Chapter 501: Life-and-Death Reincarnation: A Dream? An Illusion?
Gale-force winds howled as three figures sped along.
None spoke or attacked. They simply kept their heads down and pressed on, their feet never stopping.
The three swept out of the Manor, passed through bustling streets, crossed silent woods and wilderness, then passed countless illuminated homes.
It was late at night, but fishing boats along the coast were still using the darkness to smuggle people across.
The three boarded a boat lightly and soundlessly.
The fishing boat was dilapidated, steeped in a heavy fishy reek and the stench of rotten fish and shrimp. The skipper, a man of about fifty, held the helm steady. His clothes were ragged and his whole body stank, making him look like an unkempt beggar. Several lean, dark-skinned young men huddled beneath a dim yellow light playing cards, arguing red-faced over momentary wins and losses and even coming to blows.
Along the gunwales that rose and fell with the waves, the three each stood at a separate corner, as though one with the fishing boat beneath them. Their feet seemed glued fast to it, rising and falling with the vessel yet remaining perfectly still. No one noticed them.
Ignoring the skipper's foul-mouthed curses, Lian Youming kept his gaze lowered, seemingly oblivious. It was as though he had withdrawn from the mortal world and sealed off his own perception, unable to hear or see.
However powerful this White Lotus Sect Master's spiritual thoughts might be, would she be helpless if they sealed off their Six Senses?
He was not the only one. Gu Feiyan also seemed deeply wary of the White Lotus Sect Master and did the same.
From the very outset, both had actually chosen defense.
But Lian Youming soon started in alarm.
*Damn it. Putting