Knock, knock, knock!
"Young Master Li, this old man is Yuan Jue, the acting head of Four Directions Guest's Sparrow Emperor County branch."
"I have come to pay you a visit."
"A pleasure to meet you!"
"A pleasure to meet you!"
Li Yun had not expected the visitor to be the person in charge of Four Directions Guest. Presumably, his successive lavish purchases had already drawn Four Directions Guest's attention.
Still, he was not worried that Four Directions Guest might have designs on him.
The old saying still held true: strength was the foundation of confidence.
Li Yun invited Yuan Jue into the private room.
"May I ask what brings Mr. Yuan here?"
Yuan Jue's gaze swiftly swept across Li Yun, Yun Shuiyao, and the Cloud Cliff Saintess. His heart was shaken beyond measure, waves surging within it.
None of the three had deliberately revealed their cultivation auras. Their presences were all remarkably restrained; indeed, if one did not already know they were martial artists, it would have been difficult to detect the distinctive aura of martial artists on them at all.
That alone was terrifying.
Yuan Jue's own cultivation was not weak. He had already reached the fifth realm of the Nine Heavens Reaching Realms—the Origin Dao Realm.
With such cultivation, how keen were his senses?
Yet he could not sense the cultivation auras of Li Yun and the other two. There was only one explanation: all three of them were far stronger than he was.
Far stronger than him—what level of cultivation would that be?
The Divine Martial Realm?
The Void Comprehension Realm?
Or something even higher and stronger?
Such formidable figures rarely appeared in a tiny place like Sparrow Emperor County.
If Li Yun and the other two truly came from Supreme Mountain, and had come for