"Rushing to uphold justice comes at a price, kid!"
A cruel voice rang beside Fa Zai's ear. He saw the gray figure ahead flash, and before he knew it, the tall, gaunt cultivator with the sharp-mouthed, monkey-cheeked face had appeared at his side with a savage grin.
One of his hands was as dry as an eagle's claw, faintly wreathed in a strand of sinister scarlet light that made people feel intensely uncomfortable, as though it had tainted even the void itself!
Under Fa Zai's despairing gaze, that withered palm reached for his head!
Fa Zai was merely a mortal laborer loading and unloading goods at the docks. Facing the attack of a True Essence Realm cultivator, how could he possibly evade or block it?
He was already doomed beyond doubt!
Yet Fa Zai still forced himself to stand, veins bulging on his forehead, his eyes bloodshot as he glared fiercely at the man before him, his gaze filled with unwillingness and fury.
He did not regret stepping forward.
The sight of the other party bullying a lonely old man and a defenseless girl had filled him with righteous indignation.
If he had not stepped forward today, he felt he would spend the rest of his life drowning in shame and guilt.
What he resented was his own helplessness!
If...
If he had been a cultivator, would the outcome have been different?
If he had been a cultivator, could he have wiped out more of the injustices that rankled his heart?
In an instant,
Countless memories flashed through Fa Zai's mind.
Just as Fa Zai waited unwillingly for death amid the terrified gazes around him,
Suddenly,
Splash!
A clear sound of rippling water suddenly flowed out through the void, silently spreading across heaven and earth!
Its sound was like heavenly