Over the past few days, Nie Li had successfully broken through to Gold 1-Star.
He had also set up an Advanced Soul-Gathering Array throughout the City Lord's Mansion to speed up soul force cultivation. Things had been fairly peaceful lately, so he spent his days cultivating, refining pills, annoying his father-in-law, and growing closer to Zi Yun and Ning'er.
Du Ze and the others sometimes formed teams and left the city to seek out hidden realms for training.
There was no helping it. Their cultivation ranks had risen, but their experience had not kept pace.
Nie Li was different. This guy had both cultivation and experience.
Chen Linjian had already taken the others to explore some ruined cities around Glory City. After all, he had the highest cultivation among their group, having already reached Gold 2-Star.
Besides, even the weakest among them was now Silver 5-Star, and Black Gold Rank elders from the Sacred Nether Family were accompanying them, so Nie Li felt quite reassured.
At that moment, Nie Li was sitting in his room, circulating the Heavenly Dao Divine Art.
Suddenly, Nie Li instinctively sensed danger!
It was pure intuition!
Pfft!
Nie Li spat out a mouthful of blood and was lifted straight off the ground. A figure suddenly appeared in the room. Who else could it have been but the Demon Lord?
"Y-you... who are you?"
Blood trickled from the corner of Nie Li's mouth as he struggled to ask.
This fellow was simply too fast. Even with Nie Li's extraordinary ability to sense danger, he had not had time to react. He had not even gotten a chance to crush the Guardian God Stone.
"Take a guess."
The Demon Lord had already lived for hundreds of years. After saying those words, he grabbed Nie Li and prepared