Shrouding the Heavens: The Years When the Female Emperor Was the Strictest Master

Shao Hanyun forcibly suppressed her anger and said coldly:

"How do we cooperate?"

Tan Lin looked at the black Broken Stele on the table and spoke slowly:

"First, the half-map in your possession that supposedly contains clues to the Yin-Yang Life-and-Death Gate must be handed over for me to inspect.

"Second, I know you possess more than just this one Broken Stele fragment, or at least hold clues to other fragments. I need you to bring them all to me..."

Shao Hanyun's pupils constricted.

"You want the map? And you want me to bring you the other Broken Stele fragments? Why should I?"

She had gone to such great lengths. How could she possibly make a wedding dress for someone else for nothing?

"Because..."

Tan Lin turned, his gaze sharp as lightning as he stared directly at Shao Hanyun. A meaningful curve lifted at the corner of his lips.

"You wouldn't want those old monsters from the Big Dipper Divine Church to find out

that you were never fully controlled by the Life-Deliverance Art, that you have always harbored rebellious thoughts, and that you have even... been secretly gathering strength, playing along while plotting to seize everything belonging to the Big Dipper Divine Church, would you?"

Boom!

Those words made Shao Hanyun feel as though she had fallen into an ice cellar. Her entire body turned cold.

She had nearly forgotten. If she could not keep him firmly under her control this time, she absolutely could not afford the risk of her secret being exposed.

If this matter leaked out, those old monsters of the Big Dipper Divine Church would never spare her. What awaited her would be a fate more terrifying than death!

Yet she had already exhausted every means at her disposal, while he seemed utterly flawless, immune