Facing the abruptly appearing Old Butcher, Thirteen's hair stood on end.
Visible to the naked eye, the Emperor Realm pressure around Thirteen ebbed away like a receding tide. The killing intent that had blanketed the long street and locked firmly onto Su Yi also vanished.
Tu Yong keenly sensed this change.
He could not help but feel alarmed.
Earlier, he had believed that Su Yi's strength was enough to contend against Thirteen.
Who would have thought that Su Yi would not need to act at all? The Auspicious Cloud Pavilion Owner had suddenly appeared and contemptuously dismissed Thirteen as cats and dogs who did not know whether they lived or died!
Thirteen took a deep breath, then clasped his hands and bowed toward Old Butcher, who stood less than three feet away. "Brother, I came under my master's orders only to reclaim my race's Ancestral Jade Seal. If I have offended you in any way, I hope you will forgive me."
This old servant possessed Emperor Realm cultivation. Earlier, he had been gloomy with Yin Qi and incomparably domineering.
Yet now, before Old Butcher, he had no choice but to lower his brows and eyes!
"Forgive you?"
Old Butcher said expressionlessly, "Fine. First, remove one of your arms yourself. Then I'll consider whether to kill you."
His indifferent, iron-hard words carried not the slightest emotional fluctuation.
Yet they made Tu Yong tremble in fear. He had never expected the Auspicious Cloud Pavilion Owner to go so far as to deal with the old servant beside the Ghost Snake Race's Supreme Third Elder just to stand up for Su Yi!
Tu Yong subconsciously looked toward Su Yi in the distance.
The mysterious young man in azure robes stood beneath the mottled lamplight beside the entrance to Auspicious Cloud Pavilion, one hand