Feeling the gaze the young girl cast his way, even as a member of the Heavenly Court's Sky-Patrol Bureau,
Xu Ming could not help but take a step back, a lingering fear still gripping his heart.
By rights, with his status in the Heavenly Court's Sky-Patrol Bureau, ordinary cultivators would not dare make any rash moves even if given ten times the courage.
But the Nine Provinces were vast, and what they lacked least were hotheaded fools who refused to follow the rules.
Over the years he had served in the Sky-Patrol Bureau, he had heard more or less about unlucky colleagues who, while handling matters outside, had run into such fools.
Even after displaying the Heavenly Court's insignia, they had still been beaten without mercy.
Such tales made fine drinking fodder among colleagues in ordinary times.
But who would have thought he would become one of the parties involved?
Though he knew the girl before him most likely would not act rashly, but... what if she did?
Besides, this girl looked downright feral!
At that thought,
Xu Ming hurriedly raised both hands. There was no trace left of an immortal's bearing as he repeatedly said, "Wait... calm down first... calm down."
Yet upon hearing that,
Jiang Yuechu merely kept a calm expression and murmured, "Calm down..."
After burning through so much Dao Cultivation, how was she supposed to calm down?!
It might have looked as though she had wiped out Ji Bochang in an instant, but the reserves she had consumed were far more than merely ten million years of Dao Cultivation.
The might of a Painting-Realm Great Demon could not be underestimated after all.
After expending ten million years of Dao Cultivation, even with the support of three Heavenly-Grade Dao Chess pieces,
her powerful body had still begun