"Treasure, it's all mine!"
"Opportunities, they're mine as well!"
Ding True Man's eyes were filled with greed as he watched his treasure cauldron plummet toward Gu Lan. To him, it seemed inevitable that everything before him would soon fall into his grasp.
However, what happened next was beyond anything he could have anticipated.
The moment his cauldron smashed onto Gu Lan's head, it stopped dead in its tracks, unable to descend even a fraction further.
What had blocked his treasured weapon was nothing more than a basic Five Elements magical shield—one so elementary that even a King Stage cultivator could conjure it with ease.
"This... How is this possible?!"
Ding True Man was stunned, disbelief written all over his face.
In an instant, he realized that the young scholar before him wasn't some low-level cultivator. On the contrary, he was likely another Heaven-Fixing Realm expert, just like himself.