Venerable Wenhuang

"Is your name Wu Chao?"

Venerable Wenhuang entered the courtyard and reached for Wu Chao.

The moment she picked him up, chilling winds rose throughout the black-stone residence.

When Hongku's voice rang out, requesting a battle of venerables, Venerable Wenhuang's heart sank.

With the advantage of terrain on his side, Hongku had clearly decided to stake everything on one throw, even with four venerables coming together.

He had made preparations for decades. Perhaps this was the very moment he had been waiting for.

The venerables had already been as wary of Hongku as possible, even coming together to investigate, but they still could not stop his madness.

There was no need to question the dying Wu Chao. Venerable Wenhuang already knew the whole truth.

"So there really is a Substitution Technique in this world that uses students to die in their teacher's place!"

Venerable Wenhuang looked at Wu Chao before her.

A vicious gleam appeared in her phoenix eyes.

Wu Chao was still clinging to a breath of life. If what that voice had said was true, Hongku could clearly use him to take a fatal blow in his place.

To clip Hongku's wings, she needed to kill Wu Chao in a single blow.

But she was now inside Hongku's formation, with no other venerables in sight and no special means of breaking it. The only thing that might serve as a link to Hongku was Wu Chao.

Chilling gusts swept past as a five-colored cloth umbrella rose into the air behind Venerable Wenhuang.

Specks of five-colored radiance fell, steadily driving away the chilling wind and protecting the space a few paces around her.

*If I want to kill that old ghost, I can only use Wu Chao's body as a link to battle him with techniques. But Wu Chao