At the words "Heavenly Dao Alliance," Shi Lan's eyes flickered as she sized up the man before her.
Lu Chenfeng looked no older than thirty, dressed in a simple long robe and wearing a pair of straw sandals. He was handsome, with an air of carefree ease and a faint, hard-to-detect nobility about him, like a down-and-out libertine.
Not long had passed since the Divine Martial Otherworld. Shi Lan was not so forgetful that she could have forgotten how, when she had used the Secret Immortal-In vocation to form an immortal body, members of the Heavenly Dao Alliance had called her an Immortal Dao remnant.
A little speculation was all it took to realize that members of the Heavenly Dao Alliance must have taken part in the battle she had witnessed in the memories within the Ancestral God's remains—the battle that had wiped out the Immortal Dao.
The Immortal Dao no longer existed in the great cosmos. It must have been destroyed by certain powerful beings for some reason; that was the root of the Immortal Dao's karmic ties, woven into the unseen fabric of fate.
Shi Lan had encountered the Heavenly Dao Alliance several times, and none of those meetings had left her with a good impression. Great powers like this, spanning the myriad heavens, had long since turned the ground beneath their feet into a sea of bones. They could not even see the existence of ordinary living beings.
Thinking of what she had experienced before, Shi Lan couldn't help frowning. The aura of the Immortal Dao on Qing Lan was impossible to conceal. If Lu Chenfeng noticed it, who knew what might happen?
For a moment, Shi Lan stared at Lu Chenfeng, lost in thought. Killing intent rose and fell within her. Snuffing out every danger while