"You... who are you?" The old man seemed utterly unfamiliar with this voice and asked in a trembling tone. Then, without the slightest hesitation, he slapped his hand, and a fist-sized emerald spider appeared in his palm.
"Puff..." The old man opened his mouth, and a stream of watery blue radiance fell upon the spider. The spider abruptly swelled, transforming into a size of several zhang. As the spider transformed, radiance also emerged around the old man's body. When he landed upon the spider's back, wisps of water vapor flew from the spider like fountains, shooting high into the air and falling upon the mountain ridges surrounding the ravine.
"Swish..." Softly, like the sound of water, watery blue radiance spread flat from where the vapor landed, extending outward in every direction. In but a moment, the spaces between the four mountain peaks, shaped like weighing weights, were shrouded in this watery blue radiance. From afar, the waterlight resembled a spiderweb, while the several-zhang spider beneath the old man was its master.
"Gaga... Little Fan Tian, you are still as cowardly as ever, exactly as others said." There was no unusual trace where the voice came from. Even when the old man extended his divine sense hundreds of li, he could see nothing, yet the arrogant voice sounded as though it were right beside him.
The Dao-robed old man's expression turned ugly. He called out coldly, "Which immortal friend has come to visit my Si Ping Mountain? Since you have come, do not act so furtively. Otherwise, do not blame this old man for showing you no courtesy!"
"Hahaha, when this old man comes, do I need you to show me courtesy?" The voice burst into laughter, shaking the watery blue radiance into ripples.
"Rise..." The old man sneered and waved