Before his words had even faded, the Bell Tower beside Jiang Xuan began gathering power again, endless deathly intent surging and converging within it.
He was not threatening him. He was genuinely preparing to strike.
The sight chilled Jimo Luo to the bone, leaving him utterly speechless.
"You fucking... you're insane!" Jimo Luo's mentality completely collapsed, and he began cursing furiously. "Those Cultivators from the Southeastern Province are right beside us! They're your real enemies! I already said I wouldn't interfere, yet you still came looking for trouble with me!"
He truly had not expected Jiang Xuan to be mad enough to this extent.
On the other side, the Southeastern Province Cultivators' impression of Jiang Xuan was quietly changing as well.
"Jiang Xuan may indeed be arrogant and overbearing, but one thing must be said—he doesn't put on airs. When something happens, he truly dares to step up!"
Whether they were prodigies of the Demonic Sect or geniuses of the Southeastern Province, before setting foot upon Starfall Lake today, they had all harbored the same deeply rooted assumption: Jiang Xuan and the others, who had traveled from the distant Northern Heavenly Domain, were merely a group of down-and-out passersby. In this foreign land filled with enemies on every side, they occupied an absolute disadvantage.
And since they were at a disadvantage, they should lower their heads, swallow their arrogant bearing whole, tuck their tails between their legs, and proceed with utmost caution.
It was precisely with such lofty arrogance that Yuwen Cheng had dared to lightly insult the female Cultivators of the Divine Firmament Sect, while Jimo Luo had dared to so haughtily "bestow" upon them the illusory position of Buddha Son.
In their expectations, Jiang Xuan and the others were merely trapped beasts surrounded by the Southeastern Province,