Yet how could Ye Feng's shifting emotions escape Xuan Gu's notice?
He looked at Ye Feng and said, "What is it, boy? You know him?"
Ye Feng glanced at Lin Yuan, whose face was concealed beneath black clothing, and shook his head. "Not really. He just nearly killed me the last time we met."
Xuan Gu's brows jerked upward. His gaze swept back and forth between Ye Feng and the black-clad, masked Lin Yuan, and his voice deepened a little. "Oh? He nearly killed you?"
Lin Yuan stood motionless beneath his voluminous black robe. Only a glimmer of cold light showed beneath the shadow of his hood. He said nothing, as though their conversation had nothing to do with him.
Ye Feng's fingers tightened slightly as he recalled that suffocating pressure outside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes in Sunset Forest. Back then, although the man had felt extraordinarily dangerous, he still could not kill Ye Feng while he had an Earth Escape Talisman.
Now, two years had passed.
With the soul bones and immortal herbs Tang Weiwei had offered him, he had obtained a ten-thousand-year fourth soul ring and a thirty-eight-thousand-year fifth ring, cultivated to rank fifty-four, and created the sixth layer of the Azure Lotus Sword Formula and the sixth move of Azure Lotus Swordsmanship.
He reckoned his strength was already enough to contend with a Soul Sage.
Yet facing this mysterious black-robed man, that sense of danger had not diminished in the slightest. Instead, it had grown even stronger, as though countless icy needles hung behind Ye Feng's neck, prickling his flesh numb.
Ye Feng took a deep breath and said evenly, "Our clash was brief. He showed no mercy. If I hadn't escaped underground in time, I'd be a corpse by now."
Xuan Gu looked