"Azure Abyss Marquis, by noble rank, I am a First-Class Marquis; by official title, I, the Mirror Lord, am a Second-Rank Immortal Official. Under the institutions of the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty, why do you not salute your superior first?"
The Southeastern Circuit Mirror Lord's voice was not loud, yet it swept across the surroundings like a scraping blade.
He hovered with his hands behind his back, his crimson immortal robes glaringly bright. His entire being resembled an unsheathed heavenly saber, its sharp edge fully exposed.
Qing Chen narrowed his eyes, a vicious blood-red gleam flashing through them.
Salute? Had he heard that right?
Someone actually wanted him to salute?
The blood qi around him churned even more violently, and even the thousand-foot blood seal suspended in the Devil Aspect's hand trembled.
"Mirror Lord Yan-"
Qing Chen spoke, his voice icy. "I am currently controlling this mudra art to kill an enemy, but I am not entirely practiced at controlling it. If I am not careful, this spell might go out of control."
He placed particular emphasis on "not careful."
Mirror Lord Yan?
The Southeastern Circuit Mirror Lord's surname was Yan, and his given name was Tong.
With his cultivation at the nascent soul peak, he had spent eight hundred years fighting his way through the Southeastern Circuit's Profound Mirror Sky-Hunting Bureau. No fewer than five True Lord-level cultivators or demon beasts had died at his hands, earning him a fearsome reputation.
Yan Tong's face darkened.
He had lived for over twelve hundred years, and no one had ever dared speak to him like this!
"An enemy?"
Yan Tong stared coldly at Qing Chen, his voice abruptly rising. "Aside from me, the only person here is the Southern Heavenly City City Lord, Nangong Lie, a Fifth Rank Deputy General of