No sooner had Zhang Xing finished speaking than he angered one of the heroes beside him.
"Dragonhead Zhang is certainly right to want someone with higher cultivation and greater skill in flight as the formation's focal point. But with me standing right here, why would we need Heroine Bai to act?" Xiong Bonan spoke first, beating Zhou Xingfan to a response. "If we brought her in, wouldn't that make it seem as though our Exorcising the Dragon Gang had no capable men?"
Zhang Xing naturally looked sheepish.
It really was not that he looked down on the Purple-Faced Heavenly King. He had simply forgotten him.
To put it plainly, things had been going increasingly smoothly for Master Zhang San lately, and not a single person in the gang dared contradict or defy him... truly, no one contradicted him. Li Shu, Wei Xuanding, Xu Shiying, Dan Tonghai-not one made a peep... and so, naturally enough, his head had drifted into the clouds.
At a moment like this, he instinctively felt that if someone other than Master Zhang San was to take the lead, it would be his beloved. How would he ever think of the diligent, conscientious Purple-Faced Heavenly King?
As for why he had not brought Bai Yousi along in the first place, that came down to another petty thought.
Of course, Zhang Sanlang had always corrected his mistakes once he recognized them-or rather, he knew how to reflect on himself. Hearing this, he immediately wiped away a sheen of sweat and changed tack. "Well said, Heavenly King Xiong. If you don't mind the toil, we have every need of your might!"
With that, Zhang Xing carried his sword back to the center of the formation, let his sweat subside, then concentrated on releasing his true qi.
Meanwhile, Xiong Bonan