Good grief, this lousy Spirit Boat was an absolute nightmare! They were holding us responsible, but not saying a word about the Luo Household provoking us?
"What do you want, then?" Wen Xu pulled Chen Zui and Chunchou back and tossed the insolent servant in his hand onto the floor. "I've seen enough today. This isn't a Spirit Boat at all. It's a pirate ship!"
Steward Chang also thought the elder's favoritism was far too blatant, but he didn't dare speak up. Elder Yu was merely a guest elder of the merchant company and was on excellent terms with the Luo Household. How could a lowly steward like him presume to tell a Nascent Soul True Lord what to do? He prayed silently for the matter to end quickly. He had no wish to shoulder the blame.
"Surrender and apologize to the young master of the Luo Household. If we confirm you haven't stolen any spiritual treasure, you'll be free to go once we disembark. Your lives will be spared."
His fists clenched. "Is Jingyuan City a bandits' den? This is going too far!" They had come all this way without encountering anyone who bullied people so brazenly!
"Then let's see what a True Lord can do!"
A Nascent Soul Cultivator? He'd never fought one before. Before Bian Chunchou could move, his two friends, one wielding a saber and the other a sword, attacked in perfect accord. Seeing how the people around them were behaving, he immediately drew talismans to guard his friends' flanks. He'd like to see who dared strike from the shadows!
Elder Yu was at the Nascent Soul Early Stage. On this continent, Nascent Soul Cultivators were fully capable of standing on their own. As mentioned earlier, even the lords of remote cities were, at most, Nascent