In the courtyard.
Faced with Li Ping's teasing, the normally easygoing Master Hu wore a decidedly strange expression.
He ignored Li Ping's teasing entirely and tossed a fist-sized Blood Crystal Orb straight into the sky. The orb rose into the air, releasing a layer of blood mist the instant it touched the protective barrier around the Cave Abode. The mist spread rapidly across the barrier and the ground, enveloping the entire Cave Abode in a sealed space of blood mist.
Only after finishing all this did Yan Kun look up at Li Ping, his voice sinister. "There. Now no one will disturb us. Forget the tea. I came specifically to send you on your way, Fellow Daoist Li-"
His sinister voice cut off abruptly!
When Yan Kun saw what was happening around Li Ping, every word lodged in his throat. He could not utter another sound, and his spiritual intuition screamed warnings.
At that moment, the danger he sensed from Li Ping was no less than what he had felt when he once tried to intervene in a battle between Golden Core cultivators!
Since Master Hu had repeatedly tried to invite him out of the city, Li Ping had actually harbored a vague wariness toward him all along.
Thus, as soon as he saw Master Hu's strange expression, he quietly stepped back.
By the time Master Hu threw out the Blood Crystal Orb to seal the space, his surging malice was almost completely undisguised.
Li Ping rapidly retreated as well, putting distance between them. Facing a Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivator, he dared not be careless in the slightest. In a single instant, he brought out everything he had stockpiled over the past four years!
Nearly a hundred second-tier mid-grade Flameburst Talismans and second-tier mid-grade Giant Thunder Talismans hovered on