"Why are you calling me?" Dugu Lin clutched her chest, putting on a heartbroken look of regret. "Ah! What a pity. I was just this close to catching that guy."
"I will remember what happened today," Su Wan said flatly.
"Ah, you're not going to pin your failure on me, are you?" Dugu Lin asked in mock alarm. "I can't bear that responsibility."
In midair not far away, Hua Yu Nu finally confirmed that there was no poison at all in his wounds. It was merely some medicine that caused itching, yet it had frightened him into hovering in the air for half the day, afraid that moving would make the poison spread faster.
At the thought, Hua Yu Nu felt a stifling rage lodged in his chest. He had once fought a Golden Core cultivator head-on. With such a glorious record, he had actually been scared by some nobody who had popped out of nowhere, frozen in place for ages by fake poison.
"This is... this is utterly preposterous!!"
It was as though he could feel all the cultivators around him laughing at him. He clearly had not been poisoned, yet he had floated stupidly in midair without daring to move, giving the other side a perfect chance to rescue someone and leave.
"You two are dignified Foundation Establishment cultivators, yet you couldn't even catch some unknown nobody... You're really something!!" Hearing Dugu Lin and Su Wan still bickering nearby, Hua Yu Nu could no longer hold back the anger in his heart.
"Hua Yu Nu, I gave you face only for your master's sake. Do you really think this old lady is afraid of you?" Dugu Lin suddenly turned and fixed him with a stare.
"Or do you really think you're qualified to discipline us?" Dugu Lin's eyes