Sikong Ren seemed to have no recollection of this: "She stabbed me? When?"
Just as the Left Protector was about to accurately state the time and place, a sudden thought struck him: "Perhaps I've misremembered."
Sikong Ren nodded with relief, "That's right, you must have remembered wrong. How could she bear to hurt me?"
The Left Protector twitched his lips, not daring to say anything more.
Hearing a noise outside the door, the Left Protector asked warily, "Who is it?"
The disciple outside the door bowed and greeted him, and then explained the purpose of his visit.
"The sect leader instructed that whether or not to accept the challenge is entirely up to the Demon Lord."
Sikong Ren seemed to have heard this name somewhere before: "Qi Yan?"
Left Protector: "He is Pei Zhi's senior brother, at the late stage of the Golden Core realm."
Sikong Ren wondered if he was hallucinating. "He's challenging me? What's my cultivation level?"
"His Excellency is in the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm."
There's a Nascent Soul stage between the Golden Core stage and the Deity Transformation stage.
The difference in cultivation level between the two is such that a hundred Golden Core cultivators could probably only scratch the surface of a Nascent Soul cultivator.
The Left Protector scoffed, "Why should Your Majesty concern yourself with this? Just let your subordinates handle it."
Sikong Ren lowered his eyes and sneered, "Go and tell Sect Leader Pei that I have accepted this challenge."
The disciple was also taken aback for a moment, then nodded and took his leave.
The Left Protector asked in bewilderment, "Why does Your Majesty need to pay attention to such a minor character?"
“He is in love with Pei Zhi, and I dislike him.”
The Left Protector hesitated for a moment, "Your Excellency, you should not have seen this Qi Yan before."
Sikong Ren glared at the Left Protector, "Stop talking nonsense."
So why do you dislike him?
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