The Endless Promise

114. Narrow Road

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A wave of gasps filled the arena as dignitaries, Sect Warriors, and disciples alike all stared in shock at the individual before them.

This indeed wasn't the Luoyin they knew, and this Luoyin had long silvery hair, golden irises in black-lined eyes widened with shock, and his skin bore a perfect luster and faint glow.

"You lowly mortals, you adopted a deadly serpent, treating it as one of you!" The City Master thundered. "This fellow is indeed an immortal, but not just any immortal!"

The gatekeeper took it from there. "This fellow is none other than the enemy of all three realms...

"Yin Xiaolong!!"

A silence followed.

Then the arena erupted into shouts of alarm, disbelief, and rage.

"What is going on here?!"

"Yin Xiaolong... among us?!"

"This entire time, we were deceived?!"

"If this is true, weren't we indeed feeding a serpent by our side!"

"Impossible!" One refuted. "Haven't we all seen the drawings of him?! How can you suddenly say he is this flower-faced individual?!"

"Could it be that those drawings were wrong?!"

Sect leaders, elders, and disciples all turned toward Zhang Luoyin with disbelief, and his hand tightened around Weiyan's hand.

"Do you still not believe it?" The city master spread his arms wide. "Haven't you fools wondered why the so-called 'Zhang trash' could suddenly cultivate again?"

"Or why strange events followed him around?" The gatekeeper added. "Or why he could escape dangers no mortal could? Look at the immortal glow around him...

"Do you still hold doubts?!"

"Impossible!" An elder cried. "Wasn't Yin Xiaolong killed about a year ago!"

The gatekeeper sneered. "Yes, yes, he died... But who ever said he couldn't be reborn within someone else?" He didn't hesitate to fuel the fire. "Here he is, hiding among mortals, corrupting your sects from within, and plotting his return!"

'I was careless...!' Luoyin quietly admitted in his heart.

These demons could have simply revealed their identities, but that would have rallied all humans against them, even if they accused him of being Yin Xiaolong, especially since he was clearly on the mortals' side.

So the demons had deliberately hinted at being immortal, hoping someone like Sect Leader Xu would accuse them of being demons instead, since his sect had survived three different demon attacks- the fortune demon from years ago, the eye-eater, and the cloaked woman herself.

But even if it wasn't Sect Leader Xu who spoke out, they hoped Luoyin would likely jump in to keep the peace amongst the mortals, and they had been right...

In being the one to reveal the demons, he had shown far more knowledge than he should have as a 'regular mortal', which now made it easier for the dignitaries to believe he was indeed Yin Xiaolong!

He thought quickly...

The Sky Emperor now knew he was innocent, but 'distant water couldn't put out a fire'. He had no idea how long it would take for Sky Realm to intervene.

He could always escape...

Not one person present could stop him from disappearing from here.

But he worried about what that would mean for the Yueyan sect who had harbored him thus far, especially Weiyan, who had supposedly killed him, and had been hailed as the 'hero who had slain the black dragon'.