"Huang Xiao, aren't we taking the ship back?" Demon Phoenix asked.
He had already spotted the ship they had come on, anchored dozens of li away.
The distance was too great for anyone aboard to see that Huang Xiao had emerged.
It seemed those boatmen were fairly honest. They had been told to wait ten days, and if he and Huang Xiao had not come out by then, to head back first.
Yet Huang Xiao was not heading toward that ship, but seemed to intend to leave directly.
"No. Taking the ship is too slow. We'll head straight back. After ten days, when they don't see us, they can go back on their own," Huang Xiao said.
With that, Huang Xiao's figure became a streak of light as he retraced their route.
Two days later, a shadow faintly appeared in the distance ahead. They were almost ashore.
"Huang Xiao, which sects are you planning to strike this time?" Demon Phoenix asked.
Their purpose in hurrying back this time was naturally to kill people and strengthen Huang Xiao's essence blood.
Even though Huang Xiao was not very willing to kill, he had no better choice now.
Still, he wanted to choose some scum of the Jianghu to kill.
But Huang Xiao had no idea whether there would be enough of them.
How could experts be so easy to find?
"You're still agonizing over it." Seeing that Huang Xiao said nothing, Demon Phoenix continued, "How about this? Let's take the knife to the Demon Hall's experts. Last time, they sent quite a few people to destroy ships, and they probably have other operations underway too. We've been in the Three Immortal Mountains these past few days and don't know much about what's happening outside. Perhaps the Demon Hall's Thousand-Year Period has already