How was this possible!
The searing pain from his severed arm finally brought Xu Qiansheng somewhat out of his shock. He pressed his left hand over the stump at his right shoulder, the spurting blood jolting his nerves.
Forcing his body to hold up, he retreated until his back met a tree.
The strength he barely managed to muster made this once-commanding Senior Xu taste the fear of death again after so many years. The clarity death brought, and the way Lin Shuguang had overturned everything he knew, left his mind in unprecedented confusion.
At the edge of his vision lay Chairman Ji of the Cloud Sea Merchant Association, a wretched heap of limp flesh. Xu Qiansheng no longer had any intention of defending the association.
All of this was because Lin Shuguang had become a Profound Connection Realm Martial King.
Such strength was enough to destroy all the pride and arrogance he had built up before.
I have to go back! I must go back!
Gang Yan was not here, which meant he was alone and helpless. He could very well die here.
Xu Qiansheng had waited so long for his elder brother Gang Yan to become a Profound Connection Realm Martial King, and so long for the Steel Alliance to approach supremacy in Great Xia... How could he die such a humiliating death now?
I can't die!
Xu Qiansheng roared frantically inside. The blood spraying from his shoulder had already stained half his body red as he dragged his mutilated frame away in a desperate, wretched escape.
The sight left everyone around them dumbfounded.
Xu Qiansheng... had fled?
Who could have imagined that the great Senior Xu, so proud and decisive five minutes earlier, would now be whimpering as he fled for his life?
The sight of his