Immortal Lord Liujing looked stunned and muttered to herself:
"He just... ran away? Was all that tough talk nothing but hot air?"
Hearing Immortal Lord Liujing mutter, Zhang Yuan replied evenly:
"It hardly matters."
Anything cultivators from the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm said could be treated as wind passing by the ear. Saying one thing to someone's face and another behind their back was standard fare for cultivators of the Dust-Dyed Realm, hardly worth making a fuss over.
Only when she heard Zhang Yuan's voice did Immortal Lord Liujing come to her senses. The evil dragon had fled, but an equally dangerous Demon Fiend was still here. Her gaze turned wary.
Zhang Yuan paid no heed to Immortal Lord Liujing's wary gaze. After driving Wenren Shangzhi back, he had no interest in her whatsoever. Having offered that casual reply, he looked away from her, rose into the air, and flew toward the coast.
Compared with Immortal Lord Liujing, ambushing Deng Qiuzhi interested him far more.
Over short distances, [Golden Carriage Luan Chariot] was exceptionally fast. In the blink of an eye, Zhang Yuan vanished from Immortal Lord Liujing's sight.
Immortal Lord Liujing breathed a sigh of relief, the stone suspended in her heart finally settling. Then she lowered her head to look at the Ten Thousand Scenery Flowing Forms Diagram in her hands, its treasured radiance dimmed, and sighed.
"Alas."
The Ten Thousand Scenery Flowing Forms Diagram had suffered considerable damage. To restore the scenery Wenren Shangzhi had shattered, she would have to stitch it back together, one needleful at a time.
A sound of rushing air came.
Lu Danyan finally arrived. Looking around as though he could not see Immortal Lord Liujing, he murmured to himself:
"Why is there nobody here? It seems this humble Daoist arrived a step