The Profound Yin Sea.
"Desert Flying Eagle!" Jiang Ning greeted the approaching man.
"Please, don't call me that! Just call me Desert Flying Eagle, Inspector Jiang!" Desert Flying Eagle said politely.
Once he learned Jiang Ning's identity, he no longer dared present himself as a senior.
On the Martial Dao, those who reached greater heights came first.
And now, he might not even be the one who had reached greater heights.
Passing the trial and arriving here had nearly pushed him to his limit.
Yet Jiang Ning had done the same.
He could not gauge the depth of Jiang Ning's strength at all.
"Desert Flying Eagle, did you have something in mind?" Jiang Ning asked with a smile.
"I did." Desert Flying Eagle nodded. "The rules of the next trial are still unclear, but I'd like to make a gentleman's agreement with you, Inspector Jiang. We help each other."
Jiang Ning shook his head.
Then he pointed to the distant mountain.
"Desert Flying Eagle, that mountain is my goal. The trial isn't what matters to me."
"I understand." Desert Flying Eagle looked toward the magnificent peak soaring into the ninth heaven, then nodded.
He added, "Then could we agree not to attack each other unless we must?"
"Yes." Jiang Ning nodded. "A gentleman's agreement."
"A gentleman's agreement!" Desert Flying Eagle smiled.
Elsewhere.
"Azure Dragon, I didn't expect you to arrive first!" A strange look flashed through the Heaven-Answering Alliance's Vermilion Bird envoy's eyes when the Azure Dragon envoy appeared.
"You called, so I came. No one stopped me on the way," the towering Azure Dragon envoy said evenly.
Then he asked, "This Grotto-Heaven is the Shangyang Immortal Sect's trial ground. What do you think, Vermilion Bird?"
"First, we join forces and sweep everyone else out," Vermilion Bird said. "This is