In the original novel, Yixiu had held Qian Kang in contempt, considering him a man who tucked in his head and drew back his tail whenever he acted, hardly worthy of respect. Now, after hearing Qian Kang's words, Ye Bin was utterly speechless too.
Ultimately, whether it was the former Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Xian or the present Black Dragon, the ones most threatened were the people of Evernight City across the sea.
Everyone had come to fight the Demon Dragon for their own reasons, united against a common enemy, but Qian Kang was the local host, effectively the organizer of this gathering. He need not lead every charge, but he could hardly beat the retreat either. At the very least, he ought to offer a plan when something unexpected happened.
Though Qian Kang cultivated the Jade Purity Immortal Arts, he still had the temperament of the unorthodox path. He had spent so long enjoying an immortal's comforts with his family in Evernight City that he could not bear to give up everything he had built.
In his eyes, with Old Man Withered Bamboo's Dao Practice and magical power, even if the elder was temporarily trapped, he would surely break free of the formation in the end and slaughter everything around him.
Qian Kang himself was rather afraid of the Demon Dragon below—chiefly because of the Cold Xian. He had feared the Cold Xian before, knowing that once it survived its ten-thousand-year Great Calamity and cultivated an immortal body, it would inevitably attack Evernight City.
He had not dared come directly to the Bright Realm to fight the Cold Xian, nor had he even dared launch a sneak attack. Instead, he had spent over a century painstakingly refining the Thousand-Petal Divine Thunder Chariot at home. Even after completing it, he still had