Chu Ge was deeply worried.
When a male villain actually escaped, a few joking remarks would not settle things.
He really might cause trouble everywhere and wreak tremendous destruction on this world. He might also expose Chu Ge's secret, leaving him without a moment's peace from then on.
Those worries were exactly why Chu Ge had deliberately added a patch yesterday to reinforce things. This was no joke.
Had the patch come too late?
Even making last-minute changes and adding more patches now would be difficult. After all, no casual patch could turn Yan Qianlie into an obedient little angel who did everything exactly as Chu Ge wanted. That was beyond what a patch could accomplish. Deleting the book and rewriting it might do the trick.
"Don't panic." Qiu Wuji had weathered far more storms, and remained extremely calm. "First, let's assess the situation. He was a severely wounded Primordial Spirit, so he certainly didn't break through the boundary under his own power. Most likely, he took advantage of yesterday's upheaval. Since he'd been watching and pondering the Heavenly Dao all along, he discovered a tiny opening."
Chu Ge took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down. "Right... Besides, even you can't come out in your actual body, so neither could he. But he happened to flee as a Primordial Spirit after your decisive battle, without a body, so his entire Primordial Spirit came out."
Qiu Wuji asked, "How severely did you write him as being wounded?"
Chu Ge shook his head. "I didn't specify it in that much detail. I only said he was recuperating from serious injuries. His next appearance isn't until the next volume, when the people from overseas arrive. He has no part in the hundreds of thousands of words in this volume."
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