"You—you're still my Uncle Beard, aren't you?" Yu Xiaoqiao's eyes suddenly reddened as she looked at Lu Xiaotian.
"Of course I am. I had no choice but to live in seclusion in Redfish Town for more than a decade. I'm sorry, Xiao Qiao." Lu Xiaotian smiled faintly and stood with his hands clasped behind his back. Looking at the Prince of Changning and his wife, he said, "Prince of Changning, and Your Highness the Princess Consort, I've now proven my alchemy skills. What do you intend to do?"
"Haha! What incredible alchemy! Mr. Dongfang, you've changed your appearance, so I imagine that name is probably false too. But that hardly matters, as long as your alchemy is genuine."
The Prince of Changning laughed heartily. A nearly transparent talisman several inches long appeared in his hand. Black and white flowed together across it, yin and yang merging as if alive.
"This is a Yin-Yang Soul Curse Talisman, which I spent hundreds of years secretly crafting. Only a person like Mr. Dongfang is worthy of it."
"A mere prince's estate is hardly a dragon's pool or a tiger's den. Do you really think the dual cultivation techniques you and your wife practice are enough to trap me? Fools in a well, ignorant of the vastness of the heavens and earth. I dared to enter your estate, so naturally I can leave whenever I please. But since you dared to make a move against me, I'll leave your household with something to remember me by."
Lu Xiaotian had lain low in Redfish Town for more than a decade. As a cultivator, he rarely went looking for trouble, but he still had a fierce edge within him. Besides, the Yin-Yang Soul Curse Talisman was an exceedingly rare treasure to him. If he could take