The pale golden radiance continuously intensified, forcing the blood-colored dense mist around it to scatter and churn. After the time it took to eat a meal, the radiance evidently reached its limit. It flashed fiercely, then rapidly contracted, revealing the humanoid figure within the pale golden glow. At this moment, the figure was no longer as withered as before. Its limbs and torso were full and solid, no different from an ordinary person.
Only, a hazy glow still obscured the figure's head, making its true features impossible to see clearly. Immediately afterward, the figure rose to its full height and threw back its head in a long laugh. "Hahaha... countless years of toil, always ending with all previous efforts wasted. No matter how I racked my brains, I never imagined that... at the end of the road, when mountains and rivers were exhausted, there would actually be a turn for the better! Li Zongbao, Li Zongbao... did you ever think this old man would have a day like this?"
"Hehe... this old man? Damn it, why do I keep calling myself that? Am I that old?" The figure then laughed to himself again. "I am a dashing young man, suave and unrestrained. How could I possibly be some old man? That Qing Fengmin fellow may have had a face like a full moon, but he was red-faced and thick-browed. How could female cultivators possibly like him?"
"Hmph, speaking of Qing Fengmin makes me furious. A mere Rogue Cultivator at the Qi Cultivation fifth layer actually wanted to possess this young master? This young master merely took a deep sleep in a cave at Huanghua Ridge, only to be woken by that bastard! But fine—his price for waking me was becoming this young master's meal!"
As the humanoid figure spoke, the