Chapter 169: Retreat.
"Oh, no!" Elder Wang slightly staggered at the sight of the signal flare shooting to the sky.
"So that’s what all of this was about!" Elder Luo also realized, and sighed.
"You can only blame yourself, Wang Zhen." The person with the altered voice said, "By finding the cure you forced our hand! Throne Evergale had to die because of you!"
"Don’t make me laugh!" Elder Wang said, and sheathed his sword. He knew the fighting was over, although there were few people who will have to stay back, "The sect master had always been like a father to all of us, even to you, Su Zixuan!"
"Hmph! Your former sect master was an evil man who ruled with an iron fist!" The person replied, not taking the bait to confirm or deny Elder Wang’s suspicion that they were Elder Su, "And now he’s dead. Good! Enough chatting, let’s get out of here!"
The group tensed up, preparing to defend in case the two elders to attacked. But when the item from the hands of the first cocky speaker disappeared, one of the attackers also vanished.
To a simple onlooker it might’ve looked that way, but as someone who had the rare spatial spark himself, Elder Wang saw how the person stepped through a small rift that they opened themselves.
A split moment later a larger rift appeared in the middle of the square, opening a path of retreat for the attackers. Shen Rouya and the junior elders didn’t intend to allow them to leave, but Elder Luo stopped them.
"Don’t! They have back-up plans!" He said, "Wang Zhen!"