Invitation

"No, no. It's just that a Golden Immortal friend of mine asked me to visit Ancient Daoist Master Gu with him."

Lord Tianxiang waved his hands repeatedly.

He was only a minor Golden Immortal. How could he dare act presumptuously before Li Shaoyan, the ancestor of the Li Household?

Even Emperor Zhou Huang behind him would not be so discourteous when facing this ancestor of the Li Household.

"Visit Ancient..."

Li Shaoyan's expression stiffened slightly when he heard Lord Tianxiang.

The Li Household had already displeased Ancient Immortal Gu because of Li Feiyu. If, at this moment, Lord Tianxiang—one of the few friends Ancient Immortal Gu had acknowledged during the period before his awakening—were to mention in front of him how Gu had thrown his weight around in Ziluo Heaven...

Ancient Immortal Gu would not even need to say anything. He only had to reveal the slightest dissatisfaction with the Li Household, and several, perhaps even more than a dozen, top-tier factions would immediately swarm in, carve up the Li Household cleanly, and curry favor with this Ancient Immortal Gu.

As for the Immortal Venerable they had spent all these years trying every means to befriend and curry favor with?

He absolutely would not dare utter a single word of refusal.

Even...

Perhaps the family of the Immortal Venerable behind him would also, with that Immortal Venerable's tacit approval, join the feast of carving up the Li Household.

At that thought, Li Shaoyan shuddered, and his attitude became somewhat obsequious. "It's fine. If you have business, naturally your important matters come first."

With Lord Tianxiang completely unable to make heads or tails of the situation, he turned to everyone present, including Yang Shuo and Dao Lord Nianyun, his face full of apology. "I'm sorry. I didn't know Lord Tianxiang was