After that, no one wanted to join the Asura City Lord's personal guard at all. His guard could now only be padded out with Devil Race members from the Dharma Idol Realm and even the Transcendent Realm. These Devil Race members simply did not dare refuse the summons of the Asura City Lord, a Celestial Realm Fourth Stage expert.
Ye Xiwen had no interest in them either. His target was the Asura City Lord himself.
The Asura City Lord quickly realized that Ye Xiwen was not some mad dog devoid of reason, determined to bite him without letting go. On the contrary, Ye Xiwen was clearly treating him as a stepping stone, a whetstone, using him to temper his own strength.
When he truly reached that conclusion, he first found it both laughable and exasperating. There were so many experts in the Devil World—did Ye Xiwen really have to fix his eyes on him?
Then his rage surged to the heavens. He was a dignified Celestial Realm Fourth Stage expert, a minor feudal lord even within the Devil World, yet he had become someone else's stepping stone. What humiliation was this?
Yet even knowing this, even with fury burning in his chest, it was useless. They still had no way to deal with Ye Xiwen.
Although Ye Xiwen could not defeat him, he could still retreat from his hands unscathed. That alone was the most biting irony.
A Celestial Realm Fourth Stage expert like him could not do anything to a martial artist at the Half-step Celestial Realm Late Stage. No wonder he could only be treated as a stepping stone.
Within this city ruled by the Asura Race, human martial artists had been appearing constantly over the past year or so, drawing numerous experts of every race to gather