Predestined Fate

Shushan.

Demon Locking Tower.

Zhao Ling'er was unceremoniously cast into the ranks of monsters by Yin Ruozhuo, and then suppressed inside the Demon Locking Tower.

Right up to the final moment she was locked inside the Demon Locking Tower, Zhao Ling'er kept begging Yin Ruozhuo to let her go, pleading that she was not a monster but a member of the Nüwa clan.

Yin Ruozhuo,

how could he fail to recognize Qing'er's identity?

One had to know that Yin Ruozhuo and Qing'er had once been lovers.

It was simply that Yin Ruozhuo chose to let go later on.

Furthermore,

the affairs between Xu Changqing and Zi Xuan had made Shushan exceptionally well-informed about the Nüwa clan.

Yin Ruozhuo had known Qing'er's identity back when they were still passionately in love.

Qing'er's identity had been directly pointed out by Yin Ruozhuo himself.

Handling Zhao Ling'er in this manner.

One could see it as an attempt by Yin Ruozhuo to test the heavenly dao.

He was trying to bypass the heavenly dao and break free from its limitations.

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Fengdu Ghost City.

Six vortexes radiating strange brilliance were spinning above Wang Ming's head.

Wang Ming abruptly opened his originally closed eyes.

"Why was the restriction triggered?" Wang Ming muttered to himself.

Wang Ming was accustomed to leaving backdoors and traps in his cultivation techniques, and the technique Liu Jinyuan practiced naturally contained such things.

At this moment,

Wang Ming sensed through those imprints that Liu Jinyuan was in danger.

"Should I go save him or not?" Wang Ming muttered to himself.

Wang Ming did not hold much affection for Liu Jinyuan as a disciple.

He had taken on far too many disciples, so many that he could no longer remember how many he had.

In the end,

Wang Ming chose to first