"Fairy Linglong, teach this madman from Wang You Valley a proper lesson!"
"Exactly! Otherwise, these cultivators from Peerless Nether Heaven really will think True Martial Heaven has no one worthy!"
"Fairy Linglong, Liu Changtian insulted your Junior Brother. You can't just let him leave!"
Upon learning that the woman in red was Fairy Linglong, whose fame in the Azure Profound Sect had soared in recent years, the cultivators from True Martial Heaven in the teahouse immediately began shouting, as though they had found their pillar of support.
Naturally, some among them genuinely felt indignant on Xu Taiping's behalf.
But more were simply watching the spectacle and stirring up trouble.
And Zhao Linglong, whose temper blazed like fire, could not be bothered to distinguish sincerity from pretense. All she knew was that since Liu Changtian of Wang You Valley had spoken disrespectfully of her Junior Brother Xu Taiping, she, as his Senior Sister, had to demand an accounting.
"Clang!"
The longsword in Zhao Linglong's hand trembled, and a surge of sword intent shot skyward behind her like a flood dragon taking flight, then crashed heavily down on Liu Changtian of Wang You Valley.
"Boom!"
Under this sword intent, Liu Changtian was forced to summon gang qi to protect himself.
Even so, beneath the pressure of Zhao Linglong's sword intent, Liu Changtian's face turned as white as paper.
At the center of that sword intent, Zhao Linglong's crimson robes fluttered wildly. Amid that terrifying sword intent, she resembled a fiercely burning blaze.
She gave the illusion that anyone who approached would be burned to ashes by that "blaze."
For a moment, every patron in the teahouse, whether from True Martial Heaven or not, backed away, none daring to stand too close to Zhao Linglong.
Meanwhile, some cultivators hostile to the Azure Profound