Zhang Yuan's heart stopped for a second, and his face stiffened with embarrassment. Looking at the beautiful woman in his arms, her eyes glimmering faintly, he felt anything but happy-his soul nearly fled his body in fright.
[True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts]. This woman was his incarnation, or else the True Lord's Divine Sense had possessed her.
What did he want with him?
Zhang Yuan steadied his mind, drew a deep breath, and asked calmly, "What instructions do you have, True Lord?"
Seeing how readily Zhang Yuan caught on, the beautiful woman smiled sweetly. "Instructions would be overstating it. I have a road to heaven. Will you take it?"
Zhang Yuan's eyelids twitched wildly.
A road to heaven?
More like a road to the chopping block. [True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts] excelled at schemes and intrigue, and was just as skilled at exploiting and squeezing Lower Cultivators dry. What had happened to the Dragon Creek City Wang Clan was still vivid in his mind.
If he actually believed [True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts]'s lies, he would die without even knowing how.
Fortunately, [True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts] held the Golden Position of [Blazing Embers] and could control Lower Cultivators' minds. Since he had not used his mighty True Lord powers to control Zhang Yuan now, he was presumably also constrained by the rule forbidding True Lords from taking action. That meant there was still room to negotiate.
"What road to heaven?" Zhang Yuan asked.
The beautiful woman smiled faintly and pointed behind her. "This is no place to talk. Let us go upstairs and discuss it."
Zhang Yuan followed his pointing finger with his gaze, and the words [Eastern Sunken Pavilion] came into view.
[Eastern Sunken Pavilion] again.
Unlike the shop he had encountered before, however,