The appearance of Princess Xuanye came as a complete surprise to Li Dai, and her bedraggled state completely shattered the immaculate image she had previously held in Li Dai's mind. Covered in blood, Princess Xuanye was crawling on the ground; her cyan and white robes were stained with dark splotches of red, her hair was disheveled, and terror filled her eyes. Seeing Old Man Mojie, she cried out as if she had just found her savior: "Master, save me!"
Old Man Mojie opened his leathery eyelids, glanced at her coldly, and spoke in an utterly placeless, calm tone: "Utterly useless. You are already at the threshold of the Dao, yet you cannot even deal with an ordinary mortal?" Suddenly noticing that her neck was bare, Old Man Mojie's expression shifted drastically. He hoisted her up by the collar on the spot, his lifeless eyes instantly turning gloomy to the extreme: "Where is the fragment?"
Sensing that her master was truly furious—as if he might strangle her to death at any second—Princess Xuanye could not stop her entire body from trembling. At the mention of the fragment, her face turned pale as chalk, as though recalling some terrifying ordeal, and she hurriedly begged for mercy: "Master, spare my life! It was that monk—he snatched it away and beat me nearly to death. If not for the teleportation talisman Master gave me to bring me to your side, I would surely be dead already." Facing Old Man Mojie, she was so servile that not a trace of her former high-and-mighty celestial…
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