In the instant of silence, Kuafu's burly frame trembled once, then again, then a third time.
His heart first grew hot, then cold.
Hot because he instinctively caught a whiff of troublemaking in Huai Shi's words and was eager to give it a try. Cold because... he felt like he was being assigned as a tool again!
In the end, he could not help flying into a rage.
"Don't fucking call me baby! Abao doesn't work either!" Kuafu glared. "Or we're enemies, got it?!"
"Okay, baby."
Huai Shi nodded agreeably. "Want to pull off something big?"
"..."
The silence returned to Kuafu. He stared at Huai Shi for a long time, swallowing his anger for the moment, only to get angrier the more he thought about it. Yet curiosity forced him to endure, and he squeezed the words out through clenched teeth:
"How big is this thing?"
"As big as a Ruler."
Huai Shi turned to look at Corpse Forest Lord slowly emerging from the sea of blood hundreds of kilometers away. He even waved at him amicably and smiled before tilting his head toward Kuafu.
"Can you take him out?"
"..."
Kuafu froze at that.
As if seriously considering it, he smacked his lips and nodded. "Yeah, but it'd be troublesome."
It was not that he could not beat him. Under the environmental suppression of the sea of blood and thunderclouds, though, it was simply too difficult for him to perform at his fullest. If he gritted his teeth and burned some Correction Value, it was not impossible.
After all, he was the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, East Xia's number-one enforcer, Qilin's successor. He had that much ability, at least.
The issue was that he had advanced too recently. He had not even familiarized himself with all of