Chen Changming walked into the courtyard and looked at the two of them calmly. "Gongsun Xuan, have you come here to die?"
Seeing "Chen Shan" act so arrogantly, Gongsun Xuan's face turned green, red, and pale with fury. A breath caught in his chest, leaving him so choked up he could not speak.
Gongsun Tie hurriedly tugged Gongsun Xuan's arm and advised, "Brother Xuan, harsh mountains and foul waters breed crafty folk. Chen Shan comes from a godforsaken backwater like the Wilderness. It's only natural for him to be mean-spirited..."
Du Xiaoliang also ran out at that moment and stood shoulder to shoulder with Chen Changming. He frowned at the pair and asked coldly, "What are you here for?"
Whoosh!
The moment he saw Du Xiaoliang, the breath trapped in Gongsun Xuan's chest suddenly escaped. His expression twisted somewhat savagely as he said, "Brother Tie, you have to stand up for me!"
"Brother Xuan, don't worry!" Gongsun Tie let out a strange, sinister chuckle and clenched his iron fist hard, producing a string of crackling sounds like bursting beans.
He scrutinized Chen Changming from head to toe with an unfriendly gaze, then suddenly bared his teeth in a grin. "Chen Shan, I hear your Heavenly Furnace Body-Forging Art stands unmatched beneath the heavens. Do you dare come to the martial stage and test yourself against me?"
Test himself against him?
A faint curve lifted at the corner of Chen Changming's mouth.
Gongsun Xuan had suffered a setback in love, so he had found a helper to beat him up. He had truly calculated wrong.
In the entire Earth Sect of Golden Turtle Island, aside from the Second Patriarch, who could pose a threat to him, everyone else—was nothing.
"Chen Shan, this is Gongsun Tie, Gongsun Xuan's cousin. He's currently using