Seeing Xu Taiping look his way, the man suddenly patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile:
"I was only joking, Brother Qi."
The man turned to glance into the town, then continued:
"Let's go. The Demon Emperor has issued his decree. No one in this town can be left alive."
"Even if you wanted to save them, you couldn't!"
Hearing this, Xu Taiping's heart jolted, and he thought:
Could this be the final test of choice the Thirteen Seats set for me in this act?
Xu Taiping glanced at the girl below, his brows drawing together slightly, and thought:
Would a villain like Qi Zhou truly stake his life on a girl he had only recently met?
To Xu Taiping's surprise, however, this act required no choice from him at all. After the other Demon-Nurturer put this question to Qi Zhou, a line of blood appeared across that Demon-Nurturer's neck.
At that same moment, the long saber in Qi Zhou's hand returned to its scabbard with a "clink."
Then Xu Taiping became a spectator once more and heard Qi Zhou give a thoroughly impatient snort:
"Who the hell do you think you are? You think you're fit to tell me what to do?"
As soon as he said this, a great gush of blood sprayed from the line across the Demon-Nurturer's neck with a wet spurt.
Then, his eyes filled with terror and fury, the male Demon-Nurturer's head toppled backward from his neck and struck the ground.
He became a headless corpse.
Without so much as glancing at the man, Qi Zhou turned and leaped down from the gate tower, snorting as he did:
"After this battle, there's a Heavenly Calamity Demon Seed waiting for me. I'd have to be an idiot to save that filthy girl