Pan Long changed direction. He had flown only a short distance when he spotted something worth stepping in for.
Outside a town below, a band of Greenwood fighters surrounded several Imperial Court experts and cut them down. The others then strode away, but one young man stayed behind, eyes red as he shouted and hacked wildly at a corpse. It seemed he could not ease the hatred in his heart until he had ground his enemy's bones to dust and scattered the ashes.
"That won't do," Pan Long muttered. He reached out, and Heaven and Earth Essence formed an invisible giant claw that seized the young man and tossed him aside.
The young man froze. Only then did he come back to himself from his fury. He glanced around in alarm and confusion, then turned and left.
Pan Long smiled and nodded. "That's more like it. However great the grudge, you should settle it with the living. What's the point of whipping a corpse once your enemy is dead? You're only wasting time, and you might end up paying for it yourself."
As for which side was right or wrong, he had no wish to ask.
So long as these Greenwood fighters had not harmed the townspeople, Pan Long would not interfere in their fight with the government's experts.
If anything, given where he stood, he would help them subdue those government experts if he did intervene.
He had accepted Cang Yuan's token, but he had no intention of working for the Imperial Court of Great Xia.
With that matter settled, Pan Long was about to set off again when an earth-shaking boom came from the direction of the Divine Capital.
He turned. The entire Divine Capital seemed to tremble, and without the white pillar of light rising from the