Utterly Tragic

In the midst of deathly silence, several martial folk who feared death yet still wanted to gamble for wealth and glory could no longer hold themselves back.

They struggled to raise their heads, crawling and scrambling as they rasped, "My lord—my lord! I know—I know something!"

Dizi's icy gaze swept over them.

"Speak."

The few men shuddered under that gaze and hurriedly said in trembling voices, "Th-this thing is extraordinarily well concealed. Perhaps only that—that unfathomably mysterious master of Rain-Listening Tower knows where it is—"

"The master of Rain-Listening Tower?"

Dizi gave a sinister chuckle. "Good. I'll catch him."

Still chuckling, he suddenly turned and stared straight at Li Muyun, who knelt silently on the ground. Coldly, he said, "Hey, I can feel how unconvinced you are. You even want to challenge me, don't you?"

Li Muyun remained silent, but his body tensed even further.

"Hmph. You have an arrogance about you that makes me very unhappy."

Dizi sneered. "And what I enjoy most is crushing that sort of thing beneath my own hand."

He slowly descended from the sky and landed before those martial folk. Pointing at Li Muyun, he asked, "Who is he? What position does he hold among you?"

The moment they heard this, those people rushed to answer with utmost deference.

"In reply to my lord! His name is Li Muyun. He is the King of Qin who holds Western Liang as his domain, one of the most powerful men in the world today—and one of the strongest martial artists as well!"

"Oh~ so that's how it is."

Dizi said in realization, "So he's an ant leader, leading a pack of little ants."

As he spoke, he strode over to Li Muyun and looked down at him from above.

"Crawl over here."

Dizi's voice brimmed with