On the Immortal Ascension Road, not long after Xuan Minglong had left, a man appeared where he had just been.
"An outsider just entered the Immortal Ascension Road." The man spoke with certainty, his gaze falling toward the woman's palace in the distance.
"Give me an explanation."
"Heh..." The woman sneered.
"An explanation? Why should I explain myself to a Human Race member like you?"
"Remember your status. You are a vassal dependent on my race, while I am your master."
"The Immortal Ascension Road has its rules, and those rules are part of the supreme laws. Breaking them is seeking your own death." The man did not grow angry, merely speaking coldly.
"I serve your race, but I am not your race's slave. You and I guard the Immortal Ascension Road together to uphold its rules and preserve the stability of the Immortal Realm."
"Put away your petty schemes. I know your branch urgently needs a batch of miners, but ascenders from the Lower Realm are not the private property of your branch."
The man showed her not the slightest courtesy, making her expression turn exceedingly ugly.
"Chen Yanqiu, you are courting death!" The woman struck out in fury, stabbing her sword toward him.
The man merely watched the woman charge at him. Only when her attack reached him did he slash out with his sword.
An utterly ordinary sword strike met her rage-filled blow, sending her flying back even faster than she had come.
"You are only barely at the middle stage of Marquis Rank. You cannot be my opponent." Leaving those words behind, Chen Yanqiu turned and departed.
Reaching another part of the Immortal Ascension Road, Chen Yanqiu let out a deep sigh. "Alas, after guarding this place for so many years, there is not a single