I will leave and let you live.
That also meant, if I stayed, you would certainly die.
Dead silence hung over the beach.
Not just Tong Yan and Zhuo Rusui-even Liu S sui was somewhat startled.
Everyone knew Jing Jiu was the most confident, even narcissistic, person there was; even Shen Yunmai could only bow to his superiority in that regard.
But today he faced the Green Mountain Patriarch, Shen Green Mountain.
The Green Mountain Sect had begun with him; even the Cultivation World of the Chaotian Continent had truly begun with him. Moreover, Jing Jiu had not even found a way to escape the Heaven-Bearing Sword's control yet, and was like a weak, dying patient.
How could he defeat Shen Green Mountain in such a state? Zhao Layue recalled how, before the warship's floor-to-ceiling window, Jing Jiu had once said he had thought of a method before his ascension... Was that true?
Shen Green Mountain paid no heed to Jing Jiu's confidence. "What makes you think I will agree to your terms?"
"They say that however powerful a life may be, after passing through long years and gradually growing old, its fear of death will lessen considerably. I haven't reached that point, so I don't know what it feels like. But you are indeed extremely old, and it is possible that you truly don't fear death."
Jing Jiu said, "Then let me offer different terms. Give me that method, and I will let her live."
Everyone's gaze fell beside Zhao Layue.
Flower Creek stood quietly there, as though unaware she had now become a hostage.
Shen Green Mountain looked at Flower Creek without speaking.
"Why have I kept her with me all this time?"
Jing Jiu coughed twice, then continued softly, "Precisely for this moment."
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