Becoming an immortal against the will of heaven

Chen Tian's actions were extremely strange because, at this moment, the southern sky was completely empty. Only a gentle breeze swept through the sea of trees, stirring the branches covered in lush green leaves, swaying in the wind.

If it were anyone else, they certainly wouldn't find anything unusual about this. However, Chen Tian was different. At this moment, his eyes were as sharp as a hawk's, unmoving as he scanned the southern end of the sea of trees.

"Eh?"

After a moment of silence, a surprised sound suddenly echoed in the empty southern sky.

Immediately afterward, the figure of a middle-aged man gradually emerged before Chen Tian's eyes.

This suddenly appearing figure was a middle-aged man in his thirties, with handsome features and a refined demeanor. He wore a Chaotian crown, a blue silk robe, and cloud-stepping boots, revealing an air of nobility and an earth-shattering, powerful aura.

However, at this moment, a look of surprise couldn't help but appear on the middle-aged man's face, clearly extremely astonished that Chen Tian could discover him.

However, Chen Tian seemed to have known all along. As soon as this noble middle-aged man appeared, he immediately stood up from the ground, his expression respectful, and said, "Junior Chen Tian pays respects to Senior!"

Chen Tian could naturally sense that the aura emanating from this person was almost the same as that of the Mad Old Man, or rather, even stronger.

That is to say, this person's realm must also be at least in the mid-stage of the Sky Building Realm.

"Interesting, truly interesting!" Seeing Chen Tian's respectful demeanor, the middle-aged man seemed to have come back to his senses, and suddenly let out a sigh of admiration.

Immediately afterward, the middle-aged man curled the corner of his mouth, revealing an extremely enchanting smile, and looked at Chen Tian, saying, "Let me ask you, when did you discover me?"

Hearing the middle-aged man's question, Chen Tian didn't dare to be negligent in the slightest, and hurriedly replied respectfully, "Not to hide it from Senior, Junior already discovered Senior's existence when Senior first arrived with my master."

Chen Tian's words were not false. He had discovered that when the Mad Old Man appeared, there was an extremely strange aura not far from him!

This aura was very powerful, but also highly concealed. Even the red-robed old man and the others hadn't noticed its existence.

However, nourished by the Nourishing God Wood, Chen Tian's spiritual sense was much stronger than that of ordinary cultivators. In addition, Chen Tian's mind was extremely meticulous, which allowed him to capture this anomaly.

It was just that this aura was extremely special, and the person hiding within seemed to be deliberately concealing himself. Chen Tian's cultivation was simply not enough to investigate clearly. Even if Chen Tian secretly borrowed the power of immortality, it was useless. He could only see a very blurry figure, and nothing else.

Therefore, when fighting against the red-robed old man and the others just now, Chen Tian secretly separated a trace of his spiritual sense and had been on guard against this person.

Fortunately, from beginning to end, this person had not made a move, but had just hidden in the sky above the southern sea of trees, quietly watching. This made Chen Tian feel much more at ease, and at the same time, he speculated that this person was definitely not with the red-robed old man and his group.

And since he wasn't an enemy, then Chen Tian didn't need to be deliberately on guard, so his vigilance towards him had relaxed a lot. Only after dealing with everything did he speak out to expose his existence.

"If Junior is not mistaken, Senior should be a friend of my master, right?"

At this time, Chen Tian spoke again, but his tone was much softer. After all, according to Chen Tian's observation, this person's attention had been focused on the Mad Old Man during the fight just now, so Chen Tian speculated that this person should be a friend of the Mad Old Man, hence this question.

"Friend? Haha... Friend? Hahahaha... Boy, you're really good at guessing!" However, after hearing Chen Tian's question, the noble middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, and then, as if he had heard a very funny joke, he couldn't help but laugh.

Seeing this scene, Chen Tian couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded. After wondering for a long time, he asked in confusion, "Senior, did I say something wrong?"

"Wrong! Of course, everything is wrong!" Hearing Chen Tian ask again, the middle-aged man's laughter subsided, but immediately afterward, he put on an extremely sinister expression, and said in a cold tone, "This Mad Old Man and I are not friends, but enemies! If I could, I would rush over now and tear this old thief into pieces to relieve the hatred in my heart!"

As he spoke, an invisible killing intent burst forth from this person's body, like a gust of wind, stirring the sea of trees within thousands of miles nearby, causing the wind and clouds to change color and the waves to surge.

In this gust of wind, Chen Tian's long hair also fluttered messily, and the expression on his face suddenly froze.

Chen Tian could feel that the middle-aged man's killing intent was indeed directed at the Mad Old Man, as if he couldn't wait to rush over in the next moment and tear the still unconscious Mad Old Man into eight pieces!

Realizing this, Chen Tian's heart jolted, and immediately afterward, he hurriedly took a step forward, opened his arms, and blocked the middle-aged man, saying, "Although I don't know what grudges you have with my master, if you really want to harm my master, then you'll have to get past Junior first."

"Eh?"

Looking at Chen Tian's firm appearance at this time, the middle-aged man was surprised again, and then said coldly, "Boy, I saw all your attacks just now. To tell you the truth, with your current strength, even with the help of those strange things, you are definitely not my opponent. Have you really thought about becoming my enemy?"

As he said this, the killing intent on the middle-aged man's body suddenly turned, like a landslide, sweeping towards Chen Tian.

Immediately, Chen Tian's body seemed to be carrying several, dozens of thousand-foot giant mountains, and the enormous pressure made his breathing begin to become heavy.

However, even so, Chen Tian still didn't take a step back, and still said with a firm expression, "Junior still has the same words, if you want to make things difficult for my master, then step over Junior's corpse. As long as Junior still has a breath left, I will never allow you to harm a single hair on my master's head!"

Although Chen Tian had always been decisive in killing, he was not a cold-blooded person after all. Chen Tian had seen and remembered all the good things that the Mad Old Man had done for him.

A drop of water should be repaid with a spring, so for Chen Tian, unless he died, he would never allow anyone to harm the Mad Old Man in front of him.

"Haha... Interesting... It's really interesting..."

However, after seeing Chen Tian's persistent appearance, the middle-aged man laughed again, and at the same time, the huge killing intent he had released just now was also withdrawn like the tide.

It was just that after seeing this scene, it was Chen Tian's turn to feel puzzled. After being stunned for a long time, Chen Tian frowned and asked in a cold voice, "What exactly do you mean by this, sir?"