Jiang Xinyi's tone was calm, without doubt, anger, or emotion, as indifferent as ever, as though she were stating a fact.
"Oh. Your disciple died, so why come to me instead of burning paper offerings for him?"
Qin Jieyu replied in her soft, sweet voice, though her words had a sting to them.
Jiang Xinyi said as though it were only natural, "I no longer have a disciple. Give Zhang Yuan to me."
Qin Jieyu's brows furrowed slightly, and she answered decisively, "No."
Jiang Xinyi continued, "Zhang Yuan came to the Azure Nether Immortal Sect to become my disciple in the first place. Giving him to me would merely return him to his rightful owner."
Rather than answer, Qin Jieyu stared at the indifferent Jiang Xinyi with sorrowful eyes and asked:
"Do you want a fight?"
Although she was a mortal without any cultivation, she showed no fear when asking this of Fairy Xuan Su, the foremost figure in the Azure Nether Immortal Sect, as though she truly could fight Fairy Xuan Su with her mortal body.
Jiang Xinyi fell silent for a moment, then said, "If you want to fight, I can oblige."
To outsiders, Qin Jieyu was indeed a mortal too weak to truss a chicken, but a handful of the Azure Nether Immortal Sect's senior figures knew that if Jiang Xinyi was the pillar supporting the sect in the open, then Qin Jieyu was its trump card, kept hidden at the bottom of the chest.
There was only one reason.
The Azure Nether Immortal Sect possessed an Immortal Artifact passed down from the Elder Era, and Qin Jieyu, a Supreme Elder who had lived for over ten thousand years, was the only person capable of wielding it. Rather than calling Qin Jieyu a mortal, it would have