One punch opens the way, lest a hundred punches come.
Since you've offended me, then I'll offend you to death.
What retreating with grace or giving someone a way out? None of that can exist.
Whether this ends in battle or compensation depends on whether Nether Cauldron Esteemed Immortal can swallow this breath of anger.
Choice One: Compensation.
Ning Zheng would indeed leave.
But Nether Cauldron Esteemed Immortal had lost an Esteemed Immortal treasure and a Law Clone, and now even had to compensate him. She would truly become a laughingstock throughout the myriad heavens and worlds!
Choice Two: No compensation.
But Ning Zheng had released her embers and exposed her secrets. How could she avoid suffering social death?
Neither choice was good.
"You're courting death!"
Nether Cauldron chose fury outright and selected the third option: kill.
She suddenly raised a hand.
With a thunderous boom, the dozen or so Esteemed Immortal treasures circling her body suddenly attacked, attempting to assassinate Ning Zheng's Shadow Crocodile Demon God Aspect by surprise.
As long as she killed this thing and erased the leverage in Ning Zheng's hands, her Law Clone self would no longer need to fear anything terrible happening.
As one of the ruling tycoons of the Nether Realm, her all-out strike was terrifying.
Her reserves as this many-treasure Esteemed Immortal were frighteningly deep. Ripples like water surged toward Ning Zheng, as though an invisible giant hand were forcefully stirring the void before fiercely seizing him.
"Good timing!"
Ning Zheng had been waiting here in silence, watching the attacks rolling and surging in the distance.
He wanted to fight!
Although all sorts of unexpected changes had occurred, adapting to the situation before him was his greatest chance to completely establish his identity as an Esteemed Immortal!
He had mastered the Esteemed