"When have I ever gone back on my word?"

White Crane Immortal Emperor rolled his eyes and said grumpily, "But you... if your sworn brother loses, what are you going to give me? And let me make it clear, I don’t want anything inferior to my Blood Pear Fruit!"

Variable Immortal Emperor shook his head and said, "My sworn brother won’t lose!"

White Crane Immortal Emperor laughed, "You’re just saying that because you want to weasel out of it!"

Variable Immortal Emperor huffed, "When have I ever weaseled out of anything?"

"Chief, you’ve weaseled out more than once or twice! You borrowed those Cultivation Resources from me ten years ago, promised to return them quickly, and yet, still no sign of them!"

A villager complained unhappily.

Variable Immortal Emperor blushed, waving his hand impatiently, "Alright, alright, I’ll pay you back first once I have enough Cultivation Resources! Hmph, owing you a bit of Cultivation Resources and you have to harp on about it daily? Afraid this village chief will forget, are you? Never seen anyone so stingy!"

"Sigh, owing me and still acting so righteous... it’s just unfair!"

The villager sighed, shaking his head, looking utterly aggrieved.

"Chief, you personally told me you wanted to become my Immortal partner, but now decades have passed, when are you going to fulfill your promise? My heart, it’s long been yours!"

A Female Immortal looked at Variable Immortal Emperor with a face full of grievance.

The villagers in Junior Immortal Village knew about the Chief and the Female Immortal’s situation. They looked at each other, making faces and chuckling, laughter continuously ringing out.

Variable Immortal Emperor blushed even deeper, muttering, "This... I’m not mentally prepared yet... give me a few more years, I’ll definitely become your Immortal partner and take you to the Carefree Immortal Realm..."

The Female Immortal said wistfully, "You’ve used that excuse for decades, can’t you come up with a new one?"

Variable Immortal Emperor said seriously, "This time, I mean it!"

At this moment, another Immortal spoke up, pointing to a little fairy girl about ten years old beside him, "Chief, you promised to give my daughter an Immortal Artifact, when will you fulfill that? You can’t break a promise with a child!"

The little fairy girl stretched out her hand, seriously saying, "Chief Uncle, where’s my Immortal Artifact? A promise-breaking Immortal is not a good Immortal!"

Variable Immortal Emperor’s eyes shifted, glanced at Fang Bai fighting with the villager in the lake, and said with brows raised, "Little one, I’ll give you the Immortal Artifact in a few days. This time Chief Uncle promises his word is certain!"

The little fairy girl tilted her head, thought for a bit, worried he might go back on his word, and said, "Then let’s pinky swear!" 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

"Alright! Alright! Pinky swear!"

Variable Immortal Emperor squatted down in front of the little fairy girl, solemnly hooking her finger.

"It’s just a low-grade King Grade Immortal Artifact, my brother Fang Bai can easily craft one. This time, this village chief finally keeps his word!"

Variable Immortal Emperor thought to himself.

"If my sworn brother loses, I’ll give you the Immortal Artifact I’m using, which is a Superior King Grade Immortal Artifact, that should be worth your Blood Pear Fruit, right?"

Variable Immortal Emperor casually said to White Crane Immortal Emperor.

The Immortal Artifact he used was only a Superior King Grade, but it was hard to come by. If he were to give it away for free to the White Crane Immortal Emperor, he would never agree. The reason he used it as a bet now was because he knew Fang Bai definitely wouldn’t lose.

As a former life’s sworn brother of Fang Bai, few Immortals knew better than Variable Immortal Emperor how formidable Fang Bai’s capability was to leap realms. Let alone one Shadowless Immortal King, even if there were one or two more, Fang Bai could easily triumph.

Just then, a sudden muffled boom echoed from the giant dragon-tornado Storm around Fang Bai in the lake, as though it had exploded, scattering fiercely in all directions like fierce winds. The massive amount of lake water swept into mid-air by the dragon-tornado, also fell with the storm’s disappearance, triggering colossal waves.

The Shadowless Immortal King, who was rapidly circling around Fang Bai, paused, staring blankly at Fang Bai who was suspended a hundred meters above the lake surface, silently shocked, with an incredulous face.

The earlier dragon-tornado storm was one of his most powerful secret techniques. He thought even if it couldn’t harm Fang Bai, it would trap him inside, eventually unable to bear the pressure, and force him to surrender.

Unexpectedly, Fang Bai somehow used some secret technique to shatter the dragon-tornado from within, and he himself seemed utterly unscathed. This level of physical toughness far exceeded what the villager imagined.

Only then did Shadowless Immortal King realize that the sworn brother of the village chief was not as weak as he had imagined. Seeing that hint of a smile on his lips, he felt uneasy, his expression turned serious, and he became fully alert.

"I can also do your dragon-tornado secret technique!"

Fang Bai said as he cast nearly the same secret technique and started circling around Shadowless Immortal King.

His speed was faster than Shadowless Immortal King, and the wind he brought up was even greater, instantly sweeping out a gigantic dragon-tornado that reached both the sky and earth. Almost half the lake’s water was drawn up by the wind, forming a spectacular sight as it shot into the sky.

Among the over two hundred villagers watching by the lakeside, there were quite a few stronger than Fang Bai, and they all could sense that the secret technique Fang Bai cast was significantly more powerful than that of Shadowless Immortal King.

"Shadowless Immortal King is going to lose..."

One Immortal watched the dragon-tornado in the lake, murmuring with a strange expression.

"No... no... stop... I surrender..."

In just a few seconds, the Shadowless Immortal King, trapped in the dragon-tornado’s eye, cried out for mercy.

Fang Bai’s figure halted immediately, and the dragon-tornado vanished along with it.

Although the Shadowless Immortal King could still hover in the air, his hair and beard were disheveled, his clothing in tatters, with alarming bloody scars all over, looking utterly wretched.

Fortunately, Fang Bai controlled his strength very precisely. The injuries on Shadowless Immortal King’s body looked serious, but were just some minor flesh wounds, likely to heal on their own in a few days.

Shadowless Immortal King felt relieved, took a deep breath, and looked at Fang Bai with lingering fear, fully convinced.

He knew, if it had been a life-and-death battle just now, in a few more seconds, he might have been churned into a mass of flesh by the terrifying twisting force.

Fang Bai and Shadowless Immortal King consecutively landed on the lakeshore.

"So, Shadowless Immortal King, do you admit defeat?"

Variable Immortal Emperor patted Shadowless Immortal King’s shoulder with a hearty laugh.

Although Shadowless Immortal King loved to contend fiercely, he was also an Immortal who could accept losing gracefully. Upon hearing this, he said with a wry smile, "I concede!"

He gently shook his body, and the tattered clothes turned to dust and vanished, instantly replaced with a new set of clothing.

He cupped his fist towards Fang Bai, his face full of admiration, saying, "I initially wanted to compete for the title of Wushuang Immortal King with you. Now it seems, I’ve overestimated myself! However, I may not be up to the task, but that doesn’t mean other villagers aren’t!"

Fang Bai saw the intense battle spirit in the eyes of many village Immortals with Immortal King Cultivation Realm around him. He laughed and said, "Who else wants to fight? Whoever in the same realm can beat me, this title of Wushuang Immortal King, I’ll gladly give it to you!"