Hui Zhen looked toward the voice and saw a young man with a hint of unruliness about his face approaching him, his expression full of mockery.
Behind the young man followed a guard in the Spirit Transformation realm.
"Gao Cang, I haven't seen you for a few months, and your guts have certainly grown. You actually dare mock me? If you piss me off, watch out-my Withered Zen Temple might wipe out your Gao Family," Hui Zhen said.
The young man named Gao Cang paid no heed to Hui Zhen's threat.
"Hui Zhen, do you really think you're somebody? You may have a good father, but strength ultimately does the talking in the cultivation world. You've cultivated for thirty years, yet you're still only at the foundation establishment early stage. Great Master Du'e has supplied you with mountains of resources, but your cultivation has grown at a snail's pace. That only proves you're utterly worthless."
Hui Zhen's expression abruptly turned cold.
"Gao Cang, it seems you deliberately came looking for trouble today."
Gao Cang said arrogantly, "So what if I did? What can you do about it? I've already advanced to the golden core realm, and my lineage sent a Spirit Transformation cultivator to protect me. But you? Today, you only have a Nascent Soul guard with you."
The "Nascent Soul guard" he mentioned was Song Wen.
Song Wen had arrived with Hui Zhen and was dressed as a monk, so Gao Cang had instinctively taken him for Hui Zhen's attendant.
Song Wen, meanwhile, had roughly deduced Gao Cang's background.
The Gao Family was the largest cultivation lineage under the Withered Zen Temple. Its power was not to be underestimated, with five or six Void Refinement cultivators among its members.
Even the abbot of the Withered Zen Temple had to