The two flirted and showed their affection, completely ignoring the scholar in blue.

This made the scholar in blue feel extremely embarrassed, so he stepped forward and shouted, "You two are being so affectionate in broad daylight, are you really not ashamed? Do you not take me seriously?"

Bang--

The next second, Shen Zhao and Mu Qiuyao simultaneously struck out with their palms, and a powerful pressure descended from the sky, directly forcing the blue-robed scholar to his knees.

"What business is it of yours, a piece of trash, how my wife and I play games with you?"

"Exactly, do you live by the sea? Why are you being so nosy?"

The scholar in blue felt as if a mountain was pressing down on his shoulders, and his bones were creaking all over.

"Damn it, I thought they were just an ordinary couple, someone I could easily manipulate. I never imagined they were such powerful experts. I, Kong Mubai, am a dignified peak-stage Manifestation Saint!"

Even one of the Ten Great Saints of the Holy Realm almost succumbed to the overwhelming pressure from just two people. Are all the beings in the outer realms this powerful these days?

After subduing Kong Mubai, Mu Qiuyao rubbed Shen Zhao's neck and said, "Kid, let me tell you, you can follow me from now on, but you have to support me."

Shen Zhao's face darkened: "Damn it, you call the shots in the entire Northern Region, do you still need me to support you?"

Mu Qiuyao hummed in agreement: "Of course, after all, everything I, Mu Qiuyao, have achieved in my life is through my own hard work. So many years have passed..."

I've never found someone I can rely on, and now that I've finally found one, I'm going to use them to the fullest.

Actually, you don't need to do much. If anyone dares to mess with me, you just attack them; if anyone is detrimental to my Northern Region, you just attack them.

When I want to hit someone, you have to hit them too; basically, wherever I point, you have to hit them.

"Then why the hell don't you just hire a thug?"

"What use are thugs compared to you? Hahaha."

Mu Qiuyao's smile remained bright, and she was even more delighted to see the embarrassed expression on Shen Zhao's face after she had tricked him.

Kong Mubai could no longer bear it: "Gentlemen, could you please consider my feelings?"

Upon hearing this, Mu Qiuyao immediately jumped off Shen Zhao's back, then conjured a grand chair and a tea table and sat down.

Shen Zhao walked up to him, bowed his head and asked, "Who are you? Tell me your background."

"Could you please remove the pressure you're putting on me before we talk?"

Snap——

His response was a direct slap.

"Didn't you just say you wanted to join? How do you plan to join?"

Kong Mubai's cheeks twitched slightly, and his eyes were filled with resentment as he looked at Shen Zhao.

Even Xu Rong treated him with great courtesy when he was in the Holy Domain.

Now you've actually slapped me in the face, you're just a twenty-something-year-old brat?

Snap——

Before he could finish his reflection, another slap landed on his face.

"I'm asking you a question, why aren't you answering?"

"I apologize for my reckless remarks. I was outspoken and offended you both. I am Kong Mubai from the Holy Domain. I apologize for my rude behavior."

Now that things have come to this, Kong Mubai has no choice but to back down and give in, and get through this ordeal before considering anything else.

But Mu Qiuyao's expression immediately changed after hearing the name "Kong Mubai".

"Kid, this Kong Mubai is in cahoots with Xu Rong and Xu Suiyan. Don't rush to deal with him. Let me interrogate him."

After saying that, she directly raised her hand and pulled him in front of her.

Before Kong Mubai could react, Mu Qiuyao asked directly, "I'll ask you a question, and you can answer it without saying anything unnecessary. What is your purpose in coming to the Eastern Region?"

Kong Mubai was taken aback, then shook his head and said, "I don't understand what you mean."

Boom~

The next second, Kong Mubai's left arm exploded.

"ah--"

He let out a piercing scream, drenched in cold sweat from the pain.

I wanted to fall, but my body wouldn't obey me and I couldn't move an inch.

"If you dare to shout again, you'll lose your right arm too."

Kong Mubai immediately suppressed his pain and stopped roaring.

He never expected that this woman, who seemed like a beauty, would be so ruthless.

"I'll ask you one more time, what is your purpose in coming to the Eastern Region?"

Kong Mubai replied, "Entrusted by the Prince of Western Shu, I will assist the young master in negotiating with Empress Jiang Qingluan of Yaochi. If possible, I will take her back to the Holy Domain of Western Shu and hand her over to the Prince of Western Shu for judgment."

Mu Qiuyao was silent for a moment, then asked, "My second question is, what exactly is the relationship between the Yaochi Empress and the Holy Domain?"

Kong Mubai felt a cold sweat trickle down his forehead: "I really don't know. I was just following orders, and I know nothing else."

As a result, his right arm was also blown to smithereens.

"ah--"

Having lost both arms, Kong Mubai cried out in pain, looking up at the sky.

Shen Zhao did not stop her when he saw this, because he believed that Mu Qiuyao must have her own reasons for doing so.

"If you don't tell, then you have no reason to live."

"You vixen, just kill me already!"

With both arms crippled, his title of Ten Champions would inevitably change hands, so Kong Mubai decided to go all out and be arrogant one last time before he died.

But Mu Qiuyao clearly wouldn't give him that chance.

"Trying to outsmart me, you surnamed Kong? Your tricks are things I already knew how to do back in the day."

If you don't even know what the Xu family's purpose is in seeking out Jiang Qingluan, how dare you go to Yaochi alone?

However, since you wish to die, I will grant your wish. In a moment, I will gouge out all your hands, feet, eyes, and nose.

Then they'd refine it into a furnace and throw it into a pigsty to be slowly tortured. How about that? Isn't that a creative way to die?

"You devil, you are a devil! You can be killed but not humiliated!"

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