Meanwhile.
On a mountain peak some distance from Jade Luan Manor.
Amid the dense forest, only a single figure approached with her hands clasped behind her back.
Jade-Faced Immortal wore plain robes, her cold yet breathtaking face devoid of emotion. Her clear eyes quietly swept across the deep night fog ahead.
She appeared to be alone.
Yet within that churning fog, killing intent seemed to lurk everywhere.
"I know he wasn't the one who summoned me. Come out. Since you lured me here, surely it wasn't just to show me such a petty trick."
As her words fell.
The forest abruptly sank into dead silence.
The mist that had been surging moments ago seemed to freeze in place, turning into a grayish-white wall.
A moment later.
A slightly hoarse voice came from deep within the fog. "Then what do you think we lured you out here for?"
Jade-Faced Immortal raised her eyes and said flatly, "How would I know? But whatever you want, release him first."
As her words fell.
The wall of fog ahead slowly receded to either side.
It revealed a forest clearing littered with chaotic footprints.
At the center of the clearing, Tang Qingyuan lay sprawled on the ground, his blue robe smeared with mud and blood.
Behind him stood more than ten hulking figures in silence.
All of them were in the Roaming Void Sea Realm.
Tang Qingyuan struggled to raise his head. Looking at that plain-robed figure he both yearned for and desperately avoided, his Adam's apple bobbed as he forced out a smile uglier than tears.
"Qiulan..."
"Shut up."
Jade-Faced Immortal's gaze passed over Tang Qingyuan and settled on the White Horse. She then frowned. "Sumeru Sect?"
"You've got quite the nerve. For this little bit of incense offerings in Eight Hundred Miles of