Both Bei Lu and the people from the Nine Universes Merchant Alliance looked somewhat bewildered.
This had been far too simple.
Bei Lu's expression was exceedingly grim. He gave a cold snort and turned to leave, leaving the Nine Universes Merchant Alliance members waiting there at their leisure.
The palace looked small from the outside, but inside it was a world of its own, a vast space decorated simply—though its beauty paled beside Bei Jue herself.
"How long are you going to keep that arm broken?"
Jiang Shu looked at the arm he had broken and spoke with an amused smile.
Bei Jue shot him an exasperated glance before saying, "You really have no idea how to treat a woman with care. The Laws of Strength and Cutting in that blow were too concentrated. I can't get rid of them."
She wasn't pretending to be weak. The force behind Jiang Shu's punch just now had truly been immense.
"Then tell me, why did you hold back?"
Jiang Shu raised an eyebrow and asked.
Though he and Bei Jue seemed to have exchanged a few moves, he had actually realized from the very beginning that she had restrained seven or eight tenths of her strength. She had been going easy on him the whole time.
So he had held back as well.
"That genius from your Nine Universes Merchant Alliance wasn't seriously injured by anyone from my Misty Star Alliance."
"Then who else could it have been?"
Bei Ye had been gravely wounded and unconscious, but he had forced himself to name the person who had nearly killed him. It had been a powerful member of the Misty Star Alliance.
Bei Jue shook her head. "Someone impersonated a powerful member of my Misty Star Alliance and injured a genius from the