The situation was on the verge of erupting.
Xin Gugu and Liu Changqing had already foreseen the battle that might break out next.
Yet the two of them were clearly only at the "Master" cultivation level, but they still forced themselves forward without retreating half a step.
"Stand down!"
Xu Xiaoshou rebuked them.
He understood their intentions. Even if they were exposed in the end, they would not let him, Young Master Xu, die.
But he had already made his case. If Yu Lingdi truly dared to provoke a demi-saint faction—if he dared to seize and kill someone before him on the mere pretext of an unfounded "suspicion"—
Then he would be making enemies to the bitter end! Xu Xiaoshou was certain Yu Lingdi would not make a move. Even if he wanted to, there were people above him who could stop him.
Besides, Xin Gugu and Liu Changqing, the two guardians, could not be allowed to reveal their identities at this time.
The two guardians were not fools either.
After stepping forward to show their intention to protect Young Master Xu, the demi-saint's descendant, they were "forced" to retreat several yards away after being harshly rebuked.
And all these reactions appeared perfectly normal in Yu Lingdi's eyes.
After all, if the guardians chosen by a demi-saint's descendant were cowardly creatures afraid of death, that would have been suspicious instead.
Yu Lingdi's gaze never shifted from Xu Xiaoshou. He merely slowly raised his right hand and pointed into the air.
"Rustle, rustle..."
Water-elemental energy throughout heaven and earth gathered frantically. In an instant, a torrential downpour came crashing down head-on.
Yet before Yu Lingdi's finger, the moment a drop of golden water condensed, the rain filling the sky seemed frozen in time, all of it hanging motionless in midair.
"If