As for Han Ting's death, the Ming Qi sisters had naturally guessed that the old man in gray had made his move. But with that man's unfathomable, ghostly skills, he should never have left behind any trace for others to find.
Yet after a swift investigation, they obtained a fairly clear result. However, the murderer was neither a cultivator from the other Phoenix Four Clans nor someone from the Nine-Headed Green Phoenix Clan acting out of internal conflict—it was the Red-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast Clan!
While this result was impossible to believe, it also filled everyone who learned of it with shock. This was especially true for the Nine-Headed Green Phoenix Clan; the result was worlds apart from what they had expected.
The person they had traced was You Cha of the Red-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast Clan. When the investigation reached him, he was supposedly still cultivating inside his cave residence.
Suddenly disturbed, You Cha had initially been greatly displeased. But when his divine sense saw a large group of cultivators arriving outside his cave residence, with a crowd of Void Refinement Realm cultivators at the forefront—
he even spotted Lord Mu Han of his own clan among them, his face incomparably gloomy. You Cha was so startled that he hurriedly opened his cave residence and walked out.
When he learned that he had "killed" Han Ting of the Nine-Headed Green Phoenix Clan, You Cha was utterly dumbfounded. Han Ting was dead? And he had supposedly killed him?
When had he gone to kill Han Ting? Why could he not remember any of it? Had he gone mad during cultivation, or had everyone before him lost their minds?
After coming back to his senses, he immediately cried out his innocence. The Phoenix Five Clans had been attacking constantly during this period, but