"Who pushed me?"
Zhang Yuan's expression turned exceedingly ugly. He whipped around and fixed a hard stare on Deng Bai, who stood rooted to the spot, looking at a loss.
He had sensed someone crashing toward him well in advance. Had he wished, he could easily have let Deng Bai stumble past him, or even sent Deng Bai flying instead.
But under this pressure, remaining completely unmoved after being struck-and even sending Deng Bai flying-would have looked suspicious to anyone with eyes. The Azure Nether Immortal Sect's elders might well have noticed something.
Deng Bai said with an innocent expression, "Brother, I didn't mean it. Aren't you perfectly fine? Besides, you even managed to take a few more steps..."
When Deng Bai had been found to possess a mid-grade wood immortal spirit root, Zhang Yuan had ignored him. When he had been the second to leave the Bamboo Grove in the first trial, Zhang Yuan, the last to emerge, had still ignored him without offering a single word of flattery. Deeply displeased, Deng Bai had hatched a venomous scheme: make Zhang Yuan take a few more steps forward and let the pressure crush him to death.
"Who said we were brothers? Get lost," Zhang Yuan said coldly.
Deng Bai had done it deliberately, hoping to use the Dao Domain Fragment to kill him. Had Zhang Yuan been a mortal like the others, those few extra steps would already have left him crushed against the ground. Even if he survived, he would have been crippled.
Damn it, to think the Mountain-Sea Profound Yellow Realm had someone this vicious. I'll kill Deng Bai tonight.
Deng Bai's face alternated between green and white. He secretly ground his teeth, filled with regret when he saw that Zhang Yuan was still perfectly fine.
Had he