I Am the Number One Strongest Under Heaven!

Xuan Zi's face was ashen, like a volcano on the verge of eruption being forcibly held down.

Reason and the admonitions of Yan Shaozhe and the others clashed fiercely in his mind.

Rescuing Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and the others, destroying the Mingdou Mountain Range base, and seizing its heavy weapons—most of the objectives for this trip had already been achieved.

Launching a forceful assault on Ming City carried too much risk, and the price was impossible to estimate. It might even drag the children who had just escaped danger back into a devastating vortex.

He, Xuan Zi, could be fearless, but as Sea God Pavilion Master, he had to take responsibility for all of Shrek.

And yet, he had become the Sea God Pavilion Master, acting on behalf of the Sea God Pavilion, and still had to be this cautious. If word got out that he, Xuan Zi, as Sea God Pavilion Master, was afraid of the Sun Moon Empire, what then?

Would that not become a lifelong disgrace?

The moment he thought of this, Xuan Zi felt as though his pride had been insulted.

What was more, He Caitou had not been brought back either.

How could the prestige of past Sea God Pavilion Masters be allowed to gather dust in his hands?

On his first journey across the continent in the capacity of Pavilion Master, how could it end in such an anticlimax?

"Take the long view? Repay them a hundredfold?"

Xuan Zi sneered inwardly, once again sweeping his gaze over the dense rows of Soul Cannon muzzles on the city wall, gleaming with cold Soul Power, before finally fixing on Xu Tianran's face—a face that was forcing calm yet could not conceal its sinister gloom.

"Hmph! If I don't make them remember this in their bones