My first instinct, when faced with a demand given by a Golden Core cultivator while I was as weak as a mortal at the moment, was to bow and obey.
But with everything that just happened, I thought I deserved some explanation, at least.
"Elder Lin Kwan, it's too dangerous for us to leave unprepared. I don't know how much you have heard while on the other side, but—"
"I've heard everything you and my son were talking about, Ru Yujin. I heard everything he told me in the past two decades, although he never heard my replies. For twenty years, I could only watch how these dogs, Lin Xiao and his worthless son Lin Deng, take the glory and power that should've been ours!"
A circle of ghost lights suddenly appeared like a crown over her head, lighting the crypt in their bright, but eerie light.
