At the same time!
In Anhe Immortal City, on the seventh floor of Stone Spring Restaurant, Spirit Wine fragrance curled through an elegant private room by the window.
The carved wooden window stood half-open, offering a clear view of the towering city walls in the distance and the faint Spirit Power ripples still lingering on the horizon.
At that moment, a cry of alarm abruptly shattered the room's silence:
"How is this possible!
I... am I seeing things?"
The speaker was a middle-aged cultivator surrounded by the dense aura of a Golden Core cultivator, clad in an exquisitely tailored dark-blue robe patterned with stars.
The jade wine cup in his hand froze at his lips. The Spirit Wine within trembled faintly, reflecting the undisguised shock in his eyes.
His gaze was nailed to the sky outside the window, where traces of light and shadow seemed to remain, his voice quivering with disbelief:
"The City Lord's final strike... was too terrifying!
He crossed an entire minor realm and actually killed Zuo Yin on the spot!
Nascent Soul Middle Stage... and he just fell like that?
This is utterly unbelievable!"
He abruptly turned to look at the friend seated across from him, seemingly desperate for agreement, as though trying to convince himself that what he had just witnessed was not an illusion.
At those words.
The young cultivator opposite him slowly set down the white porcelain wine cup he had been idly turning in his hand for some time.
He had an elegant and refined bearing, dressed in a moon-white scholar's robe, every movement carrying an air of calm composure.
The young cultivator first refilled the Spirit Wine for himself and his friend. Only then did he raise his eyes and speak unhurriedly:
"Brother Li, why be so surprised?
What is so