"Hahahahaha..."
After hearing Cheng Siyu's words, the old man suddenly burst into laughter. He eyed the two of them without the slightest restraint and said, "That's the funniest joke I've heard in over a hundred and sixty years!"
What?
He Pingsheng's heart jolted.
Cheng Siyu's brows furrowed as well.
She said, "You... you're not at the qi refining stage?"
In the Cultivation World, people at different realms had different lifespans.
Like ordinary mortals, qi refining stage disciples could generally live to around a hundred, provided they had no karmic entanglements and suffered no calamities.
Living into their nineties or to a hundred and ten was normal.
Foundation establishment realm disciples, however, had twice the lifespan of those at the qi refining stage.
That meant two hundred years.
Since this man claimed to have lived for over a hundred and sixty years, he naturally couldn't be a qi refining stage disciple.
He Pingsheng's divine sense burst outward and swept over the old man.
Yet his scan still showed the old man at the twelfth layer of the qi refining stage.
What was going on?
Bang...
Just as He Pingsheng scanned him with his divine sense, the old man's aura abruptly erupted.
Another scan revealed his true cultivation. Sure enough, he was at the foundation establishment realm.
And at its second layer, no less.
"Neither of you should even think about running!" With her hands behind her back, Hou Muling looked smugly at Cheng Siyu. "Sister Cheng, I actually quite liked you. I didn't want to ambush you either!"
"But... hehe..."
"What could I do when my sister-in-law was worried?"
"My brother is indecisive. My sister-in-law feared the dead embers between you might flare up again, so she told us we had to take your life here today!"
Gritting her teeth, Cheng