongkun here. What luck! His failure to seize the Phoenix Feather had been bad luck, but surely he could not suffer nothing but misfortune. At last, his luck had turned.
Before this, neither he nor the other experts had succeeded in finding any trace of Fan Zhongkun. Now such a windfall had come his way. It was as though Heaven itself was helping him.
When he first spotted Fan Zhongkun in the distance, he had worried that Fan Zhongkun would turn and flee as soon as he noticed him. To his surprise, however, Fan Zhongkun did not flee but instead raced straight toward him.
Had Fan Zhongkun fled in another direction, he might have spared the boy before him for now and gone after Fan Zhongkun instead.
Although Huang Xiao had killed the experts of one of his Branch Altars, those people were insignificant compared with Inugami. Hao Jinghai naturally knew which mattered more.
He could kill Huang Xiao anytime. But if Fan Zhongkun escaped, there was no telling when he would find him again. Worse still, if another expert killed Fan Zhongkun and Inugami fell into their hands, he would have little chance of seizing it afterward.
Yet Fan Zhongkun had now charged right up to him, filling him with excitement. Inugami had been delivered to his