"Let's go," Xiao Yan said to Nalan Yanran, who was waiting anxiously beside him.
Nalan Yanran immediately perked up and nodded hard.
Xiao Yan was finally going to act. Her teacher could be saved!
Taking Nalan Yanran with him, Xiao Yan flashed toward the Misty Cloud Sect.
At the Misty Cloud Sect...
Behind the sect, on Back Mountain, there was a hidden Secret Chamber. Inside, a woman in a simple pale-green dress sat cross-legged on the floor.
Her eyes were closed, a faint worry creasing her brow. Not a trace of Dou Qi stirred around her.
It was Yun Yun, her Dou Qi sealed and her body imprisoned here.
As if sensing something, Yun Yun slowly opened her eyes and looked into the darkness ahead.
A white-haired man in flowing white robes emerged from it, his bearing otherworldly.
Had Xiao Yan been there, he would have sensed the nauseating black aura tainting the man's eyes, his body, and even the depths of his soul.
It was the work of Soul Hall.
The man was none other than Yun Shan, the previous sect leader of the Misty Cloud Sect.
"Yun'er, it's been so long. Surely you've thought it through by now?" Yun Shan asked as he approached her, his voice conflicted.
Yun Yun looked up at her teacher.
He still looked the same, but everything else about him felt utterly unfamiliar.
"Teacher, have you forgotten what you taught me? Why have you become someone who'll stop at nothing?
What could make you join forces with such monstrous people, even at the cost of the sect's elders and disciples..."
Yun Yun poured out every question she had kept buried in her heart.
For as long as she could remember, her teacher had been kind to others and fierce in his hatred of