In the sky above a cliff nearly a thousand li from Heavenly Dao City.
A pale blue escape light abruptly stopped. Li Ping hovered coldly in midair, his divine sense already giving him a clear view of the two cultivators pursuing him, one tall and one short.
The fierce wind made his spell robe snap and flutter!
Elysian High Person had carefully examined him with Nascent Soul divine sense back at the auction. Though he had not seen through Li Ping's altered appearance, he had determined his cultivation level with perfect clarity.
Perhaps there were still items he urgently needed in the upcoming bidding, or perhaps he trusted his two subordinates' abilities. Either way, he had not come for Li Ping himself, merely sending these two to invite him back!
"I only want to cultivate steadily in peace. Why must you force my hand?"
Li Ping muttered to himself, a charred wooden stake over a foot long already resting in his palm.
Unpleasant memories surfaced. He still remembered how, shortly after he had reached Foundation Establishment in Windmist Immortal City, Dai Sangyu had similarly sent Xiong Pohai and Ye Chen to openly "invite" him off the street to Azure Dragon Mountain for questioning.
Back then, he had only recently reached Foundation Establishment and did not even possess a single second-tier magic artifact. Against Xiong Pohai and Ye Chen, resisting would only have invited humiliation.
In the end, he had been forced to obediently accompany them to Azure Dragon Mountain and submit to Dai Sangyu's interrogation!
But two hundred and sixty years had passed. He was no longer that Foundation Establishment greenhorn.
If these two still intended to pressure him with the same trick, they would be the ones inviting humiliation!
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The two escape lights stopped less than twenty