As he spoke, the elder’s gaze casually flicked to Li Guanqi’s right hand. Though that hand rested easily on the sword hilt, Li Guanqi’s left hand was ready to draw the blade at any moment.0

Li Guanqi merely smiled. Gong Ze’s cultivation was only at the mid Illusory Refinement Realm, so he could not sense Li Guanqi’s aura. 0

Gong Ze had heard a lot about Li Guanqi. After all, a group of four had boldly entered the Taiqing Territory and, in front of countless powerful cultivators, killed Southern Heavenly King Cao Zhennan. There wasn’t a soul in the cultivation world who hadn’t heard of it. As such, Gong Ze treated him with considerable courtesy. Li Guanqi was his junior, true, but if Gong...0