Escape to Safety

Inspection Hall.

The Hall Master of Supervision and Si Hongyanshao continued staring at the frozen image in the Crystal Mirror. Suddenly, the image wavered slightly and changed.

The dim valley had somehow become tinged with varying shades of emerald. Pei Ling, drenched in blood, had moved a great distance forward. He was looking up at the War King's remains, which loomed like a mountain.

Flesh wound across the remains, constantly regenerating. Within it, two utterly different auras twisted together and resisted one another, fighting for control of the body.

But the scene lasted only a brief moment. Pei Ling escaped the place, and the image in the Crystal Mirror left that space and returned to the Hall of Hundred Battles.

The Hall Master and Si Hongyanshao were both startled. One of the two auras on the War King was the Sect Master's!

The War King was resurrecting... and before that, the Sect Master had secretly taken his place?

No wonder the Sect Master had captured so many foreign Prodigies over the years!

This True Inheritance mission had been a trap from the very beginning.

Yet even after personally intervening, the Sect Master had still failed!

Pei Ling truly lived up to the title of the sect's Prodigy, a born Devil's Child!

At once, Si Hongyanshao stood and hurried out of the Inspection Hall. She had to report this to her clan as soon as possible.

In the empty Great Hall, only the Hall Master of Supervision remained. He frowned and pondered for a moment, then formed a hand seal and shut off the Crystal Mirror. He, too, rose and left.

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Daluoze.

A figure suddenly appeared on the overgrown land of Tingzhou.

Pei Ling transformed into Bloodlight, streaking through the sky like a crimson rainbow as he fled at full