"Silver Armor, this old man has no wish to make an enemy of you. Let me offer you a word of advice: there are some people you can't afford to offend. If you truly want to court death, there's nothing I can do about it."
The black-staffed elder spoke without changing his expression. He raised the long black staff in his hand and once again blocked the silver-armored man's way.
At the black-staffed elder's stance, not only the silver-armored man but also the other immortals watching the spectacle were taken aback. The elder usually followed the middle way in Towercloud City and rarely took the initiative to offend anyone. It was truly rare for him to stand so firmly in the way of Kuang Zilin, let alone over Hu Xiaofeng, with whom he had only a certain degree of friendship. Their relationship was nowhere near enough to make the elder go this far.
Even the two most powerful Lineages in Towercloud City, both backed by True Immortals, couldn't make the black-staffed elder risk his life on their behalf.
"Immortals aren't allowed to undergo tribulation in the city's core district. That's an unwritten rule in Towercloud City. Minghu Retreat has broken it, and Kuang Zilin can't go in. But surely the rest of us can?" At that moment, a man and a woman stepped out from the crowd behind the gold-robed man.
"So it's Steward Jiang and the others." The black-staffed elder smiled and cupped his hands toward Jiang Li and his companions. "This is only an unwritten rule, after all. Towercloud City has never explicitly forbidden it. The friend Fellow Daoist Hu brought back this time is truly exceptional. I'm sure Steward Jiang would be glad to befriend someone like that."
"When wine meets a kindred spirit, a thousand cups