The gold-robed youth Bao Zhen looked you up and down, then slowly withdrew his gaze.
"You do have what it takes to make me spare your lives."
Everyone from the Three Daos looked toward him. Their cultivation had been sealed, and their lives now rested in his hands.
"But I have one condition," Bao Zhen said evenly. "You must swear by the Heavenly Way that not one word of what you have seen or experienced here today will leave this place."
The Ultimate Dao Elder, Blood Sea High Person, and the others of the Demon Sect agreed at once, without the slightest hesitation.
Ant True Person and the other two demons pledged the same.
Xingyao and the Beast Emperor of the Outer Dao exchanged a glance, then agreed as well.
Only True Person Brightheart, True Person Tongxuan, and the others of the Righteous Dao hesitated briefly before nodding and taking the oath.
Bao Zhen personally invoked the oath. Though they were deep within an undersea spring, everyone seemed to hear a muffled thunderclap from the Heavenly Way in the depths of their Divine Souls. The oath settled upon them like a seal.
The Heavenly Way of this world had already awakened. No cultivator dared break an oath sworn by it.
You swore along with them, yet vaguely sensed that the Heavenly Way's response to you was different. You heard no thunder.
It seemed the same thing had happened when you had sworn an oath before.
Now that was strange.
Bao Zhen looked down upon the Three Daos. "I have no use for your cultivation. Capturing you was merely a smokescreen.
"I'll spare your lives this time, but I have a word of advice.
"A treasure can belong only to one blessed with the fortune to claim it."
He turned his