Elsewhere, after leaving the Ye Family residence, Fatty Xia hurried after Tong Lie, whose face was drawn tight and still flushed with rage. Fatty Xia's expression was no better as he said,
"I say, Tong Lie, weren't you a little too impulsive today? Even if what those Ye Family people said was unpleasant to hear, you shouldn't have attacked Ye Mingyang directly. Have you considered the consequences?"
Tong Lie snorted coldly without looking back, continuing down the long street on his own. Travelers on either side avoided him as though he were venomous; some were even knocked over. Yet upon seeing Tong Lie's gloomy face and those violence-filled eyes, they dared to rage but not speak.
"Humph, consequences? What consequences could there be? If I hadn't been speaking for their Ye Family just now, I would have killed all three of them long ago."
What he said was not exactly wrong; rather, it was reality. Yet precisely because of that, it showed that although Tong Lie had been inside Divine Land Pass for some time, he still had not adapted to the human race's way of life. He remained accustomed to treating life among humans by the standards of the Arctic Ice Plains.
"You, honestly. I told you long ago that human territory is not your Arctic Ice Plains, where people eat raw meat and drink blood, where the weak are prey to the strong.
"This is a society of human sentiments, a society of connections. It is not somewhere you can fight alone and stand against the entire Jianghu Martial Arts World.
"If you had truly killed Ye Mingyang today, within a few days we would be unable to take a single step in the Northern Lands. How would we complete the task my lord assigned us then?"
"Even