"Huh? Who's that silly kid fishing over there?"
After chatting with Hou Shen Ming and Chen Three Treasures for a while, Shi Hao finally noticed someone sitting cross-legged in the void nearby, motionless and solemn as a sacred statue. He certainly had the air of a seasoned angler, and Shi Hao asked in puzzlement.
"That man is no ordinary person. He's the successor of the strongest Immortal King alive today."
Hou Shen Ming's tone grew more serious.
"Don't even think about going after him. He has a secret treasure bestowed by an Immortal King to protect him. Even though his cultivation is only at the perfected Escape One Realm, the three of us couldn't kill him together. We'd also alert the Immortal guarding him from behind the scenes."
Chen Three Treasures immediately offered a warning.
Shi Hao sighed softly. He could sense an invincible aura about this man, who would surely become a formidable enemy in the future. If Xiao Tian were willing to act, he could certainly kill him.
But his spendthrift big brother was getting awfully full of himself these days, and might not be willing to lay a hand on such a youngster. Shi Hao suspected he had already broken through to the Supreme level.
After all, with his habit of never releasing the hawk until he saw the hare, why would he have returned from more than two years of secluded cultivation unless he had succeeded?
So while this fellow before them might be a formidable enemy to Shi Hao, Xiao Tian could finish him off with a single breath.
Xiao Tian had indeed spotted the youngster. He remembered that in the original story, Ten-Crown King and Exiled Immortal had protected themselves with a World Tree sapling and a Heavenly Horned Ant horn respectively, going all