A fake trade war: stealing secrets, buying up shares, squeezing out competitors, scheming and counter-scheming, each side trading blows.
A real trade war: showing up at your front door!
Ye Fan pointed at Yinglong Tower. "Old Su, they're bullying us right under our noses. Can you stand that?"
"It's time for Ultimate Sublimation."
Su Lin rolled up his sleeves, and his whole body burst into flame.
"Brother, I was joking!"
Sometimes Ye Fan couldn't tell whether this guy was too earnest for his own good or just wanted an excuse to do something huge. Either way, his conscience wouldn't let him off easy.
"I wasn't joking." Su Lin extinguished the Heavenly Flames covering him, which looked just like Soul Flame. "Now let's figure out how to take out that guy and the force behind him."
They didn't need to know why Tony had started fighting that being. Right now, they only needed to understand one thing: an enemy Tony couldn't deal with was highly likely, by the First Law of Plot Transmission, to end up affecting Su Lin too.
Surely the woman on the other side couldn't also be one of Tony's old flames, with a script of lovers trying to kill each other playing out now.
Wait. That wasn't impossible. It sounded kind of interesting.
*...*
Realizing that the likes of Aha, Hong Zhong, and Amon on the street had rubbed off on him, Su Lin reflected on himself and felt one second of guilt toward Teacher Tony.
"What?"
"Nothing."
When he came back to himself, the upheaval in All-Heavens City had transformed it.
From the worlds of every trader who had remained in the city and held a token, doors through the universe and the Void opened, connecting them to this crossroads of myriad worlds.
Any living being