City Lord's Mansion.
The pure-white torch blazed in the brilliantly illuminated main hall. Pei Ling sat alone atop the throne, watching the people below file out.
He had barely managed to bluff his way through again. Before he could even breathe a sigh of relief, he heard footsteps approaching from outside the door. His brow furrowed deeply.
But just as he thought things could hardly get any worse, his expression suddenly changed!
Cinder Hall...
The City Lord's Life Soul Tinder had gone out!
His identity had been exposed!
Without the slightest hesitation, Pei Ling immediately dispelled the City Lord's replica. At the same time, his voice drifted through the hall: "Forget!"
In an instant, every cultivator in Cinder Hall completely forgot what had just happened, their minds falling blank for a moment.
Pei Ling immediately took out a teleportation talisman. Its aura was pure, brimming with vitality, and the boundary marker of a Lesser World was faintly imprinted upon it. This was a teleportation talisman leading to Lesser Freedom Heaven!
He swiftly activated it. The talisman dissolved into a halo of light, and space rippled like water. In the blink of an eye, Pei Ling vanished.
Almost at that very moment, a terrifying gaze pierced through layer upon layer of barriers and fixed on the spot where he had just been.
Detecting nothing amiss, the gaze swept over the entire seat of Yanxi City, every fortress under Yanxi City's rule, and the whole territory of Yanxi City...
Every Grand Elder in Yanxi City who was not in closed-door seclusion sensed it, and turned in astonishment toward one direction.
An Ancestor had temporarily emerged from seclusion!
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"Lesser Freedom Heaven."
White clouds piled up like mountains and seas, surging mightily and whipping through the sky.
Golden light flooded the horizon, dyeing