"Arrogant!"
Jiang Fan laughed, incensed.
He'd seen audacious types before, but never someone so utterly dismissive.
A thief discovered, yet still acting so brazenly.
It was truly a first!
"Then don't even think about leaving!"
The words barely lingered in the air before Jiang Fan had already darted forward at an astonishing speed.
Ruan Qingsu was not worried—in fact, she seemed delighted. Her lips curled slightly as she said, "Relying on words alone won't keep me here!"
Without hesitation, she too employed her movement technique and dashed away.
She had been cultivating *Shifting Shadow*, an Earth-level intermediate movement technique treasured by the Heavenly Mechanism Pavilion.
At its deepest level, it was said to exhibit effects akin to *Shrinking Land into Inches*.
She had only cultivated it to the First Layer thus far.
Still, it granted her the startling ability to cover eight zhang in a single step.
