Chapter 49: Zhao Ming's Wariness

Zhao Ming slowly lowered the jade slip in his hand and look up.

"Li Jian returned?"

His voice was calm, but the coldness in his eyes was impossible to miss.

"Yes."

For several breaths, Zhao Ming simply stared at the outer disciple.

"Alive, huh. That trash had actually come back alive."

He had personally arranged the mission.

An 8th Stage demonic beast against a 3rd Stage outer disciple with no background, no powerful family behind him, and no particularly impressive talent.

It should have been a simple matter.

Li Jian should have died outside the sect, and once his body was devoured by the Ironback Demon Wolf, the matter would have ended there.

No one would have cared.

No one would have investigated.

At most, his name would have remained in the Mission Hall records as another unlucky outer disciple who had taken on a mission beyond his ability.

Yet somehow, Li Jian had returned.