Even the Xia Emperor found the intelligence from the Dao-Seeking Sect absurd when he thought back about it.

The Nine Palaces of the Luoshui Guard are all shrewd and capable. They have spent the better part of a year analyzing intelligence about the Heartless Creed day and night. It hasn’t been easy for them to pinpoint Yang Kongtong’s rough location, yet Lu Yang has already gotten rid of him.

Had it been unnecessary for Great Xia to establish the Luoshui Guard?

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At the Dao-Seeking Sect, a new prisoner stood at the entrance of Incarceration Peak, lost in thought.

Despite all my fame and glory, I’ve been reduced to a miserable fate of imprisonment. How tragic and lamentable.

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“Old Duan, does this line in my cultivation manual mean that we cultivators should be ascetic?” Mo Xiaochou, a Divine Transfiguration cultivator, asked Duan Qingshui, who had come in with him.

Both had been captured by Lu Yang at Xitian...