"Why did I hear someone bad-mouthing me the moment I arrived?" Wu Shaozhen asked coldly, looking at the elders.
"No, absolutely not!"
"How could we, Lord Dustseal? You must have misheard!"
The elders shook their heads frantically. All their righteous indignation from moments ago had vanished, replaced by fear.
Although they had plenty of complaints about Wu Shaozhen in private, they certainly weren't going to admit it to his face. They hadn't forgotten that the man before them slaughtered God-tier Otherworldly Demons as easily as chickens and ducks-one swing, one kill.
They didn't consider themselves much stronger than those Otherworldly Demons. If they really angered him, he could send them to their graves with a flick of his hand, and then they'd have nowhere to turn.
"I'd better have misheard. If I find out anyone dared bad-mouth me behind my back, I won't mind sending him off to his next life early!" Wu Shaozhen said coldly.
All the elders shuddered and hurriedly replied.
"We wouldn't dare! Absolutely not!"
Watching the elders' theatrical change in attitude, Feng Yan shook her head speechlessly, then turned to Wu Shaozhen.
"It's good that you're back. Things are terrible right now. If you hadn't come back soon, the Human Race probably couldn't have held on..."
"It's that bad?" Wu Shaozhen asked in surprise.
"Yes. Our string of major victories, combined with you taking the Otherworldly Demons' Ten Thousand Beasts City, gave the Human Race tremendous confidence. So we followed your suggestion. Each main city selected some adventurers to join the hunts for Otherworldly Demons, hoping to strengthen them as quickly as possible.
"Things went well at first. Our attacks really did catch the Otherworldly Demons off guard, and we won quite a few battles. But they soon launched a counterattack, and this time, we finally