All five aggregates were clouded.
Death was at their doorstep.
At those words.
Everyone aboard the merchant ship froze.
Then.
A chorus of sarcastic jeers erupted.
"Hahaha!"
Xu Mingyuan could not help laughing. He turned to Zhu Yulin beside him and said, "Brother Zhu, did you hear that? He said death was at our doorstep. Has our Peerless Prodigy of Dongjiang Prefecture been scared witless by my great-uncle?"
"Why is he spouting nonsense?"
Zhu Yulin waved his folding fan, his face equally mocking. "Perhaps the earth-shattering battle over at the Stockade rattled Daoist Master Jiang's mind..."
"He isn't even a Grandmaster, yet after the Mountain Cloud School praised him to the skies, he really thought he was somebody. Now he's come here to play the big shot. I reckon he's already become the Mountain Cloud School's sacrificial pawn."
"But I am curious. What exactly is the Mountain Cloud School bluffing for now? Surely they don't think putting on a show with nothing but their mouths will earn them a share of the Stockade's spoils?"
As for why Jiang Jingnian had survived taking Xu Xuanchong's blow head-on.
Zhu Yulin did not think much of it.
Even a sacrificial pawn.
Had probably been given some protective trump card that came at a tremendous cost.
Such a thing.
Zhu Yulin, who came from a hegemon-level power, had one too.
"Oh, Senior Brother Yulin..."
The young junior sister beside him chimed in again, her voice sweet and coy. "This Peerless Prodigy is a Daoist Master of a great martial sect, after all! Even when beating a dog, you have to consider its master."
She heavily stressed the words "Peerless Prodigy," then covered her mouth and giggled.
"Jiang Jingnian."
Several Xu Family experts joined in the jeering. "Since you say we're doomed, why don't you