To Capture, First Let Go

Miss Shi was immensely grateful as she looked toward the young black-robed Daoist floating amid the black waters.

Beneath her veiled hat, ripples of binding patterns surfaced layer upon layer in her eyes, as though she were scrutinizing the true nature of her lifesaver.

Puzzled, she quietly said to the stone turtle, "Uncle Turtle, this aberrant one seems very unusual. He is clearly a three-headed, six-armed, snake-tailed monster too, yet the unfathomable thing within him somehow gives me an exceptionally pure human aura..."

"I am Li Qingyun, a disciple of the Three Pure Ones, holding the position of Hundred Domains Envoy. By decree of the Dao Ancestors, I protect the Incense Seller of the Mother River!"

Li Qingyun stood athwart the boundless black waters, gazing coolly at the black-robed Dao Lords in the distance.

"The three Sect Masters have decreed that henceforth, no temples or shrines within the Mother River may lay hands on the Incense Seller. Otherwise, temple and man alike shall perish. Do not say I did not warn you!"

In the name of the Three Pure Ones Dao Ancestor, he declared that the Three Pure Ones Sect was determined to protect the gray-clothed girl, this Incense Seller.

Within the Mother River, no one dared falsely invoke the Dao might of those three half-step Body Root Fruit Dao Ancestors. For if they did, Soul-Qingyun would sense it at once, and they would simply be courting death.

Now that Li Qingyun calmly and unhurriedly spoke the Dao Ancestors' names, the black-robed Dao Lord and the others were so startled that they looked at one another, not daring to show anger or speak.

Naturally, they believed him.

Other than disciples of the Three Pure Ones, who would dare misuse the names of those three Sect Masters?

"Why does the Three