Watching the two men push the cart back, Lu Zheng ignored them and soared into the clouds, heading straight for Yao Prefecture.
If he had not encountered them, that would be fine, he was not a saviour and would not rush to act heroically, but since he had, looking at the two pitiful little girls who had been unconscious just now, Lu Zheng could not be completely heartless.
More importantly, for Jin Jue Hall that could only do such shady deeds, how impressive could those three hall masters be?
Jin Jue Hall, this was the kind of opponent he liked, what underworld ghost king, what Yuan Sheng Sect saintess, what Lone Jade Mountain wolf king, what Jade Dragon Clan demon dragon, none of them as interesting as Jin Jue Hall’s three hall masters?
Opponents he could crush were the best opponents!
Lu Zheng rode the clouds and mist all the way, soon passing Yizhou, arriving at Yao Prefecture, then flying over Wanfu County to Qingyao County.
According to what the hemp-clothed man had said, Lu Zheng spotted the Jin Jue Hall main hall at a glance, a large estate located in the western suburbs near Qingyao County town.
“Outside the city is good, if everyone dies it will not attract ordinary people’s attention.”
Lu Zheng cast an invisibility spell, then descended from the clouds, landing in the front courtyard of Jin Jue Hall, just in time to see two men, each carrying a little girl, coming in.
“Huang San, Lu Zheng, you two returned quite quickly, did not do it right at the doorstep did you?”
“Where, how could that be, we almost reached Yinan Road.”
“That is still pretty fast?”
“Indeed, good luck, just happened to encounter these two little girls playing at the village entrance, young though they are, their looks are top-notch, just to the chief hall master’s taste.”
“Heh heh heh!”
“Enough, hurry and send them in, not many left in the back hall.”
“Got it! Let’s go!”
“The chief hall master uses one every three days, they say after consuming eighty-one girls he will achieve immortality, true or false?”
“Who knows, but the chief hall master said, once he succeeds, he will pass the technique to those who contributed the most, so we work hard, catch more girls, maybe we will be selected.”
“Heh heh, exactly! Exactly!”
Lu Zheng’s face was expressionless, he just followed these two to a courtyard in the back hall.
Entering the courtyard, he found about ten little girls living there, all around seven or eight years old, looking terrified, their eyes filled with fear.
The two pulled the girls down and handed them to an approaching old man, “Old You, over to you!”
Old You took one in each hand, carrying the two girls back, “Fine.”
The two chuckled lewdly, glanced maliciously at the group, making the little girls scatter like frightened fawns, then they burst into laughter.
“Off we go, eat in the city, then head out again!”
Just as they prepared to leave, a sigh echoed in the small courtyard.
“You cannot leave.”
“Hm?”
“Who?”
“What person?”
Suddenly, faint white clouds appeared out of nowhere, enveloping the entire estate.
In the next moment, three different auras surged up, one with yin within yang, one like a furnace of vital blood, and one swaying, illusory and real.
“Who are you, daring to intrude!”
As the words fell, three figures appeared on the back courtyard wall, standing remotely.
Lu Zheng narrowed his eyes, no wonder these three were so bold, they truly had remarkable skills.
The leading chief hall master appeared middle-aged, wearing a black Daoist robe, cultivating a side-door Dao technique, with profound attainment.
To the left, a fur-clad burly man with broad palms, his vital blood like a furnace, cultivation higher than Duan Changzai of Yizhou’s Town异司.
And on the chief hall master’s other side, a pale-faced middle-aged man, his figure swaying unsteadily on the wall, but his hands and eyes fixed on Lu Zheng.
“May I ask your honourable name, why act in our Jin Jue Hall? If there is any misunderstanding, please state it clearly.” The chief hall master cupped his hands.
They had not noticed at first, only upon sweeping over did they realise the entire Jin Jue Hall was shrouded in white clouds, several gang members trying to rush out of the estate could not.
The method Lu Zheng used to envelop the whole Jin Jue Hall at once also made him wary, so his words carried two parts of softening.
However…
Lu Zheng acted to draw them out and gather, not to talk.
That black-clothed burly man as an ordinary Jin Jue Hall member could attack without a word, how could Lu Zheng not?
“Qingwei Jade Vault, Supreme Unity Five Thunders, strike!”
“Boom!”
“Qingwei Divine Thunder! You are from Qingwei Palace!”
The chief hall master cried out in surprise, retreating swiftly, flipping out a jade token in his hand, pouring all his mana into it while shouting loudly, “Attack! Do not let him strike a second thunder!”
The second hall master stamped his foot, the courtyard wall shattering instantly, whipping up a gale, almost instantly reaching Lu Zheng’s right, raising his right hand swollen nearly a size larger, striking at Lu Zheng’s chest.
The third hall master slid sideways, pinching a seal in his hand, pointing remotely at Lu Zheng.
Lu Zheng smiled faintly, flipped his right hand, directly unleashing the True Dragon Great Hand Seal.
A dragon roar suddenly sounded, the plain white tender palm colliding with a rough hand a size larger than his.
Then…
The second hall master’s face changed drastically, his body shaking as he tried to retreat, but after just two steps, his two knees cracked with a snap, breaking.
Then, like a domino chain reaction, his entire body’s bones exploded with sounds, fracturing continuously.
In merely three breaths, he had suffered comminuted fractures all over.
He wanted to scream, but his throat bones were also pulverised, only able to make “gurgle gurgle” faint sounds, then his figure shrank, becoming a pile of flesh.
Having dealt with the second hall master, Lu Zheng turned back to the third.
Just now a soul-bewitching spell had approached to invade Lu Zheng’s body, but was easily blocked outside by the white clouds.
“Mental secret art?” Lu Zheng’s mouth curved up, then his two eyes glared, the Golden Vault Heart Sword stabbing out silently.
“Ah!”
The third hall master let out a miserable cry, clutching his head to flee.
“Hm? Not bad divine soul cultivation.” Lu Zheng raised his brow, following up with another.
“Ah!”
The third hall master had just leaped up, not yet reaching the wall, when he plunged headfirst down again, thudding to the ground, then no more movement.
Turning back, he saw the chief hall master’s jade token shatter, blood spraying from his mouth, his figure fleeing.
“Qingwei Jade Vault, Pivot Mechanism Divine Movement, cleave!”
“Boom!”
“Ah!”
After a miserable cry, a strand mixed with eerie aura drifted far away, then slowly dissipated.
Finally ended, eh? Something seems off!
“Hm?”
Lu Zheng let out a light hum, arriving at the other side of the courtyard wall, divine light flickering in his eyes.
Then Lu Zheng saw the chief hall master’s divine soul had not been scattered by the thunder, but hovered in mid-air above his corpse, surrounded by the souls of over twenty little girls, growing fainter and fainter.
“This is… divine soul just departed, about to be sucked into the underworld?” Lu Zheng was seeing for the first time the state of a soul preparing to enter the underworld after death.
This was the rule between the underworld and the mortal realm, a freshly dead person’s divine soul could bypass the yellow spring road, entering the underworld directly?
Lu Zheng’s eyes flashed, seeing the chief hall master’s divine soul full of ferocity and mad joy, so he decisively raised his hand.
“Qingwei Jade Vault, Supreme Unity Five Thunders, strike!”
