A way out

"PENGU!"

With Eve's scream, I couldn't decide whether to be baffled by the coincidence, amazed by the degree to which the crowd on the tribunes was stunned, or just happy that City Mayor's ploy ended up in such a silly way!

As soon as my old friend hear the voice of my fiancee, it instantly flared up and with just a single move, the cage that was supposed to completely lock him came apart! The change was so swift that the guards responsible by hauling him to the arena got blasted away after some of the debris from the shattered cage collided with them. Contrary to most of the cultivators in the city, they were just menial servants tasked with the most mundane and grounded jobs, resulting in their cultivation being barely high enough to survive from just a side effect of Pengu's reaction!