Only when her body had completely merged into the pitch-black Light Barrier
did the woman in the thin robe stop and gasp for breath.
The Tianyan Sect's Scripture Library was a place she had dreamed of visiting, but the terrifying pressure exerted by that Wretched Woman deep within the Ten Thousand Demon Lair had kept her away.
Though she coveted this place, she could only dream about it at night.
Now that her wish had come true, she felt no excitement. Instead, she was filled with worry.
The more freely her Disciple ran amok in the Ten Thousand Demon Lair, the closer she came to crossing that Wretched Woman's line.
They were dancing on the edge of a cliff. One misstep, and they would fall and be smashed to pieces.
Besides, today had unfolded nothing like she had expected.
How could she have come here without a plan or the slightest preparation,
risking discovery by that Wretched Woman just to leaf through a few cultivation manuals?
What if she lost her life?
Yet another thought stirred alongside her worry.
She had finally slipped into the Tianyan Sect's Scripture Library without alerting that woman.
If she took nothing, wouldn't she be leaving a mountain of treasures empty-handed after risking her life to get here?
The two opposing impulses tangled in the thin-robed woman's heart.
For a moment, she could not decide whether to press on and find a cultivation manual suited to her future training,
or turn back, leave the Ten Thousand Demon Lair, and return to the Dao Alliance the Mountain Gate to lie low until the perfect opportunity came.
She stood silent for a long time.
As she gazed at the cultivation manuals packed throughout the Tianyan Sect's Scripture Library, greed finally overcame reason.
The thin-robed woman gritted her