Hermione was not the only one who thought the seven of them were shameless.
It was indeed shameless—and downright foolish.
The Three Sects Martial Arts Competition was a contest of Dao. Even if they won by ganging up on someone, it would only be temporary. Only by utterly crushing an opponent's Shadow of Dao could they force them out for good.
Once Li Lin revived after being forced out, all that awaited them would be reckoning.
"What's going on?"
"It's that old witch Luo Wen."
Luna and Pheobe, who had just knocked each other out, had yet to figure out the situation.
But Pheobe recognized the cultivator leading them. She was Luo Wen, the Bewitching Corpse of the Luo clan of Qingqiu, who had joined the Cycle Sect.
—Wenda Rosier, right?
Li Lin recognized her as well.
After all, in some universes, she was one of his lovers.
In this universe, where she had never met Li Lin, she was likewise still a virgin with pristine primordial yin. However, she had not remained alone her entire life due to infatuation with Grindelwald, but because the technique she cultivated required her to preserve her pure primordial yin.
Unlike the other cultivators of the Form Sect, whose old bodies had been completely buried and transformed into zombie bodies—
Her old body retained a trace of vitality due to its primordial yin. The zombie it had become was therefore unlike the others, and her Immortal Burial Coffin radiated a sinister, bone-piercing chill.
If Form Sect cultivators pursued the ultimate state of death in order to return to life, then she used Profound Yin to suppress her body, neither alive nor dead, seemingly both living and dead.
Because her old body had not died, her new body—formed from the fusion of spiritual essence, corpse