Only after a long while did the Azure Abyss Dao Master recover from his shock.
He forcibly suppressed the turmoil in his heart, flew forward, and asked cautiously:
"M-Mr. Ye, how are you feeling now?"
He had unleashed Transcendence sword qi outright, then slain a powerful foe with such brutal physical strength.
To Cangyuan, the toll on Ye Li had to be unimaginable.
"Pretty good."
Ye Li stretched, his aura as steady as before.
This string of battles had hardly posed a challenge.
Of course, that had everything to do with the power of that strand of Transcendence sword qi.
Fortunately, he had recorded two pages of the scroll back then. If any other Dao Master came looking for trouble, a single slash would take care of them.
He then turned his head, his gaze settling on Cangyuan. Changing the subject, he asked about the earlier incident:
"Tell me."
"What exactly happened between you and Wutong Mountain?"
He was willing to help, but he needed to understand the whole story first.
"...There is something you do not know, sir."
When Ye Li brought it up himself, bitterness crossed the Azure Abyss Dao Master's face. He held nothing back and told him the truth:
"My wife was not only virtuous and talented, but also possessed a special constitution rarely seen in this world."
"That was precisely why the young master of Wutong Mountain set his sights on her at first glance while traveling through the lower realms. With a Transcendence faction backing him, he sought to take her by force."
"Though I had attained the Dao Fruit realm, I could not fight them all alone..."
Cangyuan clenched both fists tightly, his words steeped in hatred:
"All these years, I have worked day and night to improve my cultivation and scoured the