Li Qingyuan, the Bloody Hand Butcher, shook his head. "Senior said you came to seek my cooperation, yet you refuse to speak honestly with me?"
"I fear there is a reason here that even a Foundation Establishment Venerable like you greatly fears, isn't there?"
"Farewell." Li Qingyuan turned to leave.
"Wait, little friend." Zheng Yuan hurriedly said, "Very well, this old man will come clean."
Only then did Li Qingyuan stop and slowly turn around.
Zheng Yuan sighed. "Little friend, you have roamed the Sea Domain Archipelago under the fierce name of Bloody Hand Butcher for forty years, making your way to where you are today. It seems it was neither by luck nor entirely through the Zhou Family's secret aid."
"Even this old man is ashamed to compare with your caution."
Li Qingyuan immediately denied it. "What is Senior talking about? I do not understand. What does my present achievement have to do with the Zhou Family?"
According to his persona, Zhou Gang was someone willing to sacrifice everything for his clan and his elder brother. Now that he had become a notorious demonic cultivator, he naturally did not want his true identity exposed and the reputation of the Zhou Family, a newly established Foundation Establishment Immortal Clan, ruined.
"Ah, yes, yes, yes." Zheng Yuan stroked his beard and smiled, wearing an expression that said he understood. "You have nothing whatsoever to do with the Zhou Family."
Li Qingyuan deliberately put on an indifferent expression. "Senior, let us get back to the matter at hand."
Zheng Yuan nodded. His expression turned solemn, and a trace of envy and hatred surfaced in his eyes. "The one I wish to kill is Li Qingyuan, Lord of the Li Immortal Clan of Purple Cloud Mountain."
Li Qingyuan's expression froze when he heard