Giant trees fell to the ground, kicking up a patch of smoke and dust that obscured everyone's vision. At that moment, the muscles on Zhao Ziyue's body tightened slightly, but in the end he still made no move.
The ghost sword cultivator he had ignored just moments before—that is to say, the ghost cultivator among sword cultivators—was pressing down on him with fierce sword pressure. This time, he could no longer tangle and contend with him as he had the last time, and he didn't even have the opportunity to use that magical artifact in his hand capable of restraining ghost cultivators.
Now that he thought about it, this actually confirmed a previous guess of his.
"Outside Huayan City last time, around the time of the earth-vein anomaly, could it be you, Daoist Brother, who snatched away the 'fragment'?"
While speaking, Zhao Ziyue still did not turn his head. Merely in terms of threat level, that void stepping sword cultivator who was pointing his sword Qi remotely at his chest was clearly a cut above. However, ever since the launch of this surprise attack, the trajectory of events had made him realize that if he wanted to "talk reason", he would have to find the one behind.
Seeing him be so frank, Yu Ci knew he must have recognized Tie Lan. That was right, the two of them had crossed paths before, after all. Yet even though this fellow recognized Tie Lan, could it be that he still failed to recognize the "old friend" on this side?
Yu Ci carefully sized up this person. Ever since parting ways at Juebi City, about four or five years must have passed without seeing each other. Yu Ci was naturally not what he used to be, and Zhao Ziyue didn't look to be