Plunder

Cloud City.

Donglai Elegant Pavilion.

Yue Donglai stood with his hands clasped behind his back, gazing out the window, a trace of worry on his aged face.

"Heaven has unleashed calamity, turbid vapors fill the four quarters, scholars suffer hardship, and righteous energy remains unseen. How could this be? Could some fiendish evil be about to enter the world?"

Compared to cultivators, mortal scholars knew less about the cultivation world, yet for that very reason, their perceptions were more direct.

At this moment, he sensed something, and his concern deepened.

Just as he was vexed and unable to understand, his heart suddenly stirred. Turning around, he saw a hazy gray mist rising within the room.

Yue Donglai immediately knew something was wrong and barked, "What evil creature is this!"

He pointed at the mist, and a vast, righteous energy appeared.

Though he was a mortal, like Marquis Kuangyun, he was one who had entered the Dao through righteous energy. Though he lacked even the strength to truss a chicken, he possessed a vast righteous energy capable of banishing all evil spirits.

Under normal circumstances, any demon, monster, ghost, or fiend would have been reduced to ashes beneath that single point of his finger.

Yet when his finger came down, the gray mist did not disperse. Instead, a gloomy laugh rang out. "Using vast righteous energy against us? Laughable, truly laughable."

As the voice spoke, a wisp of finger-force shot from the gray mist and struck Yue Donglai. His body stiffened, and he could no longer move.

Then the gray mist rolled up Yue Donglai and flew into the air.

Where are they taking me?

Yue Donglai was startled and bewildered when a tide of black light suddenly surged through the sky, sweeping toward him.

The one abducting Yue Donglai clearly