Meanwhile.
At the Old Dragon Court.
In the First-Rank Pavilion teahouse.
"Elder Lu, I heard Mr. Xunqi has finally sent word again..."
Lü Hu of Ningchan Cave hurried excitedly toward the tea table where Elder Lu of Ningchan Cave sat.
But when she saw that Purple-Robed Elder Lu was not the only person seated there, Lü Hu abruptly slowed her steps and composed her face.
Seated at the tea table with Elder Lu of Ningchan Cave was a refined-looking middle-aged man with a lock of white hair above his forehead.
Behind this middle-aged man stood Xiahou Qingyuan and Xiahou You and Her Brother of Jade Balance Mountain, whom Lü Hu of Ningchan Cave had met before.
Without turning his head, Ningchan Cave's Purple-Robed Elder Lu said to Lü Hu:
"This is Jade Balance Mountain Heavenly Lord Shihu."
Lü Hu's expression changed at once upon hearing this, and she immediately bowed in greeting.
"Lü Hu of Ningchan Cave pays her respects to Heavenly Lord Shihu."
Although Jade Balance Mountain's Heavenly Lord Shihu was not an Upper Realm cultivator, the Sky Demon War that had just ended had given him a greater reputation in the Upper Realm than in the Lower Realm, where little was known about the war.
For Heavenly Lord Shihu was one of the three commanders of the Heavenly Pivot Army, one of the five armies that had ultimately defeated the Devil Lord of the Nine Abysses in this Sky Demon War.
During this Sky Demon War, which had lasted three hundred years, tens of thousands of Nine Abysses demonic beasts and demon cultivators had died at his hands.
As though he had not heard Lü Hu at all, Jade Balance Mountain Heavenly Lord Shihu merely looked expressionlessly at Purple-Robed Elder Lu of Ningchan Cave and said:
"Elder Lu,