The screams of the two men behind him abruptly ceased!

Despite the blood gushing from their limbs and their bodies trembling, they remained silent, not uttering a single word!

The young man, however, leapt up with a knife and ran towards the third floor.

Li Guanqi didn’t know what the other party was after, but he turned around and crouched beside the leader of the group.

Seeing Li Guanqi approach, the man shuddered and unexpectedly released a pool of yellow liquid.

Li Guanqi frowned slightly, “Brother, you seem a bit overheated lately.”

“Don’t be nervous, I just want to ask you something… What power do you belong to?”

The man’s eyes were filled with tears, and even with a piece of flesh hanging from his lips, he dared not make a sound.

Hearing Li Guanqi’s question, he shook his head desperately.

The guests on the second floor had very interesting expressions, considering that Li Guanqi had just killed someone who was about to declare their allegiance.

Now he was asking someone else about their power; the man on the ground would be strange not to fear death.

Li Guanqi stood up and with a backhanded stroke of his sword, he finished off the two men, blood splattering three feet around.

At this moment, some commotion was also happening on the third floor.

The old madam, seeing the dead, sat on the ground as if she had lost her soul, repeatedly muttering, “It’s over… all over…”

However, just then, the young man with the knife slowly walked down.

His eyes carried an endless disappointment.

As he bowed his head, a sense of authority that belonged to those of higher status appeared on his face.

The young man first came to Li Guanqi, bowed, and said, “Thank you, Immortal Master, for your intervention.”

“I am Li Shen, the son of General Li Ren of the Xuantian Dynasty.”

Hiss!!

As soon as these words were spoken, the entire tavern fell into a dead silence!

The old madam, grasping at straws, tried to reach for Li Shen.

But she was stopped by just a look from him.

One must know that Wangyue City wasn’t even considered the capital of the Xuantian Dynasty, and General Li Ren was the undefeated war general of the entire dynasty!

For many years, he had conquered city after city for the dynasty, the greatest contributor to its expansion and territory.

And his only son, Li Shen, had been following his father into battle since he was young.

Li Guanqi’s brow furrowed, and he murmured to himself, “Xuantian Dynasty? Isn’t that the task I’ve taken on?”

Seeing his frown, Li Shen quickly said, “Immortal Master, don’t worry about the matters here, I will naturally send someone to handle them.”

“It’s just that I’ve disturbed your refined enjoyment, which I truly regret.”

“May I invite the Immortal Master to move to another location, and listen to the qin over wine?”

Li Guanqi curled his lip and said, “Maybe next time, I’m not in the mood now, and I have things to do tomorrow.”

“But don’t take it as a mere courtesy; I really will come back to your royal city in a few days.”

Li Shen smiled slightly and took out a jade pendant engraved with the characters ‘Shen Zhi’ from his waist and handed it to Li Guanqi.

“As long as you are within the territory of the Xuantian Dynasty, you can show this jade pendant to any official or soldier, and they can relay a message to me!”

“Even if needed, you can command up to three thousand soldiers within a city for your use.”

Li Guanqi took the jade pendant and laughed, “As long as I can find you, that’s enough; I won’t need to command troops, I don’t lead wars.”

Then Li Guanqi turned and walked out of the tavern, tossing the jade pendant in his hand and murmuring, “Listening to music in the brothel isn’t bad, but this time there were some unsightly fellows around.”

“But… Li Shen… Is it a coincidence? Or is it… Heh.”

Li Guanqi casually found an inn to stay in, and after settling in, he took out a white jade cushion and placed it on the ground, then took out two spirit stones and held them in his palms as he entered a state of cultivation.

Ever since he entered the Qi Refining stage, Li Guanqi hardly ever slept, spending most of his time in cultivation.

It was precisely because of this that his cultivation speed was very fast, but the thirteenth level of Qi Refining was extremely difficult to break through.

The impurities in his body were already very few, making it very difficult to expel them through breakthroughs.

However, Li Guanqi felt that the bottleneck was loosening recently and believed it wouldn’t be long before he could break through.

The next morning, Li Guanqi bought some breakfast pastries from a street vendor.

He specifically found the stall that made the best buns in the city and bought a steamer full of them.

