Chapter 1375 - Thousand-Year-Old Bloodking Bamboo Shoot
Shangguan Xue snapped, her temper flaring. After all, Xie Tao could've dealt with those three blood fiends himself, yet he had deliberately let them pass to force both her and Liu Wuxie into a desperate situation.
"Lady Shangguan, that's where you're wrong. What do you mean, 'I let them through on purpose'? You saw how I had to face four blood fiends by myself; there was nothing I could have done even if I wanted to help," Xie Tao argued back.
He had indeed fought four blood fiends earlier, but he had allowed three of them to slip past him. A hastily assembled squad like this was bound to have weak cohesion.
No one in their right mind would entrust their back to a stranger, and it was already considered fortunate if their teammates didn't stab them from behind.
Regardless of how fragile their trust toward each other was, traveling alone to face so many blood fiends was just far too dangerous. Even first-level Void Realm cultivators wouldn't dare claim they could retreat unscathed, so forming a squad was still the best option they had.
"Forget about it. Let's keep going," said the man called Wu Zhong, stepping in to smooth things over.
From the very beginning, he had been standing firmly on Xie Tao's side, and he was also one of the two who had objected to Liu Wuxie joining the squad.
The squad pressed onward, and Liu Wuxie remained silent, as if he had quietly accepted what had happened. His silence only emboldened Xie Tao further, who continued to throw mocking remarks his way whenever he had the chance.
"Brother Wu, don't care about him. Someone like him only dares to be arrogant with us. If he were in a different squad, he wouldn't be able to do anything other than keep his tail between his legs," Shangguan Xue said, trying to comfort Liu Wuxie.
While Xie Tao was at the first level of the Void Realm and could count as an expert within their squad, he would be at the bottom of the food chain if he joined any stronger group.
Liu Wuxie said nothing, but it didn't mean he had let the matter go. Once he finished investigating his senior brother's disappearance, he wouldn't hesitate to kill Xie Tao.
"Lady Shangguan, you didn't finish what you said earlier," Liu Wuxie said, changing the topic by reminding her. He still didn't know what she had witnessed that left her so shaken.