The so-called heaven-defying opportunity mentioned by the old man from Jiannan Academy was something Qin Fengming ignored without a second thought.
He had already heard other cultivators mention it at the Black Swallow Mountain auction back then. Xi Qinglun was a member of the Xi family, a supreme immortal-cultivation lineage in the Deqing Empire.
The Xi family was an immortal-cultivation lineage of Jiannan Academy. It was rumored that the ancestor who had established the Xi family had once been a Supreme Elder of Jiannan Academy. With his support, the Xi family had risen with astonishing speed, cultivating several Nascent Soul cultivators in merely a few hundred years.
Afterward, all the exceptionally gifted disciples of the Xi family throughout the generations would join Jiannan Academy. Thus, relying on Jiannan Academy, that towering tree, the Xi family had gradually grown ever more luxuriant, its branches and leaves flourishing.
At present, the Xi family had two late Nascent Soul Great Cultivators.
If they learned that Qin Fengming had killed their treasured clansman, how could he possibly escape unscathed?
Although the old man had acted in a manner befitting a righteous elder, Qin Fengming would absolutely never agree to his proposal and follow him to Jiannan Academy.
"Senior's intention to show mercy to this junior is deeply appreciated. However, this junior still has important matters to attend to. If this junior is still alive in the future, I will certainly go to Jiannan Academy and listen to Senior's teachings. For now, please forgive this junior for being unable to agree."
"Since little friend refuses to accompany this old man, this old man can only use force. Little friend's losses may be quite substantial then. At the very least, this array before us may well be unable to survive."
Hearing Qin Fengming's words, the old