The instant he heard this, Su Shi'er immediately realized something. His gaze flickered as he swiftly looked toward the battle ahead.
The two figures remained locked in fierce combat, their forms weaving past one another without pause.
Yet Su Shi'er had considerable confidence in Yun Yan's judgment.
In less than the time it took to drink a cup of tea, the two intertwined figures suddenly exchanged palm strikes, each retreating a thousand zhang away.
They stared at one another across the distance, yet neither showed any sign of attacking again.
"I truly never expected that after merely a few hundred years, you would not only completely master this body, but also raise your cultivation and strength to such a level.
"You... who exactly are you?"
The mysterious man in black suppressed the fury in his heart. His blazing gaze remained fixed on True Person Tianheng as he spoke again.
His eyes and words were full of probing intent.
The old Daoist before him was someone he hated to the bone. After all, if not for the arrangements the other party had made back then, sealing the cave mansion where he resided with the Ghost Qi Barrier—
Cutting off the connection between the Ghostly Qi within the Sinful Dao and the Ghost Cultivator's Cave Mansion, while also keeping countless cultivators who had come in secret to seize treasures outside the barrier—
He would long since have devoured enough Ghostly Qi and power to reappear in the Mortal World.
Of course, if that had been all, it would merely have delayed him somewhat. He would not have hated the other party to the bone over it.
The crucial point was that after the Ghost Qi Barrier formed, the other party had attacked several times.
Taking advantage of the fact that his injuries