[On the way back to Nine Li Valley.]
[True Lord Beiheng asked with concern, "Fellow Daoist Azure Origin, are you all right?"]
[After determining that you had no certainty of killing True Lord Yinxiao outright, you immediately notified True Lord Beiheng and gave him a rough account of what had happened.]
[That was also why True Lord Beiheng had arrived so quickly.]
["I'm fine. I merely used a forbidden secret art and paid a price."]
[Your aura rapidly weakened, and your face paled, as though your vitality and spirit had been depleted.]
[Suppressing a fourth-tier corpse puppet in such a short time was almost a feat worthy of a middle-stage True Lord.]
[Naturally, you could not appear to have expended nothing at all.]
[The path of an Ancient Supreme Spell Cultivator True Lord was your hidden trump card. Unless you had absolutely no alternative, you would never reveal it.]
[Claiming to have used a forbidden secret art that exacted a price was your explanation to others, concealing your true trump card.]
[The only one who knew the truth was the fourth-tier corpse puppet. But the interval between your Nascent Soul leaving your body and suppressing her had been so brief that she probably had no time to notify True Lord Yinxiao.]
[True Lord Yinxiao's earlier behavior made that clear.]
[Had this Nascent Soul True Lord of the corpse dao known how you had truly suppressed the fourth-tier corpse puppet, he would never have dared speak to you that way.]
["You entered the Nascent Soul Realm less than a century ago, yet you already possess such strength. Your talent is truly dazzling."]
[True Lord Beiheng spoke earnestly. In a one-on-one fight against True Lord Yinxiao's fourth-tier corpse puppet, he was also confident he could defeat her in a short time.]
[But