Wei Tu was no longer some "newly ascended Mahayana," a greenhorn from Wu. He was a Mahayana powerhouse whose name had resounded throughout the war between the two realms!
Now that Old Ghost Pei was so confident he could kill Wei Tu... it meant that his strength was unquestionably among the very foremost within the Mahayana realm.
Moreover, powerhouses did not emerge from thin air...
People like Old Ghost Pei, who hid themselves deeply and possessed such terrifying strength, were often mysterious presences within the cultivation world... like venomous snakes lurking in the shadows, deadly beyond measure!
Yet unlike the other Mahayana cultivators, Weeping River Devil Ancestor, standing among the crowd, had a trace of relief in her eyes.
Old Ghost Pei's brazen self-destruction had left Heavenly Change Adept, the Feather Dragon Clan's Dragon Lord, and the others with no chance to search his soul—meaning Wei Tu's intelligence had likewise been protected from leaking in the slightest.
Likewise, as Wei Tu's soul slave, she too had become considerably safer by extension.
"I only wonder whether that thief truly possesses the ability to kill Old Ghost Pei... Still, if he dies here, that would be a good thing for me as well..."
As her thoughts turned, Weeping River Devil Ancestor secretly began to look forward to Wei Tu's "death."
Within the Spiritstream Realm, Old Ghost Pei's soul fragment brazenly self-destructed, and a powerhouse thus met a bizarre death... Naturally, Wei Tu, far away in the Severed Nether Realm, knew nothing of it.
Still, he could more or less guess the outcome.
—So long as Heavenly Change Adept, the Feather Dragon Clan's Dragon Lord, and the others swiftly slew Old Ghost Pei's soul fragment as he had instructed... that fragment would naturally not make a stubborn last stand.
On the contrary,