Page 268

The System suddenly cried out. [We never paid attention to this person before, so I never looked up anything about her.]

[She infiltrated the lineages in No-Man's Land and tried every way she could to get rid of their members. Host, when you were with the Pu Clan, she was hiding among their maids too.]

The Fifth Elder's and Yu Lin's faces turned much colder.

No wonder Fu Ruolan had acted so irrationally.

What she had done was already enough to condemn her to death.

Cooperation between the sects and lineages could affect the balance of the entire Cultivation World. It would play a crucial role in the future war against the Devil Race.

Imprisoning Fu Ruolan here was, in its own way, a form of protection.

Now that they knew this was Si Le's doing, the two of them hated the Devil Race to the marrow of their bones.

They could still remember this princess of royal birth. Proud and aloof as she was, she had laughed with delight when she grasped the first level of the Sect's Cultivation Method in a single day.

To improve her Constitution, several Sect elders had gone out together, found a rare Earth-Rank Spirit Medicine, traded it for an Eighth-Rank Medicinal Pill, and given it to her.

She was exceptionally clever, though somewhat sensitive. The elders had been grooming her to become the next Sect Master.

Seeing what she had become now broke their hearts.

Li Zi's conversation with the System also reached Fu Ruolan's ears.

Fu Ruolan abruptly sat up.

She had Northern Frontier ancestry, with exquisitely sculpted features, like a doll shaped by careful hands.

Now her eyes were bloodred as she stared fixedly at Li Zi.

"It's you."

Her voice was hoarse, as though an old, frail soul hid inside