The Benefits of Making the Ranking
A streak of light crossed the sky. Within it was a Flying Boat, and seated cross-legged aboard it were two cultivators.
One was an old man with white hair and beard, and he was the one controlling the Flying Boat. The other was a young man in his twenties—Wu Tao.
After they set out from Fire Abyss City, Liao Zhengyi had driven the Flying Boat at full speed back toward Tianyang City. Mainly, it was because too many unexpected things had happened on this trip to the Fire Abyss.
Tianyang City's Deputy City Lord, Cai Chao, had died at Wu Tao's hands. That was not what Liao Zhengyi was worried about. If the later events had not occurred, they could have casually told a lie and said Cai Chao had died in Fire Ghost Heavenly Monarch's Cave Abode Ruins.
After all, the two of them were only at Spirit Transformation Level 7. It was impossible for them to be a match for Cai Chao, who had broken through to Spirit Transformation Level 9.
But with what happened afterward, Wu Tao had taken action and slain fourteen Spirit Transformation Level 9 or Perfection cultivators from Xuanyi Sect, as well as Zhou Zhixuan, a Spirit Transformation prodigy ranked 7,236th on the Spirit Transformation Prodigy Ranking.
With such strength, he naturally could have easily slain Cai Chao as well.
With such strength, there was no need to fear City Lord Huangfu of the City Lord's Mansion either. City Lord Huangfu was merely at Spirit Transformation Perfection and had not even entered the Prodigy Ranking. He might not even be a match for Zhou Zongli and the other thirteen Xuanyi Sect cultivators at Spirit Transformation Level 9 or Perfection.
But behind the Tianyang City City Lord's Mansion stood