Pan Yucheng and the others had sweat on their palms and their hearts up in their throats. They were badly afraid Liu Baiyi would kill Ning Chen.

Instead, Liu Baiyi slowly lowered the wooden sword.

Everyone let out a breath.

Liu Baiyi looked at him. "Get off Peach Blossom Mountain."

Ning Chen shrugged. "I'm afraid I'll have to disappoint the Elder. I came here to ask the Elder to come down off it."

Liu Baiyi made a cold sound. "Get out."

Ning Chen: "..."

He shook his head, helpless about it. "The Elder's temper is exactly what the old Heavenly Master said it was. A stone out of a latrine pit. Foul and hard.

With a temper as strange as that, the Elder can't have any friends."

The scalps of Pan Yucheng and the others crawled. Ning Chen was dancing back and forth in front of the King of Hell.

Liu Baiyi's face turned ugly. Ning Chen smiled all over his own. "What does the Elder make of me? Why don't the two of us be friends?"

"You're not fit for it."

The corner of Ning Chen's mouth twitched. "I give you face and this is what you do with it? I am the Great Xuan's Prince Who Holds the Realm. I stand below one man and above ten thousand. Being friends with you is me giving you face. Don't think too much of yourself.

I know you're very good with a sword, but there's no shortage of masters around me either. Tantai Qingyue. The old Heavenly Master. Neither of them is below you."

That didn't anger him. It startled him. "Tantai Qingyue and Heavenly Master Bingchen are with you?"

Ning Chen nodded. "They're guests in my residence. I came to ask the Elder to join them in the capital.

The top three masters above the ranks altogether on the Wind and Cloud Rankings, all in the capital together. That would be a thing people talk about for years."

Liu Baiyi's face showed nothing. "Not interested. Get off Peach Blossom Mountain."

"How can you not be interested? You have to…