"Shi Hao, come back with us."
Seeing Shi Hao appear, the Shi Clan elder immediately spoke again, his tone brooking no refusal.
"You've already taken my Supreme Bone. Is there anything else on me that catches your eye?" Shi Hao said calmly, his voice laced with mockery.
Hearing this, the Shi Clan elder frowned slightly. After pondering for a moment, he spoke again. "What happened back then was indeed going too far. The clan can compensate you..."
"There's no need for compensation. I'm doing quite well here. The waters of the Shi Clan run too deep—they have no room for trash like me..." Shi Hao's expression remained placid, without the slightest ripple.
"This is not up to you. Take him away."
As Shi Hao's words fell, the Shi Clan elder's expression darkened further. Seeing that soft tactics would not work, he no longer wasted words on Shi Hao and waved to the several people accompanying him.
At his command, they stepped forward again and made their moves, intending to forcibly take Shi Hao back.
"Shi Hao is now a disciple of my Falling Cloud Sect. If he refuses, no one will take him away!"
Before they could approach, however, Liu Zhengyang stepped forward and blocked Shi Hao from view. With a casual raise of his hand, he stopped them all.
At this sight, the Shi Clan elder's face sank completely. He said coldly, "You are merely in the True Dharma Realm. Do you truly intend to entangle yourself in this karma?"
"Good heavens, your sect master is only in the True Dharma Realm, yet he dares to go head-to-head with the Shi Clan? Is he really that fearless?"
At that moment, in an inconspicuous corner, Zhang Tianming watched the scene unfold and could not help asking Mo Shang beside him.