Yang Qi and Mu Yexi were now alone in the hall.

A single man and a single woman. Alone together.

Of course, there would be no explosion of passion. Both were on guard against each other, and Mu Yexi had specifically been stationed here by her parents to make sure that Yang Qi didn’t get away.

Yang Qi was an experiment that had succeeded beyond expectation, and they didn’t want to lose him.

The truth was that Mu Yexi actually wasn’t worried that he might attempt to flee.

She was fully aware that, before leaving, Mu Renwang had activated one of the Woodfern Couple Palace’s most powerful warding spells, something called the Heart-Linking Hex. It created a hexing mark within the heart of the target that was completely impossible to detect. With almost no effort at all, Mu Renwang would be able to track Yang Qi wherever he went. He could also use it to corrode the target’s spirit, or even detonate it. If he did that, Yang Qi would be in such incredible pain that he would drop to the...