"You dare!"
The furious shout echoed through the Vermilion Robe Building. Zhao Heng and the Divine Constables snapped back to their senses, staring at Meng Qi in shock and disbelief.
The "Mad Saber" Su Meng, who had always wandered free as a cloud, carefree and indifferent to power, actually wanted to become Chief Constable!
Meng Qi looked at Cui Yan and Song Shouren and gave a derisive laugh. "Why shouldn't I dare?"
Why shouldn't he dare? A rush of heat shot straight to Cui Yan's head, turning his face faintly red. His eyes blazed with fury.
How many years had it been? How many years since anyone had dared speak to him like that? Even Grandmasters from the top powers would never dare speak so boldly. Did he think the Pingjin Cui Clan was a paper tiger?
How dare a junior act so insolently! Cui Yan was about to rebuke him when he suddenly met Meng Qi's calm, unreadable gaze. A thought flashed through his mind, and the words caught in his throat.
The man before him was none other than the "Mad Saber" Su Meng!
He had personally slain a peak Exterior Scenery expert wielding a divine weapon. He wasn't a Great Grandmaster, yet he was every bit as formidable as one!
The Cui Family had peak Exterior experts, a divine weapon they were compatible with, a protective formation, and the strength of a quasi-Dharmakaya. They didn't fear Dharmakayas—but that was when defending their territory. A quasi-Dharmakaya had no intelligence of its own and needed to be directed; its mobility was poor, and its range limited. A peak Exterior expert with a compatible divine weapon could defeat the "Mad Saber" Su Meng, but might not be able to kill him. In other words, unless the "Mad Saber" went mad