At the foot of the other side of the mountain, the chaotic battle at the arched bridge was still ongoing.0

In the words of those in the Northern Complete Reed Continent's martial arts world, one could only be considered a true hero once they had smashed open the heads of their enemies and guzzled down their brains like wine.1

The battle for the bridge quickly escalated to white-hot intensity, and even the imperial guest elder from the Sacred Lotus Nation, who had been collecting treasures on the mountain up to this point, was forced to abandon all of the easily obtainable treasures to storm onto the battlefield.0

However, the guest elder had hatched a rather cunning ploy. He had picked out the treasures that he felt were the most valuable and hidden them on the rafters of a pavilion. As for all of the other treasures, he stuffed them into a cloth bag before tossing them down in a corner of the neighboring room. 0

That way, Bai Bi and Zhan Qing would be able to easily come and claim the treasures. As for how they were ultimately going to get these treasures out of this immortal abode, that was still yet to be seen.0

Gao Ling had already donned his suit of Divine Dewbearing Armor, and he was doing his best to protect Zhan Qing with the assistance of the guest elder from the feudal lord's manor.0

Meanwhile, Zhan Qing was putting on an act of panicked incompetence. He had built a false reputation for himself in the Northern Pavilion Nation as a profligate and lackadaisical young man, and his arrogant words of provocation from earlier further contributed to the illusion that he was all bark and no bite. 0

In light of all of this, no one could've imagined that he was actually an Abode Tier cultivator with two incredibly destructive offensive immortal treasures at his disposal.2

With the Sacred Lotus Nation guest elder entering the fray, the previously one-sided battle immediately began to swing slightly in the favor of Zhan Qing's party.0

Zhan Qing was feeling particularly resentful of the female cultivator...0