Mountain Fish Great Sage was trapped inside the Sea-Covering Pearl, his eyes bloodshot, wounds splitting open all over his body and blood surging out. Yet he could not move, unable to break free of the pearl's restraints.
The Mountain Fish Race did not belong to the Water Race, but they shared a common origin and were still subject to the Dragon Race's influence.
No member of the Water Race could overpower Fang Yun at the same rank.
Several breaths later, Mountain Fish Great Sage suddenly stopped struggling, realizing a sorrowful truth: Fang Yun's strength exceeded the rumors, not the other way around. He had assumed the rumors of Fang Yun killing a Great Sage with a single sword strike described a fluke, or at least some special trick.
But now that a single Great Sage treasure had trapped him completely, Mountain Fish Great Sage understood that Fang Yun had still been concealing his strength before.
Although Mountain Fish Great Sage was not a Peak Great Sage, he was no newly ascended Great Sage either. Even a Peak Great Sage could not imprison him; that would take at least a Saint Ancestor's avatar.
Mountain Fish Great Sage lowered his head slightly and released a faint thread of sacred sense.
"Please spare me, Sage Fang. I am willing to exchange a great secret for my life."
"Oh? Let me hear it first." Fang Yun likewise transmitted his voice through sacred sense.
"I need your guarantee. I do not want to die."
Fang Yun said, "As long as your secret is valuable enough, I can leave you a path to survival."
"You must swear an oath."
"You have no right to demand an oath from this Sage." Fang Yun looked down at Mountain Fish Great Sage inside the Sea-Covering Pearl.
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