Accompanying You (Seven)

Yan Tantuo and his fellow members of the Devil Race were born with powerful bodies. After setting foot on the path of immortality, the tempering of spiritual energy had made them harder than steel.

Yet the white-clad girl's body was even tougher than his. She must have cultivated some exceptionally powerful body-refining technique.

At that moment, Yan Tantuo wished her body were not so formidable. Then he could have captured her quickly.

After they had remained locked in a stalemate for most of the night, Yan Tantuo could only stare helplessly as she vanished from the reach of his Divine Sense. His face turned livid with rage.

He had capsized in a roadside ditch. If he had gone all out from the start, how could she have had the chance to bring out that emerald-green gourd?

Not only had he failed to capture her, he had lost face. A dignified mid-stage Golden Core Realm cultivator had lost track of a cultivator with a false core.

That small Lineage would not dare say anything openly, but its members would surely laugh behind his back and call him a fraud trading on an empty reputation.

Once he returned to the sect, the other elders and guest cultivators would mock him in secret too.

But after he finally calmed down, he realized the matter was far from simple.

"Those Gu insects were rare, some of them species I'd never even seen. And her flying treasure is at least third-tier or higher. She also has a powerful body-refining secret art that even I envy..."

Any one of those things would make a great sect green with envy. The sect where Yan Tantuo currently sheltered could not begin to compare.

As he weighed all these factors, the light in Yan Tantuo's eyes flickered ever more