Before Chu Mo could answer, Si Yun suddenly seemed to remember something and spoke first, realization in his voice. "I wondered who could possess such piercing sword intent. So it is Chen Ziliang, True Person Chen, of the Heaven's Will Sect's sword lineage, renowned for his Sword Heart Slays Demons
Divine ability.
"But those words of yours are truly amusing."
He looked at Chen Ziliang with a smile that never reached his eyes. "First, you attacked us with a hidden sword without so much as a greeting, then you opened your mouth to slander us as fiends of the demonic path. I see nothing in you that suggests the slightest reluctance to fight."
Chen Ziliang's expression remained unchanged, his voice steady. "Is Fellow Daoist Youxuan not safe and sound? Since he suffered not the slightest injury, nothing happened.
"And if nothing happened, why cling to such trifles? With so narrow a heart, you fiend will never travel far along the Great Dao."
With that, he ignored Si Yun's darkening face and turned his gaze to Chu Mo. "Well, Fellow Daoist Youxuan? Everything is negotiable. Name your terms. So long as my junior brother's soul can return to reincarnation and find freedom, I am willing to pay for its release."
At those words, Chu Mo's eyes flickered.
He had long heard that among the Three Sects of Fuli, the Heaven's Will Sect alone possessed the strongest bonds between fellow disciples, watching over and helping one another. Seeing them today, they were indeed different from Tribulation Deliverance.
To make these Heaven's Will disciples, who shouted for blood whenever they saw someone of the demonic path, suppress their loathing and calmly negotiate with someone they regarded as a fiend, even addressing him as a fellow Daoist... interesting.
Unfortunately, he had devoured Dawnlight with