"Yue Lingsong! Surrender at once, and your life will be spared!"
The thunderous roar rang across the summit. The lingering astral qi gradually dispersed, revealing the people facing off before the Righteous Qi Abbey.
Shen Cang stood with his hands behind his back, his presence as deep as an abyss, as immovable as a mountain.
The roar had come from a short, stocky old man beside him.
Though small in stature, the old man exuded a formidable aura. Holding a heavy iron broadsword pointed downward, he glared at the three men before the abbey and barked:
"Yue Lingsong! If you refuse to stop, do not blame me for showing you no mercy!"
This old man was none other than the master of the Qingyuan Sword Tower!
Bian Hu!
His broadsword was drawn, and the Gang Force throughout his body was poised to erupt!
Waves of Inner Astral Force spread across the summit like a tide, pressing even the surrounding vegetation low.
Opposite them.
At the foot of the steps before the Righteous Qi Abbey.
Three figures stood in a row, their faces dark and still as water.
The man in the middle appeared to be in his forties. His purple robe brushed the ground, his face was lean, and his phoenix eyes were half closed.
The dense purple-cloud True Astral Force around him had taken solid form, covering his body like a layer of flowing purple jade.
He was none other than the head of the Azure Radiance Manor's Qi Branch!
Yue Lingsong!
Two men stood on either side of him, both in the Astral Realm.
The man on the left looked middle-aged, with a square face and large-knuckled hands that faintly gleamed purple-black.
His name was Bao Yuanxiu!
Originally a rogue cultivator, he had been recruited by the Qi