Fierce Reputation
Zhou Rong ordered the True Martial Guards at his side to seize Lu Zhaojin on the stage. This was an imperial decree; no one dared obstruct it, and no one dared resist it. Otherwise, they would have to face the colossal behemoth that was the imperial dynasty, as though defying the might of Heaven.
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Everyone was dumbfounded. They had never expected Lu Zhaojin to truly dare defy an imperial decree, much less kill True Martial Guards carrying the imperial order. He was openly challenging the imperial dynasty.
He was utterly audacious.
A new impression of Lu Zhaojin took shape in everyone's hearts.
Zhou Rong also felt that Lu Zhaojin was outrageously bold, but that was precisely what he wanted. If Lu Zhaojin had obediently surrendered without resistance, the matters that followed would have become difficult for him to handle.
Zhou Rong assigned a True Martial Guard beside him to capture Lu Zhaojin. This man was a Battalion Commander of the Bailu City True Martial Division, named Yu Guang. His position was below Zhou Rong's, and his martial cultivation was at the late Sixth Rank, equal to Wu Deng's.
Upon receiving the order, Yu Guang drew his blade and stepped forward, slashing out a ribbon-like blade light that flew toward Lu Zhaojin.
Lu Zhaojin shattered the blade light with one strike of his sword, but that had merely been Yu Guang's feint. Yu Guang closed in, holding his saber across his horse stance, his eyes blazing with fury. "River Breaker."
He raised his long saber high, and it burst with dazzling radiance. His blade momentum surged forward like rolling tides, and the thirty-foot blade light descended along with