Lin Xinghe pressed against the moss on the courtyard wall, her fingertips digging into her palms.
She could hear the pounding of her heart echoing in her ears. Ever since she had been cast out by the Lin Family, she had long grown used to moving in secret, but tonight's tension was different from anything she had known before.
As Lin Feng's figure vanished behind the secret chamber door, she could even smell a faint metallic scent drifting in the air—the subtle, bloody aura that seeps from the veins when the power of a Sword Soul surges within the body.
Chapter 20