"Trust me."
Just these three short words made the anxious and flustered voice outside stop immediately.
This was the only way Zhao Shuning could think of to minimize the damage.
She would deal with these two people inside the protective shield.
Otherwise, if they fought in the vast expanse outside, it was very likely that many ordinary villagers without spiritual power would be injured.
Facing these two people, Zhao Shuning felt no trace of fear in her heart.
She was an alchemist, a fourth - grade alchemist. For spiritual pharmacists of the same level, it would just take time for her to deal with them.
"Zhao Shuning?"
"Are you Zhao Shuning?"
"Didn't you die already?"
Zhao Shuning's eyes were full of danger. Then she said, "How do you know I'm dead?"
A flash of panic crossed Zhang Zhi's eyes.
"Even if you weren't dead before, in a little while, you'll only turn into a corpse."
"Zhang Zhi, why do you target my Zhao family?"
"Such a waste of words."
"Is it because of Zhang Tianyuan? It's really a pity that I didn't kill him right away back then. Then he wouldn't have had the chance to escape."
Although she said so, it was just bravado from Zhao Shuning to scare Zhang Zhi.
It was easy to kill Zhang Tianyuan, but the giant hand that descended from the sky outside the maze cave had such penetrating power that Zhao Shuning at present simply had no ability to resist it.
"My son was right. He became what he is now, being expelled from the Misty Rain Tower, losing the qualification to pursue the inner - door disciple of the Wang family, and having no home to return to. It's all your Zhao family's fault. I'll make you pay with your lives for the grievances my son has suffered!"
Pay with their lives? Zhao Shuning could only sneer.
If we were to talk about paying with lives or unfairness.
Zhang Tianyuan had stepped on how many skeletons to rise to power at a young age.
His hands were stained with the lives of humans and monsters. His current outcome was self - inflicted.
Zhao Shuning only hated that her ability was too weak at that time and she didn't kill Zhang Tianyuan with one strike.
If such a scourge was left in the Eastern Ze Wilderness, he might well become the next Wang Cheng.
If you don't cut the grass at the root, it will grow again when the spring breeze blows. If it weren't for the mysterious person who could tear through the plane, Zhao Shuning would have killed Zhang Tianyuan outside the maze cave long ago.
When it came to killing evil people, Zhao Shuning never showed mercy.
"Come and pay with your life."
"Master Feiyang, you don't need to do anything. I can handle this little girl myself."
"Really?"
Zhao Shuning raised her eyebrows slightly, with a look of disdain in her eyes. At the very beginning, she easily dodged Zhang Zhi's attack. Then, hovering in mid - air, she said leisurely, "Zhang Zhi, you're not worthy to fight me."
The girl reached for her waist, opened the Qiankun Bag. In the next moment, a monster more than five meters tall immediately appeared inside the protective shield.
Zhang Zhi's next strike landed on the monster.
Before he could retract his hand, he was knocked over by the roar of the Huo Dou, hitting the pillar heavily and then falling to the ground.
"This, how is this possible?"
Feiyang from the Extreme Cold Hall now walked in a very flustered manner.
"Get involved in this mess, Zhang Zhi. You'd better think about what the outcome will be."
"Huo Dou! How is this possible! Are you from one of the four great families?"
"The four great families? A place full of villains like that, I'm too disdainful to go there."
If she wasn't from one of the four great families, how could she have such a powerful monster?
That was the Huo Dou, an ancient monster!
"Zhang Zhi, you wanted everyone in my Zhao family to pay the price for Zhang Tianyuan before, right?"
At this moment, Zhang Zhi had completely changed his appearance.
The other side had a Huo Dou. What ability did he have to fight her?
No wonder, no wonder she had chosen to fight them alone. It seemed that he had really underestimated her before.
The blue - robed young man's expression was quite a sight at this moment.
Before Zhao Shuning even made a move, he had already started to lose his composure.
"Feiyang? A person from the Wang family?"
The arrogant Evil Shadow Mystic Sky Ape that had always been following the blue - robed young man, at the first sight of the Huo Dou, lay on the ground like a docile kitten, whimpering constantly and not daring to move.
"Second Miss."
This address of "Second Miss" sounded extremely harsh to Zhao Shuning.
"Second Miss, I offended you before, but from beginning to end, I never thought of hurting the lives of your Zhao family members. I was just passing by here."
Just passing by? What a coincidence.
"Wasn't it the Meng father and son who sent you here?"
"No."
"But I heard that Meng Hao is your uncle."
"We don't have a direct blood relationship. Presumably, my uncle did something wrong. He didn't think things through. I'm here to apologize to Second Miss on behalf of my uncle."
He knew when to yield and when to be assertive. No wonder Feiyang could become an inner - door disciple of the Wang family.
This slippery character was just the same as that old thing Wang Cheng.
"But I heard from Master Feiyang that you wanted the protective armor of my Zhao family."
"No, I'm just interested in the protective armor. I don't really want it."
Zhao Shuning pretended to be thinking.
"Second Miss, you have the Huo Dou now. We can't do anything to you. But think about it. If you kill me, even though I'm just an inner - door disciple of the Wang family, I'm still a core figure. I know you're not afraid of trouble, but what about the tens of thousands of common people behind you? You can't protect them all the time, can you?"
"Are you threatening me?"
"This isn't a threat. I'm just explaining the pros and cons to you. Second Miss, killing me won't do you any good."
Feiyang's monster was granted by the Wang family and had a contract with Feiyang. If anything happened to Feiyang and the Evil Shadow Mystic Sky Ape, the Wang family would surely lock in his location immediately. In that case, the Zhao family would really be doomed.
Zhao Shuning understood this too.
She could wipe out the Zhang family. At most, the Zhang family was just a small family in a city.
But the Wang family, with her current strength, she definitely couldn't fight against them.
If it were Ye Ling before, she would never have hesitated so much in doing things. If she wanted to kill someone, she would do it immediately.
But now it was different.
Now she was Zhao Shuning, and there were people she cared about behind her.
Those people were very weak. The highest - ranked one was an old man, and he was just a third - rank spiritual pharmacist. That third - rank spiritual pharmacist couldn't even beat her now.
But it was just such an ordinary group of people who had walked into Zhao Shuning's heart.
They had given her everything they had, the best of everything.
She could disregard her own life and death, but she had to think about them.
Zhao Shuning knew that in this life, she had a soft underbelly, and this soft underbelly was her family.