Above the Immortal Prefecture.
Fang Shu, familiar with the route, arrived before Yellow Wolf Immortal Mountain.
Gazing at the immortal mountain blanketed in golden auspicious clouds, he stepped forward and respectfully called out:
"Disciple Hu Muhuang requests an audience with Master."
A few breaths after his words fell, a faint voice sounded from within the immortal mountain. "Come in."
Before long, Fang Shu saw his master, Yellow Wolf Immortal, inside the small temple.
Master and disciple were still beneath that enormous ginkgo tree. Its leaves were golden, as though woven from threads of gold, dazzling and radiant. Yellow Wolf Immortal was likewise reclining beneath the tree, as if he had never moved from that spot during the entire year Fang Shu had spent in secluded cultivation.
Sensing Fang Shu's approach, Yellow Wolf Immortal smiled before even opening his eyes.
"What nerve. You actually dared to kill Earth Immortals in the immortal city—and killed two in one go. One of them was even a Nine Tribulations Earth Immortal." He opened his eyes and regarded Fang Shu with amused interest.
He had known that this disciple of his was somewhat extraordinary, but he had not expected the fellow to cause such a stir in the immortal city the moment he emerged from seclusion.
Fang Shu's heart skipped a beat.
Though he did not know why Yellow Wolf Immortal already knew what had happened before he had said anything, he quickly delivered the words he had prepared.
"Master, this is precisely what I came to explain.
"It was not that this disciple insisted on acting. That group from a Foundation Establishment Immortal Clan rashly came to my door and directly broke the clan-protecting grand formation of the immortal clan where this disciple was staying. That was why this disciple struck so ruthlessly."
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