He knew perfectly well that he was safe hiding beneath the Golden Light Umbrella, but the gap in their cultivation was far too great. Given the other party's speed, he had no way of harming her in the slightest. So he deliberately provoked her, hoping she would foolishly break his Violet Fire Flying Sword, allowing him to seize the chance to kill her by underhanded means.
Yet, to his surprise, Mu Wan merely left behind a cold snort before turning into a streak of light and vanishing into the distance, not giving him any chance to use the Violet Fire Flying Sword at all. Having accepted Wan Ling's warning, she did not dare act rashly again.
Wan Lihong and the others from Kongfeng exchanged glances and nodded, then quietly pursued Mu Wan in the direction she had disappeared. Before leaving, Wan Ling cast Yue Qianchou a complicated look. Whenever she remembered how he had pinched and pawed at her face while she had been helpless to do anything about it, her heart tangled itself into an uncomfortable knot. She only hoped they would never meet again, lest seeing him bring back that disgusting scene...
Yue Qianchou watched that streak of light disappear, his brows twisting together. He was rather baffled by her actions. She had suddenly ambushed him, then run off without another word. What did that mean? Her cultivation far surpassed his! Could it be that she had seen through the fact that his flying sword was formed from Violet Fire and had been frightened away?
After thinking it over, he found that unlikely. As far as he knew, even in the Immortal Realm, few people had ever seen Violet Fire, much less recognized a Violet Fire Flying Sword. Even he, its wielder, was seeing this thing for the