A Man Like None Other

David shook his head: “You go first.”

“Senior?” Ling Shuang and Lie Tian were both taken aback.

“I’ll go find Shi Yan and Ying Wu.” David’s gaze was firm. “They haven’t returned on time, they must have encountered trouble. I can’t abandon them.”

“But Senior, there are search parties everywhere outside, it’s too dangerous for you to act alone!” Ling Shuang said anxiously, her eyes showing genuine worry.

Lie Tian also advised, “Senior, Shi Yan and Ying Wu are both alert children. Perhaps they were just delayed by something, or are hiding somewhere. If you go out now, what if…”

“There is no ‘what if’.”

David’s tone was calm, but with an undeniable determination. “I came to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect with them. It is my responsibility to find them and get them out of here safely.”

“You go to the secret realm first and tell me the exact location and how to enter. After I find them, I will meet up with you.”

Seeing that David’s mind was made up, Ling Shuang knew that further persuasion was useless.

She bit her lip, took out a fiery red, feather-shaped jade pendant from her bosom, and handed it to David: “Senior, this is the Blazing Fire Pendant, one of the keys to opening the entrance to the secret realm.”

“The entrance to the secret realm is located about 20,000 miles southwest, at the deepest part of the Crimson Flame Canyon, where there is a crimson rock wall that burns eternally.”

“Hold the Blazing Fire Pendant, circulate your fire-attribute spiritual power to activate it, and simultaneously use your divine sense to inscribe the seal I’m passing on to you. This will open the temporary entrance.”

As she spoke, she transmitted a complex and profound seal into David’s mind with her divine sense.

David sensed it briefly and memorized it, then took the Blazing Fire Pendant and put it away.

“Senior, please be careful! We’ll be waiting for you in the secret realm!” Ling Shuang looked at David, her eyes

Tian and the other disciples of the Myriad Beasts Sect also bowed,

a flicker, disappeared from everyone’s sight as if merging

even a spatial

to reality. Suppressing the strange emotions within

help support the severely wounded. We’re

force, composed of elites from the Xuan Tian Sword Sect and remnants of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, silently

…

pushed his spatial escape techniques and concealment abilities to their

divine sense like the most sophisticated radar, radiating outwards in all directions

for any traces that might be related to the rocks and shadow dance, while skillfully avoiding squads of visible and

Xuan Tian Sword Sect. He discovered

marks pointed in another direction—seemingly

old site of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect. David’s heart tightened. Had the two been exposed

direction

site, the denser the patrols became, and the more tense the atmosphere grew.

to lie in wait for long intervals between

discovered more

was mixed with the scents of Shi Yan and

David’s heart sank.

the original Beast Sect core area, David discovered

stream bore obvious marks of sword and knife strikes and magical attacks,

least five or six different, violent auras of fused beasts, and two

“They were ambushed here…”

David’s eyes turned icy.

the battle was quite fierce. Shi Yan and Ying Wu had clearly put up a tenacious resistance, but the enemy outnumbered them and seemed to