Just as Xiao Yu was silently pondering something, a soft, effeminate voice suddenly sounded in his ears:
"Fellow Daoist, I never imagined you would dare offend Extreme Yin Old Devil and still show no trace of fear. You have my admiration!"
Xiao Yu looked in the direction of the voice transmission and saw a handsome youth smile at him. Then the youth's smile vanished, leaving his face expressionless.
Xiao Yu turned back and transmitted his reply to the youth. "You flatter me, Fellow Daoist. I simply had no other choice. As for being unafraid of Extreme Yin, you are mistaken. I am merely a lowly Core Formation cultivator. How could I not be afraid of that old devil? I was only forcing myself to remain calm."
Naturally, Xiao Yu gave this unfamiliar youth a perfunctory answer without revealing anything.
Seeing that Xiao Yu would not take the bait, the youth transmitted again. "Fellow Daoist, would you be interested in working together to deal with Extreme Yin Old Devil?"
"Sorry, I am not in the habit of joining forces with strangers." Xiao Yu rejected him without a second thought, but could not help glancing at the youth again.
Could this be Profound Bone Old Devil, Xiao Cha? Why else would he suggest this? And judging by everyone's reactions in the hall earlier, he clearly wasn't a Nascent Soul cultivator. That would put him at middle or late Core Formation.
Putting these two points together, Xiao Yu reckoned that this man was almost certainly Profound Bone.
Profound Bone had been a notorious towering figure of the Demonic Path a thousand years ago. The mere mention of Profound Bone Old Devil's name would leave many people trembling.
However, his two disciples had eventually plotted against him, destroying his physical body and leaving only