For now, the reason Old Ghost Pei had been so accommodating toward Wei Tu was that he wanted to lure Wei Tu into the Severed Nether Realm without expending too much effort.
Thus, once Wei Tu showed any sign of wanting to leave at this moment...
This deeply hidden "old ghost" might not let Wei Tu depart safely.
And all of this had been foreseeable.
Yet at this moment, Wei Tu seemed to sense the concern of Seven-Treasure Demon Ancestor's "first-life incarnation." He immediately smiled faintly and said:
"Senior Sister Seven-Treasure need not worry about that. Wei has some confidence in his own combat strength... At the very least, I can still withdraw safely when facing a late Mahayana cultivator."
However, as he spoke, Seven-Treasure Demon Ancestor's "first-life incarnation," trapped within the Heaven-Shifting Devil Palace, failed to notice the faint chill that flashed through Wei Tu's eyes outside.
There was no other reason. With his combat strength, he did not fear Old Ghost Pei.
There was even a considerable chance that, just as he had slain Yue Divine Son, he could kill this fiend.
But... what he feared was that Old Ghost Pei would be willing to abandon his "avatar" in the Spiritstream Realm and directly inform Ao Ancestor and the others of how Wei Tu had stabbed the Feather Dragon Clan's Dragon Lord in the back within the Sun-Treasure Divine Pagoda.
This "weakness" had him by the throat.
Unless he chose, like Feng Qing, to disappear into hiding and vanish entirely from the cultivation world.
"What? Fellow Daoist Wei already possesses the ability to leave calmly before a late Mahayana cultivator?"
The next moment, Seven-Treasure Demon Ancestor's "first-life incarnation" was greatly shocked upon hearing this.
Her reaction was even more stunned than when she had learned that Wei Tu