Chapter 81 — Nine

Facheng walked slowly forward, letting his gaze pass over the countless astonished faces, then come to rest on Lin Jinghong and Zhang Qingyue in the center of the hall, and at last settle upon Zhang Qingyue alone.

"In those years, it was indeed men of our Fanyin Temple who killed every last villager of Liumiao Village at the foot of Mount Canglan!"

"What!"

In an instant a storm of shocked, stunned, incredulous, and furious voices burst out across the Jade Balance Hall on Mount Canglan, so violent that even masters of the cultivation of Daoist Daoyan and Tian Buhui could not keep their faces from changing, while Lin Jinghong tore the Dragon-Slaying Sword from its sheath in a single motion, and a jade-green radiance rippled through the air.

Only Zhang Qingyue's heart, all at once, went drifting down and down, so deep, so heavy, and then there rose in its place a long-familiar chill, a thick reek of blood and violence, and it closed over him.