Lu Hai Changling.
The Kong Family's Rear Mountain, in a cave abode at the summit.
Two figures sat facing each other in an elegant stone pavilion.
The atmosphere between them, however, was rather delicate.
The gaunt figure in the pavilion's seat of honor was none other than the Kong Family's Heaven-Holding Old Ancestor, Kong Chunqiu.
Yet his demeanor was utterly unlike his usual air of aloof authority.
He leaned slightly forward, his words and gestures showing an indescribable politeness, even... a hint of unease!
Such a posture was certainly a rare sight for a mighty Heaven-Grasping cultivator like Kong Chunqiu.
But he had little choice.
The woman sitting opposite him was someone he dared not slight in the least.
"Excellent tea."
The speaker was a slender woman dressed in white robes.
Her features were cool and remote, her bearing otherworldly, yet her faintly upturned red lips lent her an ineffable worldly allure.
That mingling of coldness and seduction was truly striking, tempting one to tear away her icy facade and ravish her at will, just to hear what sounds might escape her lips.
But even more remarkable than her stunning beauty...
Was her illustrious identity.
Xiao Yueyi, the Yin-Yang Sect's youngest Heaven-Grasping Mystic Master!
[The Yin-Yang Sect]
It was a true colossus standing at the pinnacle of the Cold Sea Continent, an existence even local powers like the Kong and Wang Families could only look up to!
Though both were in the Heaven-Grasping realm...
Kong Chunqiu knew that a gulf as vast as heaven and earth separated him from Mystic Master Xiao.
She had the entire Yin-Yang Sect behind her.
He was merely a petty local ruler in this little Lu Hai Changling.
"I'm glad it's to your liking, Mystic Master Xiao."
An amiable smile filled Kong Chunqiu's face as