Chen Xiaojun shook his head and smiled faintly. "Miss Hu, you're too modest."
"With your name as the Spirit Fox Fairy, and your actual rank of twenty-first on the Genius List, dealing with them should have been effortless."
Hu Qianning paused slightly, then said, "Qianning's meager skills could hardly be worthy of the Unrivaled Young Master's notice, could they?"
Chen Xiaojun raised a brow. "Oh? You're so sure I'm the Unrivaled Young Master?"
Hu Qianning said with certainty, "Young Master, you remained unflustered in danger, calm and composed, your every move showing unmatched grace."
"Among Chang'an City's younger generation, aside from the Unrivaled Young Master, who else could possess such bearing?"
The corners of Chen Xiaojun's mouth lifted slightly. "Miss Hu, you're rather underestimating the outstanding heirs of Chang'an City's noble families."
Hu Qianning smiled sweetly. "But I wasn't wrong, was I?"
Chen Xiaojun smiled calmly and said softly, "Miss Hu, for now, you should deal with the aftermath at hand."
As he spoke, his gaze swept over the patrol guards who had already come close, transformed into low-grade martial souls such as lone wolves, gray rabbits, sparrowhawks, and black dogs, each holding a standard-issue Ding An Blade.
It should be mentioned here that, apart from special-type martial souls, ordinary Top Martial Souls generally started with three attributes, high-grade ones had two attributes, and mid-grade ones had one attribute.
Low-grade martial souls were unranked, had no detailed subdivision, and they had no attributes.
In other words, for soul masters with these martial souls, the Soul Power they cultivated had no distinct attribute traits, only carrying some unformed true intent.
It merely reflected certain characteristics of the martial soul itself, such as a rabbit's agility, a sparrowhawk's ability to fly, or a wolf's sharp claws.
As for the patrol guards, they