Old Grudges (3/3)

Tong Anyue strolled over, his expression calm and composed, as though he were walking through his own backyard.

Earth-yellow light rippled around him, keeping all the blazing flames at bay. This was surely the power of the Scripture he possessed.

He stopped thirty zhang before Zhou Heng and Bing Xinzhu, then smiled faintly at them. "So two Scriptures fell respectively into the hands of Master Zhou and Miss Bing!"

Without waiting for either of them to reply, he clasped his hands behind his back and said, "Hand over the Scriptures, and I will grant you swift deaths!"

Zhou Heng burst out laughing. "Aren't you afraid the Taiyi Sect Master and my senior sister will come looking for trouble with you?"

Tong Anyue bared his teeth in a smile, looking incomparably gentle and refined. "The Scriptures here cut off all fluctuations of divine sense. If I kill you here, no one will ever know who did it!"

"You hid yourself deeply. Not a single person knew that you possessed a Scripture!" Bing Xinzhu said.

Tong Anyue smiled again. "Those who show off die quickly! Enough, we have said more than enough. Hand over the Scriptures!"

Zhou Heng drew the Black Sword and said proudly, "You're that confident?"

"Though realms are suppressed here, I still possess the strength of a fourteen-phase Ascension Emperor. You are both merely Ascension Kings. How could you possibly be my match?" Tong Anyue said calmly.

His understanding of Zhou Heng and Bing Xinzhu remained at the battle in the arena, which was perfectly normal. How much progress could they make in merely a month or so?

Yet Zhou Heng revealed a strange smile. "Do you know why realms are suppressed here?"

Tong Anyue was slightly taken aback. He truly had never figured that out. If some great