An aged fire beast, deals struck in succession; a glimpse of might startles a late-stage cultivator

Lin Changheng inwardly muttered, Enemies really do meet on narrow roads!

Why did he say that? Because the seeds of his feud with the Hehuan Sect had been planted during his very first trip into Jin.

Back then, he had slipped into the Jin Territory to search for Mo Zhaoli. Following the trail, he discovered that the Hehuan Sect had lent a "helping hand" in putting her in danger. Lin Changheng had killed the Poison-Handed Scholar, who had led their operation.

Besides that, he had ruined the Hehuan Sect's plan to monopolize the Nascent Soul Cave-Dwelling Ruins. They had secretly occupied the ruins, intending to swallow all the treasures within for themselves. Lin Changheng leaked the news, drawing various powers into the struggle and utterly wrecking the sect's carefully laid plans.

Yet that feud had never ended. It had merely gone into hiding.

The Hehuan Sect must have hated the mastermind behind those events enough to grind their teeth. They might already have dug three feet into the earth searching for him.

Unfortunately for them, they had failed to find him. Otherwise, they would surely have unleashed fierce retaliation. An enemy who had inflicted such crushing losses had to be eliminated before they could rest easy.

Lin Changheng, for his part, was also a man who held grudges.

Although he had vented his anger back then and found no opportunity to pursue the matter further, now the Hehuan Sect's Grand Elder, True Person Lustrous Light, had become involved for some unknown reason-even actively joining forces with Medicine King Valley to scheme against him!

The tampered Xie Danli had come from True Person Lustrous Light. Medicine King Valley's true core cultivators had been able to track him because True Person Lustrous Light had supplied a means of "locating" him.

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