Hua Shengmi suddenly spoke: "Xue Nian hasn’t used his Dark Power at this moment."

Lin Feng also noticed that Xue Nian was not attacking with full force at this time.

He just didn’t know what Xue Nian was waiting for. What was so important that he had to consider?

Lin Feng quietly pondered for a moment and then reached a conclusion.

"Maybe he has an agenda. Indeed, the man in white wouldn’t simply have Xue Nian capture Wu Tian. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be dealing with Wu Tian on one hand and guarding against me on the other."

Lin Feng was particularly puzzled by Xue Nian’s disappearance in the morning and his timely reappearance just when Lin Feng was caught off guard.

The subsequent two blasts of black light precisely counteracted Xue Nian’s energy right beside him.

If it was just one or two coincidences, Lin Feng could believe it, but continuous coincidences would reveal the problem even to a fool.

It’s really quite simple. Xue Nian is sent by the man in white, who is the State Preceptor beside the Emperor. Last time, he came to drive Lin Feng out of Peace City, and since he failed, he’s using the Wu Tian issue this time to find an opportunity to deal with Lin Feng.

And everything in front of him has already fallen into the calculations of the man in white. He could predict that Lin Feng would definitely slip, whether it was a mistake caused by Xue Nian or the fight with Qingling; Lin Feng would gain no benefit.

Lin Feng was inevitably caught in the middle, receiving both overt and covert blows from both sides.

Just when all three parties were in a stalemate, a man in white robes walked into the hall. Earlier, he transformed into a stream of light, piercing through a long black space and using a concealed mechanism to arrive here smoothly.

It seemed he was particularly familiar with the terrain here, so he could arrive in time.

The disciple who retreated earlier with Qingling seemed to have also left through other secret pathways.

At this moment, the man in white started striking towards Wu Tian, his supreme palm force forming a golden energy aimed at Wu Tian’s chest.

In fact, he originally intended not to intervene himself, but seeing the current situation where the three were in a stalemate, he feared his plan might have a flaw, so he came here regardless of anything.

The boundless palm force penetrated Wu Tian’s small formation seal and directly hit his chest, causing him to fall to the ground. His body collided with the hard stone slab, and large mouthfuls of blood flowed from his mouth.

After Wu Tian fell to the ground, the man in white glanced at Lin Feng and then spoke to Wu Tian on the ground: "Your daughter is in my hands."

He walked to the stone door of the secret chamber, opened a lever, and brought out the tightly bound Wu Ping.

Wu Tian looked at the woman in front of him, recognizing his daughter whom he had abandoned for many years.

"Do you remember who she is? This is the daughter you abandoned twenty years ago."

Wu Tian looked at the woman in front of him, unsure why he had no reaction. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

"Shen Laud, you say she is my daughter? What a joke. My daughter died at the hands of foreigners twenty years ago. Hahaha, now you want to use any woman to deceive me. You really underestimate me, Wu Tian."

Hearing those words, Lin Feng thought to himself: "Wu Tian believes his children died twenty-five years ago? No wonder he hadn’t sought them. What happened twenty-five years ago that made Wu Tian betray his faith and turn to Qingling?"

The man in white, known as Shen Laud, is a favorite in the Emperor’s eyes, possessing strong cultivation, and has always been a hound for the Court.

Now he has traveled far and wide to this vast desert, could it be for yet another Court conspiracy?

Lin Feng thought of this and no longer hesitated. He immediately started circulating his True Yuan and began forming a Seal Technique. Lin Feng struck Xue Nian with an Illusion Sound Palm, a powerful palm technique derived from the Extreme Shadow Leg, affecting the opponent’s meridians and Spiritual Sense.

Xue Nian sensed the faint force and blocked it with a black great axe. However, he didn’t expect a strong sound wave within the Illusion Sound Palm to resonate along the Black Axe, directly reaching Xue Nian’s hand, then into his organs and Seven Meridians.

The energy Xue Nian had stored was now disrupted by this internal injury and could not be fully utilized. If he forced himself to use this energy, he would suffer counter-damage from channeling it.

Lin Feng’s palm strike effectively incapacitated Xue Nian, leaving both Xue Nian and Wu Tian seriously injured and unable to continue fighting.

Then Lin Feng used the Void Technique, performing an exquisitely refined step to reach Shen Laud, who had just reacted. After a few moves, he dismantled the opponent’s palm technique and rescued Wu Ping.

The man in white immediately confronted Lin Feng: "Daring Lin Feng, to openly defy the Court, it seems you no longer wish to stay in Peace City." After sternly scolding, he turned and smiled.

Lin Feng stood before him and retorted: "To achieve your goal, you’re willing to sacrifice innocent lives. Is this also what the Court instructs you to do?"