Mu Guyue watched Li Yan's profile from close by. Her heart, which had already calmed, stirred with faint ripples once more.
She, a dignified Nascent Soul cultivator, had actually become entangled in karma with a mere early Foundation Establishment cultivator—and the kind of karma that could not be spoken of before others!
Back in the lower realm, when Mu Guyue had remained on the Lost Continent in the later period, she would often be seized by indescribably complicated emotions. The reason she had been unable to cut through the tangled mess with a swift blade was Mu Sha!
Only after ascending to the Immortal-Spirit Realm, amid long years of fighting and killing everywhere just to survive, had she gradually neglected those events of the past.
Only in the stillness of deep night would she sometimes remember that person because she thought of her own child...
At Li Yan's side, he naturally had no idea what Mu Guyue was thinking. In his heart, if there were any chance to keep Mu Guyue far away from him, he would be more than happy to seize it.
Having this woman at his side gave Li Yan a strange feeling as well. They were neither enemies nor friends, and not exactly kin or strangers either, yet he truly could not simply stand by and do nothing...
After leaving the courtyard, Li Yan took Mu Guyue to look for Tang Feng again, but they still failed to find him.
Earlier, Li Yan had not spotted Tang Feng in the Affairs Hall either. That struck him as strange, since the sect had ordered all cultivators to come out.
A purge was about to begin, and he wanted to hear Tang Feng's thoughts.
Tang Feng knew more people in the sect than he did. Li Yan had