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"Stop crushing it, your master ran away long ago."
Lin Yuan looked at the many demonic figures kneeling before him and glanced at the young girl in the light green dress, seeing her trying to crush a jade pendant that was nearly turned to powder.
From the moment the girl appeared, Lin Yuan had sensed a certain aura on her that was connected to an aura a hundred miles away.
The aura a hundred miles away shared the same origin as the girl's, yet was significantly stronger, likely belonging to a Ninth Realm demonic figure.
But just as the girl crushed the jade pendant, that aura fled rapidly like a startled bird, probably already a thousand miles away by now.
Lin Yuan immediately lost the urge to pursue.
It wasn't that he couldn't catch up, but there was no need.
The most important thing for him right now was to quickly break through the fifth tier; everything else could be postponed.