Yuan Jing Escaped His Predicament

That day, Shen Mo had just returned from the trade fair at Heavenly Sound Valley when he spotted two familiar figures outside his temporary residence.

One of them was Song Shenglong, an elder of the Immortal Lotus Sect.

There were nine sects of transcendent standing in the Heaven-Patrolling Domain, and the Immortal Lotus Sect was one of them. It was suspected that a Divine Bridge Realm Heavenly Monarch resided within the sect. On the night the Ancient Vine Sect suffered calamity, Song Shenglong had arrived with two other peak Origin Core cultivators to render aid. That was how Shen Mo had come to know him, and they had maintained frequent contact afterward.

The other was unexpectedly Yuan Jing, who had been "confined" by the Heaven-Patrolling Daoist Temple for more than a decade!

Shen Mo immediately laid out a banquet and entertained the two of them lavishly.

After three rounds of wine, Song Shenglong, elder of the Immortal Lotus Sect, departed in high spirits, his belly full of food and wine. Only Shen Mo and Yuan Jing, the two fellow sect cultivators, remained at the table, along with Liu Siyun and the other maidservants pouring wine and tea nearby.

"Peak Master Yuan, have you been well these past years? Did the Heaven-Patrolling Daoist Temple ever humiliate or mistreat you?"

Song Shenglong was also a Daoist Temple cultivator, so many things had been inconvenient to discuss while he was present. Now, Shen Mo no longer had such concerns.

"Glug, glug~~~~"

Amid the clinking of cups, Yuan Jing drained a full goblet of wine. Only when Liu Siyun refilled it did he stroke his wine-dampened beard and burst into laughter. "Not too bad! Aside from being unable to move about freely, I lacked neither delicacies and fine wine nor Spirit Stones and