"Do you have no warrior's honor at all?" Xuan Lan roared in fury, veins bulging across his face as his massive body shook violently. "The will to fight unto death, the resolve never to yield, the determination to slaughter the enemy completely even when facing certain doom—do you two weak little ants not possess even a shred of a warrior's dignity?"
Windlistener and Thunderbolt looked at Xuan Lan as if he were an idiot. Windlistener declared loudly, "We archers of Purple Cedar Island are believers in the wind, sons of freedom, the very embodiment of unrestrained liberty. How could we waste our precious lives for that illusory thing called honor?"
Thunderbolt shouted, "Life—free life—that is the most precious thing in this world! Unless our lives or freedom are threatened, we have no reason to fight to the death! Miss Yun is indeed a rare beauty, but... we descendants of the Purple Cedar Family will not fight to the death for a woman—because she is not our woman yet!"
Furious, Xuan Lan hurled the ballista heavily to the ground, smashing a patch of forest to pieces. Puffing with rage, he turned and stomped away, roaring at Lin Qi, "I can't keep fighting! These sly little things injured me, then surrendered! They won't let me eat them—I can't keep fighting! Lin Qi, I hate these little bastards who hop about and refuse to fight head-on!"
With a snort, Xuan Lan strode into the shallows. Clapping his hands together, he swiftly condensed a towering iceberg on the sea's surface. He lazily climbed onto it, stretched comfortably, then lay down and began to snore.
Windlistener and Thunderbolt exchanged a glance. From afar, they bowed deeply to Yun Tianyi. Then Windlistener took a palm-sized wooden ship model from his sleeve and tossed it into the