Inside the temple.
With his clothes torn and a scorched smell rising from his entire body, Ren Ye raced straight toward the Wisdom Academy.
Just now, the roasting Limen Fire, the Peachwood Sword's savage blows, and his "esteemed teacher's" all-pervasive sword energy had brought his intelligence back to the fore. He was utterly certain that, within the confines of the Longevity Temple, probably no one could defeat Lu Wentian.
As the final "gatekeeping remnant soul," all the man's supernatural powers were reinforced by the Heavenly Dao's authority, growing stronger against stronger opponents. Put plainly, the mechanics made him an invincible being.
In other words, brute force definitely wasn't the way to clear this stage. There had to have been other clues and details earlier that everyone had overlooked, or failed to trigger.
What could they be?
And what did Lu Wentian fear most?
Ren Ye thought it was the car, the black sedan with the license plate "Fu.00001."
His conjecture wasn't baseless. Just now, inside the Phoenix Fire Furnace, as he hovered between life and death, he had seen the badge hanging on Lu Wentian's chest and recalled many scenes from the flashbacks.
Lu Wentian had committed countless evils throughout his life. Selfish and inhuman by nature, he was vicious in everything he did and killed without blinking. Yet there were two words alone that he feared, and those two words were precisely what the black sedan symbolized.
There were no hints for this. Players had to guess entirely on their own, testing their ability to pick up on details.
Thus, Ren Ye concluded that the solution to this final stage had to involve that black sedan.
However, when the three of them returned to the Longevity Taoist Temple, they hadn't encountered the car at the entrance. It had vanished,