As he spoke, Xu Taiping took out the Spirit Mirror used to send messages to the outside world and spun it on his fingertip, his gaze indifferent.
Xiao Moji sneered.
"Your way of humiliating me is to let the Cultivation World see the disgraceful state of its top-ranked Heavenly Prodigy today?"
Xu Taiping shook his head.
"No. My humiliation of you has yet to begin."
Xiao Moji's expression instantly turned cold.
Ye Lingxu, meanwhile, said furiously:
"Xu Taiping, what do you gain by humiliating us before the Cultivation World like this?"
Xu Taiping said calmly:
"I told you, my humiliation of you has yet to begin."
His gaze swept over them before he asked again:
"I'll ask you once more. Are you afraid of dying?"
Ye Lingxu unleashed a torrent of abuse:
"You little bastard! You can chop off your granddaddy's head right now and see whether I so much as furrow my brow!"
Xu Taiping glanced at Ye Lingxu, then turned his gaze to the other cultivators.
After a brief hesitation, those cultivators suddenly begged Xu Taiping for mercy in unison:
"Please spare our lives, Daoist Taiping!"
Ye Lingxu said contemptuously:
"Good-for-nothings!"
Among the cultivators begging Xu Taiping for mercy, a young man with very upright features suddenly addressed him with a fawning expression:
"Daoist Taiping, would you like us to teach this brat a lesson for you?"
Xu Taiping shook his head.
"I have no need for good-for-nothings here, much less good-for-nothings who help me teach others a lesson."
At these words, the cultivators fell as silent as cicadas in winter.
They thought they had said something wrong and displeased Xu Taiping.
To their surprise, however, rather than making things difficult for them, Xu Taiping stepped aside from the doorway behind him.
"You may leave. I've already spoken