“Little sparrow, it seems you won’t cooperate unless I subdue you first,” said Su Yi softly.

Over on the branch, the gray sparrow clutched its gut with its wings and laughed uproariously. “You might be an ant, but you sure know how to boast! Aren’t you afraid of cutting your tongue on your sharp words?”

Kcch!

Before it had even finished speaking, sword qi flashed through the air and cleaved toward the gray sparrow. 

The gray sparrow shrieked and shifted to the side in a flash. The sword qi narrowly missed its wings and cleaved into the tree branch behind it.

Shockingly, the branch was incomparably firm. Despite the abundant power of Su Yi’s sword qi, it couldn’t so much as scratch the wood.

The gray sparrow stabilized itself on the ground and shrieked, “Young man, have you no martial virtue? How dare you ambush me?”

Su Yi said calmly, “If you’re really so capable, why bother dodging?”

Inwardly, he was a bit surprised. The gray sparrow dodged so fast, it almost seemed to teleport. It’s unbelievably quick.

“I just disdain to attack an ant like you. If I truly went all out, never mind you—I could destroy an Emperor in the blink of an eye!”

The gray sparrow...