Chapter 209: The Man in the Lake
Lady Hong stood in the shadows, her face slightly turned towards Li Yunxin. She gave him a mischievous smile. "Didn't I tell Young Master Li before? Lord Father refined the Jianmu Tree into my body, and now I can sense the Dongting Lake barrier. This means I am the Formation Core of this barrier."
"But even though I am the Formation Core, I honestly don't know how to get out of this barrier. Lord Father must have a way, but he didn't tell me."
She paused, then reached out and plucked a small red flower from a nearby branch, tucking it into her hair. She then turned and walked towards the main hall. "But a smart person like Young Master Li must know there's another way to break the barrier—by destroying the Formation Core."
"Lord Father spent a great deal of effort to refine the Formation Core into my body. In the past, destroying the Formation Core was harder than destroying the formation itself. But now, if Young Master Li wants to get out…"
She tilted her head. "You can just kill me."
With that, the only daughter of the Lord of Dongting, Lady Hong—who was so deeply in love with Li Yunxin due to her obsession—turned and disappeared through the moon gate to the west of the main hall, concealed by a cluster of flowers and plants.
Li Yunxin stood on the white sandy beach of Jun Mountain, stunned for a long time, before he realized he was about to face yet another choice.
He wasn't sure he could make the right one.
The Lord of Dongting had deliberately done this—that old monster. Kun Wuzi had tried to use words and the general situation to persuade him to side with the Daoist Orthodoxy. The Lord of Dongting had done the same thing, but in a more direct and brutal way.