By the time Zheng Gu's shout rang out, it was already too late. Zuo Jiayi was dead.
After arriving, Zheng Gu glanced down at Zuo Jiayi's corpse on the ground, then fixed his gaze on Huang Xiao. "Huang Xiao, you slaughter the hall's disciples so indiscriminately. Do you have any regard for the hall's rules?"
"Under the hall's rules, those who defy their superiors may be killed on the spot. These people spoke insolently and even tried to murder me. What was wrong with me killing them?" Huang Xiao said calmly.
Zheng Gu had not expected Huang Xiao to remain so composed. He was a Regent Elder, after all.
"Even so, you should have handed them over to the hall for punishment," Zheng Gu said coldly.
"What? Are you criticizing me, Elder Zheng?" Huang Xiao stared at Zheng Gu disdainfully. "If I hadn't had some strength, wouldn't they have done me in just now? Speaking of which, you were right at the entrance to the Forced Labor Camp, Elder Zheng. Why didn't you come and lend me a hand? Or were you enjoying the show too much?"
For a moment, Zheng Gu was at a loss for words. That question really was difficult to answer. He could hardly say he had wanted to watch Huang Xiao make a fool of himself.
Now, he had failed to see Huang Xiao made a laughingstock and had become one himself instead.
And that Zuo Jiayi had actually been so useless. He had misjudged him.
But he had misjudged this brat even more. He had not expected the brat's strength to have improved so much, nor had he expected Huang Xiao to kill Zuo Jiayi on the spot.
In his view, even if Huang Xiao really could defeat Zuo Jiayi, he would at most