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About a hundred and twenty years ago.
After attending Yan Hengchuan's wedding banquet, Li Ping had encountered Hua Hong chasing a female cultivator on his way back to the Immortal City.
He had not wanted to interfere, but Hua Hong refused to let him leave.
In the end, he had been forced to defend himself, unleashing every means at his disposal to kill Hua Hong and save the woman.
Afterward, the woman told him that Hua Wuji possessed a special secret art that could track down Hua Hong's killer. If he wanted to survive, his only option was to flee to Great Zhou.
She invited him to flee to the ends of the earth with her, but he refused without hesitation and chose to hide in his cave abode in the Secret Realm.
Yet after all this time, the two had met again in Great Zhou's Spirit Firmament City.
Li Ping was not particularly surprised to see her again, however. When he first arrived in Spirit Firmament City to arrange his rental, he had caught a glimpse of her by chance.
He simply felt that they barely knew each other, and since he did not particularly care about her, he had never gone out of his way to look for her.
After all, back then, he had not even bothered to ask her name or tell her his own.
Now that he saw her in person, what surprised him most was her cultivation.
He had never expected that, despite all his painstaking cultivation, an ordinary rogue cultivator from the Qi Kingdom would surpass him.
For a moment, Li Ping was puzzled. *Could Great Zhou truly be such a blessed land, its spiritual abundance nurturing outstanding talents? Or have I been going about