Only after seeing Yu Zhou's expression did Yu Ci realize his words had been ambiguous. He gave an embarrassed smile and was about to explain when a change came through his soul-sense.
He whipped his head around and met Crimson Yin's sidelong glance in the distance. An icy chill crossed several miles and pierced clearly into his heart. Then the female cultivator's form blurred, her black cloak already wholly melted into the night.
"She's running!"
Yu Ci understood Crimson Yin's temperament best. This woman had come in fury, sworn to take his life, yet now she had been forced to slip away in secret. That was ten times more humiliating than blocking his door for half a month. This feud truly could not be washed clean even by pouring out the waters of three rivers and five lakes.
The problem was, if she found it humiliating, then what about Yu Ci? Since the night Bai Ri Mansion had been destroyed, he had begun making preparations, pinning down her nature and laying his plans step by step. He had even risked losing the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror just to lure Crimson Yin here and eliminate this future threat in one stroke. If he let her escape after all that, would he not be even more unwilling?
He stepped forward to pursue her, but had barely taken one step when Yu Zhou pressed a hand onto his shoulder.
"Within the Heavenly Law Absolute Prison, without your Aunt He's permission, escaping a radius of ten miles will not be so easy!"
Before his words had faded, an explosive boom rang out in the void over there, and Crimson Yin truly was flung back into view.
True Baleful Intent spread outward, rubbing against the surrounding air with hissing friction. Crimson Yin wanted to change directions