Of the old man and child, Su Shi'er was no stranger to either.
The old man carried a tortoise shell on his back. His skin was withered, giving him the air of one weathered by countless years.
As for the child, slight protrusions of dragon horns, not yet fully developed, rose from his forehead.
They were none other than the Spirit Tortoise and the Cloud Dragon in human form.
His gaze swept past the two before settling on the unfamiliar third person.
The man before him had two thick brows, dark skin, and a tall, burly frame. Muscles knotted all over his body.
At first glance, he gave off an overwhelming sense of strength.
Yet not a trace of aura fluctuation emanated from him.
Looking closer, Su Shi'er could sense an extreme weakness from the man.
It was as though... a cultivator had exhausted all his True Yuan, then gone too long without replenishing it with Immortal Essence, leaving his body severely depleted.
There was no trace of aura on him, nor did he bear any features of a demon beast. He looked no different from a human cultivator.
For a moment, Su Shi'er could not tell what sort of demon beast this man had transformed from.
He could only see that with every breath the other party took, vast amounts of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi passed through layer upon layer of formations and entered his body.
If the sixth-grade Spirit Veins of Leizhou's various factions had not either been destroyed or taken away, the spectacle would have been even more tremendous.
Even so, being able to draw in so much Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi despite the formations' obstruction was enough to show that the man before him was far from ordinary.
Just as Su Shi'er remained concealed