At the sight, the Ancestor of the Qi Household and his son Qi Changchun grinned so broadly their faces nearly twisted.
"Sure enough, Xu Taiping botched it. He couldn't even seize the chance to live that the Faceless Tower gave him. Now he'll have a hard time leaving this restaurant alive!"
Qi Changchun whispered, gloating.
"A chance to live? Even if he'd knelt just now, he would still have died!"
The Ancestor of the Qi Household thought nothing of it.
Just then, Xu Taiping, who had remained silent all this time, suddenly shook the filthy blood off his hand with a boom of true essence. Only then did he raise his head to meet Sun Baishou's gaze and say:
"Since you say your Faceless Tower gave me a chance, I'll give you one too."
At those words, Sun Baishou let out a derisive snort.
As though he had heard the greatest joke in the world, he asked Xu Taiping with a comical expression:
"Young Master Xu, just how do you intend to give us a chance?"
Xu Taiping glanced at the stairway behind Sun Baishou, then said, his expression unruffled:
"Go downstairs now. Eat and drink as you please, and I can pretend none of this happened."
Hearing this, Sun Baishou froze for a moment, then doubled over laughing along with the Faceless Ones behind him.
"Young Master Xu, just how did you win the title of Chief?"
Once the laughter stopped, Sun Baishou's expression abruptly turned cold. He then clapped his hands twice, hard-clap, clap-and said:
"Surely you don't think these few people are all the Faceless Tower sent to the banquet today?"
As he spoke, a sudden clatter of shifting tables and chairs rang out.
Then everyone saw at least eighty or ninety people stand up in the