Old Man Mi knew he couldn't hide it any longer, and he sighed, "If I hand it over, how will I survive? Do you think I'm a three-year-old child?"
Wei Dan narrowed his eyes slightly and took a step forward: "Little Yingzi, it seems you want me to take action."
Old Man Mi snorted: "Are you so sure you can beat me?"
As he spoke, he straightened up, his body no longer hunched over as usual; instead, his thin frame made him appear quite tall.
Zu An's heart skipped a beat, knowing that the two were about to make their move. Old Man Mi had always been unfathomable to him, and Wei Dan was also extremely powerful. If he hadn't burned down Wei Dan's house last time, even though Pei Mianman was well prepared, she would still have almost been defeated by him.
I wonder who would win if these two fought.
Sensing Old Man Mi's imposing aura, Wei Dan laughed heartily: "Little Yingzi, back in the day, among all the eunuchs in the palace, I ranked first in cultivation, and you ranked second. I didn't expect that after so many years, your confidence would also rise."
Old Man Mi replied calmly, "As the saying goes, 'A scholar should be looked at with new eyes after three days of separation.' Cultivators are supposed to be fearless. How can we know who wins and who loses if we don't actually fight?"
Wei Dan nodded: "Not bad, not bad. Your temperament has improved a lot since then. No wonder you were able to so easily wipe out the two people who were causing trouble in the Chu family. One of them was a seventh-rank and the other a sixth-rank. Their cultivation levels were not low either."
Old Man Mi's pupils contracted: "You saw it all."
Wei Dan smiled slightly: "Didn't I tell you before that I've been investigating the people around Zu An? After investigating the academy, it's naturally the Chu family's turn. Originally, with so many people in the Chu family, it wouldn't be easy to find you, but I didn't expect you to take the initiative. If I still can't find you, wouldn't I have lived all these years in vain?"
He paused, somewhat puzzled, and said, "To be honest, I'm a little confused. Why would you risk being exposed to personally intervene in what happened to the Chu family? Does that guy named Zu'an hold such a high place in your heart that you'd even disregard your own safety for him?"
Zu An, standing some distance away, had a strange expression on his face. This was what puzzled him the most. To be fair, Old Man Mi had been quite kind to him at times, offering him divine martial arts manuals and teaching him movement techniques. Yet, from time to time, he could sense a chilling glint in Old Man Mi's eyes, and all signs indicated that Old Man Mi had ulterior motives for helping him.
But what's the point?
With his limited cultivation and family background, there was nothing he could possibly want. As for the "Primordial Chaos Scripture," he obtained it later with his help, so it certainly had no relation to him.
He certainly doesn't know about keyboard systems. Putting that aside, could this guy be after my beauty?
Thinking of this, Zu'an couldn't help but feel a tightness in his anus.
Old Man Mi replied, “When people get old, they always need something to look forward to. You know that people like us are destined to have no descendants. You still have relatives and adopted sons, but I have nothing.”
"Oh, so you want to adopt him as your son to carry on the family line." Wei Dan no longer doubted it. Eunuchs like them all liked to find adopted sons. He himself had taken in many adopted sons, while Old Man Mi had none. It was normal for him to have this idea in his old age. "It's a pity. We used to be good friends who drank together. I never thought we would have to fight to the death now."
Old Man Mi sighed, "Yes, of the group that entered the palace together back then, you and I were the closest. Now, only the two of us are left..."
He was speaking when he suddenly moved, his figure appearing like a ghost to Wei Dan's side. He pointed a finger at Wei Dan's ribs, and a delicate sunflower even appeared on his fingertip.
Zuan, watching from afar, was deeply shocked. He recognized that the opponent's movement technique at that moment was "Sunflower Illusion." He himself considered himself to be quite fast when using Sunflower Illusion, but compared to the opponent's, it was like comparing a tractor to a Ferrari.
Hong Zhong and Chu Tiesheng died from this finger strike before. At that time, Old Man Mi stood still the whole time, but now he is using it at full speed. You can imagine how many times more powerful this finger strike is than before, and how strong the enemy in front of him is.
However, despite Old Man Mi's speed, Wei Dan seemed to have anticipated it, raising his left hand in an incredibly mysterious swaying curve to directly meet the deadly finger.
"Boom!"
A shockwave emanated from the spot where the two clashed, snapping all the trees within several feet and even blowing the stones on the ground far away.
Seeing a huge rock even crash down at his feet, Zu An was dumbfounded. The scale of the battle between the two was far too large, completely beyond the imagination of ordinary cultivators.
I've heard that high-level cultivators can draw upon the power of heaven and earth, and now it seems that's indeed true.
As the smoke cleared, the two men faced each other several feet apart. Old Man Mi frowned and did not continue his attack, clearly because the other man's reaction had taken him by surprise.
Wei Dan took out a handkerchief, covered his mouth, coughed a few times, and then chuckled: "Little Yingzi, so many years have passed, I didn't expect you to still be so cunning. I almost fell for your trick just now."
Old Man Mi snorted: "When it comes to cunning, who can compare to you? You clearly anticipated this, but you pretended to be careless and lured me to attack you. If I hadn't retreated quickly when I saw the situation was not right, I would probably have been taken advantage of by you."
Zuan blinked. Judging from their words, it seemed that they had exchanged many moves just now.
But why did I only see the fist and fingers touching?
Wei Dan laughed: "An official once said it well: to be an honest official, one must be more cunning than a corrupt official. For a treacherous person like you, it is natural to use some tricks."
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