Battle with the Saintess II

Shen Qinghe gave Li Xiao a long, deep look and said slowly, word by word:

"I have seen arrogance before, but never arrogance like yours.

Li Xiao, I admit that you are indeed strong.

But fighting four Round Marrow cultivators with Marrow-Piercing cultivation? You are courting death."

Li Xiao had never truly needed to kill Elder Lin.

His actions today appeared impulsive and arrogant, but in truth, every step had been carefully calculated.

What he wanted was the Golden Blade Sect.

Among Mu Province's three great powers, the Golden Blade Sect had always ranked at the bottom. Its position was awkward, its younger generation was failing to measure up, and it had neither a Sixth Turn powerhouse to hold the fort nor a powerful external backer.

Struggling for survival in such a crack, it would sooner or later be swallowed by the Hatred-Severing Sect and the Cai Family until not even its bones remained.

Now, Li Xiao had publicly killed an elder of the Red Dust Devil Palace and assumed an unyielding stance against the Saintess.

The Red Dust Devil Palace could do nothing about his identity as a Three Origins Sect disciple, but they would surely vent their anger upon the Golden Blade Sect—

After all, the Golden Blade Sect was the local tyrant here, and it was they who had brought Li Xiao into the mineral vein.

By then, the Golden Blade Sect would have only two paths:

Either be crushed beneath the fury of the Red Dust Devil Palace, or attach themselves to Li Xiao and seek a path to survival beneath the protection of the Three Origins Sect.

And so long as Li Xiao displayed sufficient strength next, letting the Golden Blade Sect see that following him was not a dead end but would instead bring