Through the curtain of rain, Meng Junzi stared in startled disbelief at the cook walking out of the little shop. Like him, she stood in the rain, yet not a single raindrop touched her.
Even if he'd been caught off guard just then and the cook had managed to ambush him, that was still beyond what any ordinary cultivator could do.
An immortal!
The cook was actually an immortal!
"Ancestor!"
Several members of the Meng Household at the Tribulation Transcendence stage sensed that something was wrong and tried to rush over to help.
"Stay back!" Meng Junzi barked, stopping them. Tribulation Transcendence cultivators wouldn't be of the slightest use here.
"You..."
Meng Junzi had just begun to probe the cook's identity when she vanished from the spot in an instant, appearing abruptly right before him, moving at an inconceivable speed.
The cook drove a fist into Meng Junzi's stomach. He doubled over like a prawn and flew straight into the sky, emerging above the dark clouds.
Meng Junzi's mind raced as he matched the cook's identity against the immortals he knew. There were no female immortals among the Four Ancient Immortals. The Heavenly Sovereign of the Central Heavens and Siming weren't women. She wasn't Emperor Yu Wu Yao, nor Guan Shanhai. So who was she? Why could he match her to none of the immortals?
Wait. There seemed to be one immortal whose identity was unknown.
Meng Junzi suddenly remembered the Battle of the Eastern Sea, where Yun Zhi had fought an immortal shrouded in gray mist.
Afterward, he and Jiang Ping'an had asked Yun Zhi about the battle and the gray-mist immortal's identity. Yun Zhi had said that immortal's identity could not be spoken of.
Gray mist... a gray dress. Could she be the gray-mist immortal from the Battle