Just as Li Ping fed Yan Liming's living soul to the Inheritance Tree...
On the road from the Qi Kingdom to Windmist Immortal City, a streak of red escape light tore through the sky at tremendous speed, flying toward Windmist Immortal City.
Within that red escape light was a coldly beautiful female cultivator who looked like a girl of sixteen. A veil of fire enveloped her body, making her resemble a goddess amid the flames.
The cold beauty had become a ball of fire, moving as fast as lightning.
Meanwhile, she recalled the mission the sect master had given her: The news of the alliance between the Four Sects of the Sacred Way and the Tuluo People leaked ahead of time. The problem must lie with Yan Liming. That lecher may well have betrayed the sect, but the sect master believes he was captured and forced to divulge the information to save his life.
As she flew at full speed, the coldly beautiful girl snorted. "Hmph. Once I find Yan Liming, it will be perfectly clear whether he betrayed the sect."
In truth, the investigation into Yan Liming should have begun a year ago.
However, the Sacred Way had been fighting a major war against the Defender Alliance at the time, and no Core Formation cultivator could spare the time.
Only recently, after the Defender Alliance's main force withdrew into Donghua Mountain like a turtle into its shell and the war entered a stalemate, had she been sent out.
Because the news had leaked ahead of time, the alliance between the Sacred Way and the Tuluo People had failed to achieve its intended effect.
Although the Sacred Way seemed to have driven the Defender Alliance's cultivators out of the Yuan Kingdom and successfully occupied vast territories, the Defender Alliance had