"I already told you, I was waiting for someone. If not for him, all of you would have died here," Leng Guhan said calmly.
"Hmph, just who could command such respect from even you, the Sword God? Does such a person exist? Why have I never heard of him?" Wei Yidao snorted.
Wei Yidao truly wanted to know whom Leng Guhan was waiting for.
After Wei Yidao finished speaking, an odd smile appeared on Leng Guhan's face.
That smile left Wei Yidao rather bewildered.
But Leng Guhan immediately called out toward somewhere nearby, "You finally came. Your junior was questioning you. You heard him, didn't you?"
"Leng Guhan, spare me these tiresome little tricks," a voice rang out.
Immediately afterward, Huang Xiao saw an old man appear before everyone.
"Ah?" Huang Xiao cried out in surprise.
He had not expected his patriarch, Huo Lian, to appear here.
Still, with his patriarch present, every burden lifted from Huang Xiao's heart. With the patriarch here, surely even the Sword God could do nothing to him.
Moreover, he could tell him the secret within the Evil Water Region now, without having to make a special trip to Chaotic Province.
"This? This?" Beside Huang Xiao, Wu Cang also stared wide-eyed at the man before him, his face filled with disbelief.
Of course, he had not known that the Hall Master from a thousand years ago was still alive. But he had seen portraits of the successive Hall Masters, and naturally noticed at once that this old man looked so much like that Hall Master.
He also noticed the expressions of the Sword God, Hall Master Wei, Hall Master Chu, and the others. This meant that the old man before him did not merely resemble him-he was the man himself.
*The Hall Master is still