Gao Tao was able to kill Second Brother Lu purely by luck.
He exchanged a few sharp words with Elder Bai before calling his men to retreat. "Immortals are fighting, we little ghosts shouldn't get involved."
However, as part of patrol duty, retreating wasn't an option to go too far.
After all, they still had to block others and prevent unrelated people from entering this battlefield zone.
Doing so was somewhat humiliating—to be patrollers who couldn't stop the fights in the Fang Market, and still had to forbid others from passing through—how embarrassing.
But what needed to be done had to be done. If they didn't block, and more people died in the Fang Market, it would be even more humiliating.
Steward Gao had witnessed how the Lu brothers broke through the encirclement, but by then, he was already far away, making intervention inconvenient—so many higher-level cultivators on the opposing side, forcing intervention might not be appropriate.
