Chapter 215 — Killing the Master

Master Shui Jing's face was ashen, the muscles at the corners of her eyes twitching slightly. After a long silence she said slowly: "Tian Buhui went to Senior Brother Daoyan of his own accord—plainly he knew this secret, and saw that Senior Brother Daoyan had already fallen to the demonic spirit's backlash. There must have been a fierce struggle between them. After you go down the mountain, bend all your efforts to find them. And should you find them, and discover that the two have indeed come to blows..." Master Shui Jing's hand slowly clenched into a fist: "Then seek your chance, and run the one controlled by the demonic spirit through with a single sword!" Lu Xueling's face was white as paper, yet in the end she said nothing; she only slowly lowered her head. A long, long while later, in the dead silence of the little hut, her voice came, so faint it was scarcely audible: "Yes."