At the other end of the venue.
Inside Liang Chengshan's private room.
"I thought... hahaha... I thought this brat was only driven by his chivalrous heart... hahaha... to stand up for that fool Lu Bugong. I never expected him to be a fool himself."
"How is testing whether an Ice Soul Stone is genuine with a True Fire Talisman any different from testing whether an egg is genuine with a rock?"
"Hahaha..."
"What a fool."
"I'm laughing... I'm really... laughing myself to death!"
When Liang Chengshan saw Xu Taiping ask Shopkeeper Yuan to test the Ice Soul Stone with a True Fire Talisman, and tell him to stand farther back when igniting it, he immediately clutched his stomach and rocked back and forth with laughter.
When he saw Shopkeeper Yuan retreat several dozen zhang and come to a stop again, Liang Chengshan straightened up as well.
As the smile vanished from his face inch by inch, he folded his arms and stared coldly at Shopkeeper Yuan in the Spirit Mirror.
"Elder Liu, in a moment, let's give this sheltered young master a proper lesson, and teach him just how treacherous the world can be."
Standing by the window, Elder Liu curled his lips upward.
"Certainly!"
Meanwhile, in the scene reflected in Elder Liu's pupils, Shopkeeper Yuan of Thousand Trees Market could be seen holding a talisman hand seal, ready at any moment to ignite the True Fire Talisman placed on the Ice Soul Stone.
Though Shopkeeper Yuan's cultivation was unremarkable, it was more than sufficient to ignite an ordinary True Fire Talisman like this.
Boom!
Then, with a sharp shout from Shopkeeper Yuan, the True Fire Talisman placed atop the Ice Soul Stone suddenly burst apart, turning into fiercely burning flames.
"Hmm?"
But as the flames from the True Fire