Exorcising Demons and Commanding the Dead, Five Directions Star Seal

The Wave-Splitting Flying Boat exploded with a thunderous boom. You Rui—or, more plainly, You Rui—was seized by the neck and forcibly dragged before the man, made to look into those freakish triangular eyes.

You Rui tried to put on her usual arrogance, but the other party needed do nothing more than release his protective true baleful intent to force a pleading look onto her face. Without the Wave-Splitting Flying Boat's protection and without a Void Stepping expert to shelter her, at this height of four thousand miles in the Azure Sky Domain, death was her only fate.

Zuo Zhe burst into laughter again. He was the biological uncle of Zuo Huang, Manager Zuo of Huayan City. Originally a late-stage Core Restoration cultivator, he had entered the Void Stepping realm through a fortunate coincidence, becoming the final weight in the conflict between Managers Wang An and Zuo Huang and You Rui.

Between a Void Stepping cultivator they could completely control and a steward who appeared to have backing, Three Families Market had chosen the former. Besides, this woman You Rui clearly had such a powerful patron, yet could not make use of him. That, too, was a road to death.

Naturally, Zuo Zhe would not kill You Rui just yet. His nephew and Wang An both had certain thoughts about this woman. He was not especially fond of women, but the endless treasures on You Rui's person were things he had to get his hands on no matter what.

Thus, he twitched his facial muscles and gave his captive a savage grin. "You're a smart woman. You know how to suffer less!"

You Rui pressed her thin lips tightly together and said nothing, yet she showed no intention of resisting either.

Zuo Zhe smiled in satisfaction. Carrying someone in the Azure