Pan Long naturally couldn't hear the conversation between the two Longevity Bearers in the sky.
After returning to the ground, he watched the people of South Xia City gradually recover from their panic. Yet they still hurried home, afraid to remain outside. The once-bustling city had emptied in an instant, its streets like a ghost realm, and he couldn't help feeling a rush of emotion.
"No wonder those righteous masters like to take their fights into the wilderness. When the powerful clash, innocent people get caught up in it far too easily!"
He and the three Cang Family masters had made a deliberate effort to avoid harming bystanders. Even when the three had ambushed him, they had taken care to avoid the uninvolved people nearby. Later, they had fought in the sky, at least two hundred zhang above the ground.
Two hundred zhang was hardly close, but it still wasn't far enough.
Their earlier fighting had not affected the ground in the slightest. But when Pan Long unfurled the Golden Crow Lì Fire Banner and released the solar flames it had accumulated over countless years, South Xia City had instantly fallen within the attack's reach.
If Pan Long had not struggled to turn the attack aside, that pillar of fire stretching between heaven and earth might have struck South Xia City!
Of course, judging by what happened afterward, "Drunken Immortal" Chen Yan had probably been protecting the innocent in secret all along. Even if the pillar of fire had descended, he would certainly have stopped it before it turned several streets, or even a small part of South Xia City, into a sea of flames.
But recalling that heart-stopping moment still left Pan Long shaken.
"If that blast had struck... the people of South Xia City would have suffered for