The old man wore a blue-and-white Daoist robe and had the bearing of an immortal of old, with crane-white hair and a youthful face. Holding the Yin Plate in one hand, he glanced down at it and smiled faintly.
"I wondered what it was. Just a talisman, after all. Truly showing off before an expert."
As he spoke...
The old man brushed his palm lightly over the Yin Plate, erasing the invisible talisman inscribed upon it. The power on the verge of erupting instantly dissolved into nothing. He had effortlessly defused a crisis that even Xie Jingxin would have had to weather head-on.
Who was this man?
Xie Jingxin and Qi Han both looked at the old man, utterly surprised by his arrival.
He was certainly no weakling. On the contrary, he was a true expert. Though he cultivated neither the cavern-peering lamp-kindling path nor the blood furnace lantern-lighting path, the aura he exuded simply by standing there, along with the skill he had just displayed, placed him at least on the same level as a powerhouse in the ninefold negation realm or divine ignition realm!
An expert like this could hardly be a nameless nobody.
After erasing the killing talisman on the Yin Plate, the old man slowly turned around. He glanced at Xie Jingxin, then shifted his gaze behind her, letting it settle on Zhang Yuan.
At the same time...
Zhang Yuan was also meeting the old man's gaze.
Though he was not particularly familiar with the old man and had only met him a few times, he still recognized him.
Shangxian True Person of the Azure Talisman Grotto-Heaven.
Tong Ke's master, a late-stage ascension realm powerhouse who cultivated the qi sea uniting spirit dao.
But why was Shangxian True Person here?
*Tong Ke had gone to the