With his cultivation only barely at Great Vehicle Perfection, if the woman in red standing opposite him truly set her heart on killing him, he probably could not withstand even one stroke of her sword.
"What's wrong, old fossil? Lost your tongue?"
"Weren't you awfully arrogant just now? Say something!"
Liu Yi had always had a fiery temper. She had held it in check until now only because she was mindful of the larger interests of the sects behind them.
But the Mountain-Shaking Immortal Sect had gone too far. It was bad enough that they had kept brushing them off; today, an old ghost had even dared to step forward and provoke them.
Since the other side had already gone so far, she saw no reason to hold back.
If she, a Dao Seed of the Heavenly Pill Sect and one of the Nine Sons of the Endless Sea, did nothing, the Nine Sons of the Endless Sea would lose all face from this day forward.
At that thought, her terrifying cultivation at the Great Vehicle Limit erupted in full.
Her entire being seemed to turn into a sharp sword that would pierce the Heavenly Firmament, its point aimed straight at the Inner Sect Elder of the Mountain-Shaking Immortal Sect who had shouted at her.
At the same time, the red-faced Inner Sect Elder in the sky felt a life-and-death threat sweeping toward him.
His body reacted on instinct, darting toward the Mountain-Shaking Immortal Sect's main hall.
The two young direct disciples who had been standing in front of him followed.
In that instant, all three instinctively retreated.
Even Pan Linfeng, the Dao Seed of the Heavenly Star Sect, and the Dao Seed of the Heavenly Flower Sect—the weaker two of the five who had come to the Mountain-Shaking Immortal