Chapter 303: A Gathering of Princes
"A Huo family girl of barely fifteen managed to reduce my son and Dugu Yan to this state, and nearly killed you too?"
Dugu Changkong's cold voice rang in the blue-robed elder's ears like thunder. His terrifying martial pressure bore down, and the elder let out a choked sound and coughed up a mouthful of blood.
The assembled Dugu family elders all showed unusual expressions. Having heard the blue-robed elder's account, none of them could quite accept what they had been told.
"There was probably... a hidden expert helping her. My own strength was insufficient... that is how I came to be injured..."
The blue-robed elder struggled to explain. One of the Dugu family's senior elders furrowed his brow and asked with disbelief, "You have walked the divine realm for more than ten years. If someone was truly helping that Huo family girl through her, striking you down in the process, how formidable would that person have to be?"
At those words, the other Dugu family elders exchanged a glance, and someone's expression shifted as he suddenly said, "Could it have been Champion Marquis Huo Xian who acted?"
"Impossible. Huo Xian's martial arts were fully destroyed. It was verified and confirmed by countless people at the time. He has long been a cripple of no consequence. It could not have been him."
A white-haired Dugu family elder shook his head and flatly dismissed the possibility.
If Huo Xian truly still had his martial arts, the Huo family would never be in the situation they were in now, and Emperor Yuanwu would never have let a Champion Marquis of such incomparable military genius and martial cultivation sit idle and waste away.