An abrupt female voice interrupted the ultimate move Yunxi had been preparing. This time, however, she obediently recalled her Shadow Clone into her body with some regret before flashing into the air and bowing respectfully.
"Old Ancestor Haoyi, you're back?"
Haoyi swept Yunxi a glance and, only after confirming she was unharmed, turned to the male cultivator standing rigidly below. He said indifferently, "Go back. Fellow Daoist Huatang has canceled your mission."
The Nascent Soul stage male cultivator knew he had kicked an iron plate this time. Yet his opponent was not someone he could shake, so he could only cup his hands and say, "This junior was presumptuous. I'll leave at once."
The moment his words fell, the identity Jade Token in his Storage Ring began vibrating without pause. Enduring the dull pain in his sea of consciousness, he took out the token. His expression changed after reading it, and he immediately crushed a Teleportation Talisman, vanishing from before them.
Once Yunxi saw him flee, she swept her sleeve and restored the mountaintop that had been leveled by the battle. Then she cautiously asked, "Old Ancestor, who was that male cultivator? Why did you stop this junior from killing him?"
"He is a cultivator from the Huaxian Sect in the Central Domain. He came specifically to track you. They suspect that you refined the Secret Realm of Baohua Mountain and wanted to capture you to verify it."
Yunxi blinked after hearing this, somewhat regretting that she had stopped too quickly. Even if she could not have killed him, she should at least have crippled him.
The moment Haoyi saw Yunxi blink, he knew what she was thinking. Somewhat helplessly, he said, "I have just left the Huaxian Sect, and Huatang has agreed to withdraw the cultivators monitoring you. There