"Hmm?"
The moment Li Tianming claimed the Ten Empress Flower, he sensed it—the way these peak Tai Yu geniuses watching from all around looked at him had changed.
Their gazes were as ill-intentioned as a pack of wolves, and at this moment, Li Tianming had become a juicy morsel in their eyes.
And they indeed had the right to be wolves. After all, many of them—including the peerless beauties of the Ladies' Rites Palace—were cosmic powerhouses who had cultivated for nearly a hundred thousand years!
A hundred thousand years could accomplish far too much.
"Once Bai Nineteen left, they 'awakened,' huh." Li Tianming sneered inwardly as he took the Ten Empress Flower.
He had not expected Bai Nineteen to admit defeat and leave so swiftly, so he had not guarded against this. Now, without a doubt, surrounded at such close range, he had already fallen into peril.
An ordinary man was innocent, yet possessing a jade was itself a crime—let alone among these hundred-odd peak Tai Yu geniuses, quite a few already bore grudges against Li Tianming.
Li Tianming immediately realized, "This Nineteenth Prince may seem magnanimous and straightforward, but did he leave so quickly because he wanted others to avenge him?"
After all, if he remained, anyone making a move would seem to be helping him. But once he left, whatever happened here could not count as him breaking his word.
"This Nineteenth Prince has always given off that feeling. On the surface, he's magnanimous and gentle, but behind it all, there's always something dark and sinister about him..." Sui Shen Yao grumbled.
"That is his freedom. After all, I was the one who appeared out of nowhere and took something he desperately wanted. Even if I followed the rules of the Yu Ruins Trial, these Yu Ruins are