"Meddling? Playing with fire?"
Sage Xuanji stroked his beard and chuckled, undisguised mockery gleaming in his eyes.
"As a Li Family Guest Official, serving the Li Family is my duty. How is that meddling?"
"As for playing with fire?"
Sage Xuanji raised an eyebrow.
His tone was scornful. "You think you can burn me?"
"A Li Family Guest Official?"
The Burning Sea Lord froze for a moment.
Then he burst into wild laughter.
"Hahahaha! You're killing me!"
"I thought you were some incredible recluse. After all that, you're just a dog Li Xinge keeps!"
"Old fool, do you think you and Zhao Wujiu alone can stop my Four Seas Alliance? Stop our fourteen Divine Mansion Realm cultivators?"
"Ridiculous!"
"Today, you and Zhao Wujiu will both die here!"
The Burning Sea Lord's voice boomed like a great bell, his arrogance knowing no bounds.
Yet faced with such arrogance, the smile on Sage Xuanji's face did not fade in the slightest. Instead, the mockery at the corners of his mouth deepened.
He snorted.
He looked at the Burning Sea Lord with pity, as though looking at a dead man.
"Who told you... that I came alone?"
The moment Old Man Mystic Oracle finished speaking, even the wind seemed to stop for an instant.
A fissure opened in the void.
A foot clad in a blue boot stepped out of it.
The newcomer wore blue robes, his hair and beard snowy white, a longsword strapped to his back.
He made no attempt to conceal his aura. He was unmistakably at the early-stage Divine Mansion Realm.
He looked toward the Burning Sea Lord and the many Divine Mansion Realm cultivators behind him.
He spoke calmly. "Fu Qingyun of the Yang Province Fu Clan, serving under the Marquis of Chu!"
Fu Qingyun!
Naturally, the Burning