The colossal warship flying the "Sui" banner lay only a hundred paces from the shore. Shi Jiuzhai sat directly opposite a window. With his cultivation, he could naturally see Li Weiyi's face clearly. Once a sense of familiarity arose, he pondered it carefully and recalled that this was the "little wolf cub" he had encountered in Immortal Burial Town.
He had actually misjudged him that day.
Who exactly was he?
"How interesting!"
Shi Jiuzhai voiced the thought, then considered for a moment. "Shi believes Senior An is right. A perfectly good battle among the Top Hundred Martial Artists of the Spring Realm has been ruined by two Five Seas Realm cultivators barging in. Why not open a wager and see whether he can carve a path through the encirclement and escape?"
Open a wager?
Yang Qingxi sneered inwardly. How could she fail to see that the White-robed Layperson and Shi Jiuzhai wanted to protect that boy and were deliberately creating a path to survival for him?
Perhaps they cherished his talent. Perhaps they had set their eyes on those few magical artifacts. Or perhaps they had noticed clues she herself had failed to detect. But one thing was beyond doubt: once that boy broke free and escaped, Coffin Mountain and the Earth Wolf King Army would certainly seek him out.
If she continued insisting on sending Xu Changlin and Tang Yan into action, she would be denying the White-robed Layperson and Shi Jiuzhai face. If those two continued to insist, or even entered the fray themselves...
That would become far too ugly!
Originally, even though Li Weiyi had displayed such extraordinary combat strength, Yang Qingxi had still considered him insignificant. She could casually dispatch any Five Seas Realm cultivator to kill him.
But now, it was not only the Cangli