A city long since abandoned.
A nineteen-story residential building appeared and disappeared in the smog.
At this moment.
The entire building was faintly trembling. Inside a room on the eighteenth floor, an unremarkable man sat facing a Paper Person, wisps of smoke curling around them in an air of refined elegance.
"That Celestial Master disappeared for a year, then showed up again." Liu Ping lifted his teacup and took a sip.
"His strength is even more terrifying than it was a year ago. Not only did he destroy the Guangming Society's arrangements in the Capital City, he also killed the Eighth Tier elder sent by headquarters to provide support."
"Judging from the information we have, he didn't expend much effort when he killed Elder Niu."
Whenever he spoke of that Celestial Master, Liu Ping felt both frustrated and helpless.
The two sides had never really had any grudge. Whether in An City or the Connecting Corridor, he had chosen to yield and done his best to avoid conflict with the other man.
But the two of them seemed fated to clash. They kept running into each other during various incidents and ending up in disputes.
What was more, this Jiang Qiao managed to cause him losses every single time.
Especially the first time he entered the Capital City. That bastard had somehow smashed through the arrangements Liu Ping had made there just by climbing over a wall, and stolen the Corpse Ginseng he had raised underground!
One had to understand.
This was a secret even the Guangming Society had failed to discover!
He had poured tremendous effort and decades of work into that Corpse Ginseng, all so he could use it to advance further. He had never expected all of it to end up benefiting Jiang Qiao.
When he first