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"Please don't misunderstand, I truly meant no harm," Chu Tian explained.

"We're about to eat. Please leave," Wang Haoran directly ordered him out.

Seeing the attitude of the "woman" before him, Chu Tian could not help sighing. He did not continue trying to persuade her and instead silently walked away.

Yet inwardly, he began plotting to keep watch on their movements from the shadows.

That way, should anything happen, he could step in to help in time.

Wang Haoran could roughly guess what Chu Tian was thinking.

While eating, he began considering how to deal with him.

Chu Tian's cultivation was at the Qi Refining Stage Ninth Layer, but with a cheat item like the Hongmeng Sword, his true combat strength could contend with the Foundation Establishment Stage.

Wang Haoran estimated that he could even fight an ordinary Foundation Establishment Stage Fifth Layer cultivator.

In other words, he was on the same level as Ye Fan.

Their true combat power was both just enough to deal with Wu Xingtian, the top-ranked person on the Heavenly Rankings—neither more nor less.

If there were no variables and their storylines did not collide, they would definitely be able to show off steadily throughout this foreign race crisis.

Unfortunately, there was no such thing as if.

Wang Haoran himself was the greatest variable.

Wang Haoran definitely intended to take Chu Tian's Hongmeng Sword, but he was not in any hurry.

Because when Wang Haoran determined that Chu Tian's true combat strength was about the same as Ye Fan's, he suddenly came up with an even better idea.

That was to provoke a conflict between Chu Tian and Ye Fan and have them fight each other to the death.

To make two men clash, the best catalyst was undoubtedly a woman.

Ye Fan loved only