No Way, No Way?

"Not good! Once this attack explodes, all one million people in Blazing Fire City will die!"

Little Fairy Doctor watched as Tian Nan Zi's and my violent attacks collided in midair, surging energy rippling outward. Her face suddenly turned pale.

A million people... Such an enormous number. Let alone living human beings—even if a million cats and dogs were blown to death, it would be hard to bear...

Unless they were a million chickens, ducks, cattle, or sheep. They were livestock too, and no one cared whether they lived or died.

Little Fairy Doctor was kind-hearted. How could she bear to witness such a tragedy? Yet as she watched me fight Tian Nan Zi to the death, watched crimson blood trickle from the corner of my mouth, there was nothing she could do.

Could she tell me to stand still and let myself be killed?

She could not do that, nor could she instantly evacuate the million people from the city. Grief filled her face, just as when the Calamity Poison Body had erupted and she regained consciousness, only to find corpses strewn all around her. She had been just as helpless then.

The others had no such concerns. The four from Ice River Valley and the three from Zi Yan's side had no awareness of such things. They did not care much about people dying. No matter how powerful the blast wave was, it could not possibly kill Dou Zong experts like them.

Tang Huo'er stared fixedly at me. Above my head was an "Energy Lake," and I was locked in battle with Tian Nan Zi, evenly matched. My green robes snapped in the wind, and I carried the invincible bearing of one who looked down upon all the heroes beneath heaven. Her gaze grew increasingly dazed.

"Big Brother