To everyone watching, the man on the ground looked as though he was faking an injury to extort someone.
After all, his leg was not even bleeding. To the onlookers, it appeared perfectly intact, so how could he possibly be injured?
Had this Heavenly Dawn Sect disciple known what the others thought of him, however, he would probably have sung a lament about suffering an injustice like Dou E.
What he was feeling now was simply beyond an ordinary person's understanding.
He had no idea why, but his calf hurt. It hurt terribly, as though needles had exploded inside it.
After the pain came numbness and stiffness, until he could no longer move it at all.
Yet aside from using his divine sense to look inward and discovering that the meridians in his leg had frozen, he could detect nothing else.
By now, however foolish he might be, he knew someone must have attacked him covertly.
But the others were still fighting furiously, and clearly none of them would spare their injured companion so much as an extra glance. To them, dealing with these two female cultivators mattered far more than caring for a companion.
After all, bullying Azure Tide Sect disciples earned them reward money when they returned to their sect.
Su Jiu pressed her lips together. The Heavenly Dawn Sect's fellowship is as fake as ever.
Her original plan to use this man to stop the others had clearly fallen through.
Her gaze darkened, and before long, several more streams of ice spiritual qi shot from her hands toward the others in quick succession.
The same calf, in the same spot.
Perhaps only when they were attacked themselves would they notice that someone nearby was secretly helping the two female cultivators.
The ringleader forced himself to his feet