After the Daoist revealed himself, he looked toward Zhang Yu and said with some surprise, "It's you?"
Zhang Yu's gaze shifted slightly. He did not know this man, but hearing those words, a thought turned in his mind and he immediately guessed that this was likely the person who had previously tried to deceive them with Primordial Spirit Shadow Reflection. He said, "So it was you, sir."
Hearing the two speak, Si Lan was immediately overcome with despair. So these two really did know each other!
But she soon realized something was wrong. Though the two knew each other, there seemed to be hostility between them. She looked ahead, then behind, and cautiously edged her body toward a side passage.
The Daoist had no time to pay attention to her now. His attention was fixed wholly on Zhang Yu.
He hesitated over whether to make a move now.
Though he had previously wanted the person who destroyed his magical artifact to pay the price, he had hoped to do so only after his strength had grown greater.
Since he did not know his opponent, chance encounters like this were battles he had always tried to avoid.
Yet Zhang Yu could sense that this Daoist's aura was extremely impure, carrying a remnant of vicious evil. This meant that not all the man's spiritual power and essence had been cultivated by himself; he had absorbed the vital essence of others, perhaps even refined living people as sacrifices.
Combined with his earlier attempt to deceive them into following him, it was obvious this was an evil cultivator, and that there were certainly no few lives on his hands.
Such a person had committed immense evil. Since Zhang Yu had encountered him, he could not simply let him go. He slowly walked forward.
The