Chapter 129: Azuremist sect.
There were many things Lee could tell his new friend, but to not sound like a drama queen, he simply said, "The woman you saw, she’s a real bitch. When you see her the next time, run and don’t look back."
"Why would I see her ... you think they are following us?" Xiao Lian asked, and threw a worried glance around, but the mountain slope they were currently going down had nothing but threes.
"She’s in the Nethermoon sect. Technically one of ours." Lee said, "The other guys too. You heard her – it was some kind of a training mission, and my guess is that she was leading the group of outer sect’s disciples so they could hone their skills, or something."
"But why would she kill the guy? The punishment ..." Xiao Lian said, but Lee interrupted him.
He said, "There won’t be any punishment, because no one saw anything ... Although even I didn’t know she’s so vicious. From the looks of it Deen and Edward are the next. Me too, if she finds me."
"What? Why?!" Xiao Lian stopped, his face pale as if he was one of the potential targets.
"My guess is she decided to start from a clean slate." Lee explained, "She probably doesn’t want anyone to know where she came from, and what she has done. What’s more important, one of the guys in the group, Edward, was once her fiance. Actually I’m surprised he’s still alive."
"So you came from the same world?" Xiao Lian asked the obvious, but seeing Lee nod, fell deep in thoughts again.
They walked mostly in silence for the rest of the day, and only the next morning Xiao Lian was back to his old self.
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The Azuremist sect was of similar size to the Nethermoon sect. In fact, both were subsidiaries of the Celestial Abyss sect, the main hegemon of this world. It had subdued dozens of smaller sects, but there were many independent ones as well.