The Golden Banner Sect Patriarch forced back the Shadow Ghost Woman, sealed off the sea region, and left only his cold, majestic Incense Golden Body stationed on the seabed, becoming the center of the Glazed World of Radiance.
"Enough. Now, let's get to the point."
His tone was casual, yet it rang like a great bell, surging through the seawater and suppressing every other sound.
Zhu Wenying stood quietly, the black cat curled in the crook of her arm, its green eyes gleaming faintly.
The auras of two Calamity Law Grandmasters had collided. Though the contact had lasted only an instant, that overwhelming power from a higher level had still crushed her little "framework" at the Step-Through-Void stage. Strangely, she had not been harmed in the slightest, but she could no longer move.
Even so, her face showed little expression. The radiance of the Glazed World of Radiance fell across her features, yet not a trace of fear could be seen.
The Incense Golden Body was likewise expressionless. Only within its pair of eyes, golden light flickered like leaping sparks of lightning.
"Ruizhu Palace has always preferred scarcity to excess when taking disciples. As a result, it has few hands to spare and often finds itself stretched thin. Yet those it can send out to stand alone are usually the most trusted among the trusted. Whose disciple are you?
"Yu Qing Xuan? Green Wave? Zhan Shuicheng?
"The methods of the Tai Xuan lineage in your hands are not particularly pure. Did you join halfway through?
"Whichever it is, for you to come here and inspect the formation restriction nodes, you must have caught wind of something. What did you obtain from the nodes? News? Secret words?"
The string of questions came from the Incense Golden Body, growing stranger with each