Dharma Master Hongku, the Holy Land's Foremost Mage

"Hongku has harmed his students and defied the Holy Land's rules. Anyone may put him to death!"

From the shadows, Jin Chang's voice rang out, shrill and piercing, echoing again and again through the Sacred Mountain.

This was the Demonic Sound Technique, an ability he habitually used to frighten others while employing the Puppet Technique.

The Technique had little offensive power and no contaminating effect, but its advantage was that its sound carried a great distance and was difficult to trace.

It worked exceptionally well in combination with the Puppet Technique, but the Yin-Yang School was not alone in possessing it.

Jin Chang had not wanted to use the Technique, lest he become involved, but now he had no choice but to risk intervening in a small way.

Unless they called on outside help again, the two who had plotted to murder their master would be wiped out.

After Zhang Xuezhou took a gamble, Wu Chao's assassination attempt had failed as well.

It was not that Zhang Xuezhou and Wu Chao were too incompetent. With Hongku possessing a Technique like the Substitute Death Incantation, none of his students could successfully resist him.

The students would bear the consequences of any attempt to kill Hongku.

In this struggle, Hongku would never lose.

Zhang Xuezhou had failed in the vanguard, and Wu Chao had failed in his follow-up.

Jin Chang glanced at the twelve lanterns that had risen into the air.

From the gazes of those lanterns, Jin Chang sensed curiosity, novelty, watchfulness, hesitation, and gravity, but he detected no killing intent from any of the Venerables.

Jin Chang had no choice but to add another sentence.

To kill someone, one needed a legitimate reason. Otherwise, a Venerable who wanted to kill Hongku had no need to pull strings from behind the