"Admit defeat?"
Li Zhōujūn shook his head and chuckled. "Perhaps. But how could I win without trying?"
Sea Swallowing Demon Lord was slightly taken aback, then smiled. "I'm beginning to admire you. Perhaps if we met at a different time and place, we could sit down over tea and even become friends despite our age difference."
"Unfortunately, there are no 'perhaps' in this world." Li Zhōujūn sighed.
If only I had a different system. Maybe I'd have become an Immortal Emperor by now.
[Ding: ???]
"Indeed, there are no 'perhaps' in this world. Today, I am bound to wipe out Lin Hai City and set foot on Azure Continent." Sea Swallowing Demon Lord nodded. As his voice fell, his expression changed. Staring at Li Zhōujūn, his eyes gradually turned sharp. "Anyone who blocks my path dies!"
As his voice fell, the sea beneath his feet, which had been gradually settling, began to churn with wave after wave of enormous billows.
Terrifying pressure swept in all directions. Whether they were shrimp soldiers and crab generals struggling amid the waves or the cultivators atop Lin Hai City's walls, everyone's legs went weak, and they were about to kneel on the ground.
But then, a sudden, gentle spring breeze lifted the cultivators in Lin Hai City back up.
"A Fifth-Rank True Immortal?!"
"H-How is this possible?!"
At the same time, the cultivators watched the young man standing proudly in the air as the aura around him gradually rose until it matched Sea Swallowing Demon Lord's!
"Cloud Dwelling Mountain Lord is actually a Fifth-Rank True Immortal..."
"This world is insane..."
"I thought that for Cloud Dwelling Mountain Lord to reach the Third-Rank True Immortal realm in his forties was already unprecedented throughout the ages. I never imagined he was actually a Fifth-Rank