This... what was he supposed to do?
On the way to rendezvous with Martial Uncle Jiu Wu, Li Changshou had this Paper Daoist maintain the Earth Evasion speed his master could currently achieve, feeling somewhat conflicted.
He had used a Paper Daoist in place of his master to come here precisely because he wanted to catch the other party's "fox tail."
Yet now, that "fox tail" had been burned by a blast of Samadhi True Fire until only a few scraps remained, and he had even scattered them directly just now...
Though some remnant soul remained within the Soul-Capturing Bead, it would soon dissipate completely as well...
Li Changshou had considered this possibility—the two letters might have been a trap, with his master's only enemy intending to lure him here and secretly eliminate him.
But what Li Changshou had not expected was that his master's enemy had secretly hired a True Immortal Realm member of the Demon Race to commit murder for hire.
From the centipede demon's remnant soul, he could see that the person who had appeared before it was a masked man wearing an artifact cloak...
Considering that the other party would certainly use an Illusionary Technique when doing such a thing, this tiny bit of information was meaningless.
This centipede demon had been rather unlucky;
It had traveled all the way from the Northern Continent of Julu to seek refuge with a familiar "family" of demons here. Lindong City was the place the centipede demon had chosen.
The centipede demon had thought this would be an easy, guaranteed-profitable job. It had lurked in secret for several months, waiting only to "meet the target in the dead of night" and kick this turbid immortal to death with its countless legs...
Yet it had never imagined that, with more