No Way Back

"That brat's water techniques are strange. I couldn't kill him right away," Danyangzi said as he returned to Shen Luo's side, looking rather embarrassed that he had failed to kill Feng Shui.

"Yu Lu, did you betray the Body Refining Altar, or were you an agent of the authorities from the start?" Xuan Xiao asked coldly, his gaze settling on Yu Lu.

"Does it make a difference?" Yu Lu asked with a sigh.

"It does. Depending on the answer, you'll die very differently," Xuan Xiao said flatly.

"More importantly, how did you discover us?" Yu Lu asked.

"Have you forgotten that my master and I are both ghost cultivators? After all these years immersed in the Ghost Dao, how could we fail to tell whether someone was a ghost? Your Yin Spirit Talismans are impressive, I'll grant you, but before these eyes of mine, their disguises are nothing but illusion." Xuan Xiao sneered.

With that, he pressed two fingers together and swept them across his eyes. His pupils rolled downward, revealing another pair of dark-purple pupils.

"The Netherworld Ghost Eye!" Danyangzi cried out. A trace of envy appeared in his eyes.

As a ghost cultivator himself, he knew talent mattered in cultivating the Ghost Dao. Some people were born with yin constitutions or yin pupils, giving them a natural advantage over others. The Netherworld Ghost Eye was one such gift.

According to legend, those eyes could recognize all manner of ghosts and yin spirits. Even a cultivator who had perfected his transformation into a Ghost Immortal would betray some trace of his origins to them.

"What now? The whole plan's been thrown into disarray. Are we still fighting?" Red-Handed Perfected Person asked solemnly through a voice transmission.

"We fight. Of course we fight. The entire city is covering for us