The fighting really had become vicious.
Qiu Wuji's earlier battle had actually been extremely dangerous. That had been the Female Protagonist and the Heavenly Dao fighting together against nothing more than an imprint left by the Heavenly Emperor. If the screen adaptation's release hadn't happened to give them a boost, it was hard to say whether the Heavenly Dao's power would even have been enough.
As for Yan Qianlie...
Outside the plot, he had fought his way forward alone, defeating stronger opponents time and again, killing people, seizing treasures, stealing cultivation techniques, and plundering resources on his own. He had forced his way into the Profound Immortal level and even gathered a band of followers.
Word had already spread through the Heavenly Realm that the "Blazing Flame Demon Lord" had risen in the far south.
Though Chu Ge had provided an overarching direction to fall back on, it still had to be said that the Demonic Path's Little Flame was terrifying indeed.
Chu Tiange naturally knew nothing of this. He did, however, remember "Taibai Jinxing" saying some days earlier that he had sent a Profound Immortal to find Qiu Wuji. He wondered how that had gone...
In fact, nothing had happened. The face-slapping Chu Ge had arranged for her emergence from seclusion had yet to begin.
The Profound Immortal sent out was still searching everywhere in the city where Qiu Wuji had first set foot. So far, he had only found the cave-abode guesthouse she had rented. Apparently, the lease was about to expire, and the city administrators were wondering whether, since this man was probably an acquaintance of hers, they ought to ask him for the rent...
Nor was he the only target lined up for humiliation. There were people from both Buddhism and Daoism, and everything would erupt