"Hmph..."
Outside the courtyard, when the blond demon cultivator saw Xu Taiping pass through the barrier and leave the courtyard, he suddenly grinned, revealing a mouthful of teeth as sharp as a wild beast's.
"Should I praise your courage, or curse your stupidity?"
The blond demon cultivator folded his arms across his chest, looking at Xu Taiping as though he were an ant passing by.
"You can praise my courage or curse my stupidity, but what does either have to do with me?"
With his hand resting on his saber's hilt and his gaze fixed on the blond demon cultivator, Xu Taiping began pacing in a circle across the wasteland before the courtyard.
This demon cultivator was very different from the one he had encountered at the Listening Wind Tower.
Compared with the demon cultivator at the Listening Wind Tower, the blond demon cultivator before him was taller and more powerfully built. Merely standing there, he gave Xu Taiping an immense sense of pressure.
What was even more different was that this demon cultivator's physique was far stronger than that of the one at the Listening Wind Tower.
His bronze skin gleamed with a metallic sheen in the sunlight, and its texture resembled a wild beast's more than a human's, yet his skeletal structure and the distribution of his muscles were no different from a martial artist's.
It was a physique tempered beyond the pinnacle realm of the Martial Dao.
This physique reminded Xu Taiping of Fan Qi, but compared with Fan Qi, he could distinctly sense that every part of the blond demon cultivator's physique, from his bulging muscles and protruding veins down to each individual body hair, was a crystallization of qi and blood, capable of transforming into tremendous power at any moment.
"To keep your word and