Buzz!
A streak of golden light flashed, carrying Golden Crow Dao Lord away at high speed.
If he kept up the standoff, they would have no chance of winning. Worse, they really would be captured and suppressed on the spot.
Once captured, judging by what Jiang Yan had just said, having their souls searched was inevitable.
By then, the Sun Holy Palace's schemes against the Yu Long Sect—their plans to seize the True Dragon Origin and the sect's foundations—would all be exposed. Not only would the two of them meet a fate of utter annihilation, but they would also bring the Sun Holy Palace enormous trouble.
Neither of them could possibly bear that responsibility.
What was more, even though they were Great Dao Lords who had attained the Dao millions of years ago, with soul origins tempered as firm as iron, a forced soul search by a Great Being of equal rank would still inflict irreversible damage upon them.
At best, their cultivation would plummet and their Dao Paths be ruined. At worst, they would become dazed and mindless, never to rise again. That was a price they could not bear under any circumstances.
All his earlier excuses had been nothing but a stalling tactic.
From the very beginning, he had never intended to fight head-on. His only way out was to escape with this Escape Light Talisman.
As long as he could return to the Sun Holy Palace, he would be completely safe.
"Hmph!"
But just as the golden light was about to burst out of the void, Jiang Yan suddenly snorted. His voice pierced straight through the golden barrier, making the souls of Golden Crow Dao Lord and Scorching Sun Dao Lord ring.
"Trying to leave? You've come this far. Do you really think you can still get