"What?"
"How could they get away with that?"
Elmwood's eyes widened at once as he asked in shock, "Has the Xiling Household swallowed a bear's heart and a leopard's gall? They actually dared to touch the young master's woman?"
"Brother Jinku, tell me, where are they? Who do they have in their lineage?"
"If possible, I'll go there myself and wipe out the Xiling Household!"
Elmwood was not boasting. His cultivation really was at the great all-encompassing golden immortal twelfth layer now, and his years as a shopkeeper had indeed left him with two or three trump cards.
He was confident that as long as he did not encounter a Dao Lord in the Dao Origin realm, he could handle anything with composure.
If he could destroy the Xiling Household and rescue He Pingsheng's Dao Companion, that would count as a great contribution, wouldn't it?
"No!" Jinku shook his head, however. "This matter isn't as simple as it looks!"
He continued, "The Xiling Household's patriarch is only at the great all-encompassing golden immortal second layer. How could he possibly subdue Immortal Emperor Li Mu?"
"The reason they ultimately managed to suppress Immortal Emperor Li Mu was that someone helped them!"
"Right!" Rather than continuing, Jinku asked, "What's the young master's cultivation now? Can he contend with a Dao Origin Dao Lord?"
"No problem!" Elmwood looked utterly confident. "The young master is formidable. His cultivation is now at the great all-encompassing golden immortal eleventh layer, and he's reached the great all-encompassing bottleneck!"
"But his combat strength defies the heavens. Slaughtering Great Dao Lords at the Dao Origin pinnacle is like chopping melons and slicing vegetables for him!"
"Back in the Heavenly Ruins, Dao Lord Tian Xuan, the strongest man there, died at the young master's hands!"
"Hiss..." Jinku sucked in a