One day later.
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Pei Ling had changed into a brand-new black robe and strapped a long saber to his back. He calmly straightened his collar.
By his reckoning, the cultivators of the Five Righteous Sects should be arriving soon. He couldn't keep fighting Si Hong Qingyan.
He needed to send a message to Wenren Lingshe right away and tell her she didn't need to come...
Still, he couldn't let Wenren Lingshe have made the trip for nothing. He had already recorded the general course of his earlier battle with the Innate Religion on a jade slip.
He'd deliberately left out the Illusion Realm Ji Lu had cast on him, as well as the immortal art used at the end.
The remaining battle footage showed only methods he'd already used, and wouldn't expose the affair between him and Si Hong Qingyan... their mutual affection, or his relationship with Yan Minghua...
When the time came, he could hand the footage of this battle to Wenren Lingshe and give her an explanation...
At that thought, Pei Ling said, "Go back to the sect first. I have a few things to take care of."
Without waiting to see whether Si Hong Qingyan agreed, he took a step and instantly vanished beyond the folding screen.
All around him, green mountains sat in stillness and clear waters stretched into the distance. Amid the vast, sweeping winds, a colossal White Bone Palace floated high in the sky. There was no one else in sight.
He glanced around. His Spiritual Sense swept the area, but there wasn't so much as a trace of birds or beasts. Only then did he give a slight nod. At a thought, his figure swiftly disappeared into the distance.
As soon as Pei Ling left, the ornate, exquisitely crafted