He didn’t speak the words. He made them clear through his actions. Now, he sat at the top of the tree, and he didn’t leave like he had before. He wasn’t doing anything different from before, nor had his facial expression changed, but the feelings of the surrounding cultivators were dramatically different.

Those who had feared him before… currently feared him even more.

Those who had disregarded him before… were now paying very close attention to him.

The mood in the basin became more stifling. Then, as the night grew deep, rumbling echoed out from the bottom of the mountain as two eighth-level sealizards started climbing up.

Everyone paid close attention to the lizards. However, after they climbed into the basin and shed their skins, no one did anything. They just watched as five of the Sea Ghosts went down to retrieve the skins.

Everyone except for Xu Qing, that is. Opening his eyes, he looked at the two shed skins and then got to his feet.

Everyone looked over.

Ignoring them, Xu Qing simply dropped out of the tree and shot into the basin. Completely disregarding the Sea Ghosts cultivators, he headed...