"Since you have no objections, then... offer up your heads."
Seeing this, Ju Que nodded slightly, as though merely announcing an established fact.
He slowly raised the seemingly ordinary three-foot azure blade in his hand.
However, just before the blade fell—
"Senior, please wait!"
A calm voice rang out.
Ju Que paused slightly and glanced toward Gu Sheng, who had spoken.
Suppressing the intense pain wracking his body, Gu Sheng cupped his hands toward Ju Que, his tone neither servile nor overbearing.
"This beast bears a blood feud with me. He destroyed my family and abducted my biological father. I beg Senior to leave him to me, so I may deal with him personally and comfort the spirits of my Gu Family clansmen who have passed on!"
Ju Que looked at the determined resolve in Gu Sheng's eyes, then at the wounds split open across his body and his still-upright figure. A trace of contemplation flashed through his eyes. He then shifted slightly aside, making room for half a step, and said blandly.
"Very well."
He did not move completely aside, clearly remaining wary of Xiao Beixuan's possible final counterattack.
But this opportunity and attitude were precisely what Gu Sheng wanted.
Ju Que raised a hand and lightly waved it toward Gu Sheng and Xiao Beixuan.
In the next instant, beneath everyone's stunned gazes, Gu Sheng and Xiao Beixuan vanished from where they stood as though they were reflections in a mirror!
"What happened?!"
"Where did they go?!"
"Lord Sword Master, this..."
From the direction of Great Desolation City, an elderly man who was clearly one of its higher-ups spoke anxiously.
Ju Que gazed calmly at a point in the void, his voice spreading in all directions.
"There is no need for alarm. I have placed the two of them