"Junior, you certainly have guts. Not only did you refuse to flee, you even intend to fight this old man head-on. Do you think you can withstand my full-force attack with that unusually sturdy shield?"
The old man had not cared in the slightest that the members of the Wu Household had retreated. Instead, he stared at the young cultivator standing before him, who had not taken a single step back from beginning to end, and felt a strange stir in his heart.
Old Monster Miaoxie was indeed vicious by nature, but he had always been cautious as well.
After being relentlessly hunted by the Council of Elders throughout the Snowy Domain, he had long since become so jumpy that even grass and trees seemed like enemy soldiers.
Although several hundred years had passed, the cautious habits he had developed over the years had never changed. Seeing an early Spirit Severing stage cultivator standing before him, facing him directly without retreating or dodging, caused no small ripple in Old Monster Miaoxie's heart.
One had to know that he had already killed quite a number of early- and mid-stage Spirit Severing cultivators. Whenever those cultivators faced him, which one of them had not shown terror on their faces and fled for their lives?
Yet this early Spirit Severing stage cultivator before him had not only easily withstood an attack Old Monster Miaoxie believed could not possibly fail, he still stood there without the slightest intention of fleeing.
With such a scene unfolding before him, the suspicious Old Monster Miaoxie truly found it difficult to feel at ease.
"Whether I can withstand it or not, we'll only know after we've exchanged blows." Qin Fengming looked at the old man before him and spoke calmly.
The instant he finished his final word, a