Chapter 11: If You Leave a Line for Others, You Will Meet Again in the Future

"In Wanren City, no one is permitted to travel by air!"

Upon hearing these words, Huo Ge only felt like laughing.

He was traveling by air right then; what could Lu Ren possibly do to him? Ha! But in the next second, this vast world was squeezed crazily in his eyes, and his entire person seemed to be compressed into a thin sheet of paper along with it.

The firmament was no longer gentle and vast at this moment, but instead filled with countless crises! Run! He had to run! Huo Ge's heart's blood was flowing in reverse, but before he could turn the thought of fleeing in his mind into reality, his whole body had already plummeted fiercely like a bird with broken wings! "Pfft!"

He clutched his chest in disbelief, slumped onto the ground in despair, and watched the approaching Lu Ren with eyes full of terror.

"No, impossible!"

Huo Ge acted as if he had gone mad.

"You lunatic, you actually covered Wanren City with a grand array and refined this city into your own life-bound treasure?"

"Are you a lunatic?"

"Madman! Monster!!"

He was so extremely shocked that he could barely organize his words into coherent sentences.

In the distance, the Old Beggar, who had been peeking at this scene through a water screen, dropped the leftover steamed bun in his mouth. It rolled onto the ground with a thud, but he didn't care; he only stared with incomparably horrified eyes at the figure on the water screen slowly approaching Huo Ge.

Wanren City is a grand array?!

Wanren City is a life-bound treasure?! Then he, they, were inside someone else's life-bound treasure! Damn it!

The Old Beggar's originally listless eyes changed instantly, becoming extremely sharp. He grabbed the two young men beside him who hadn't yet reacted and prepared to flee.

Damn it, if he had known this was inside someone else's life-bound treasure, he, the old man, would never have stepped foot in here even if it killed him! But it was already too late.

Lu Ren was not with the Old Beggar, yet he seemed able to see him.

He waved his hand lightly, and the Old Beggar, who was about to escape to safety, suddenly seemed to crash into the air and flew straight backward!

Lu Ren's voice rang in everyone's ears.

"Guests have arrived; since you are here, why leave?"

Inside the Lu Family, all greed had vanished from Huo Ge's heart.

Only endless regret drowned him fiercely! Had he known that Lu Ren was not only uninjured but had actually become a Supreme Saint, he would never have come to muddy these waters!!

It was fortunate that he had a unique talent for arrays and artifact refining, allowing him to see through Lu Ren, this deeply hidden monster, at a glance; otherwise, he might have truly thrown his life away for nothing!

Thinking of this, Huo Ge knelt down directly.

Without hesitation, he raised his hand and pointed outside: "Lu Ren! Spare me! This time, it was all that brat who spoke alarmist words, gathering us together and demanding we ambush the Lu Family!"

The way he knelt was so smooth...

Qin Yuan was annoyed and, at the same time, so shocked he almost cursed out loud.

You are a Supreme Saint; you haven't even fought two rounds, and you just knelt like that? What about the grudge over the stolen treasure? What about the hatred of a life-and-death struggle?

If Huo Ge knew what he was thinking, he would only feel disdain.

Fight? When Lu Ren was still in the Saint Realm, their whole group had stayed obediently low. Hearing that Lu Ren was severely injured, and coupled with the fact that Lu Ren's aura was indeed unstable in the Image Recording Stone that leaked out that day, they had dared to come and besiege the Lu Family in an attempt to destroy it.

Now that Lu Ren was not only uninjured but had broken through to the Supreme Saint realm, if he didn't kneel, was he waiting to die? Huo Ge only wanted to survive.

But...

The Lu Ren before him smiled faintly, a smile that made him feel uneasy.

Decades had passed, and Lu Ren had become increasingly unfathomable.

Lu Ren looked at Huo Ge's state, which was indeed wretched, and reached out his hand, seemingly in pardon, seemingly in release.

"You are right; every grievance has its perpetrator, and every debt has its debtor."

Huo Ge breathed a sigh of relief. "But is my Wanren City a place where you can come and go as you please?"

Sword light swept across Huo Ge's neck as if slicing through a piece of tofu.

A look of relief still lingered on his face, but in an instant, his head fell to the ground.

The severed head's expression changed violently, and it shrieked hideously: "Lu Ren, you take advantage of others' precarious position, you are despicable!"

How could a Supreme Saint die just because his head was cut off?

Huo Ge raged: "I spoke to you nicely, but you refused, insisting on opposing me. Do you really think we, this group of people, are afraid of you alone?"

"I..."

"Noisy." Lu Ren frowned, looked at the speaking head, and curled his fingertip slightly, flicking a spark of fire out.

A single spark can start a prairie fire.

This tiny purple spark landed on Huo Ge's head, but it burned his limbs along with it.

Huo Ge had not cared at first, but when he realized that this flame was not burning his body, but his soul, he was immediately terrified.

"Fire! Red Lotus Karma Fire!! No, save me! Lu Ren, spare me!"

How could a flame that could burn even the soul be so easily extinguished?

Yu Ruowei had already woken up at some point; she could not see, but she could hear.

Huo Ge's screams, and Qin Yuan's grave voice.

"It is the Red Lotus Karma Fire, such terrifying purple flames. Has Lu Ren actually mastered even this kind of Soul Fire?"

Huo Ge was finished; Qin Yuan knew it clearly.

For those burdened with grievances and karmic sin, once they are tainted by the Red Lotus Karma Fire, unless the filth is burned away completely, this fire will never be extinguished.

Yu Ruowei, however, only felt dizzy.

What fire?

What Red Lotus Karma Fire? She still remembered, when she was very young, Lu Ren condensed a purple flame on his hand, brought it close to her small hand, and said with a smile: "Weiwei, come, mobilize your divine sense to feel it, and take this branch of the Red Lotus Karma Fire into your body. With me helping you suppress it and hold the line, it won't be difficult, just a little painful."

How had she reacted back then?

Yu Ruowei remembered that she was burned by the fire and felt pain; she shook her head, saying Lu Ren was mean to her, and wailed continuously, so Lu Ren had to helplessly withdraw the purple fire back into his body.

That was...

The purest, yet most scorching Red Lotus Karma Fire in the world!?

Yu Ruowei's heart was suddenly filled with an indescribable regret! Qin Yuan did not care what Yu Ruowei was thinking; he had originally wanted to watch Lu Ren make a fool of himself, but now, a total disaster was highly likely.

He scooped up Yu Ruowei, held her tightly in his arms, bit the tip of his tongue, and spat out a mouthful of vital blood.

"Hold on tight! I'm taking you away!"

Lu Ren seemed to sense something and looked over in this direction; his fingers moved slightly, but in the end, he did not stop them, merely looking at the others with a smile that was not quite a smile.

"Everyone, how was the show you've been watching for so long?"

"Are you satisfied with this play?"

Huo Ge's screams became the background noise; Lu Ren's expression remained unchanged, but the others felt their teeth ache just listening to it.

Unless the Merit on Huo Ge's body is greater than his sins, he will not survive no matter what! Even if he does survive, he will be devoted to the Buddha from this day on...

Yi Huanyue immediately stepped forward and said pitifully, "Lu Family Head, today's events were just a misunderstanding; please spare us."

"Leave a line of retreat for others, so that we may meet again in the future."

(End of this chapter)