With These Vermin Around, How Can Security Be Improved?
"So it's Your Excellency Ming Huang. My apologies for my disrespect," Beddon said respectfully.
"This old man comes from a Hidden Family and has only emerged into the world in recent years. Your Excellency Heavenly Favor need not take it to heart," Di Tian said calmly.
Beddon smiled. "I'm truly curious what kind of great family could produce a powerful quasigod like Your Excellency Ming Huang. If I get the chance, I must pay a visit."
Watching Di Tian, whom he had kept hidden as a secret weapon, chat so casually with Beddon, Qian Gu Die Ting inwardly sensed trouble. The joy he had felt at successfully deceiving Beddon into providing cheap labor was instantly washed away.
No matter how sharp a sword was, once others knew of its existence, they would find a way to counter it.
Spirit Pagoda headquarters.
"Xiao Yu, are you hurt anywhere? Do you feel uncomfortable?" After returning to the Spirit Pagoda, Qian Gu Dong Feng had been hovering around Qian Gu Huang Yu, fussing over her.
Having heard the threat Ha Luosa had left behind before departing, the four people remaining at the Spirit Pagoda—Qian Gu Dong Feng, Qian Gu Qing Feng, Leng Yao Zhu, and Leng Yulai—had all been extremely nervous. After Qian Gu Die Ting flew out directly, the four had also prepared to rush over and see how they could help, only for Bei Gong Li to stop them. Her reason was that they were too weak and would only get in the way.
Patting Gu Yuena on the shoulder, Leng Yao Zhu teased, "The old lady was afraid something might happen to you, so she activated a level-ten healing Soul Tool. But now it seems you've wasted all her good intentions."