The Greatest Contempt

Cui Jingyan's voice was still echoing when the two escaping lights caught up.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Radiant clouds swirled as the void trembled, transforming into the figures of a man and a woman.

The man wore a scholar's robe with a broad sash, his willow-like beard drifting in the wind.

The woman was stunningly beautiful, yet cold and aloof. The aura emanating from her made this stretch of mountains and rivers shudder, while all things dimmed.

They were none other than Third Priest Yuan Linning, who possessed Profound Illumination Realm Early Stage cultivation, and Fifth Priest Lu Changqing, whose cultivation had reached Spirit Wheel Realm Perfection.

The moment they arrived, the sovereign pressure belonging to Yuan Linning spread out.

Everything within three thousand zhang was enveloped by it.

It was like an invisible net. Standing within it, one could not help but feel there was no escape, nowhere to evade!

Su Yi and Old Blind Man both came to a halt.

Old Blind Man's body stiffened, though he remained far calmer.

After all, when they had set out from Naihe Divine Mountain, he had already anticipated that Yuan Linning would catch up. And Su Yi had traveled at an unhurried pace all along, clearly giving Yuan Linning the chance to catch up...

"Third Priest, you... arrived very quickly indeed..."

Cui Jingyan let out a faint sigh.

"Yesterday, Su Yi said he would teach me how to conduct myself. Naturally, I could not keep him waiting too long."

Yuan Linning's expression was indifferent. Clad in a gray Daoist robe, her unadorned face was naturally exquisite, her beauty utterly transcendent. Yet her bearing was far too cold, solitary and steep as ice.

The sovereign aura about her made others not dare harbor even the slightest irreverent thought.

Her words brimmed with mockery and