"Xie Lang~ Xie Lang-"
The Chivalrous Women and married ladies cheered mischievously from the street-side windows. Inside the tower, the many sect leaders and patriarchs felt considerably reassured after securing Xie Jinhuan's promise to surrender his advantage.
Standing on the rooftop, Xie Jinhuan naturally had to maintain his cold, stern bearing under the scrutiny of all those meddlesome Chivalrous Women and Madam Han, lest he break character.
His purpose in coming was to lay everything out in the open and seize the moral high ground, leaving Misty-Wave City unable to strike at him underhandedly in full public view.
As for competing for the opportunity in a few days, Misty-Wave City had previously held the initiative. They could wait by the stump for the hare wherever the opportunity appeared, and even incite the unaffiliated cultivators to surround and attack him together.
Now that he had voluntarily conceded and would set out late, the Azure Dragon Divine Gift would inevitably fall into the hands of those unaffiliated cultivators. After that, everyone would display their own Divine Abilities in a battle royale, and the opportunity's location would be entirely random.
He could choose to abandon the opportunity and stay inside, or wait for his moment to act. Unless the Nether God Sect camped outside the city gates for him, they would have to chase him all over the place, unable to arrange an ambush beforehand. He would not need to worry about becoming the target of every arrow, either.
But that alone was not secure enough. Xie Jinhuan still had to provide cover for Sister Guo.
Thus, after a brief clamor inside and outside the Mountains and Seas Tower, Xie Jinhuan looked back toward Shang Mingzhen in the second-floor hall and continued:
"Also, when I came to Misty-Wave City a few days ago,