"Hmm?!" Mu Huajue's expression shifted slightly. There was no escaping this. He drew a deep breath. "I don't know him..."
"That Five-Elements Dao Ancestor!" The noblewoman seemed rather hot-tempered and directly barked at Mu Huajue, "Do you know him or not?"
"I know him." Mu Huajue remained composed, retaining a measure of poise and even a trace of unruliness.
The main reason was simply that the gap was too great.
Back in the Myriad Profound Eastern Land, he had still counted as an unparalleled figure. Yet after arriving in the Three Thousand Immortal Domains, it seemed anyone could come and stomp on him. It was thoroughly stifling. He also felt it was time to rein in his edge; he could no longer act as he had in the Myriad Profound Eastern Land.
"Then is he well now?" The noblewoman's tone turned gentle again.
At this, Mu Huajue's brows furrowed faintly. He was not familiar with this Dao Ancestor at all, so he spoke honestly. "Fellow Daoist, why not cross the starry wilds and see for yourself?"
Boom!
A colossal, explosive palm crashed down from the heavens. Mu Huajue's eyes flew wide. With a muffled groan, he plummeted into the mountains and rivers, the impact shaking heaven and earth.
The woman swept her sleeve and turned away, looking coldly down at the land. "Junior, has this old lady been too good-tempered, that even you, grievously wounded as you are, dare speak to me like this?"
"Or do you still think that, relying on your Immortal Body's innate gifts, you can keep mending your injuries beneath this Immortal's very eyes?"
Splat.
Mu Huajue finally could not hold it in any longer. He spat out a mouthful of immortal blood, while the shattered mountains and rivers all around were instantly restored as though