At this moment, Liao Chen, completely unaware of what was happening outside, looked at the indifferent Yan Pingsha in front of him and said with a fake smile, "After all, there are many guild quests. Perhaps they died unexpectedly during a quest?"
There was no one in the guild hall at the moment, and Liao Chen's voice sounded particularly harsh in the empty hall!
"After all, you know, all these people here were recruited by you. I can't possibly keep an eye on everything they do, can I?"
This ignited a furious anger in the already indifferent Yan Pingsha. The phrase "all recruited by you" undoubtedly struck a raw nerve.
Originally filled with guilt over being used and causing others to suffer, she couldn't help but retort, "So you're saying their disappearance has nothing to do with you, and I should be held responsible instead?"
"Isn't that right?" Liao Chen said, as if it were the most natural thing in the world, "Whoever recruits people, whoever cares about them, is responsible for them. Why are you looking for me when they're gone? Shouldn't you go see what quests they undertook and then search for them yourself?"
These words were spoken with such self-righteousness, as if things were supposed to be exactly that way.
For a moment, Yan Pingsha was so angry she laughed, not even knowing what to say. Talking reason with such a person would only cause her more frustration!
She considered drawing her blade and cutting down Liao Chen directly, but then she remembered that she couldn't alert the enemy, so she tried to hold back.
However, when Liao Chen saw Yan Pingsha fall silent, he instead smiled and said, "What, do you feel guilty and have nothing to say?"
Just then, Lu Chenxing walked in. He was about to tell Yan Pingsha to leave so the army could kick down the door and apprehend Liao Chen later.
But the first thing Yan Pingsha did when she saw him was to size him up, confirm he was fine, then stuff Xiao Zhi into his arms and say, "Xiao Lu, you go out first. I need to have a talk with Guild Leader Liao!"
Seeing her like this, Lu Chenxing seemed to understand something. He nodded, then placed a hand on Yan Pingsha's shoulder. A stream of Yang Power, concealed by Yin Power, silently strengthened her. This enhancement could last for about ten minutes.
Then Lu Chenxing withdrew his hand and said to her with a smile, "Then I'll go out first. Just call me if you need anything."
Yan Pingsha felt her strength greatly enhanced and saw that Lu Chenxing was not asking any more questions, and her heart warmed. She nodded.
Watching Lu Chenxing's retreating figure, Yan Pingsha slowly turned around, her eyes fixed on Liao Chen.
Liao Chen, however, smiled with interest and said, "What, can't argue, so you want to fight me? With your newly entered Fourth Stage strength? Against me, a Fifth Stage early-stage cultivator?"
His answer was not Yan Pingsha's words, but a fierce blade aura wrapped in wind and sand. The wind and sand, like a tornado, enveloped the blade, and the high-speed rotating wind and sand, like a meat grinder, seemed capable of tearing apart any object!
At the same time, the surge of anger in Yan Pingsha's heart also burst forth with this strike, heading straight for Liao Chen's face!
This strike made Liao Chen's hair stand on end and his scalp tingle. He sensed the aura of death in this strike; if he couldn't block it, he would die!
Immediately, two short blades appeared in his hands. In a hurry, he channeled the power of his blood and qi to try and block it!
But his defense was like paper, directly sent flying by the strike! He crashed into a pile of tables and chairs!
Yan Pingsha, even at the peak of the Third Stage, could challenge Fourth Stage late-stage cultivators beyond her level, and Fourth Stage mid-stage mutated beasts were effortlessly instantly killed.
Now that she had advanced to the early Fourth Stage, defeating a Fourth Stage peak cultivator was easy. Coupled with the Yang Power boost Lu Chenxing gave her, Liao Chen would absolutely not be her opponent!
Before Liao Chen could get up, Yan Pingsha, holding the giant blade she carried every day, leaped high and coldly shouted, "Ten thousand li of yellow sand like autumn, a clear moon like a hook! Slash!"
She gripped the giant blade with both hands, arched her body backward, then suddenly slashed out, and another crescent-shaped blade aura, clear and cold, struck down again!
"Boom—!!!"
The pile of tables and chairs that Liao Chen had just knocked over were instantly torn to shreds by the fierce blade aura! Liao Chen scrambled out of it, his shoulder already bleeding, clearly injured. He cried out, still in shock, "Yan Pingsha! Are you crazy!!? Are you really going to kill me?!"
Facing his question, Yan Pingsha gripped her blade with both hands and said coldly, "Ten thousand li of desert, no human habitation! Die for me!!!"
As soon as her voice fell, Yan Pingsha herself transformed into a wisp of yellow flying sand, rushing straight for Liao Chen's face!
However, this time Liao Chen was prepared and was not as flustered. The robust blood and qi power unique to martial artists covered his arms and weapons, firmly blocking this attack!
"Clang—!"
The sound of clashing metal echoed through the hall. Liao Chen's body uncontrollably moved back a meter. While horrified, he gritted his teeth and asked, "Yan Pingsha, what exactly do you want to do!? Is it just for those two people?"
"No!" Yan Pingsha said with a cold expression, "It's for everyone who suffered because of you!"
With that, as the giant blade continuously slashed, her cultivated "Dust Wind Splitting Heaven Blade" technique unfolded. The moves were grand and sweeping, filled with killing intent, possessing the swiftness of wind and the endlessness of flowing sand. The two combined, like a sandstorm obscuring the sky and sun, incredibly violent.
For a time, the clanging of weapons was incessant, but Liao Chen grew more and more alarmed with each strike! Because Yan Pingsha had only just entered the Fourth Stage, yet she could directly suppress him, a Fifth Stage early-stage cultivator. Was this the effect of having a renowned master's guidance?!
After another clash, Liao Chen seized the opportunity to pull back, and sneered, "You say that, so it seems you know everything?"
"That's right!" Yan Pingsha admitted directly, gritting her teeth, "You rotten person, forcing them to mine under the violent spiritual energy of dragon blood, disregarding their lives, you deserve to die!"
"Heh heh, they're just some untalented, unwilling-to-work-honestly bottom-tier trash. It's already their good fortune to be used by me." Liao Chen crossed his twin blades, stood upright, his eyes full of indifference: "This world is naturally divided into different classes, isn't it? It's perfectly normal for the upper class to oppress the lower class."
"In comparison, you make me even more confused. Why would someone like you, a top-tier individual with a good master and good resources, cry out for the rats at the bottom? Are you just bored?"
Just then, several sounds of breaking glass rang out, and several Fifth Stage military officers burst through the door, instantly surrounding Liao Chen.
And Lu Chenxing also walked in; he had heard the previous conversation.
He looked at the tight-lipped Yan Pingsha and suddenly smiled, "There's a reason why some people can only stay at the bottom. Even the Canglan World's highest authority has enacted laws to protect the common people, yet you don't know why this is. How pathetic."
Although Liao Chen was surrounded at this moment and sweating a little on his forehead, he wasn't as flustered as expected. Instead, he coldly shouted, "Lu Chenxing! Is this your doing!?"