The people who were going to be executed were not the prisoners from Crimson Garden, which meant that there was no need for Lu Yin to stay. Shenwu's Sky’s entire reason for gathering and executing the surviving vassals of the Lu family had been to draw Lu Yin into revealing himself. As long as Lu Yin could successfully leave the Perennial World, those captives would remain unharmed until the four ruling powers became certain that Lu Yin had returned once more.

If Lu Yin could escape, then the four ruling powers would make sure to gather everyone that he cared about so that they could threaten him with them, or coerce him into trying to rescue them. However, they did not know that Lu Yin had already captured the army that the Perennial World had sent to kill him, which meant that both sides had their own chips to bring to the negotiating table. Also, if Lu Yin could lure them into sending a few more people to the Fifth Mainland, he would be able to gain a few more hostages, and it would be difficult to say who would end up holding the initiative.

No matter how cunning and clever Bai Xian'er might be, she was nothing more than an ant against the power that Progenitor Chen had left behind. Lu Yin refused to believe that the woman could fight against Progenitor Chen's power. After all, he had already seen how Bai Xian’er had not been able to resist Progenitor Smoke when she had trapped Bai Xian’er. If Lu Yin could get Bai Xian’er to follow him into the Fifth Mainland, she...