"Are you a treasured saber that gained a spirit or something?"
Chen Zui was delighted to hear that. "Aha, you have a good eye. Let's be friends."
"No—" The way his voice cracked showed just how fiercely he refused.
Fortunately, Chen Zui felt that two good friends were enough and did not press him. "All right, then. Mother said I can't hold a saber to someone's throat to make them my friend. Also, I'm a Human Cultivator."
What a terrifying Human Cultivator. The cultivation world really did contain every kind of creature. This was what came of spending all his time holed up in the Rogue Cultivator Alliance. He simply hadn't seen enough of the world.
"Come on, let's keep fighting! Weren't you going to catch me?" Chen Zui was going all out. "If you won't come at me, I'm coming to catch you."
"..." Sometimes, entering the Radiant Dawn Tower Secret Realm alone left a person feeling rather helpless. No one would believe this if he told them. But fine, they would fight. He refused to believe that, using the full extent of his cultivation, he still couldn't take down one little Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivator!
The two soon clashed. Meanwhile, of Bian Chunchou, Xia Ying, and Lin Congcong, only Xia Ying trained with a weapon, so the three fought as a team. One plus one plus one made more than three, after all. Bian Chunchou supported them with talismans; Lin Congcong used earth techniques to surround, wear down, and trap their opponents; and Xia Ying was the team's attacker. None of the three had been at Foundation Establishment for a full year. They knew they could not beat three Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivators in one-on-one fights. But Wen Xu and Chen Zui had already held off