World-Assault Demonic Artifact, Secrets of the Lower Realm (5k, Please Subscribe)

He had simply let concern cloud his judgment.

Although Lüqiu Qingfeng was no match for Island Master Ye, who stood at the peak of mid-stage Spirit Transformation, the speed of her escape, backed by the Nine-Phoenix God bloodline of a "half-True Spirit," was not something an ordinary Spirit Transformation Venerable could easily match.

Decades ago, had she not deliberately lingered to bait Qi Yaoxian until he arrived, Qi Yaoxian's speed would likely not even have let her glimpse Lüqiu Qingfeng's tail.

Once Island Master Ye appeared, the atmosphere in the great hall abruptly fell silent. The four Spirit Transformation cultivators stared fixedly at the ugly old man, while the remaining quasi-Spirit Transformation cultivators scarcely dared breathe.

"Island Master Ye, I do not recall you knowing alchemy. And your attainments in the Dao of alchemy have reached the lofty fifth tier?"

Seven-Leaf Master stepped forward and asked in a taut voice.

Yet Island Master Ye merely chuckled at this doubt, looking wholly unconcerned. "Brother Seven-Leaf, how much can you truly know about me? When you were born, I had already been in secluded cultivation for who knew how many years. I concealed my alchemical attainments all these years because I feared that you people would take desperate risks and force me to refine pills for the two of you."

"Now, I have little lifespan left. If I fail to pass the next heavenly tribulation at the end of my lifespan, I will surely perish. Since that is so... there is no longer any need to conceal my alchemical attainments."

Island Master Ye did not secretly transmit these words to Seven-Leaf Master and the bald-browed old man while hiding them from Wei Tu and the others. Instead, he spoke them openly and frankly.

Though these words explained why he was a