What had Yang Lie wished for back then in the Scripture Pavilion?
He understood Tang Miaoxing. Since he had not simply died and ended everything, he could not help worrying about the Tang Sect—worrying about that junior who had been forced into becoming sect leader because of his own willfulness.
As the first Tang Sect leader to succeed without mastering Dan Shi, Miaoxing must have been under immense pressure, right?
Yang Lie understood Tang Miaoxing's temperament, so he could naturally think of such things. Besides, as the Tang Sect's previous sect leader, he too worried about the sect's legacy.
After encountering the sect master and learning of the Tai Xuan Sect's situation, his concern over how the Tang Sect could carry on through the coming upheaval only grew.
Legacy!
Yang Lie's background had not been poor. He had enjoyed a life of fine clothes and good food, yet he had not liked it. After joining the Tang Sect, however, he had taken to life there like a fish to water.
He had simply been born to be an assassin.
Whether it was the decapitation operation against the Biheshan ninja leader or the battle at the Sky-Piercing Hole afterward, Yang Lie had taken part in both and survived them both. During those battles, he had also been the most "assassin-like" of them all.
Unlike the others, who each unleashed their ultimate techniques and charged in like unstoppable warriors, Yang Lie's fighting style had always been to lie in wait until the right moment, then kill with a single strike.
If he had been allowed to choose the inheritance best suited to him, Yang Lie might have received one that aligned with the path of an assassin.
Yet between his own path and his wish to pass down the Tang Sect's legacy,