Outside the door of the final secret prison.
Su Ye, Yao Jin, and the Heavy Armor Guards were all waiting.
The Grand Elder closed the secret prison door. No one knew what had happened inside... but some things could be inferred. The Second Elder would not have committed suicide for no reason.
Yuan Yang was Meng Xizhou's mentor.
He had aided the Meng family greatly. Meng Xiao's ability to become the Holy Son of the temple as the Duke of North Continent was all thanks to him.
But everyone in the City of Light knew that Yuan Yang had only done these things because of Meng Xizhou—
He treated Meng Xizhou extremely well. Having had no children for over seventy years, he regarded her as his own.
The Goddess of Light's talent, comprehension, and natural gifts were all among the very best. The temple had not encountered such a genius in nearly a hundred years. The Grand Elder had cultivated countless young Life-Offering Persons at West Sea Crossing and searched through every talented youth in the church.
Yuan Yang had found only one, and she was the strongest of them all!
The longer one stayed in the temple, the more one understood that the relationship between the Grand Elder and Yuan Yang was far from ordinary.
These fellow disciples rarely contacted each other in ordinary times, but their bond ran exceedingly deep.
Over the years, Yuan Yang had desperately searched for the Undying One, offending many people and stirring up no small amount of trouble...
Whenever those troubles reached the City of Light, the Grand Elder was the one who stepped forward to settle them.
Yao Jin sat in his wheelchair, wiping the blood from the corner of his lips with a handkerchief. The cheek that had been slapped still