Choice

Playing hide-and-seek with Ning Ye was unquestionably an act of sheer self-destruction.

With the Heaven Asking Art's deductions, and only one Great Dao divine weapon in all of Purple Pole Mountain, Ning Ye had known where it was before everyone had even dispersed.

Beneath the riverbed, inside the belly of a little fish demon.

Purple Pole Palace truly understood the principle that the most dangerous place was the safest place.

Unfortunately, it was useless. It merely saved Ning Ye a few steps.

The frolicking inside the house had ultimately been nothing more than a cover, using Mystic Mist Immortal Venerable and Bitter Celestial Venerable to conceal the truth—Ning Ye knew they would never allow a spectacle of one man and three women from their own sect to unfold before so many watching eyes.

So the moment the two made their move, Ning Ye had already noticed.

Then...

Then there was nothing more to it.

He casually used a spell to capture that fish demon and took out the Jade Merman Pearl. That was the end of it.

Thus, when the illusory mist dispersed, the bigwigs in the stands saw that the little house was gone. All that remained was the Jade Merman Pearl in Ning Ye's hand and the smile plastered across his face.

Silver Star Arhat's vision swam, and he felt as though he might faint.

Unfortunately, his cultivation was too high. He could not faint even if he wanted to.

His heart was dead with despair.

The light also drew over Feng Donglin and the others, who had not gone far.

Feng Donglin looked at the Jade Merman Pearl in Ning Ye's hand and was speechless for a moment. "Where did you find it?"

"Right at the bottom of the river." Ning Ye pointed beneath the river. "I