Legend of the Great Sage Chapter 455 - Freezing Strongboulder with the Ice Flame of Soul Refinement, the Three Together Form White Bone

Li Qingshan said coldly, “Even without me, you wouldn’t die in a place like this, fellow Fu. You have plenty of talismans from the Sword Collection palace anyway.”

“I still have to thank you,” Fu Qingjin smiled, basically admitting he was under no danger at all.

Actually, he was truly thankful to Li Qingshan for saving Yu Zijian, but he did not mention it openly.

Li Qingshan had vaguely realised that too, but he did not state it either.

Fu Qingjin sighed gently. “I didn’t want to use something like that either unless I had no other choice. This isn’t our Sword Collection’s palace path of the sword. However, the rock demon poses a great threat. He’s slaughtered millions of people and countless cities already. In order to kill him, I could not afford to care so much anymore.”

Li Qingshan seemed to hear the funniest joke in the world as he laughed aloud.

“Why do you laugh, sir?”

“If you hadn’t broken the Treaty of Kings first, why would these daemons run amok above ground in the first place?”

“Since it’s called the Treaty of Kings, how can a measly person like me break it? I’m just going with the flow.” Fu Qingjin naturally possessed the bearing of a lord who ordered people around at whim. He sounded like he was treating his subordinates courteously and condescendingly, as if they should feel flattered because of him.

“Don’t even think about running away from the responsibility. You’re connected to this one way or another.” Li Qingshan refused to play along. It made him feel even more displeased, as a matter of fact. He had been trying everything to settle these ties of karma involving him, yet all Fu Qingjin did was take an easy step back and push aside his responsibilities.

Fu Qingjin smiled. He really was unable to shirk away from this anymore, so he changed the topic. “Sir, could I take a look at the arcane artifact you used earlier?”

“With how great the Sword Collection palace is, why would you need a measly arcane artifact of mine?”

As they said that, the streaks of light arrived. The group from the academy was

…