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When He Lingchuan, Colonel Li, and the others arrived, Commandant Zhao had already hoisted up a severed head and bellowed, “Evil must be eradicated to the root! Traitor Lu is dead!”
Beheading the ringleader of the Woling Pass rebels was no small achievement.
“Hey…”
Commandant Zhao turned to look at him and asked, “What?”
“Lu Yao died too cleanly. That’s a cheap end for him.” He Lingchuan scratched his head. This Commandant Zhao really knows how to hog the credit. Worst of all, no one’s even competing with him for it.
Hearing and seeing their leader’s confirmed death, the handful of Lu’s men still on the field scattered like frightened rats.
But He Lingchuan suddenly felt a heat flaring at his neck.
The divine bone necklace was acting up again.
This morning, it had pulled a similar stunt inside the immortal’s cave abode before burrowing into the ground and doing who knows what until the entire cave collapsed.
Why is it flaring up again? Did it find something?
He Lingchuan’s spirits rose, and he tested it by pacing a few steps away.
The further he walked, the hotter the bone grew, as if roaring at him to turn back.
It was as if it were telling him, “Don’t leave. There’s a treasure here!”
Feigning a pursuit of the fleeing brigands, he walked back and forth a few times. The...
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