At those words, Xiao Hua's face instantly turned cold—truly cold, with not a trace of the former calmness left in his tone. "If Fellow Daoist Zhong wishes to try, feel free to make a move. This Xiao is not confident that I can keep my wife safe before a Golden Core cultivator! But this Xiao is confident that I can escape from a Golden Core cultivator's hands. Once this Xiao leaves, aside from the Golden Core cultivators of the Zhong Family of Yun City, whom this Xiao cannot touch, all the other disciples... this Xiao will slaughter them all!!!"
"Are you threatening this old man?" Zhong Tianyao's face was covered in frost. If looks could kill, Xiao Hua would already have been pierced full of holes! The dignity of a Golden Core cultivator was, at this moment, being openly challenged by an early Foundation Establishment cultivator!
"Senior Zhong, did you not see this junior explaining the facts to Fellow Daoist Zhong?" Xiao Hua said word by word. "Everything this junior said is fact. Not a single word was fabricated!"
"Good, good, good!" Zhong Peiyuan laughed in extreme fury and could not help rising to his feet. "Why are all disciples of cultivation sects so big-mouthed? I will not even mention that Golden Core cultivator from earlier, who kept saying he would wipe out my Zhong Family with one hand! Yet a mere early Foundation Establishment cultivator like you dares to act so arrogantly before me! Today, I will risk it all—even if we perish together like jade and stone, so what?"
Xiao Hua sneered. "Words can be spoken carelessly, but hands cannot be stretched out recklessly! Once you make a move... the consequences will be severe!"
Seeing that Xiao Hua was merely speaking without making any move at all, his