Advancing Step by Step!

A sallow-faced man hurried into a residence shrouded in a yellow spiritual light barrier.

The residence was merely a solitary three-story pavilion carved from mystic ice, with an open space before it.

"Mas—" As soon as the sallow-faced man entered, he immediately began to speak, seemingly intending to report something to the person inside the pavilion. But he had only uttered one word when, with a soft crack, his entire body was suddenly enveloped by a cluster of pale yellow crystalline light, leaving him completely unable to move. The pale yellow crystalline light around him formed a translucent, crystal-like lotus.

Crack!

The crystal-like lotus sealing him inside immediately shattered and vanished without a trace. "Ah!" Only then did the sallow-faced man's mouth close, and he cried out in fear.

"No need to shout. I was merely trying out that spell just now. It won't do any harm." A voice came from within the pavilion. Then, with a flash of light, Wei Suo and Ling Longtian appeared at the pavilion entrance.

"Master, your divine abilities are truly beyond imagination." Once the sallow-faced man had closed his mouth, he immediately began flattering him again.

"Enough. You hurried back in such a rush—did you learn something?" Wei Suo rolled his eyes and looked at the sallow-faced man.

This sallow-faced man was Long Muxing. Huangpu Tianci and Huangpu Yuqi of the Huangpu Family had already had their cultivation crippled before being released. But Long Muxing knew too much, so Wei Suo had originally intended to bring him back to the Yunling Continent and only release him after his own cultivation had greatly improved again.

The Green Robe Old Man thought that was far too troublesome—wouldn't it be easier just to kill him? But Wei Suo considered himself a merchant of integrity. If he said