Meanwhile.
On a mountain peak some distance from Jade Luan Manor.
Amid the dense woods, a lone figure approached with her hands behind her back.
Fairy Jadeface wore plain robes, her cold, breathtaking face devoid of emotion. Her clear eyes quietly swept across the deep night mist ahead.
She seemed to be the only one there.
Yet the roiling fog seemed thick with murderous intent.
"I know he wasn't the one who called me here. Come out. Since you lured me here, surely it wasn't just to show me these petty tricks."
As her words fell.
The woods abruptly sank into deathly silence.
The mist that had been churning a moment earlier seemed to freeze, becoming a gray-white wall.
A moment later.
A slightly hoarse voice came from deep within the fog. "Then what do you think we lured you out here for?"
Fairy Jadeface looked up and said flatly, "How would I know? But whatever you want, release him first."
As her words fell.
The wall of fog slowly parted to either side.
It revealed a woodland clearing covered in scattered footprints.
At its center, Tang Qingyuan lay slumped on the ground, his blue robes caked with mud and blood.
Behind him, more than a dozen burly figures stood silently.
All were in the Wandering Void Sea Realm.
Tang Qingyuan raised his head with difficulty. Looking at that plain-robed figure who haunted his dreams yet whom he dreaded seeing, his throat bobbed, and he forced a smile uglier than tears.
"Qiulan..."
"Shut up."
Fairy Jadeface's gaze passed over Tang Qingyuan and settled on the white horse. Then she frowned. "The Buddhist Sect?"
"You certainly have some nerve. For this little bit of incense-fire power from the Eight Hundred Miles of Linked Clouds, you actually dared to abduct someone from