"Heh heh, Lord Xia can still joke at a time like this. I truly admire you, Fu Yu said with a beaming smile. He wasn't at all panicked by my threat, showing that the pride of a heaven's chosen was carved into his bones.
The corners of my mouth curled into a smile. "You seem quite confident in Tian City's mountain-protecting formation."
"Tian City's formation is naturally excellent. Moreover, it's an active defensive formation. Without a token allowing one to leave Tian City, anyone who tried to leave would be struck by the formation at that very moment, ultimately vanishing into thin air. So, Lord Xia, I hope you won't try it lightly." Fu Yu wore a beaming smile.
By saying that it was an active defensive formation, he was secretly comparing it to my passive defensive formation. This showed that Tian City's formation was indeed formidable.
"All right, then where should we go now? To see the city lord?" I looked around. The surrounding environment was largely left to grow wild, without anyone deliberately maintaining it, so the grass, shrubs, and even the woods were close to their natural state. There were even rivers and streams in the distance, making for beautiful scenery.
"The city lord has a noble status. Although Lord Xia is someone the city lord values greatly, once you enter Tian City, you'll be no different from us. In fact, according to the disciples' understanding at this moment, you're even inferior to them. So the city lord certainly won't meet with you. After all, when a heaven's chosen takes up residence in Tian City, if they haven't achieved much—for example, breaking through to a certain cultivation realm or making some tremendous contribution to Tian City—they're no different from an ordinary heaven's chosen disciple. Not to mention