"The people from Red Sword City will be here soon. We'll probably run into them in this Illusion Realm."
"I just don't know if they'll be able to attack us inside the Illusion Realm."
"We must stay on high alert..."
As he spoke, Lu Chao grabbed Chi Xingxun's severed finger and slipped the Storage Ring off. He added, "We can't destroy this finger just yet. It might be useful for a trade, a threat, or negotiations."
The finger had been torn off, but Chi Xingxun could still reattach it if he got it back soon enough.
If too much time passed, that would no longer be an option.
This, then, was their leverage against the people of Red Sword City.
After tossing the finger aside, Lu Chao held Chi Xingxun's Storage Ring and said in a low voice, "High-level Storage Rings can be bound to an owner or require a Secret Technique to open. Obviously, we can't open it normally."
And if they couldn't open it normally, their only option was to smash it with brute force.
