"Cloud Pot Immortal Elder, I never wanted to see you in the first place. You barged in of your own accord. Even if you say I disdain meeting you, so what?"
Ming Ruo's icy voice rang through the main hall. The bead curtains throughout the hall were instantly shattered by the true essence power leaking from Cloud Pot Immortal Elder, yet they did not fall. Instead, an invisible force wrapped them all up. The bead curtains remained bead curtains; in that instant they shattered, yet in the next instant they became bead curtains again, as though nothing had changed.
With that slightly chilling voice, Ming Ruo entered alongside Luo Bei and Shi Jian. When Yun Yuan and the others saw Luo Bei standing beside Ming Ruo, they revealed the same undisguised astonishment Shi Jian had shown upon first seeing him. Even Yun Yuan, whose expression had not changed when every bead curtain in the hall had been instantly shattered, now had astonishment in her eyes. Yet none of them said anything. They merely nodded and bowed to Ming Ruo, then invited Ming Ruo, Luo Bei, and Shi Jian to sit.
Cloud Pot Immortal Elder's expression changed.
Ming Ruo's reply was wildly arrogant, giving Cloud Pot Immortal Elder no face whatsoever. Yet it also made one thing abundantly clear to everyone present: this was Cihang Zhai. Ming Ruo was the master of Cihang Zhai, and she would not permit anyone to run wild here.
Had anyone else spoken to Cloud Pot Immortal Elder in such a manner, he might have attacked at once. Yet after his expression changed, Cloud Pot Immortal Elder forcibly held himself back.
With a cold snort, Cloud Pot Immortal Elder reduced all the bead curtains in the hall to powder, relying purely on the surging force of