Gao Fei understood. So did everyone else.
Li Jie was still alive, imprisoned in the Chiyang Sect by the Second Elder.
The two men had come this time to capture them and take them back for imprisonment, only they had underestimated their strength.
That also indirectly showed that the two captives were not in any immediate danger of death. Otherwise, they would not have been captured.
They would have been silenced forever.
"Why not just kill them?"
Li Qingyao shook her head. "We still don't know the truth. Second Senior Brother is still in their hands, so I can't make this decision. Let's take them back to Qing Province first. I just don't know whether the road ahead will be peaceful."
As she spoke, she walked before the two men. Spiritual power wound around her fingers as her fingertips tapped several vital acupoints in succession.
Gao Fei sensed the spiritual energy within their bodies stagnate.
"Your technique is pretty good!"
"A secret art of my sect, not to be passed on. If you agree to take my master as your master, I'll teach you."
"I was only curious!"
Gao Fei was very interested in techniques for sealing meridians, but becoming her master's disciple was out of the question.
As long as he had cultivation techniques and Merit Points, he could learn everything himself. Six black shadows in the Consciousness Space could teach and demonstrate for him.
Once he grew strong enough, he could simply seek them out for a trade. There was no need to find himself a "father" in the real world.
"My master is the foremost person in Qing Province. Countless people wish to become his disciples but cannot even enter the gate, yet you refuse!"
Li Qingyao found it hard to believe. This technique had merely been