"Then there was nothing to be done."
Yuan Xi sighed and did not bring up the Northern and Southern Heavenly Venerate Mansion again.
In the end, 'Lin Qi' did not order everyone to be executed. Instead, she sent the news to the sect master and left the matter for him to handle.
She took the opportunity to request a return to Desolate City to check on the Lin Family.
After the cultivators' campaign against the Northern and Southern Heavenly Venerate Mansion came to an end, 'Lin Qi' had someone gather as many scattered Lin Family cultivators as possible from all over.
Since the Northern and Southern Heavenly Venerate Mansion had vanished—though the public explanation was that Lin Qi had put the Heavenly Venerate Mansion away—the Lin Family members were settled back in their old home of Desolate City.
True Monarch Guangmu had always been accommodating toward Lin Qi and would never reject her request, so he ordered her to return first.
Just as 'Lin Qi' was preparing to leave, she suddenly heard a shrill howl in the distance.
"Let me go! Let me go!"
Everyone turned to look and saw a female cultivator tightly bound by an Immortal-Binding Rope, being escorted elsewhere.
No one knew what had happened, but while the other cultivators were relatively obedient, she alone was especially agitated.
'Lin Qi' was the first to lead people over. "What happened?"
"Reporting to Martial Aunt, this person insisted that she had nothing to do with the Heavenly Sacrifice Sect and had been mistakenly captured and brought here. Now she is demanding to leave."
After hearing this, the cultivators beside them found it difficult to put their feelings into words.
'Lin Qi' gave a light laugh. "You could mistakenly wander into a place like the Heavenly Sacrifice Sect?"
"I was