The scenery along the way made Li Guanqi sigh; the world was vast, and he had traveled too little.

Mountains, rivers, lakes, and seas were all within sight beneath his feet.

Three hours later, Li Guanqi had run nearly four to five hundred miles.

Finally, he arrived at a place surrounded by mountains on the map.

Without much thought, seeing that the sun would set in another two hours, Li Guanqi headed towards the mountains.

Just as he started walking, a roar of a demonic beast suddenly reached his ears.

Li Guanqi’s feet surged with power, and from a distance, he saw a huge Wind-Riding Lizard with its gaping maw biting towards something below!

The Wind-Riding Lizard was on the verge of breaking through to the second tier, equivalent to the Foundation Establishment stage of a human cultivator.

Thud!

Even so, Li Guanqi was still about ten yards away from the little Taoist boy.

Li Guanqi abruptly stopped in his tracks, his sword box instantly slipping off his back.

With a twist of his waist, he fiercely flung the sword box!

Whoosh!

The sharp sound of cutting through the air rang out, and the sword box smashed onto the head of the Wind-Riding Lizard, smashing its mouth flat.

The creature, shaking its head, collapsed to the ground.

Li Guanqi drew his sword and leaped forward, dodging two claw attacks and with full Qi, he pierced his sword through its jaw!

Thump!

The little Taoist boy was petrified by fear, collapsing to the ground with a pale face.

Li Guanqi then took the lizard skin and beast core from the Wind-Riding Lizard.

Just as Li Guanqi picked up the sword box, he stiffened, then coughed awkwardly twice.

Turning around, he squatted in front of the little Taoist boy and waved his hand, asking, “Little Taoist, is this Longhou Ridge?”

The little Taoist boy finally regained his senses, nodded, and replied, “Yes, this is Longhou Ridge.”

“Thank you, layman, for saving me, or I would have…”

Li Guanqi lifted him by the collar and smiled, “That’s perfect, I’m here to find your Taoist temple.”

The little Taoist boy happily led Li Guanqi up the mountain.

Along the way, he took out a purple flower to show Li Guanqi.

“Layman, look, isn’t it beautiful?”

Li Guanqi turned to look and was surprised to find that the purple flower was the main ingredient for refining the Six Harmonies Pill, the Purple Spirit Flower.

A second-tier material, just this one flower could probably be exchanged for more than two hundred lower-grade spirit stones.

No wonder the Wind-Riding Lizard attacked him.

Li Guanqi smiled and said, “It’s beautiful, but next time you can’t go to such deserted places alone to find these glowing flowers, okay?”

“It’s too dangerous.”

Soon, Li Guanqi followed the little Taoist boy to the entrance of a Taoist temple.

The temple was not large, occupying only about a hundred meters in area, and an old man in a blue Taoist robe sat at the entrance, smoking a dry pipe.

The old man had white hair and a long beard, with eyebrows that extended past his nose, and a goatee, his cheeks slightly gaunt.

As soon as the old man saw Li Guanqi, a glint of sharpness flashed in his eyes.

“Young layman, what is your relationship with Li Nanting of the Great Xia Sword Sect?”

Li Guanqi straightened his clothes and respectfully replied, “Senior, Li Nanting is my master’s name; I am Li Guanqi.”

Ling Daoran nodded slightly, gestured to the little Taoist boy, and said, “Xiao An, didn’t I say this young one has good character?”

Buzz!!

The little Taoist boy, who had been quite frightened earlier, now had a rosy complexion.

He put away the Purple Spirit Flower with a sly expression and said, “He’s alright~ But he actually mistook me for a little boy! Hmph!”

Li Guanqi’s eyes widened in surprise, as the seemingly seven or eight-year-old Taoist boy was actually a girl.

And the aura she emitted was that of a genuine Foundation Establishment stage!

Looking up, he saw three big characters on the temple’s plaque.

“Changchun Temple.”

Ling Daoran put down his pipe and tapped it on a stone, then stood up and said softly, “Come in, young one. Since your master sent you, I naturally know your purpose.”

“But… that Spirit Spell can’t be rushed; come in first and we’ll talk.”