Two figures slipped out without a sound. One was Li Ping, while the other was completely shrouded in a black robe.
Only the curves beneath the robe offered a faint indication that the person concealed inside was a female cultivator.
Li Ping tossed out a flying boat and used his magical power to enlarge it to seventy or eighty feet long. He leaped aboard, then called to the female cultivator behind him, "Fellow Daoist Meng, let's go!"
"Mm." The female cultivator gave a muffled reply, then followed him aboard.
Whoosh!
At a command from Li Ping's divine sense, the flying boat instantly became a streak of dark silver escape light and vanished into the horizon.
At the very moment the two left the Immortal City...
Inside a cave abode somewhere in the Inner City...
Three figures sat in a courtyard, discussing something. Anyone familiar with them would have recognized Huang Yan, Xiong Pohai, and Ye Chen at a glance.
"Ah... Although he refused to serve as the Immortal City's supreme elder, he still took Meng Qingyi away with him." Remembering the intelligence he had received not long ago, Huang Yan sighed softly.
The Immortal City had long since been molded into the Three Sects' image. The moment Li Ping and Meng Qingyi left, his informants had brought him word.
Li Ping was a Core Formation True Person and his Dao companion's uncle. Given a choice, he would rather not offend him.
But Patriarch Huang Yunzi was getting on in years. Control of the Immortal City would determine the Huang Family's position and standing within Purple Cloud Valley after the patriarch passed away.
On this matter, therefore, he could not yield.
Meng Qingyi absolutely could not be allowed to reach Core Formation... No, more precisely, the Immortal City could not