The young waiter was sweeping the floor with a broom, kicking up clouds of dust.
A guest casually tossed sunflower seed shells onto the ground.
The waiter, evidently accustomed to being overbearing, placed his hands on his hips and glared.
"I was wondering why I have to sweep seven or eight times a day! It's people like you who make me live a life where my wages don't match my labor!"
The waiter hurled abuse at the guest, and while cursing, he casually snatched up a rolling pin and marched forward.
Huan Gui frowned. She rarely visited the mortal realm and found it all simply too noisy.
But right at that moment, Huan Gui turned her head slightly, staring past the inn toward a towering mountain visible several miles away in the distance.
She narrowed her eyes and snorted coldly.
"You managed to track me down even like this? A mere Peak Divinity Transformation cultivator dares to come here seeking death? The audacity!"
Within her perception, on a high mountain a dozen miles outside the town, a woman with a ponytail dressed in martial attire bent her Pink bow, nocked an arrow, and fired!
Suddenly.
Huan Gui's expression shifted once more. She looked toward the counter, where the aura of the red-robed old man surged violently, actually releasing a burst of Demon Qi.
"Void-Breaking Root!"
Sharp spikes thrust out from the very air, striking toward Huan Gui.
"You have some nerve, too..."
Huan Gui was beside herself with rage. This Tree Demon was also at the Divinity Transformation Realm. As the saying goes, "a starved camel is still bigger than a horse."
Forget that she was merely heavily injured—even if she were down to her last breath, she was not someone a mere Divinity Transformation cultivator could...
"Nascent Soul?!!"
Amidst her thoughts, Huan Gui blinked blankly, her vision gradually spinning as the heavens turned and the earth rotated.
In that instant, the entire world plunged into a pallid whiteness. She seemed to behold a pair of pure white eyes—eyes of incomparable nobility, wielding the authority to control the Spiritual power of heaven and earth, to grant life, inflict death, and strip away all power.
As those eyes fixed upon her, the Spiritual power within her body returned to the heavens and the earth, and her physical flesh reverted to its origin!
It all happened too fast, leaving Huan Gui to murmur in disbelief, "Impossible."
That young waiter had actually used the two distractions to slowly close in on her. An aura of the Nascent Soul realm erupted in an instant.
Huan Gui didn't even have time to turn her head; in a split second, she felt herself stripped of all Spiritual power and consciousness, her mind growing heavy and dim.
Bang!
Dust and smoke billowed up. Li Changsheng, clad in the attire of a waiter, held a rolling pin in his right hand. With a beaming smile, he stared down at Huan Gui, who lay unconscious face-down on the ground, and at Taotie, whose aura was chaotic and unstable.
Before long, Li Changyao and Old Tree arrived as well.
The two of them glanced at the cultivator at the very limit of the Void Refining Realm lying on the ground, then looked at Li Changsheng, who was tapping the rolling pin against his palm. They couldn't help but swallow hard.
"A cultivator at the limit of the Void Refining Realm—perhaps even at the Half-Step Integration Realm—knocked unconscious by a Nascent Soul cultivator with a rolling pin... If word of this got out, who would dare believe it?"
The corners of Old Tree's mouth twitched. Although this wasn't the first time he had witnessed the power of Li Changsheng's eyes, it still made his heart tremble with fear.
And this was merely the result of Changsheng devouring the Human Emperor's Blood and mastering its complete power. Yet, he already possessed such transcendent abilities.
Old Tree could not even imagine just how powerful that old, undying Human Emperor in the Imperial Capital must have been at his peak.
"Brother, what do we do now?"
Li Changyao stared blankly at the two powerhouses on the ground.
But Li Changsheng did not reply. When Li Changyao looked at her older brother, she saw that his face was already pale and covered in cold sweat; the sweat had soaked through his uniform.
"..."
Her brother was trembling uncontrollably. He looked like he was trying to feign composure but couldn't hide his panic, and finally, he collapsed onto the ground on his backside.
"What do you mean, 'what do we do'?"
Li Changsheng gritted his teeth.
"Hurry up and get a rope! Tie me together with the two of them. Take out the Spirit Tool used for sealing demon beasts and trap the three of us inside.
Grandpa Old Tree, swallow us into your belly in a moment. Whatever you do, don't let me be separated from them."
"The elders really are too much. How could they just let these two go?"
Li Changyao knitted her moth-like brows.
"But Big Brother, we can't kill them—they took great care of Great-Uncle Tianyi. Yet we can't keep them either; their killing karma is too heavy. I fear that if we're not careful, an Integration Realm expert will come knocking. And even if we kept them in our Azure Cloud Prefecture, it would give others a handle to use against us."
"It's simply that Great-Uncle Tianyi and the elders didn't have a chance to reason with them. Once they've cooled down, I will have a little chat with them!"
Old Tree and Li Changyao exchanged a glance. Immediately, they used the rope to bind the three of them together and applied the seal.
Old Tree transformed into his true form and swallowed the three of them whole.