"Welcome to the space within Heaven and Earth in the Sleeve."
Chu Kuangren looked at the young man before him and spoke with a faint smile.
He had swept this assassin into his Heaven and Earth in the Sleeve at the very instant Ren Ying was attacked.
"Who exactly are you?!"
The young assassin looked at Chu Kuangren, his eyes filled with deep wariness, and beneath that... fear.
Chu Kuangren's methods struck him as utterly inconceivable.
Someone who could move a peak Heavenly Dao Lord like him into this bizarre space without his noticing had to be an Immortal at the very least.
And against an Immortal, he had no power to resist!
"Who sent you to kill Ren Ying?"
Chu Kuangren did not answer him, instead asking a question outright.
"As an assassin, I won't easily betray my employer," the assassin said coldly.
"Is that so?"
Chu Kuangren chuckled and slowly opened his palm. A vivid, bewitchingly beautiful red Flame Lotus swayed upon it.
He tossed the Flame Lotus out, and it soon landed on the assassin opposite him.
"W-what is this?"
The assassin's expression shifted slightly. He felt something within him being burned away.
He summoned his power to resist the encroaching flames, but it was useless. Excruciating pain battered his mind without cease.
The pain of having one's karmic sin burned away was not something an ordinary person could endure.
And Chu Kuangren could magnify that pain tenfold, a hundredfold, or more, leaving the assassin wishing he were dead.
Few could hold out under such torture without talking.
Clearly, this assassin was no exception.
He revealed the mastermind behind it: a leading Daoist tradition on Firmament Star had sent someone to arrange it. Nor had their sole objective been Ren Ying herself. After killing her, they intended