"Really?" the leader asked after hearing Huo Lian out.
"Those five you just killed must have mentioned a few things, yes? They were 'Holy Envoys' from across the sea," Huo Lian said.
"That's right. They told us which sect they belonged to." The leader nodded slightly.
"Did they think naming their sect would make us wary? How naive," the woman said with a cold snort. "Everyone from that side deserves to die."
Huang Xiao was startled.
Judging by the woman's words, the Patriarch's earlier remarks had struck exactly the right note.
After learning that they were connected to the Creation Sect, the Patriarch had immediately thought of a way to respond. Old ginger really was spicier.
None of this had occurred to him, nor had he known how to answer them to lessen their hostility.
The Creation Sect had fallen back then because the Righteous Path Leader had died of severe injuries, leaving no one in the sect strong enough to hold it up. There had been far too many other people and powers eyeing it covetously.
Friends who had once called one another brothers might well have been the most ruthless and vicious of those striking from the shadows.
If these people truly belonged to the Creation Sect's lineage, they would surely hate those people.
Huang Xiao knew that the Patriarch had seized on this point. What had happened to the Creation Sect back then must have had something to do with the powers across the sea.
That meant they absolutely could not mention having any connection to "across the sea."
If they did, they would meet the same end as those five "Holy Envoys."
Ah, we never had anything to do with that side in the first place, Huang Xiao sighed inwardly.
It was just that they had