True Person Taiyi left the moment he said he would, departing abruptly, his figure already vanished without a trace.
Yet before leaving, he had actually seized Jiu Futu of the Ten Thousand Devil Palace, treating the three Mid Stage of Tribulation Crossing cultivators and more than twenty Early Stage of Tribulation Crossing cultivators present as though they were nothing.
Such decisiveness, suddenness, and boldness had caught everyone completely off guard. Even after True Person Taiyi had left the dark abyss, the cultivators still stood stunned, feeling as though something had slipped away.
"Only someone like that could truly be an immortal who has attained the Dao, surely?"
"Coming and going at ease, moving freely, succeeding wherever his heart leads him..."
Someone could not help murmuring, his eyes filled with longing.
Who had stepped onto the path of cultivation without ever dreaming of such carefree freedom?
Sadly, the cultivation path was riddled with pitfalls. In the end, it wore down their spirit and changed their original aspirations, until the ways of the world within the Ruins of Zhangshi ground them into the very people they had once despised...
Yin Tianzhi, the White-Haired Old Man, and the Young Woman could not help looking upward as well.
Their expressions were complicated.
A trace of regret that would not fade lingered in Yin Tianzhi's eyes.
"What a pity..."
Someone like that was destined never to be merely a sharp sword in the Yin Clan's hand. He had understood this the very instant he saw the man appear, and precisely because of that, he felt it was all the more regrettable.
The White-Haired Old Man's feelings were equally complicated. He certainly hated the man for slaying his direct descendant and ruining years of painstaking cultivation, but at this moment, he could not help being won