"Then why were you still hanging around here?"
The young master in white was so furious his eyes nearly split open.
"To wait for you."
Xu Yi spoke with calm detachment. "More precisely, to wait for all of you weaklings to summon someone strong enough to fight me. Don't tell me you didn't know that there was nothing lonelier under heaven than being invincible?"
His words turned every face in the crowd. It was as though they had just smelled the foulest fart in the world, and the stench had dealt them all a massive blow.
Even the blue-robed man, a stoic who had spent years cultivating an air of cold arrogance, seemed unable to withstand the damage those words inflicted. His brow creased slightly.
The young master in white was so exasperated he didn't know what to say. He had seen people act conceited, but never anyone this conceited. He admitted the kid had some skill, but that was all. Compared with a renowned figure like the blue-robed man, who had made a name for himself throughout the Star Sea and earned an immortal reputation over more than a decade, this man was a nobody.
And yet the fellow's words were arrogant to the extreme. The young master in white believed Xu Yi: anyone who could make such boundlessly boastful claims was just as capable of committing any manner of outrageous act.
The young master in white had nothing else to hope for now. All he wanted was for Xu Yi to die a gruesome death, to vent the hatred in his heart. He shouted angrily, "You miserable cur, sitting at the bottom of a well and gazing at the sky! You don't know the heroes of the world!" He pointed at the blue-robed man. "Do you even know