By this time, quite a few of the cultivators present already knew why Meng Ao had targeted the two Profound Tier cultivators. Hearing that the two had withstood Meng Ao's attacks head-on without injury, they all inspected them curiously.
He Xuan had a young and handsome face, far more pleasing to look at than Qin Fengming's.
Immortal Fairy Xu Ling, meanwhile, was coldly beautiful and refined. Standing together, the two made quite an easy sight on the eyes.
The most uncomfortable person present was Meng Ao. Now that he knew the two's backgrounds, no matter how overbearing he was, he did not dare trouble them in front of so many cultivators.
Yet he could not lower himself by stepping forward to curry favor with them, so his face burned hot for a time.
In the end, he slipped away without a sound.
Qin Fengming naturally knew nothing of what had happened outside the cave abode. At this moment, he was concentrating all his attention on Venerable Jie Mie.
After carefully examining Venerable Jie Mie's battered body, Qin Fengming suddenly understood how Venerable Jie Mie had managed to flee back to the South Mountain Great Formation despite bearing such severe injuries. This had a great deal to do with Venerable Jie Mie's own constitution.
Venerable Jie Mie had been formed from a soul that had condensed its soul into blood. Although his body was no different from a cultivator's, its essence was still vastly different.
Most unusual of all, Venerable Jie Mie's physical body actually had no Pill Sea.
When he saw the great hole where the Pill Sea should have been in Venerable Jie Mie's abdomen, Qin Fengming's first reaction was that Venerable Jie Mie's Pill Sea had shattered. Yet after examining it carefully, he discovered that there was no