Geng Wuwang's glare made Xiao Ruyun spring to his feet at once. He bowed deeply to Lu Ye. "Junior Brother Lu, I was looking down on you with dog eyes. You're a magnanimous man—please don't stoop to my level."
He was a Tier Five True Lake Realm cultivator, yet he lowered himself so much. His sincerity was plain to see.
Besides, there had never been any grudge between him and Lu Ye. Their clash had merely been one of differing approaches at the time, so Lu Ye naturally would not hold onto it.
"You're too serious, Senior Brother. I'm simply used to acting alone, and some circumstances at the time weren't easy to explain. You stopped me out of goodwill as well."
Xiao Ruyun grinned at Lu Ye. "Junior Brother Lu, you really know how to talk!"
As for the circumstances Lu Ye said were hard to explain, he must have meant the Exotic Treasure capable of breaking Ning Hu's Divine Sense. After all, they had never seen such a thing. Even if Lu Ye had said he possessed such a treasure at the time, it might not have accomplished much.
Compared to the disparity between them and Ning Hu, no one would place their hopes on an Exotic Treasure they had never even heard of and whose effects they did not understand.
"What are you laughing at?" Geng Wuwang reprimanded them with a stern face. "When the Law Enforcement Squad carries out missions abroad, they advance and retreat together, live and die together. That has been a rule set down by the Law Enforcement Division since its earliest days. What angers me isn't that you stopped Junior Brother Lu—it's that after Junior Brother Lu took action, none of you followed him immediately!"
His gaze swept across them, and everyone