The clearing fell deathly silent, so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
But inside, the hearts of everyone from the Red Beauty Adventurer Squad, including Tang Ni and Xia Qing, were in turmoil.
"Let the Five Poison Sect know that it was I, Jiang Jichen, who killed you all!"
That declaration, combined with the sight of him blasting the Early-stage Foundation Establishment Cultivator with the Cyan Snake Pattern into a bloody mist...
It was an act of such overwhelming dominance, such heroic grandeur, that it left them all stunned into silence.
"Young Master Jiang, you don't have to take all this on yourself for our sake!"
Tang Ni was the first to regain her composure, her expression complex as she spoke.
She knew Jiang Jichen had done this so they wouldn't be implicated, and she was deeply moved.
They were strangers who had only met by chance, yet Jiang Jichen was willing to go this far for them.
