As time passed, the crowd's words grew increasingly heated, while Fang Dong's patience had reached its breaking point.
Most of the rogue cultivators were neither righteous nor evil to begin with. Had the Enforcement Hall's people not been there, they probably would have flayed Fang Dong alive already.
Yet Fang Dong seemed utterly blind to the situation he faced, declaring arrogantly, "You'd better not push me too far, or you'll have hell to pay."
At those words, Su Jiu's gaze darkened slightly. At a time like this, even a cultivator who lacked intelligence would know to show weakness and beg for mercy, not provoke others.
So this man likely did have something to fall back on that let him act without fear.
Su Jiu glanced at Xia Jue nearby and was about to tell him, but before she could speak, his voice transmission sounded in her sea of consciousness. "Be careful from here on."
Su Jiu nodded. That made sense. If even she had noticed the problem, how could her senior brother have failed to detect anything...
Seeing Fang Dong remain obstinate, someone finally lost patience and pointed at him. "Why waste so many words on him? The Enforcement Hall has him bound anyway. Even if we kill him outright, he probably won't have any room to fight back."
At that, a glimmer of excitement appeared in Fang Dong's eyes. "You really intend to attack me?"
Someone sneered. "And what could you do if we did? Even your dao companion has given up on you. Who do you think could still help you?"
When Xiao Yan heard them mention her, her somewhat numb expression shifted. She opened her mouth as though to refute the speaker, but remembering Fang Dong's attitude toward her made her close it again.
She could not