Chapter 342: Put in some effort!

Several thousand meters away from this location, in a small grove.

Lu Yu carefully placed Ji Wanqing gently on the ground, letting her lean against a large tree.

This small grove was quite secluded; for a short time, no one should rashly intrude.

"How do you feel?" Lu Yu gazed into Ji Wanqing's eyes and asked softly, "You must know who I am, right?"

Ji Wanqing nodded slightly, her eyes filled with emotion, and she looked at Lu Yu affectionately, saying, "Thank you. If you hadn't been taking care of my sister all this time, she wouldn't have been able to survive until now."

"Don't be so polite; we can talk about other things later." As Lu Yu said this, he stood up, his expression serious, "I'll go deal with those people over there first."

"Wait a moment." Ji Wanqing hurriedly reached out to grab Lu Yu's sleeve, and after a moment of hesitation, said, "Today, why don't we just leave it at that?"

"Leave it at that?" Lu Yu looked at her in surprise and asked skeptically, "They've harmed you to this extent; are you really content with this? Or is it that you think I'm no match for them?"

"It's not like that." A bitter smile appeared on Ji Wanqing's face, and she said slowly, "Of course I know they are no match for you at all, but if you kill them all, I'm afraid it will invite great trouble."

"Invite great trouble?" Lu Yu frowned and retorted, "But even if I don't kill them, won't trouble come knocking anyway?"

Ji Wanqing was stunned for a moment.

Indeed, the other side already knew that Wang Deye's disappearance was related to the Lu Family Stockade.

Even if they chose to leave right now, it was only a matter of time before they were found by the other side.

"But..."

Just as she was about to say something more, she discovered that Lu Yu's figure had already vanished from before her eyes.

"Sigh..." She gave a helpless, bitter smile.

She hadn't even had the chance to tell Lu Yu what the ability of the person who had been lured over was. But upon second thought, it didn't seem to make much difference whether she warned him or not.

Shifting the view to the edge of the giant crater, the complexions of Yanluo and the others were like gathering storm clouds, gloomily terrifying.

Could Ji Wanqing have been rescued by someone?

But there were only those few of them at the scene; no, wait, there was one more!

Yanluo gave a sudden jolt, his gaze like a torch, staring fixedly at the deep pit below.

Intuition told him that under such a violent attack, even a top-tier Elite-level Fierce Beast would likely have no path to survival, but that guy was a human after all.

What if he also had defensive items similar to theirs on him?

What if he successfully withstood the attack and took advantage of the chaos to rescue Ji Wanqing...

As time passed, the smoke and dust gradually dissipated.

They saw that the deep pit was empty; not even a drop of blood could be found.

"How can this be!" Shangguan Xu widened his eyes, his face full of disbelief; he hurriedly turned to look at his companions and shouted, "I clearly hit him, I really hit him!"

Except for Wei Xiong, the complexions of the others grew increasingly ugly.

This idiot!

Is now the time to dwell on whether or not he hit him?

"We've been played." Qi Yuangu's face was as gloomy as water, and he said coldly, "This guy coming over wasn't to duel with us at all, but to take the opportunity to rescue Ji Wanqing. He and Ji Wanqing are in cahoots!"

Otherwise, why would Ji Wanqing have refused to say what happened after that person arrived earlier?

It wasn't because her body wouldn't allow it, as she had claimed, but because she simply couldn't say!

"Damn it!" Guli was so angry his hair stood on end; he knelt heavily on one knee, then slammed a fist into the ground, instantly creating a half-meter-deep crater.

"What a Ji Wanqing!" Yanluo was so regretful his guts turned green.

He truly never expected that he, who was always shrewd, would capsize in a gutter today.

If he had known it would turn out like this, he should have let Guli attack as well, or even taken the field himself; that way, he wouldn't have given that guy a chance to fish in troubled waters.

However, he still had a few questions in his mind: how exactly did Ji Wanqing pass the message out? And who was this person who came to save her?

Wei Xiong, standing to the side, wore a thoughtful expression.

Ji Wanqing?

Was that the white-haired old woman who looked like she couldn't even truss a chicken?

She didn't look like anything special; why would Yanluo and the others care so much about her?

"Pass the order down, martial law for the whole city!" Yanluo's gaze swept over Shangguan Xu and the others, his tone resolute, "You all come with me; there are only two of them, they can't run far!"

"No need for so much trouble." Just then, a familiar voice came, "I'm right here."

Lu Yu was seen holding a long saber, standing carelessly more than ten meters away, looking at them with a playful expression.

That guy who used the Gravity Ability just now—a single Super Gravity Cannon shot had directly increased his Basic Movement Technique by nearly twenty levels!

He couldn't bear to finish the other party off so quickly.

"What!" The group was instantly shocked.

This guy actually didn't leave?

Immediately following, a wave of anger surged in their hearts in unison.

This guy simply didn't put them in his eyes at all!

"Speak, where did you hide Ji Wanqing?" Yanluo stared fixedly at Lu Yu, his eyes as if he wanted to swallow Lu Yu in one gulp.

"What Ji Wanqing? What nonsense are you spouting?" Lu Yu gave a disdainful sneer, then turned to mock the leader, Shangguan Xu, "I'm asking you, are you even capable? All this gravity cannon, light cannon stuff—it's just like scratching an itch for me. Can't you put in some effort?"

"You!" Upon hearing this, Shangguan Xu was instantly furious.

He didn't care at all what Yanluo and the others behind him were saying; the next second, he directly raised his right hand, his palm aimed at Lu Yu.

"Go to hell!"

As soon as the words fell,

"Boom!"

A loud noise made people's eardrums ache.

Where Lu Yu had been standing, a massive deep pit with a diameter of six meters and a depth of about three meters appeared instantly.

Not only that, the ground within a diameter of several meters around it also collapsed, as if the previous scene were repeating itself.

But just at this moment, another deafeningly loud noise erupted!

"Boom!"

Another Super Gravity Cannon was fired.

Above the deep pit, a massive cylinder seemed to appear out of thin air, like a giant hammer, smashing fiercely into the ground.

The entire ground trembled violently,

and cars parked dozens of meters away were actually jolted several meters into the air,

and the moment they landed, there was another "Boom,"

and the cars were jolted seven or eight meters into the air again!

In Yongan City, almost everyone was drawn by this massive commotion, looking toward the direction of the mountaintop one after another, their eyes filled with panic and terror.

What on earth is going on?

What exactly has happened?

Why is there such a huge commotion over at the mountaintop?

Could it be that something has happened to those Awakened lords?

On the mountaintop, the place where Lu Yu had originally stood had already turned into a massive deep pit with a radius of over ten meters.

Especially at the center, the depth reached as much as seven or eight meters, about as high as a three-story building.

Billowing dust and smoke shot into the sky, clearly visible even from a thousand meters away.

"Huff, huff..." Shangguan Xu stood in the pit, gasping for air.

His face was as pale as paper, and sweat rolled down his forehead incessantly like beads with broken strings.

Three consecutive shots of the Super Gravity Cannon had almost exhausted his Mental Power.

However, in his view, it was all worth it.

Yanluo and the others behind him exchanged glances.

If it had been a minute ago,

they would have absolutely believed that the person holding the blade was dead beyond any doubt.

But now, they truly had no confidence left in their hearts.