Xunshan Old Ancestor swallowed, struggled to prop himself up, and forced a smile uglier than a weeping face. "F-Fellow Daoist of the Li Family, today was all a misunderstanding! There's no enmity between us. Why must you hunt me down to the bitter end? Spare me, and I... I'll reward you handsomely someday."
Li Xuanzong looked down at him with indifferent eyes. "No enmity? You ambushed us here to kill us, and now you claim there's no enmity?"
"I... I was only acting on someone else's behalf!"
Xunshan Old Ancestor spoke urgently, making one last desperate struggle. "The Four Seas Alliance! They promised me a fortune. I had no choice!"
Li Xuanzong sneered. "I can't be bothered with your nonsense."
He raised his fist, ready to smash Xunshan Old Ancestor's head apart.
Yet something seemed to occur to him, and his movement paused.
Thinking Li Xuanzong had changed his mind, Xunshan Old Ancestor rolled his eyes about and was about to beg again.
Instead, Li Xuanzong seized him directly by the throat.
He lifted him straight off the ground.
Xunshan Old Ancestor's eyes widened.
"Y-You..."
Li Xuanzong gave a mocking chuckle. "I'll leave your corpse intact. I do owe that old bastard, after all. A Half-step Divine Mansion Realm body should just about shut him up."
As his words fell,—
Li Xuanzong abruptly tightened his massive hand.
Crack!
Xunshan Old Ancestor's head tilted at an unnatural angle, and his life was extinguished in an instant.
Expressionlessly, Li Xuanzong put Xunshan Old Ancestor's corpse into his Void Ring.
Only after finishing all this did he turn toward the others fighting in the distance.
Meanwhile, on the other side—
When Spirit Shell Daoist and Silver Saber Wanderer saw Li Xuanzong pursuing Xunshan Old Ancestor, they had prepared to help, only for Guhongzi