Boom!
In an instant, Chen Cuo's five senses roared. He felt a vast force crash down on him so fiercely that the first impact nearly knocked his consciousness out of his body!
Only then did he remember that, strictly speaking, he was not in his own flesh and blood. His mind had entered the body of "Chen Fangqing" from the past!
At the same time, Chen Cuo recognized the newcomer.
"The Jade Void Cult Leader!"
Suddenly, the crushing weight on Chen Cuo's young body lifted.
"Numinous Treasure, what brings you here too?"
The Creation Holy Church Leader, Qingxu, had quietly stepped in front of Chen Cuo. Planting himself between him and the Jade Void Cult Leader, Qingxu blocked every trace of the latter's terrifying Aura Pressure!
Numinous Treasure...
Free of the pressure, Chen Cuo turned the name over in his mind, then considered the situation.
He and the Jade Void Cult Leader were hardly strangers. Though they had never faced each other in a direct battle of Spellcraft, they had clashed several times from afar or through borrowed strength. They were far from friendly, and their hostility was plain. Yet the man's appearance here should not have been about settling those old scores.
Was he asked by Randeng too?
As Chen Cuo pondered, Qingxu spoke plainly.
"What? Do you owe old Randeng a favor too, or perhaps his former self, and have come running on his behalf?" Qingxu shook his head with a smile. "Then he has gone too far, not I. If word gets out that, at his urging, the leaders of two great sects joined forces against a mortal-world cultivator, it will sound dreadful. It will hardly favor us in the legends to come, either."
"So you intend to protect Chen Fangqing." The Jade Void Cult Leader's expression