"Alas, there's nothing else to be done. I'd better hurry back to the sect and ask the Sect Master to take a look. Perhaps he can tell who dealt this deadly blow!" Jin Yi sighed helplessly.
Now that Cao Wuxin was dead, dwelling on it was useless.
The best course now was to find the killer as quickly as possible. Then he would see who had the gall to attack a disciple of the Taixuan Sect. He also wanted to know just where that person had found the nerve to oppose the Taixuan Sect.
"Not just anyone can withstand the Taixuan Sect's wrath. I'll let you live a little longer. Whoever you are, you're dead!" With that, Jin Yi picked up Cao Wuxin's corpse and vanished in a flash.
Jin Yi had escaped Wan Qingteng in a sorry state, and Gui Jiu looked little better.
In a different direction from the one Jin Yi had taken, Gui Jiu clutched his chest, his breathing somewhat hurried. A trace of dried blood still clung to the corner of his mouth.
"Mu Jingfei!" Gui Jiu growled in a low voice. He had not expected Mu Jingfei to be so astonishingly powerful. He had encountered a tremendous opportunity over the past few years, and his martial strength had made a considerable leap.
That was why he had been confident he could handle Ran Chou.
Over a decade ago, his martial strength had been slightly inferior to Ran Chou's. Now their positions had reversed, and Ran Chou was no longer his equal.
Of course, Gui Jiu also knew that although his martial strength currently surpassed Ran Chou's, the gap was not particularly large. He could defeat Ran Chou, but the price would probably be steep.
His confidence had thus become somewhat inflated, but Mu Jingfei