He instantly felt sweat pouring down his back.
Fortunately, he had not angered this cultivator just now, or he might have ended up just like this spirit leopard.
"Fellow Daoist, you really... hid your strength well."
Lin Ke turned his palm over, and two thumb-sized spirit leopard nascent souls appeared in his hand.
They were precisely what the insect swarm had brought back into his body.
The moment they saw Lin Ke and the other man, they began roaring ferociously.
Yet they could do neither of them any harm.
"Fellow Daoist, please accept these two nascent souls as a greeting gift."
"My name is Lin Ke. And you are?"
"My name is Nan Shang."
Lin Ke was startled too, because as Nan Shang spoke, he took off his mask.
His eyes were lively as water, neither quite radiant nor quite bewitching, yet carrying a faint gentleness and a delicate, pitiable quality.
There was something natural and tranquil about his features, something well-behaved and sensible, like a top female student taking off her glasses back in school.
A string of gleaming silver ornaments dangled from his ears, a distinctive product of the Miao Frontier that made him look a little more lively.
There was no mistaking it. This was precisely the Nan Shang he had met before.
He was one of the Jade Great Radiance Church Prodigies, and they had met a few times before.
Why? He seemed to have become a different person.
Lin Ke asked tentatively, "You don't remember me?"
Nan Shang studied Lin Ke carefully. "Isn't this our first meeting?"
"I grew up in the Illusionless Gu Sect in the Shu Frontier from childhood. I've never met a cultivator from the Cloud Frontier, so how could I know you?"
Lin Ke looked at the Miao Frontier silver ornaments