Of course, what truly sent a chill down his spine was not the snake-scaled old woman's coveting of Ruan Shui'er, but the fact that danger had unknowingly drawn so close to him.
—The one coveting Ruan Shui'er was not Clan Head Liu, a Void Refinement cultivator, but an Body Integration ancestor of her clan!
In other words, if he took even one wrong step here at the Deer Mountain Daoist Grounds, if he were not as cautious as before, then the public identity he had painstakingly acquired in this Black Cloud Minor Realm was destined to be abandoned... and might even expose his true identity because of it!
During these dozen-odd years of traveling through the Black Cloud Minor Realm, although he had not learned the exact details of Lady Myriad Wonders' wanted notice for him, it was not difficult for him to notice certain factions' particular attention toward "seventh-rank alchemists."
And the snake-scaled old woman from a century ago had happened to be someone who had once laid a "plot" against him.
"This Liu Clan ancestor covets Ruan Shui'er so deeply. Does she intend to use the woman as spirit material for refining treasures? Or seize her body and reincarnate to cultivate anew?" Wei Tu's expression remained unchanged. As though he had not noticed Chief Chai and the other nearby, he slowly flew toward his cave abode while secretly pondering this.
He had never been one to meddle in such idle affairs.
This time would not be much of an exception.
First, he and Ruan Shui'er were not particularly familiar with each other. They were merely "strangers" who had concealed their identities within the Deer Mountain Daoist Grounds and met a few times.
Second, to him, heading to the Sky-Demon Realm to cultivate... accumulating strength, then breaking through to