He flipped rapidly back to the earlier pages and checked them over carefully several times. Then his expression froze.
"Holy shit..."
He had already known the guy was a badass. After all, stripping away all his Origin Substance and leaving himself with only two or three pieces to train in the Sixth Layer of the Spirit Realm was certainly not something an ordinary person could do. And he had even brought him back from the Eighth Layer with ease. That alone was enough to prove how extraordinary he was.
But even knowing he was a badass, Lin En had never, ever imagined he would be this much of a badass!
The head of the Divine Covenant...
An emperor...
And he had even taken on the Church solo?!
"He's got some serious game."
Lin En narrowed his eyes as he studied the documents in his hands.
He really was astonished. He had never expected a guy he happened to meet after falling into the Spirit Realm to have a background like this. More importantly, he knew perfectly well that these were merely his public identities. His true identity was the Tyrant's Vessel.
And that only made him all the more terrifying.
He had thought the guy had infiltrated their ranks to lurk in the shadows, but he had never imagined that he had not merely slipped in-he had fucking become the leader of the opposing faction.
He had never told Lin Yin any of this.
"So he's some old bastard who's lived for centuries, hiding his identity to lure in an innocent young girl?"
Lin En hesitated.
Just thinking about it gave him an inexplicable chill. If that were all there was to it, it would not have mattered.
But the important thing was...
He was the innocent young girl in