However, just as he rushed to the gate—
"Creak—"
A grand tutor's chair stood squarely in the middle of the path.
Bai Tang San sat in the chair.
Holding that ledger he never seemed to finish, he casually turned a page by the moonlight.
"Where are you going?"
Two words.
Without the slightest emotional fluctuation.
Yet they instantly cooled half of Ma Hongjun's raging evil fire.
"Uh... Boss?"
Ma Hongjun shrank back. Before this imposing benefactor, he instinctively felt afraid.
"Well... I'm going into the city... to take care of something."
"Take care of something?"
Bai Tang San closed the ledger and raised his head.
Those dark golden eyes gleamed with a chilling light in the night.
They swept over Ma Hongjun from head to toe.
As though he were looking at a pile of non-recyclable trash.
"Are you going to some filthy brothel, looking for women to vent yourself on like a dog in heat?"
Boom!
Those words were too vicious.
They tore away every shred of Ma Hongjun's pretense.
Ma Hongjun's face turned liver color, filled with shame and fury.
"Y-You watch your mouth!"
"I'm doing this to stay alive!"
"This is a Martial Soul defect! Other than finding women, what else can I do? Should I just let myself burn to death?"
Ma Hongjun shouted.
This was the pain he would carry forever.
If he had a choice, who would want others pointing at them and calling them lecherous?
Bai Tang San did not get angry.
He merely rose to his feet and walked step by step toward Ma Hongjun.
"Excuses."
"Nothing but excuses from the weak."
Bai Tang San extended a finger and poked Ma Hongjun's fat chest.
"A top-tier Beast Martial Soul—the Fire Phoenix."
"The king of all birds, a beast of good fortune."
"What