"Xu Huanzhen of the Luo Tian Association's Spirit Beast Hall has come to welcome our fellow cultivators from the Connecting Cloud Commerce Alliance!"
"Please disembark and stay a while, so I can offer you a little hospitality."
The powerful spiritual energy of a Foundation Establishment Sixth Layer cultivator spread without the slightest restraint. Carried by his clear, ringing voice, it drifted outward like a fresh breeze through white clouds.
Inside the flying vessel,
Zhou Qing's expression changed drastically.
Since when did the Luo Tian Association have a Foundation Establishment Sixth Layer expert?
And Xu Huanzhen!
That was a name he knew all too well.
Xu Huanzhen had once come within a hair's breadth of being invited into the Connecting Cloud Commerce Alliance.
But the alliance had been too consumed by internal power struggles in its early days. Disliking such contests, Xu Huanzhen had declined the invitation.
His strength...
Zhou Qing swallowed. He had only just reached the Mid-Stage Foundation Establishment; he was no match for Xu Huanzhen.
But that left him in a bind.
After arriving with such bluster, he could hardly back down now.
As he struggled with what to do, Nangong Jin spoke up from behind him at just the right moment.
"Elder Zhou, I've visited Danxia Peak before. The scenery is quite lovely. Why don't we disembark and walk, and take in its magnificent scarlet clouds?"
"Very well. I'll give Xu Huanzhen that much face!"
Without a moment's hesitation,
Zhou Qing took the offered way out.
He glanced back at Nangong Jin and Li Yixian, straightened his robes, and stepped off the flying vessel.
Under the eyes of countless unaffiliated Qi Refining Stage cultivators,
Zhou Qing, the Connecting Cloud Commerce Alliance's fourth elder, left the vessel. He and the Luo Tian Association's newly appeared Spirit Beast Hall