Xuanjizi appeared without a sound, as though he had been standing there all along.
He wore a plain, old-fashioned Daoist robe, his aura so restrained that he looked like an ordinary charlatan as he stood beside Chen Fan.
"Senior Xuanjizi?"
Chen Fan was the first to stare in surprise.
He had met Xuanjizi before. The man was a mighty cultivator of the Profound Immortal Realm who had once wanted to take him as a disciple, only to be firmly refused.
Chen Fan also caught a detail in Xuanjizi's words.
A disciple of my Heavenly Dao Sect!
My?
When did Senior Xuanjizi join the Heavenly Dao Sect?
Xuanjizi's sudden appearance made the three old men at the Seventh-Tier True Immortal Realm and the gold-robed young man frown at once.
Here came another troublemaker.
Worse, they could not gauge the old Daoist's strength at all!
"Hmm?"
The leader of the Ascension Sect elders, a man with a hooked nose and eyes sharp as knives named Elder Li, spoke in a deep voice.
"Who are you? The Ascension Sect is dealing with remnants of the Lower Realm. Do not interfere and bring ruin upon yourself!"
"Remnants of the Lower Realm?"
Xuanjizi stroked his beard, wearing a faint, serene smile filled with compassion for all living beings. Yet his words made the Ascension Sect's people jolt.
"This old Daoist saw only a pack of villains bullying others with their power, seizing whatever they pleased, and a disciple of my Heavenly Dao Sect settling the score with them. As for you..."
His gaze swept over the gold-robed young man and the three True Immortal elders. He shook his head gently. "I see dark clouds over your brows, fellow Daoists, and calamity clinging to your bodies. I fear... you will not live past today."
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