However, Ye Wen stopped laughing first, because he could be said to know Tang San, this protagonist, better than anyone.
After all, before getting brutally beaten, this was a guy who had dared to provoke a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast with only level twenty-nine cultivation. Who knew how Yu Xiaogang had taught him? If the Titan Giant Ape had not shown mercy back then, Tang San would have been GG on the spot. Yet this guy had thought himself incredibly heroic and had even dared to chase after the Titan Giant Ape afterward. He really was someone who did not value his life.
In any case, Tang San was the kind of protagonist who would keep courting death as long as it did not kill him, as if he had been born knowing he was destined to be the protagonist and would never die—a man filled with inexplicable confidence.
It was the same principle as "an arrogant army is bound to lose" and Guan Yu losing Jing Province through carelessness. Was it not perfectly normal for the triumphant Tang San to get slapped in the face by some minor villain?
Rather than laughing at Tang San, Ye Wen was now more curious about Old Monster Xue's fate.
Strictly speaking, he ought to count as someone from Tang San's camp. Ye Wen wondered whether Tang San would declare that he had "a path to death" as well.
A trace of anger did indeed rise on Tang San's face, but he quickly suppressed it and soon put on what he considered a warm smile.
"You're not bad. Much stronger than those pieces of trash in the City of Slaughter."
Old Monster Xue's face turned even paler at those words.
Naturally, he knew what kind of place the City of Slaughter was. So this