Her brows twisted into a knot, and the vicious fire inside her surged higher and higher.
The Fire Lingzhu's power was draining away by the second. She had no time to waste on this brat.
"Have you gone mute?!" she snapped.
Qing Chen opened his mouth as if to say something, only to double over abruptly, coughing his lungs out. Mouthful after mouthful of black blood trickled from the corners of his mouth and dripped into the Blood Sea.
Seeing his pathetic state, Golden Toad Granny grew even more impatient. Demon Lotus Sect Leader? Deputy Alliance Leader of the Golden Scale Alliance? He amounted to no more than this.
If the High Priest had not instructed her to spare him unless he courted death, she truly would not have minded slapping this idiot dead.
At most, he was a Nascent Soul middle stage cultivator with a body cultivator's brute physical strength thrown in. His combat strength could reach that of a great cultivator at the absolute most.
Those damned Six Demon Banners could not match even a tenth of the Fire Lingzhu's might. Her own peak fourth-tier Golden Toad Gu alone could beat this brat into complete submission.
Just then, a voice rang out from beside her.
"Granny, he's playing you!"
The speaker was none other than Qing Xuansu. The Principal Fourth Rank Qiongzhou Prefecture Vice-Governor was flushed red, his face a picture of righteous indignation.
Seeing Qing Chen standing there half-dead without uttering a word, he had begun turning things over in his mind. Qing Sanxiao had just secretly sent him a Divine Sense message, and its meaning could not have been clearer: seize this chance to crush Qing Chen and pull this thorn from the Qing Household's side.
Besides, Golden Toad Granny had just personally promised that the