Among the Nascent Soul Cultivators who came to the Azure Ripple World, there were only two who fit the description: a man and a woman, one wielding a saber-type magic treasure and the other a pipa-type magic treasure—the Azure Lotus Couple.
Zhao Junyue and Blazing Fire Adept had held down the rear while preparing to break through to the Spirit Transformation Stage. Instead, they encountered the group traveling with the Azure Lotus Couple, and the two of them were killed by the couple.
The Azure Lotus Couple fled into the Myriad Thunder Sea and escaped the calamity, but Golden Moon Sword Venerate had offered an enormous reward for their capture.
Upon hearing the four words "Azure Lotus Couple," Shangguan Wei and Lei Yiming frowned and could not help glancing at Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan.
Shangguan Wei's gaze turned gloomy. The Immortal Cultivation Families she had destroyed, directly or indirectly, numbered at least eighty, and the Wang Family was merely one of them. Quite a few survivors had slipped through the net. The difference was that those other survivors had never again found a chance to take revenge and had vanished without a trace, while the Wang Family had risen in astonishing fashion, even forming ties with the Ten Thousand Swords Sect and the Taiyi Immortal Sect—both sects had Deity Transformation Cultivators presiding over them.
Back then, the Azure Lotus Couple had only been Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivators, and Shangguan Wei had not taken them seriously. Once she entered the Deity Transformation Stage, killing the Azure Lotus Couple would have been effortless.
She had finally obtained a spiritual item for attempting the breakthrough to the Deity Transformation Stage and had tried to make the breakthrough, but unfortunately, she had failed. This time, she had come to the Azure Ripple