"Bati, what the hell are you doing? You actually came back to the Illusion World's mission hall and are loafing around. Have you completed your year-end mission?" As Xia Ping was examining the mission panel, a fierce-looking middle-aged man appeared beside him. His pair of brown eyes were as venomous as a scorpion's.
"This is Jacob, the supervisor of the mission hall."
Bati immediately provided his information from within the Mountain River Bead's space. "He has a very good relationship with Keli. They say Keli deliberately curries favor with him and has given him plenty of gifts in exchange for preferential treatment. Every mission he gets is the easiest kind.
"But I'm different. Since I don't have money to bribe him, he has always been hostile toward me. He can't stand the sight of me and thinks I'm a disgrace to the Illusion Race nobility."
Xia Ping turned around and looked calmly at the middle-aged man.
"What are you looking at? What kind of look is that? You think that just because you advanced to the Return to Truth Realm and got a tiny bit stronger, you can run wild here? Believe it or not, crushing you to death would take no more than a single finger of mine?"
Seeing Xia Ping's calm gaze, Supervisor Jacob immediately felt extremely displeased, as though he had suffered a tremendous insult. A cowardly, weakling like this should have been the shame of the Illusion Race.
Yet he had somehow stumbled upon a little lucky encounter and now wanted a salted fish to turn over. That made Jacob deeply unhappy. He was merely an ant, yet he dared look at him with such eyes.
And he was not joking. With his mid-stage Lightning Tribulation Realm cultivation, he could utterly look down on Bati. Even