"Senior Brother Deng, I never expected that kid to possess such strength. It was this little brother's miscalculation that provoked such a great enemy!"
Amid the mountain forests, three figures fled in somewhat bedraggled haste.
The skinny, monkey-like cultivator at the rear swallowed hard, his face filled with alarm as he spoke to Senior Brother Deng ahead of him, pleading forgiveness.
"This matter is not your fault. If I had obtained that thousand-year Vermillion Fruit, my strength would certainly have risen another level."
"I was careless. That little ghost actually succeeded in ambushing me—I nearly fell there!"
Flying ahead, Deng Younian still had blood at the corner of his mouth, and his white robes were somewhat disheveled. A cold, venomous resentment flashed through his brows.
"Damned little ghost, this is far from over!"
"Does Senior Brother Deng know that man's background?" At those words, the skinny man's eyes lit up.
"Hmph! Wasn't it rumored some time ago that a Cave True Great Power had escaped the court's pursuit and joined the Dongshan Association? I saw that kid once that day. He was one of the people brought by that newly arrived Cave True Realm Cultivator!"
"Ah! That kid actually has a Cave True Great Power backing him?! Senior Brother Deng, then... then perhaps we should just forget it."
The fat cultivator who had been panting as he followed behind immediately showed a terrified expression upon hearing this, and said tremblingly.
The skinny cultivator beside him also revealed an urge to retreat.
Although Cave True Realm Cultivators were not as scarce in Qingzhou as they were in the Yuzhou Cultivation World,
to Spirit Essence Realm cultivators like them, existences of that level were still like titanic Great Powers!
Just standing before such a person would probably scare them to death with