Meanwhile, on the other side of Wutong Mountain's ruins.
Can Lu, the deputy Director of the [Dark Moon Directorate], was in no better spirits than the two Demon Ape brothers!
He knelt before the Pure Qi barrier, feeling another wave of heaven's grief ripple outward at the fall of a Transcendence cultivator. Cold sweat had long since soaked his back.
Can Lu knew perfectly well.
If even a forbidden land on the level of the [Jade Capital Society] would be held accountable afterward, then he, as the representative of the [Dark Moon Directorate], had no hope of escaping!
"...Has he come?"
Can Lu stiffly raised his head.
Golden light rose on the horizon, and a figure in ink-black robes crossed space, appearing less than three feet before him in an instant!
"Hah... hah..."
The breathing of this dignified Half-Step Transcendence representative of a forbidden land immediately grew labored.
His face, once marked by a hawk's stare and a wolf's wariness, twisted into a smile uglier than tears:
"M-my lord..."
"The Dark Moon Directorate has always held you in the highest esteem! We are absolutely innocent!"
His voice echoed across the ruins, drawing countless sidelong glances.
To survive, Can Lu cast his dignity as a member of the Heavenly Fox Clan to the winds, asking only for a chance to live.
"That wasn't what I asked."
Ye Li raised a hand to interrupt his pleas and said calmly:
"Didn't your Dark Moon Directorate join forces with Wutong Mountain to forbid the world's cultivators from advancing to Transcendence?"
At those words, Can Lu hurriedly straightened, waving his hands repeatedly with an aggrieved expression:
"My lord, it's a misunderstanding!"
"Keeping the world's cultivators from advancing to Transcendence was a scheme cooked up by our Director and that filthy old bird!!"
To stay alive,