Chapter 98: The Sect’s Scalpers
Artifacts from the Underworld showing up in the mortal realm was never a good sign. Yun Jiao couldn’t shake the feeling that something was off — especially the way that Gu Master had died. None of them had even touched him, and yet he had suddenly turned to stone. Later, they even tried summoning his soul, but nothing answered. No matter what methods they used, his spirit simply wouldn’t appear.
That left only two possibilities:
Either his soul had been trapped somewhere… or he had been completely annihilated.
Yun Jiao suspected it was the latter.
And that “master” the Gu man mentioned — who exactly was he talking about? Perhaps… not a person at all?
A sense of looming conspiracy prickled at the back of her neck. Without hesitation, she reported everything to the Tianshi Hall.
“What?!” Master Xu, the Hall Lord, nearly jumped out of his seat. “The Underworld!?”
The surrounding elders all gasped in unison.
“It can’t be…”