Alijeh's words pulled the residents of Gauntek City back from the brink of collapse.
"Phew! That's good!"
"It can be fixed in a month... I thought it would vanish completely like Sheng Ge did. You scared me to death!"
"As long as it can be restored, that's fine! A month isn't long."
Many people clutched their chests and let out deep sighs of relief.
But some noticed the first half of Alijeh's statement. "Wait! Lord Su Yu defeated Jared all by himself? Is that true?"
"Huh? All by himself?"
"She's exaggerating, right? How could that be possible?"
"That's absurd! It's completely impossible!"
The city's residents' first reaction was disbelief.
A cultivator who had just entered the Planetary-level defeating Jared, a Planetary-level Tier 5? Who would believe that if it were said aloud? It was simply preposterous.
But after thinking it over carefully... everyone felt that something seemed off.
Before long, someone in the crowd raised an objection. "Although I think it's impossible too, what if it's true? How could Lord Su Yu's wife lie? Especially about something that could be so easily exposed?"
"Exactly, who would say something like that?"
"Wouldn't getting exposed deal a huge blow to Lord Su Yu's reputation?"
"Who would make up such a clumsy lie?"
"Is there a possibility that it's actually true?" someone shouted from the crowd.
At that point, everyone began to waver.
"Uh... could it really be true?"
"But how could that be possible?"
Just as everyone was wavering, an image suddenly appeared in the sky above the city.
The image had been projected through psionic power by Alijeh, Chancellor Cao, and the others.
In the image, Su Yu released a golden blade of light that effortlessly cleaved through Jared's spell and cut him in two.
Upon seeing the image, the