The Ruthless City Lord's words immediately caused everyone's expressions to change drastically.
As they looked at Qin Shaofeng and the other four standing behind the Ruthless City Lord, their faces alternated between green and white.
Those who had originally thought that stepping forward to quickly rein in their own people would let them profit looked the worst of all.
Sun Qiliang, Zha Xiaoqi, and Tian Ling'er's circumstances naturally left no room for their suspicions.
Yet they could all sense that there was something unusual about Qin Shaofeng and Luo Yan's identities.
Especially as Qin Shaofeng continued entering seclusion, they had directed more and more of their probing methods at Luo Yan.
If they truly were from Ruthless City, then so be it.
But if things were really as they suspected...
They truly might vomit blood and die.
The Ruthless City Lord did not say much; his words were mainly a warning to the others.
Once he finished speaking, the experts from Ruthless City's various major factions began to speak in turn.
With every word they uttered, they released their cultivation auras.
The terrifying cultivation auras frightened everyone once again.
After this series of threats, the people from those so-called major factions immediately turned ashen-faced.
One after another, they began to resent their ancestors inwardly. Why had their forebears not explained the situation here more clearly when they told them about it?
If they had known from the beginning that they needed to rely on Ruthless City's strength, they would have quietly hidden themselves earlier.
That way, they too could have counted themselves as people with backers.
But now, they had directly fallen into a helpless and isolated predicament.
If everyone had exposed themselves, they would not have felt so miserable now. What truly infuriated them was this!
Yet no matter