"Forget it. This is none of my business. I owe you one for tonight. We have to report back, so we're leaving."
With that, he took the heavily injured Zhou Zhicheng, deactivated the Array, and departed.
Qu Qingxian watched the two leave and did nothing more.
Since it was Zhou Zhicheng and his companion who had come tonight—not the City Lord or the Zhou Family's patriarch—he knew it was more of a probe than an outright attack.
The Tier Two, Mastery Level Spirit Nurturing Bead from earlier that day had made the two families realize not only the potential benefits but also the inherent dangers.
If they hadn't already invested so many days and been unwilling to see their efforts go to waste, the two families wouldn't have bothered with a probe at all—they would have gone straight to the Sect.
They could afford to privately befriend an ordinary Spirit Nurturing Master who was just starting out.
