"Forget it. If the old doesn't go, the new won't come. Once I've saved enough contribution points, I'll exchange them for a genuine mid-grade divine weapon."
Divine King Ziyang silently made up his mind. With a flip of his hand, he put away the broken half of his spear, then turned to look at Qin Hao, Li Yunchan, Jing Lie, and the others. When his gaze reached Qin Hao, it instinctively flickered aside...
He looked almost like a thief with a guilty conscience.
He certainly wasn't a thief, but his unease was real. Divine King Ziyang himself didn't know why, yet looking at Qin Hao now filled him with an inexplicable sense of guilt.
And, more faintly still...
A thread of fear welled up from deep within his heart.
It was as though the man before him wasn't an Early-Stage Dao-Origin Divine Lord, but a supreme expert who could easily crush and annihilate him.
As a Reincarnated Great Expert, he has an endless array of tricks, along with several ways to preserve his life. I'd better keep a low profile around him.
Divine King Ziyang muttered inwardly. At that thought, a smile appeared on his face, and he nodded pleasantly to Qin Hao.
However...
That courtesy extended only to Qin Hao.
He completely ignored Jing Lie and the others.
And he could indeed afford to ignore them.
Although Jing Lie and the others were important to this escort mission, as far as Divine King Ziyang was concerned...
They weren't exactly indispensable.
At worst, the mission would fail!
That wouldn't have much of an impact on him.
Qin Hao was different. In Divine King Ziyang's eyes, a Reincarnated Great Expert was certain to become a Divine King in the future—a nail already driven into the board.
He might even have a