The blood stench at his nose, the tearing pain on his face, and the warm blood on his hands constantly assaulted Branch Master Liu's senses.
Everything had happened too quickly. Having never experienced anything like this before, he was still somewhat dazed at first.
Only after fully understanding what had happened did a trembling wave of lingering fear surge endlessly from the depths of his heart!
If the other party had wanted to kill him earlier, he would have had no ability to resist at all!
How was that possible?!
Even the Half-step Outer Scenery elder within the gang had never given him such a feeling.
Yet this young man before him had done exactly that.
Before this, he had felt that Meng Qi and Xu Yue's auras were unremarkable and ordinary, not worth paying attention to at all.
But after Xu Yue had taught him a lesson, when he looked at the two again, they had become utterly unfathomable.
What a joke!
How could someone capable of doing that so easily possibly be ordinary?
And though their strength clearly far surpassed his own, they had made him feel they were plain and ordinary. That could only mean their methods of concealing their auras were terrifyingly formidable.
What had just happened was so swift that there had barely been any fluctuations from a clash. It had not even disturbed the Half-step Outer Scenery elder in the rear courtyard.
But Branch Master Liu also deeply understood what he needed to do now.
He immediately forced out a smile and said, not even bothering with his wounds,
"It was my failure to recognize Mount Tai before me. I hope you two young heroes can forgive me.
"Tonight, I shall host a banquet and invite all the renowned figures of the city to