Chapter 9: The Person of Destiny, the Descent of the Double Pupils!

Outside the Protective Clan Array.

Yu Ruowei was filled with satisfaction.

She had once been a member of the Lu Family, and every inch of the Lu Family's land was something Lu Ren had pulled her along to walk over, something she had once measured.

Lu Ren taught her alchemy and artifact refining; she was dull-witted, could not master earth fire, was afraid of pain, and was unwilling to absorb earth fire into her body.

Her cultivation also made no progress because the Immortal Bone in her body was crooked, always aching in waves.

But in array formations alone, Yu Ruowei had talent.

These array points of the Lu Family were all told to her by Lu Ren, word for word, when he taught her, and he had even personally led Yu Ruowei into the array to experience them.

Therefore, even though Yu Ruowei was now blind, she still remembered where all the array points were, and she could calculate how to break the Lu Family's Protective Clan Array! She felt not a shred of guilt, only a sense of relief, a fierce sense of relief.

This was the price for abandoning her! The experts, including Yi Huanyue and Zhang Kuang, almost immediately turned to attack the array points Yu Ruowei had mentioned.

The originally unbreakable array began to shake in this instant, allowing those outside to see hope; they were overjoyed and struck with even more ruthlessness!

Qin Yuan looked at the crumbling Lu Family array with heavy eyes, his heart remaining completely calm; he closed his eyes in disgust, refusing to let himself care about the filthy, nauseating Yu Ruowei in his arms, forcibly convincing himself that this was all for his own grand ambitions and for his master.

These foreign powerful enemies were gathered by him using the secret lines left behind by Yi Yaoyue before she died, first seeking out Yi Huanyue, and then, with the help of the Qingyue Sect's power, assembling all these people who hated Lu Ren to the bone.

Regardless of their motives, killing Lu Ren and trampling the Lu Family was their shared plan now.

He wanted the Immortal Bone, wanted to take Yu Ruowei away, and wanted Lu Ren to die!

A ferocious killing intent flashed in Qin Yuan's eyes.

No one who had injured him and lived had ever appeared in this world! And the reason he was able to persuade so many people was all thanks to Yu Ruowei.

She had once told him personally: "The Family Head is severely injured, though I do not know why."

"Others cannot see it, but I can; he has never hidden anything from me."

Qin Yuan felt a slight sense of revulsion.

If he were Lu Ren, he would certainly purge the sect; such an ungrateful wretch who betrayed him was not fit to live.

He clearly forgot how moved he had been by Yu Ruowei's trust in him when he first heard this news, that she could even tell him such confidential information.

Now, the extreme reversal of his attitude was merely because Yu Ruowei had become a useless piece of trash.

……

The hearts of the Lu Family members grew increasingly heavy.

The Protective Clan Array did not have much time left to hold out, especially since everyone outside was of the Saint Realm; even if they used up all the spirit crystals stored within the clan, it would be nothing more than a lingering, dying breath.

It was at this moment that the old man on the Mud Platform slowly opened his eyes, looking as if he were in his twilight years, his body filled with the aura of decay.

Anyone could see that his days were numbered.

But no one dared to look down on this old man.

Because his name had long since resounded throughout Dongzhou, to a deafening degree.

His name was Huo Ge, and he had become famous a hundred years ago; along with him, the Mud Platform beneath his backside had also become famous.

It was said that no one had ever seen him get down from his Mud Platform.

One person, one Mud Platform, as if they had grown together.

The feud between Lu Ren and him began in the year Lu Ren made a name for himself in Dongzhou.

The old man, who had cultivated bitterly for thousands of years and finally reached the Saint Realm, encountered the monster that was Lu Ren.

He was not even a hundred years old! Yet, relying on his monstrous natural talent, he made it onto the Hundred-Year Ranking in one fell swoop, crushed Huo Ge, easily took the Longevity Pill from the Hundred-Year Ranking arena, and then... casually fed it to his dog.

Huo Ge was almost choked with anger.

His talent was very poor; he reached the Saint Realm partly by luck and partly by bitter cultivation, racing against time and lifespan.

Every time, he only broke through when he had a few decades or a hundred years of lifespan left.

How could he be like those monsters, for whom breaking through was like eating and drinking!

And now, Huo Ge opened his eyes, and four pupils swirled within his eye sockets.

He was the extremely rare Double Pupils! The descent of Double Pupils must mean a person of destiny! Or, a person with great Qi Luck!

"Lu Ren." A hoarse voice spilled from his throat, as if covered by a layer of haze, extremely strange, "This old man has come to collect a debt from you!"

His body was like a tree that was constantly growing, twisting and deforming as it slowly separated from the Mud Platform, causing everyone around to scramble away in terror! No one knew when Huo Ge had acquired this Mud Platform, nor did they know that the reason Huo Ge never got down was because his lower body had already grown into the Mud Platform! His meridians, flesh, and veins were like complex, intertwined tree roots.

Huo Ge's eyes were filled with ferocity, and with a roar, he forcibly "pulled" himself off the Mud Platform!

The Mud Platform shook and trembled with his movements, nearly shattering.

The scene was silent, save for Huo Ge's low gasps and the sound of mud shattering layer by layer.

Zhang Kuang was closest to him and got a face full of mud fragments, roaring in anger.

"You old thing, you're truly filthy; are you doing this to spite me... Argh!!!"

Before he could finish his sentence, he was grabbed by the throat by a hand and lifted into the air.

With Saint Realm strength, he had no power to fight back; Zhang Kuang's eyes bulged, and like a mortal with no strength to truss a chicken, he struggled in those old, bark-like hands, like a toad about to die!

Huo Ge began to laugh, and that old face of his was like a tree shedding its bark; what fell down in a clatter was all skin.

The more his skin fell away, the younger he became, and the more vigorous his aura grew.

Zhang Kuang didn't even have time to let out a sound before he was crushed to death right there in his hand! Huo Ge had also completely pulled himself off the Mud Platform.

His hair was jet-black, his stature was short, and his face was extremely wretched; the look he cast toward the Lu Family was one of uncontrollable jealousy and greed.

And his strength...

Qin Yuan's pupils shrank.

Supreme Saint!

This incredibly ugly old thing had reached the Supreme Saint realm without anyone knowing! He was truly good at hiding!

Huo Ge ignored everyone around him, threw Zhang Kuang's corpse away like trash, and with a casual strike, the Lu Family's array shattered directly, like translucent ice crystals.

He flew through the air, laughing with extreme arrogance, pointing his sword at the Lu Family.

"Where is Lu Ren? Get out here and see this old man, and hurry up and die! Otherwise, this old man will raze the Lu Family to the ground!"

Huo Ge was not saying this as a threat.

The second his voice fell, the sword in his hand was already heading toward the Lu Family; judging by the momentum of the attack, he actually intended to level the Lu Family directly!

All the outsiders felt their breathing quicken, like wild dogs that had spotted a piece of fat meat.

And it was at this moment that a figure appeared before the members of the Lu Family, looking up at Huo Ge in the sky, lifting their eyes indifferently.

The next second, time froze!

(End of this chapter)