"Sweet rain... are you waiting for me here?"
Across the street from the Ultimate Happiness Stage, Tao Qian, mingling with a group of low-level cultivators from the All Techniques Sect who practiced Corpse Refining, turned deathly pale after laying eyes on that great beauty.
It wasn't that he had a hidden sickness; he hadn't expected his normally reliable gut feeling, which had always served him well, to betray him this time.
Not long ago, at the Medicine King Temple Market, Tao Qian had, in an attempt to show off and also to smoothly lay some foreshadowing, used the Spirit Treasure Enchantment Secret Technique to summon a divine soul projection of Yuan Gong into his body, successfully overpowering Liu Hongsheng, a Demon City Giant Merchant disguised as a Swallowing Gold Rat demon, with a brutal application of "Demon Suppressing Sword Intent."
Regrettably, as exhilarating as showing off was, it had its price.
