Juanyi immediately pouted, an expression that stood in stark contrast to her prestige as a city lord feared by thousands. To the world, she was a cold woman of iron; but before Alex, she reverted to the spoiled little disciple of ten thousand years ago."But Master!" Juanyi whined, stomping her foot onto the crystal floor with enough force to cause a faint crack. "What is the point of having this power and territory if I cannot even protect my own Master? Besides, the Eccentric of the Withered Flower is incredibly difficult to handle! He doesn't use ordinary Qi; he uses emotional poison. I will not let you go alone while your cultivation has yet to recover!"Alex let out a long sigh, massaging the bridge of his nose. "Juanyi, listen to me. If the City Lord of Juanyi suddenly vanishes or is spotted in the southern territories, the hounds of the Xiao clan will immediately smell that something is wrong. You are my best information shield here. Stay at your post.""I don't care about the

*Along the main route toward the border of the Southern region, news of the severed hands of the Shuan Clan patrol members had spread like wildfire via communication talismans. However, instead of a mass encirclement, the roads Alex traveled suddenly became completely deserted.On a rocky hill overlooking the path, three old men in deep purple robes—the Outer Elders of the Shuan Clan—stood frozen like statues.They were eyewitnesses who had seen Alex pass by as nothing more than a streak of golden light slicing through the air."Is... is that the youth they spoke of?" the Seventh Elder whispered, his hand trembling as he held his communication talisman."Don't move!" the Fifth Elder intercepted, his face deathly pale. "Can't you feel the residual air pressure on the path he just crossed? That is the leftover energy of the Earth Deity realm! If we block his path, it won't just be our hands that are lost—our entire lineage will be erased from the face of the earth!"The three Elders c

Hearing the conditions proposed by Alex, the beautiful woman from the Yu Clan and the burly man from the Hu Clan exchanged glances. Through that single look, a sinister plan and a secret agreement were forged in an instant. In their eyes, Alex was merely a lucky youth who happened to possess an extraordinary inheritance. Moreover, the energy fluctuations they sensed from him at this moment only indicated the cultivation realm of an early-stage Demi-God. To two great clans with deep foundations, led by experts who had long stood at the peak of that realm, an early-stage Demi-God posed absolutely no threat. "He will never escape our grasp," the Hu Clan man thought, a smirk nearly breaking across his face. "Even if he's lying... we can still hunt him down and kill him as compensation..." The Yu Clan woman fluttered her green fan once more, her laughter crisp yet dripping with venomous malice. "Senior is indeed a wise man who knows how to respect the rules of the Three Pillars City,

"Mei? The one in this picture is clearly Auriel..." Alex murmured. His voice was low, but the tremor of energy erupting from his body caused the air around the bulletin board to instantly freeze. "Master? What is it? Do you recognize the woman in the painting?" Juanyi asked, noticing the drastic shift in Alex's soul atmosphere. "I don't just recognize her, Juanyi," Alex replied, his eyes staring intently at the painting as if trying to pierce through the paper. "She is my wife. The woman I have been searching for all this time—Auriel." "What?!" Juanyi gasped in shock within the Soul World. "Master's wife? But... how could she be here, and why is she about to be married to that old geezer who goes by the title of the Eternal Bachelor Ancestor?!" Alex did not answer. Instead of wasting time at the teahouse, he immediately spun around. His gaze was fixed straight on the giant peak of the Eternal Flower Mountain, which loomed high behind the mist. The relaxed and playful aura he h

The booming laughter of the Eternal Bachelor Ancestor gradually faded, drowning behind the tightly closed, majestic jade doors of the palace hall. The old geezer walked inside, draping an arm around Auriel’s stiff shoulders, leaving Alex standing frozen and alone in the middle of the vast, silent courtyard. Silence. Yet, the stillness surrounding Alex at this moment was far more terrifying than the most violent thunderstorm. Craaack! The marble floor beneath Alex’s feet shattered into a thousand pieces, crumbling not from a burst of energy, but under the sheer weight of the suppressed emotions he was holding back. Even Alex’s eyes flashed a blood-red crimson. A burning vendetta instantly planted itself deep within his heart, taking firm root alongside the humiliation he had just been forced to swallow whole. "Eternal Bachelor Ancestor... enjoy your final night of arrogance," Alex hissed, his voice sounding as if it were crawling out from the lowest depths of hell. "Tomorrow, th