You Might Want to Get Up First?

"So the puppet I fight every day is at the Tribulation Transcendence stage?" Lu Yang gaped. Through the Undying Fairy's divine sense, he had seen everything that had happened at Heaven Gate Peak.

The Undying Fairy chuckled twice, unsurprised. "I told you long ago that someone was guarding the sect treasury."

Lu Yang remembered. Back when he'd asked Senior Sister for the flying-car patent fees, she had taken him to the treasury to collect spirit stones. He'd worried then that the treasury door was too easy to open, and that the treasury was unsafe since Senior Sister wasn't always at Heaven Gate Peak.

The Undying Fairy had told him not to worry about the treasury's security.

"Wait, you knew all along that the puppet was at the Tribulation Transcendence stage, and you never stopped me when I fought it?" Lu Yang asked, his face dark.

"You seemed to be having a great time fighting it." The Undying Fairy spoke with schadenfreude. She'd done it on purpose.

High in the sky, Dao Lord Ten Thousand Laws saw how troublesome Dao Lord Vast Sea was. Venerable Yellow Springs had gone quiet after briefly erupting at Heaven Gate Peak; he was probably already dead.

That meant the Ask Dao Sect still had experts in hiding. Continuing to fight was unwise.

Besides, Dao Lord Vast Sea really was difficult to handle. He could redirect any direct attack.

Leaving behind a clone to hold Dao Lord Vast Sea at bay, he turned and fled.

But before he could even leave the Ask Dao Sect, he slammed into an invisible barrier.

"Spatial barrier?"

"Do you think the Ask Dao Sect is a place you can come and go as you please?"

As Dao Lord Vast Sea spoke, he used spatial severing to slice the clone