Half an hour later!
Su Jie and Zuo Lin came downstairs. Qin Yushang and Wei Yushuang had already left the restaurant, leaving only the Ning Family Sisters and Jiang Shuling behind.
"Take care, my lord."
Zuo Lin wore a fawning smile. Su Jie had clearly taken advantage of him for nothing, but he dared not voice his anger. Getting this plague god out of here as soon as possible mattered more than anything.
"Sure. Come find you again if anything comes up."
Su Jie smiled and patted Zuo Lin on the shoulder. Zuo Lin's smile froze. Did that mean he intended to keep taking advantage of him?
"Sis, he was the one bullying me."
Ning Xinyue pointed at Su Jie, puffing out her cheeks in indignation as she complained to Ning Yunying.
Su Jie glanced at Ning Xinyue, making her glare at him.
Su Jie smiled, turned, and came to the window before flying out into the air.
"Hey, junior!"
But just as Su Jie flew out the window, Jiang Shuling could hold himself back no longer. He slowly rose to his feet, turning his palm into a sword, and chopped down toward Su Jie.
The spiritual power was compressed to an extreme, transforming into a pure-white Sword Qi. Its sharpness flared brilliantly as its sword gleam shot into the heavens, compressing cracks into the void. Its target was Su Jie's left arm.
Earlier, Wuliji of the Divine Eagle Empire—a powerful cultivator in the early Purple Mansion Realm—had had his arm severed directly by this very move.
Yet when the same technique was used against Su Jie, the outcome was completely different.
Su Jie turned his head. In an instant, he raised his left arm and, just as the Sword Qi reached him, calmly caught it between two fingers.
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