"So Brother Yu had already decided to take me down?" Xu Yi's smile grew brighter.
Yu Qing laughed. "There's nothing I've ever set out to do that I haven't managed. What's that, Brother Xu? You're thinking of making more trouble? Fine. I'll see it through, whether you want to do this the easy way or the hard way."
As he spoke, he moved to use the Ruyi Pearl. Xu Yi waved a hand. "Just kidding, just kidding. I'm already surrounded on all sides. Why make more trouble? I'll go with you, Brother Yu." Yu Qing gave a slight nod. "Good. You know what's what." He waved, and several more figures emerged from the night.
The group surrounded Xu Yi. "Brother Yu, what's all this for? Afraid I'll run?" Xu Yi asked.
"I'd rather not go to all this trouble either," Yu Qing said. "But someone said you're crafty and unpredictable, and that we couldn't afford to let our guard down. So they made this grand show of force. I don't agree with it, but orders are orders."
Xu Yi fixed his gaze on Yu Qing. "Brother Yu, sometimes it doesn't hurt to listen to the people above you. They stand higher and see farther. What a pity you won't get the chance."
Before the words had left his mouth, Xu Yi swept out his palm. A Five Aggregates Palm Thunder exploded in Yu Qing's face with a deafening boom.
Yu Qing didn't react at all. He was blasted into a charred husk and turned to ash on the spot.
The instant the Palm Thunder struck, Xu Yi became more than ten streaks of fire. In the blink of an eye, he counter-surrounded the seven cloaked figures around him. The flames flickered, igniting all seven at once. The blaze was so