Outside the bookshop.
Wang Ba stood before the entrance, his gaze deep and unfathomable as he looked at Bao An.
Before him, although Jia Ten Five had clearly grown much thinner than he had been some days ago, his Second-Tier High Grade presence had only grown stronger.
His sharp beak and spike-like claws, in particular, sent a chill through anyone who saw them.
Though he was the most commonplace of Spirit Chickens, he gave off an unmistakable sense of extreme danger.
Cold sweat was already pouring down Shopkeeper Lao's face beside Bao An.
He had thought he was merely helping the steward make a little money. Who could have imagined the situation would suddenly become so tense?
An undeserved calamity! What an undeserved calamity!
Shopkeeper Lao felt like crying.
If a fight broke out, two Foundation Establishment cultivators exchanging blows might not destroy the entire market, but his bookshop would be very difficult to save.
Not just the bookshop, but his own little life as well.
Bao An, too, found himself riding a tiger he could not dismount.
He had assumed this honest-looking cultivator would be just like the others before him, easily intimidated and manipulated into obediently handing over Spirit Stones to buy his way out of trouble. That was why he had allowed his greed to rise.
Yet he had never imagined that a Foundation Establishment Early Stage rogue cultivator would suddenly produce a Second-Tier High Grade Spirit Beast!
It was comparable to the Foundation Establishment late stage!
Admittedly, limited in their access to Law Techniques, Law Artifacts, Talismans, and other means, Spirit Beasts were often weaker than cultivators of the same grade.
But however weak it might be, a Second-Tier High Grade beast still held a considerable advantage against a Foundation Establishment middle-stage cultivator like him.
*Damn