425: The Scapegoat Hero 425: The Scapegoat Hero Rumble—
As over a dozen spirit beasts arrived.
A group of renowned and powerful individuals stopped before a colossal handprint, as if it were a heavenly crater.
Staring at the Blood Flood Dragon’s corpse, smashed into a bloody pulp.
Their pupils contracted sharply.
Kong Yuanba, both furious and excited, exclaimed, “That’s right! That’s right!”
“This is the attack caused by a Nascent Soul Strike Jade Token!”
“Who used this token?”
Whoever possessed this token was undoubtedly the one who killed the Great Elder of the Giant Sect!
Soon enough.
They spotted Bai and the others in the distance.
“It’s that patrol team that went missing!”
“And the Green Cloud Sect disciple who rescued them, Jiang Fan!”
Jiang Fan?
Kong Yuanba’s lips twitched before he shouted, “What are you doing here?”
“If something were to happen to you, what would I do?”
Yue Mingzhu, who was about to step forward, froze in astonishment.
Hold on, isn’t he the Giant Sect Master? Why does he care about Jiang Fan’s well-being more than the elders of the Green Cloud Sect?
Everyone exchanged puzzled glances.
If they remembered correctly, the relationship between the Giant Sect and Green Cloud Sect wasn’t exactly friendly, right?
Hearing these words from Kong Yuanba’s mouth felt… peculiar.
Kong Yuanba didn’t have the face to admit that he had been coerced by two Vice Pavilion Masters.
He could only keep a sullen expression and ask, “Are you hurt?”
Jiang Fan cupped his hands. “Thank you for your concern, Senior Kong. I’m fine.”
One had to admit, the words of the two Vice Pavilion Masters carried real weight.
The person who feared for Jiang Fan’s safety the most turned out to be Kong Yuanba.
Only then did Kong Yuanba nod slightly before asking, “While you were on your mission here, did you see who used the Nascent Soul Strike Jade Token?”
Jiang Fan rubbed his nose.
Wasn’t this like asking a mouse who stole the rice from your house?
After hesitating for a moment, he replied, “I didn’t get a clear look.”
Kong Yuanba frowned, “It’s either you saw it or you didn’t. What do you mean you didn’t get a clear look?”
Jiang Fan replied, “Because the person who used the Nascent Soul Jade Token alarmed a deadly creature lurking beneath the lake.”
“I didn’t have time to get a good look at them before the creature obliterated them without leaving even their shadow behind.”
“Anyone capable of killing my sect’s Great Elder certainly wouldn’t be a simple character.”
“What sort of monstrous creature could leave them without a trace?”
Kong Yuanba grew instantly suspicious.
Moreover.
What kind of creature could withstand an attack from a Nascent Soul expert?
Wasn’t the Blood Flood Dragon turned into a bloody pulp?
At that moment, a Supreme Elder stared solemnly at the dried-up immense pit that was once Tai Lake.
There was a trace of terror in his voice.
“Could a Divinity Transformation Realm Demon Monarch have emerged within the Demon Race?”
“To evaporate Tai Lake so utterly!”
“A Nascent Soul Realm cultivator wouldn’t have this kind of power!”
Only now did the group realize.
Once a shimmering, unfathomably deep Tai Lake was now nothing but a desiccated void.
“There’s a palace over there!”
Someone spotted it and instantly dashed toward the dilapidated palace at the bottom of the lake.
From the partially preserved inscriptions, they managed to piece together its origin.
“These are Demon Race inscriptions—Li Fire Heavenly Palace!”