Challenge

"His neck was snapped?"

"You killed Elder Lu Xiao?"

Everyone from the Fengyun Alliance stood frozen in place, staring at Nie Yun as though he were some kind of monster.

"You killed Elder Lu Xiao, and they still let you come back safely?" After a while, Ouyang Shixiong could not help asking. The immense shock still made it hard for him to believe.

"Heh heh." Nie Yun did not want to explain too much and merely smiled faintly. "The Void Breaking Potential Ranking is about to begin. Cultivate well over the next two days and try to earn a place on the ranking too!"

"Yes, Alliance Leader. Fairy Tantai had something urgent to attend to and went back earlier. She said that once you returned, you should visit her mountain peak!" Seeing that he did not wish to say more, no one pressed him further. Zhu Yin looked over with an ambiguous expression.

"Alright!" Seeing his attitude and the looks in everyone's eyes, Nie Yun knew that explanations would be useless. He said no more, merely chuckled, and flashed away. Before long, he arrived at the peak where Tantai Lingyue lived.

There were no towering, majestic palaces on the mountain peak, nor were there servants or attendants. There was only a sea of flowers stretching to the heavens and a lake upon the mountain. At that moment, Tantai Lingyue stood before the lake, as still as a silent painting.

Watching the girl stand serenely by the lake, Nie Yun seemed to return to his previous life.

In his previous life, she had liked to remain quietly like this, as if she had melted into nature. Yet she also seemed as though she did not belong to this world at all, like a fairy maiden in a painting—tranquil and distant, keeping