Grand Artisan Gu was not obstinately deaf to reason, but anyone confronted out of nowhere by a group declaring that he had committed a crime and must surrender or die would have refused to accept it.
He was no ordinary figure, but an underworld Grand Artisan who ruled over his own territory, a prominent local strongman and leader of a powerful faction. How could he possibly surrender without a fight?
Thus, in his eyes, these were merely petty thieves from somewhere who had heard about the recent events and come to bluff him.
If a dignified Grand Artisan let himself be duped, people would truly laugh their teeth out.
Yet after he struck and killed them, he discovered that every one of them was extraordinary. They might actually have been genuine.
"Employer, Employer!" Just then, several people flew over from afar. They were servants piloting Red Owl mecha.
"Employer, we saw you personally strike down the attackers. Who were those people?"
Grand Artisan Gu looked at the people around him. They were all his trusted followers, so he told them his suspicions.
But he understood human nature and would never reveal the secret that he had provoked Li Chen. He merely said they might have been citizens of some Sky City who had descended to the mortal realm on official business.
"What? Those people might have come from a Sky City?"
"So what if they came from a Sky City? They were merely innate martial artists. People like that are minor figures even in a Sky City. It's nothing serious."
As local strongmen, Grand Artisan Gu and his followers were clearly well informed, unlike ordinary common folk who revered Sky Cities as though they were deities.
Grandmaster Artisans and Primordial Spirit cultivators did indeed stand far above them, but even