"My lord, please see clearly: if my actions had not encountered an obstacle I truly could not overcome, I would never have dared request an audience with you!"
A flicker of fear crossed the eyes of the cultivator surnamed Xiao—or rather, the male cultivator named Xu Feng—as he hurriedly explained.
"An obstacle? Your mission in Sky Abyss City has already ended. From now on, you will only have long-term missions within the heartland of the human race. What obstacle could you encounter?
Could it be that your identity has been exposed?!"
The voice from behind the door suddenly turned cold, and intense killing intent instantly enveloped Xu Feng.
"No! My identity has absolutely not been exposed!
It is simply that, if I am to complete my future missions, it would be best for me to infiltrate a cultivation faction. To that end, I was preparing to seize a spiritual land in Sky Abyss City for a human female cultivator with a powerful background.
The plan had originally gone very smoothly, but two days ago, while I was accompanying that female cultivator to select a spiritual land in Jade Watchtower Hall, I encountered a first-generation ascended cultivator named Luo Hong.
The aura around this man was extremely strange. It made me fearful for no reason, and my spiritual sense faintly warned me of danger.
Unfortunately, that female cultivator's elder had already decided that I was to contend for the spiritual land he selected. I truly could not refuse at the time, so I had no choice but to come request an audience with you, my lord, in hopes of finding a way out of this predicament."
If he had not happened to be at a crucial point in his mission, Xu Feng would have wanted nothing more than to stay as