"Extreme Yin, rest easy. So long as you serve me wholeheartedly, the Sword Qi within your body will naturally remain obedient. It will neither endanger your life nor affect your cultivation or spellcasting. Once this matter is settled, I will remove this strand of Sword Qi for you. However, if you harbor any disloyalty, with but a single thought from me, I can crush your dantian on the spot," Yuan Rong said.
"Senior, please see clearly. This junior harbors absolutely no disloyalty and will certainly serve wholeheartedly," Song Wen hastily pledged his loyalty.
His face trembled with fear, but inwardly, he was cursing without end.
Rest easy, my ass!
No cultivator could rest easy with a strand of Sword Qi planted in their dantian.
Of course, for Song Wen, this was not difficult to resolve.
At most, he would lose a substitute puppet!
After Yuan Rong and Yongcheng Daojun gave a few more instructions, they had Song Wen, Shangguan Ren, and Tian Ming set out toward the Azure-faced Jade Fox's encampment.
Of the three, Song Wen took the lead and cleared the way, while Shangguan Ren and Tian Ming followed behind.
Half an hour later.
Song Wen, who had been traveling through the mountain ridges, suddenly slipped into a natural cave at the foot of a mountain.
Shangguan Ren and Tian Ming followed him into the Cave.
The Cave was narrow, shaped like a slit of sky. The stone walls on either side looked as though they had been cleaved by blades and axes, steep and damp, with droplets of water falling from time to time.
"Extreme Yin, are the three of us keeping watch here?"
Seeing Song Wen stop and make no move to continue, Tian Ming warily surveyed the Cave as she spoke.
After parting from Yuan