Buzz!
Mu Zhizhi, dead.
Li Tianming showed no mercy. Now that he had reached the Tenth Star Realm and possessed the Eye of the Cosmic Soul, killing someone at the Fourth Cosmic Chart was not difficult, much less someone who had only just recovered.
Using his strongest move was already giving her plenty of face.
"Go!"
The moment Mu Zhizhi died, Li Tianming turned and left without the slightest hesitation.
"I'm utterly speechless," Yinghuo complained from his shoulder.
"What are you speechless about?" Li Tianming asked.
"You save someone first, then kill them afterward. What kind of divine maneuver is that?" It was dumbfounded.
"You're still young. What the hell do you know? Those two things don't conflict." Li Tianming rolled his eyes. After a pause, he continued, "You have to look at them separately. First, she paid, and I treated her illness. Perfectly reasonable. Second, she harbored evil intentions and made me expose my identity, so I killed her to silence her. Also perfectly reasonable."
"You knew she'd make a move long ago, didn't you? Then you might as well not have saved her and just slaughtered her directly." Yinghuo curled its beak.
"That's different. If I acted before she did, then I'd be taking the money without doing the job, and even smashing the pot afterward. That would make me the villain," Li Tianming said.
But now, Mu Zhizhi had simply brought death upon herself.
In any case, Li Tianming believed he had already done everything that duty and benevolence required.
"What about the new temple lord?"
"No matter how strong he is, he has to pay the price for his choices. I'm not afraid of him!"
A powerhouse of the Ruins Realm?
It wasn't Li Tianming's first time offending one.
Not long after Mu Zhizhi died, Temple