"Temple Master Zhang, watch your words!"
Faced with Zhang Xiaoshan's alarmist threats and overwhelming aura, Wang Chen had yet to speak when Ye Xiangming stepped forward first and barked, "Though you are a Daoist Master of this generation, you cannot simply spout nonsense!"
He knew perfectly well that once Wang Zhenzhen was deemed the reincarnation of a Drought Fiend, it would not merely cost the infant her life—Wang Chen's entire family would be buried alongside her.
There would be no chance of escape!
Thus, Ye Xiangming could not tolerate Zhang Xiaoshan forcibly pinning these two terrifying charges on them.
Therefore, despite the vast gap in status between them, he resolutely made his stance clear.
"Bold indeed!"
Zhang Xiaoshan smiled. "County Magistrate Ye, it seems you are determined to defy the Imperial Court?"
Another great hat of rebellion was slapped onto his head.
The moment Zhang Xiaoshan finished speaking, the middle-aged man who had been standing behind him suddenly took a step forward.
An invisible, oppressive aura instantly enveloped Ye Xiangming!
Ye Xiangming immediately felt as though a mountain were crushing down upon him, nearly forcing him to his knees on the spot.
He forcibly drew up a breath of true qi from his Dantian. His face instantly flushed purple-red, and beads of sweat the size of beans sprang from his forehead.
"Martial Grandmaster!"
Under such immense pressure, Ye Xiangming stared fixedly at the other man and squeezed out several words with great difficulty.
He had never imagined that this utterly ordinary-looking, plainly dressed man was actually a Martial Grandmaster at the peak of the Innate realm!
Though Ye Xiangming was not weak, he was still far from the Innate realm. He and the other man were simply not on the same level.
He had been utterly crushed!
Yet in the