"Who's there? Stop skulking around and get out here!" Lin Yinping abruptly turned and shouted. With a flick of her hand, she sent the enormous ring-shaped ancient treasure hurtling out, blazing with dazzling yellow light as it struck fiercely at an empty spot.
The yin qi controlled by the Enchanting Beauty churned and stretched backward as well. Clearly, the sudden voice had startled her too.
The next instant, golden light flashed where the ring struck, and a golden giant sword several dozen feet long appeared out of thin air, sweeping lightly upward against the ring.
Clang! With a deafening crash, the ring let out a mournful cry and flew backward.
A figure suddenly emerged there, then evaded the pursuing yin qi in a flash of golden light.
"Ah, my treasure..." Before the ring even returned, Lin Yinping sensed a notch in it and cried out in distress.
"You're a grand cultivator..." Once she discerned the newcomer's cultivation, the Enchanting Beauty within the yin qi gaped in shock.
"What? A grand cultivator!" Lin Yinping realized it as well.
The figure who had suddenly appeared wore black, and his face was identical to that of the man they had threatened earlier.
Not only that, even the aura he exuded was almost the same. Yet this newcomer possessed late Nascent Soul cultivation. He was none other than Xiao Yu, who had followed them and stealthily concealed himself here.
This makes things tricky! The same thought arose in both women's minds.
"With this display, you two hardly look as though you came to trade. This is outright robbery. Is this how everyone from the grasslands behaves?" Xiao Yu regarded Lin Yinping and the black mist with an icy expression.
"When did you arrive here, fellow Daoist?" The Enchanting Beauty's voice came from the dark