Chapter 248 Book 5 Motives
The moonlight cast a pale sheen through the latticed windows of the Azure Feather Sect's inner sanctum. Inside a vast chamber lined with books, celestial charts, and half-burned incense sticks, Yan Shengtian sat alone, still as a statue, his robes slightly disheveled. The silence was heavy, broken only by the distant flutter of wings or the occasional echo of footsteps patrolling the sect grounds.
His jaw clenched.
For two days now, the name "Li An" hasn't left his mind. The girl he had whimsically declared as his personal servant had turned out to be something much more—a veiled storm beneath a serene lake.
"She defeated Elder Gi?" he murmured aloud, leaning forward with his elbows on the armrest. His eyes, sharp and filled with calculation, scanned the flickering candlelight. "If the rumors are even half true, then she holds power not even I can measure yet."
