A scream rang out. The drunken cultivator at the great perfection of Qi Refinement immediately cried out in pain, and the two cultivators of the same cultivation level at his table sprang to their feet to stand up for him.
But when they saw Liu Changxu enter, they panicked and dared not move!
The drunken cultivator at the great perfection of Qi Refinement had sobered up completely. Seeing Liu Changxu approach, radiating a terrifying aura, he ignored the pain of his severed hand and immediately dropped to his knees to beg for mercy!
"Please forgive me, Senior! I was rude just now. Thank you for sparing my life!"
"Did I say I would spare you? Who exactly sent you here to cause trouble?"
As Liu Changxu spoke, he unconsciously used a minor spell called the Soul-Shaking Technique. To the onlookers, his voice did not sound particularly forceful, but the cultivator at the great perfection of Qi Refinement felt as though his mind had suffered a heavy blow, stripping him of his senses.
Then, as though his soul had left him, the cultivator recounted how a masked Foundation Establishment cultivator had bribed him to cause trouble at the Peach Blossom Pavilion.
Finding that he could get nothing more useful out of the man, Liu Changxu used the Soul-Shaking Technique to interrogate the other two cultivators at the great perfection of Qi Refinement, only to discover that they knew nothing about it.
Then, ignoring the culprit's desperate pleas, Liu Changxu took him to the Azure Cloud Sect's administration office in the Purple Forest Market, intending to hand him over to Li Yufei, the senior sect sister of his Ninth Great-Aunt Liu Qiuju.
What a joke! Had they not been in the Purple Forest Market, where the Azure Cloud Sect prohibited killing in