“What did you say?”

Gu Huiming, Gu Qingluo, Zhu Xianyao, Li Chongshan, and all of the other higher-ups stared at Su Chen in shared disbelief.

“Can you not look at me like that?” Su Chen lazily replied. “I said, I was just thinking of visiting Redstone Basin and chatting with that Blood Ancestor for a little while.”

“He’s an Origin Beast!” Gu Qingluo spat through gritted teeth. “Do you feel like you’ve been alive for too long?”

Su Chen seriously replied, “Well, if I hadn’t stopped Kucha today, then he would have awakened an Origin Beast all on his own. Do you think that we would have been able to avoid fighting against an Origin Beast in that scenario?”

Everyone fell silent.

But Gu Qingluo stubbornly refused to back down. “That’s different. At least, in that scenario, we would have been able to face it together.”

Su Chen shook his head slowly. “So what? Would we even have a chance of winning? And even if we did win, so what? We pulled off something that even the Arcana Kingdom could never accomplished in their prime. But then what? They’ll just awaken two or three more! Would we still be able to win against them?”

Gu Qingluo felt her blood pressure begin to rise as anger welled up within her. “Su Chen, what is that even supposed...