"Of course it's true. I wouldn't stoop to lying about something like this," Lu Yuan said calmly.
"Thank you for your mercy, Your Excellency!" A smile appeared on Di Tian's face. In his view, this was merely an excuse Lu Yuan had found to avoid beating him up.
"Everything that happened back then was ordered by my lord. If Your Excellency wanted to settle accounts, you should have gone to my lord. But given the relationship between my lord and Your Excellency, there was no way those accounts could be settled. So Your Excellency put it all on me instead."
"Back then, in his anger, Your Excellency made that bold declaration. Now that it was time to carry it out, he naturally could not go back on his word, or it would damage his prestige. But Your Excellency also knew I was innocent, so he deliberately gave me this chance in order to let me off."
"As long as I can withstand ten moves, Your Excellency will have a reason to spare me without breaking his word, and I'll escape this disaster as well. It really is the best of both worlds. Your Excellency is indeed Your Excellency—truly brilliant."
Di Tian smiled as his thoughts ran wild.
Lu Yuan looked at the smiling Di Tian with a rather strange expression. Did this guy really think the ten-move agreement was meant to spare him?
The truth was that he did not even need ten moves to beat Di Tian.
How could he possibly let him off? He had wanted to beat Di Tian up for a long time; he simply had not been strong enough before. But now, beating Di Tian was as easy as playing around.
Di Tian was not even a pseudo-god, and pseudo-gods were utterly insignificant before the