Old Fan said, "Is this how you take jobs, Your Excellency?"
Xu Yanzhi said, "I didn't used to. Now I do. Do you still have business with me, or not?"
Yuwen Tuo flew into a rage. "You damn well didn't kill Xu Yi, and now he's even passed the Red Name Trial. Tell me, did you secretly help him? You worthless piece of shit!"
As a proctor, Yuwen Tuo had learned the results as soon as the Martial Trial ended. He could hardly believe his eyes. He'd never dreamed Xu Yi would pass the Red Name Trial and take first place in the Martial Trial.
This was what it meant to hoist a rock only to drop it on your own foot. He'd crushed his toes until they were nothing but bone fragments.
Xu Yanzhi's swordlike brows rose. "Yuwen Tuo, watch your mouth. You're a client, so I'll let your words pass this once. Now get lost."
With a boom, Yuwen Tuo swept out his hand. A warped, glasslike space descended toward Xu Yanzhi.
He was a powerful cultivator of the Third Realm of Divine Map. With that single attack, the entire sky began to twist.
Xu Yanzhi casually flicked her wrist. A tiny blade, barely two inches long, appeared in her palm. She pointed it diagonally and made a light slash. A terrifying blade aura burst forth, a hundred feet long. A fiendish ghost bristling with fangs took shape within it, turning into a tongue of flame that seemed ready to lick a gaping hole in the sky.
The instant the blade aura appeared, the warped space Yuwen Tuo had unleashed shattered. The terrifying blade aura stopped about three inches from his forehead, but its shockwave had already sliced Yuwen Tuo, Old Fan, and Xia Qijie from head to