At the exact moment Lu Feng sensed the Seven Kill Shura Pattern.
Jiang Nan Secret Realm, the very center of the Inner City, before an ancient regular octagonal Stone Altar.
Yue Yan and Li Taiyuan circled the Stone Altar again and again, studying it with grave expressions.
Not far from them, Yue Long and Dark Moon Cang Lan stood silently in a guarding posture, watching Xia Yiyun before them.
"We've successfully arrived here as you planned. You can let me go now, can't you?"
Xia Yiyun looked at Yue Long beside her with a face like frost, her eyes filled with chill.
"Sister Xia~" Yue Long pleaded ingratiatingly. "Just come with us when we leave. Once we're outside, you can go wherever you want. I promise I won't stop you. I can even stay by your side and protect you."
"Don't call me that again! And I don't need your protection!"
Xia Yiyun's expression turned even colder, her eyes brimming with disgust at Yue Long's almost coquettish manner.
At first, when she had encountered Yue Long by chance, she had found his male body and feminine features so beautiful they defied reason, and had felt some fondness for him—but it had gone no further than an elder sister's appreciation for a younger brother.
As they traveled together, his occasional spoiled and ingratiating nature had often amused her. She had even vaguely begun to consider caring for him as though he truly were her own younger brother.
Who could have expected that, while kindly bringing Yue Long some snacks that day, she would stumble upon the conspiracy surrounding this secret realm?
Afterward, Yue Long's guards had slaughtered without restraint, silencing countless of her fellow disciples and sisters.
That sudden upheaval instantly shattered the sisterly affection in her heart, leaving behind only