The next day.
Fire Tree Valley, Withered Stone Sea.
Any cultivator who had spent some time in the Withered Stone Sea knew that, among its many secret realms, Fire Tree Valley was one they must never enter without the Valley Lord's permission.
For this was the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord's cultivation grounds.
"Heavenly Lord Azure Eyes, if we don't leave soon, Zhang Wuyou may escape the Old Dragon Court."
In a grove of fire trees radiating multicolored halos, a man draped in a black cloak strode toward a massive fire tree at the center of the Fire Tree Forest.
Beneath that enormous fire tree sat a white-haired man in white robes, drinking wine.
Just as the black-robed man was about to reach the tree, a blast of gang wind slammed into his chest.
The gang wind seemed to have appeared out of thin air, arriving without the slightest warning and leaving the man in the black cloak nowhere to dodge.
Bam!
With a tremendous crash, the man in the black cloak was sent flying backward by the gang wind.
He only stopped when he struck a hard fire tree.
"Pfft!..."
The man spat out a mouthful of blood.
His torn cloak revealed a handsome face.
But his complexion was as pale as paper, as though he had only just recovered from a grave illness.
Had Xu Taiping been there, he would certainly have recognized this man as Li Yezhu, one of the Nine Abysses' Ten Demonic Generals.
And the white-robed man was, naturally, the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord.
The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord turned and looked at Li Yezhu with icy eyes.
"You trespassed upon my wife's resting place. Had Heartless not spoken to me beforehand, I would have separated your head from your body."
Though the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord was one of