"Who exactly are you?" With Bai Feiyu gripping his neck, the Artifact Ancestor struggled wildly, clutching in terror at the hand clamped tightly around his throat as he shouted at Bai Feiyu, all his immortal bearing gone.
"Why? Why?! Who exactly is he?! Why has even my True Spirit begun to tremble?!" The Artifact Ancestor stared at Bai Feiyu's gentle smile.
He seemed to see, in the youth before him, the shadow of the man who had once terrified every Immortal!
Bai Feiyu looked at the Artifact Ancestor, who was shaking like chaff in a sieve, and kept smiling gently. As warmly as though greeting an old friend he had not seen in years, he said, "Qi, haven't you always called yourself my Dao Companion? Why do you look like this when you see your Dao Companion?"
"Li! Tai! Bai!"
The demon who had reduced him to this state, who had personally sent every Immortal to their grave, had actually appeared alive before him again today!
The Artifact Ancestor did not believe it. He was unwilling to believe it, and did not dare believe that the youth before him was Li Taibai, who had slaughtered every Immortal under heaven. Staring at Bai Feiyu, he demanded sharply, "You're not him! Who exactly are you?!"
Bai Feiyu considered for a moment, then raised his free hand. A green lotus abruptly appeared in his palm.
Although he had not cultivated Green Lotus Sword Intent again in this life, it had long since been engraved into his body. Casually summoning a wisp of it was still no problem.
Holding the green lotus in one hand and the Artifact Ancestor aloft in the other, Bai Feiyu sighed softly. "May I ask the Immortals above-which of you dares come to the Mortal World?"
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