"An acquaintance has arrived. I'll go take a look," Joe Di stood up.
Shana Shan hurriedly followed behind Joe Di. For as long as she could remember, this was the first time she had ever felt so at ease.
"Is it really you? How is that possible..." Zoe Shen recognized Joe Di the moment she saw him.
Joe Di smiled, "It's been a long time."
Whether or not his past life had feelings for Zoe Shen, Joe Di had never felt anything for her from beginning to end.
"No wonder you could kill that Rouge Tiger back then. So you were already at the Half-Dan Stage..." Zoe Shen suddenly tasted bitterness at the corner of her mouth. The reason she hadn't wanted to be with Joe Di back then wasn't because she had someone else in her heart. It was because Joe Di was simply too far beneath her.
Otherwise, with Joe Di's infatuation for her—even risking his life to find her life-saving herbs—she might have agreed to marry him.
"Fellow Daoist Shen, do you know him? Is he the junior of your friend?" Maximus Shan suddenly sensed something was off. Joe Di looked so young, and Zoe Shen was a Half-Dan expert. How could she possibly know Joe Di?
Zoe Shen was suddenly struck by a realization: Joe Di was exactly the same as before, his appearance unchanged, while she herself had aged.
This can't be right. Even if Joe Di is a Half-Dan expert, his appearance shouldn't be unchanged.
Di Jiu suddenly understood and nodded, saying, "So you are a descendant of Echo Young. How is Echo Young these days?"
Simon Qi quickly replied, "I will report this matter to you later, Master..."
After saying this, Simon Qi suddenly turned to Dan Muxin, "You with the surname Dan, how dare you bully the ancestor of my Qi Family! Are you Dan Family courting death?"
As he spoke, Simon Qi lunged directly at Dan Muxin without the slightest hesitation.
Dan Muxin's expression darkened, and he threw a punch without hesitation.
Bang! Simon Qi was struck on the arm by Dan Muxin's punch and sent flying, landing hard on the ground.
Di Jiu did not intervene. He could see that Simon Qi was only at the ninth level of Essence Training and hadn't even reached Foundation Establishment. He was clearly no match for Dan Muxin.
"Your Qi Family may be mysterious, but I don't take you seriously." Dan Muxin said, stepping forward and reaching for Simon Qi again.
Di Jiu sighed. The things he taught Echo Young back then, not much had been passed down. In fact, even though Simon Qi was now at the ninth level of Essence Training, if he could skillfully use some techniques, Dan Muxin might not be his match.
As a cultivator, going toe-to-toe with a martial artist—aren't you just asking for trouble?
"Wait..." Shen Ziyu hurried forward to stop Dan Muxin.
Dan Muxin's face was extremely grim. He had just stepped into the Half-Dan Stage and had invited two experts to help him. Unexpectedly, before the fight even began, both of them were now opposing him.
"Fellow Daoist Shen, I respect you as a peer and a master, but my Dan Family is not afraid of you. Back then, it wasn't just you who went to study at Celestia; my Dan Family also sent someone." Dan Muxin's words grew heated.
"Step aside. This isn't Dan Muxin coming after me; I'm here for Dan Muxin. He hunted my wife and captured my friends. There's no way I can let this go." As Di Jiu spoke, he didn't even move, but a Yuan Qi hand seal gripped Dan Muxin's throat and lifted him into the air.
Even Shen Ziyu was stunned. Though Dan Muxin's strength was inferior to hers, he had clearly stepped into the Half-Dan Stage. Yet a Half-Dan expert was suspended in midair, his throat pinched by a Yuan Qi hand seal—what kind of power was this?
Di Jiu was definitely not at the Half-Dan Stage, not even back then. Shen Ziyu finally realized this.
Back then, she thought the gap between her and Di Jiu was too wide, and she wasn't wrong. But it wasn't that Di Jiu was too far from her—it was that she was too far from Di Jiu.
Suddenly, Shen Ziyu recalled Di Jiu's words—his wife?
Her gaze fell on Dan Xiuqi. What a beautiful girl—even in her prime, Shen Ziyu couldn't compare.
The thought that Dan Xiuqi was Di Jiu's wife made Shen Ziyu suddenly lower her head. Di Jiu used a Yuan Qi hand seal to suspend Dan Muxin in the air, but the shock from earlier seemed to have faded.
"Senior..." Dan Muxin managed to utter the word with difficulty, all hatred in his heart already extinguished by fear.
The reason was that Di Jiu's methods had already surpassed the level of a martial artist. He was certain that Di Jiu was the legendary true cultivator.
He knew there were cultivators on Earth, but generally, cultivators were not as formidable as martial artists; it was just a gimmick. So he had never paid them any mind.
But Di Jiu's strength far surpassed any martial artist—he was undoubtedly a true cultivator.
With such power, destroying the Dan Family would be as easy as turning his hand.
If not for the matter of Yvette Fei, Di Jiu might have been too lazy to kill Dan Muxin. Yvette Fei had merely brought him to Daicheng City and was almost killed by the Dan Family. He hadn't been involved with Xiuqi before, yet she was implicated as well. Clearly, this family was used to such things.
It was certain that if he let Dan Muxin go today, once he left Earth and disappeared, Yvette Fei would still be killed by the Dan Family.
Di Jiu had killed countless people in the Immortal Realm and the cultivation world—how could he go soft because of someone like Dan Muxin?
His true essence hand seal squeezed without hesitation. Even though Dan Muxin was at the Half-Dan Stage, he was instantly reduced to a cloud of blood mist.
Di Jiu caught a drop of blood, locking it in place with several seals, then cast a death seal upon it.