Jade Creek Street, Cloudrise Tower.
Cloudrise Tower was the inn where Xu Taiping and his companions were staying.
With the arrival of the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord and the cloaked Li Yezhu beside him, the bustling Jade Creek Street suddenly fell quiet.
Shopkeepers, shop assistants, and cultivators walking along the street all tacitly retreated into the shops and teahouses on either side.
Once the customers were inside, the shopkeepers began directing their assistants to fit door panels covered in runes into place.
Old Dragon City was unlike other places.
Whether pedestrians on the street or shopkeepers, they had long since grown accustomed to such scenes, so they handled this with ease.
The shopkeeper of Cloudrise Tower, however, was an exception.
For at that moment, the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord, his entire body wreathed in azure mist, and Li Yezhu, cloaked and masked, stood right in front of their building.
They wanted to shut the doors, but how could they dare?
Cloudrise Tower's sect master plastered a smile across his face and spoke ingratiatingly to the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord:
"Azure Eyes, please wait a moment. I've already sent someone to fetch Young Master Zhang!"
Though the shopkeeper did his utmost to appear relaxed, his constantly trembling legs betrayed him.
The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord glanced at the head shopkeeper, then said coldly:
"Your proprietor has already spoken to me, but even so, I will give you only ten breaths."
The Azure-Eyed Evil Lord lifted his chin and added:
"Count them yourself. If that boy hasn't come out by the time you reach ten, I'll go upstairs."
Though the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord spoke lightly, the pressure emanating from him rose with practically every word.
Though Cloudrise Tower's head shopkeeper had reached Heaven Gazing Realm Minor Achievement, both his body and his mind were already on