"I don't know?"
Ren Feng paused, slightly startled, then continued:
"What do you mean, you don't know?"
"Master never said exactly who he wanted to settle accounts with."
As he spoke, Chen Yan's gaze fell on the token hanging from Ren Feng's waist.
"He temporarily lent you this 'Sect Master Special Order,' Elder Ren. That means Master has granted you the greatest possible freedom and authority."
Chen Yan's words were all but an explicit hint.
And Ren Feng understood.
He lowered his eyes slightly and began to think.
One name after another surfaced in his mind. He began recalling the betrayal of his former colleagues and subordinates, decades ago.
Then Ren Feng clenched his fists, his gaze growing sharper.
It was time for revenge.
The Luoling Sect seemed peaceful on the surface, but in truth, it had been thrown into turmoil.
The "Internal Strife" decades ago had already planted seeds of unrest within the sect.
Now, Cong Linshan was using Ren Feng to purge those "unrestful" elements, because those seeds might one day destabilize Luoling Sect's current order.
This purge affected mostly cultivators in the Qi Sea Realm and Spirit Communion Realm.
Everyone knew that the Sect Master had tacitly approved all of this.
After all, the white jade token inscribed with the words "Sect Master Special Order" hung from Ren Feng's waist.
In just three months, three Qi Sea Realm cultivators and one Spirit Communion Realm cultivator from Luoling Sect's Main Peak alone had been thrown into the dungeon beneath the Law Pagoda.
For a time, the Luoling Sect cultivators who had been involved in the "Internal Strife" decades ago began to fear for their own safety.
For Chen Yan, this was a rare opportunity.
It all began on an utterly ordinary night.
After three days and three