Gu Changling sat alone on the mountain peak, his heart desolate.
He had received the True Monarch's grace and should have served him like a loyal dog or horse, even if it meant being ground to dust.
But the True Monarch had ordered him to obstruct the Daoist—a Foundation Establishment cultivator bullying one in Qi Cultivation—and openly pressure the Sect Leader into changing the master of the Changming Heavenly Lake. These were commands he simply could not obey.
After today, he had lost to Yue Ziqi of the Taifu Sect at the Hongshui Dharma Assembly.
The Gen Feng Grotto-Heaven would surely use this as a pretext to strip him of his True Inheritance position.
'I'm lucky to have kept my life. That alone is a sign of the True Monarch's mercy.'
