Zhou Yang made an important decision.
He was prepared to expose his identity if necessary to uncover the whereabouts of Sage Havanna.
Zhu Zizhen strongly supported his decision as well.
According to Zhou Yang's plan, he would use rescuing her as a pretext to suddenly subdue the avatar Sage Havanna had left behind in his cave abode and search its soul.
That way, whether Zhou Yang ultimately obtained the information he wanted or not, she certainly would not lose out.
No sooner thought than done!
Very soon, Zhou Yang transformed into a true dragon and charged into Sage Havanna's cultivation grounds, wiping out dozens of sixth-rank Venerables guarding the place in one stroke and successfully capturing the avatar Sage Havanna had left behind to watch Zhu Zizhen.
At that moment, Zhu Zizhen was also stunned by the cultivation level Zhou Yang's true body revealed.
She had never imagined that after merely a thousand-odd years, Zhou Yang's cultivation had soared to the Late Tribulation Crossing Stage and that he had even survived the Lightning Tribulation, one of the Three Calamities!
Had Zhou Yang's aura not remained largely unchanged, and had he not known every detail of their experiences in the lower realm, she would have suspected that some powerful being had seized his body after he entered the True Immortal Realm.
But Zhou Yang had no time to explain so much to her now.
After slaughtering Sage Havanna's followers, Zhou Yang searched the soul of the captured avatar and interrogated it.
Sure enough, due to the close connection between avatar and true body, Sage Havanna's avatar knew where the true body had gone.
To conceal his true objective, Zhou Yang swiftly blasted Sage Havanna's avatar to death after completing the soul search.
Then he seized Zhu Zizhen and left the place,