"Why? I just can't stand your arrogance, so I'm going to make trouble for you. Got a problem with that? Then let's keep going!"
Cao Jie's answer was so brazen it knew no bounds.
At that moment, Cao Jie was far angrier than Hu Yanqing.
Hu Yanqing's stunt had nearly stopped Cao Jie's heart.
It turned out Cao Jie was the handsome young man who had done business with Xu Yi in the pavilion outside the Cultivation Technique Building.
Fan Kuan was the burly middle-aged man.
The two had rushed over. It was no coincidence at all; they had clearly come at Xu Yi's behest.
Before Hu Yanqing could start trouble, Xu Yi had already called the two of them over. Whether anything happened or not, he didn't want trouble sticking to him, so he'd summoned these two guardian deities to protect him first.
As it happened, Tu Ling had shown up at the worst possible moment, shattering the barely balanced situation into pieces.
Fortunately, the two had arrived in the end.
To be precise, Xu Yi had called in his guardian deities with a very relaxed attitude.
But the way he'd put it had nearly scared Fan Kuan and Cao Jie to death.
According to him, someone was going to kill him, and when they did, his Sumeru Ring would be stolen and the bottle of Heart-Devouring Worms would change hands. They shouldn't blame him for it.
Though Cao Jie and Fan Kuan had both witnessed Xu Yi's methods and didn't believe the troublemaker could be killed so easily, neither of them dared stake their lives on that belief. As soon as they received his message, they rushed over in a panic.
Cao Jie in particular had been breaking through a cultivation bottleneck, his profound art already halfway through