With that, the Sect Leader flicked his sleeve and departed.
If Celeste Grant had been there, she would have surely commented on it. 'Have the people of the Azure Sky Sect been hexed?' Jocelyn Grant's crime was atrocious—murdering a fellow disciple—yet her only punishment was expulsion. No kill order was issued, nor was anyone dispatched to cripple her cultivation.
It could only be said that an unseen force was propping Jocelyn Grant up from the shadows. No matter the danger, she always managed to turn peril into safety.
Perhaps this was the so-called "protagonist halo"...
When Jocelyn Grant next appeared, she was in Immortal's Gate City.
This territory was under the jurisdiction of the Immortal Sects and wasn't far from the Azure Sky Sect.
As she watched her very last Escape Talisman dissipate, a wave of desolation washed over Jocelyn Grant.
