Standing before Ning Fengzhi at that moment was someone from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect!
"Uncle Ning, by order of the Crown Prince, I've come to collect the goods we agreed on earlier."
Yu Tianheng entered the room and respectfully bowed to Ning Fengzhi.
However, at that moment, Ning Fengzhi suddenly noticed the gift box hanging from his waist.
He immediately rushed in front of Yu Tianheng without regard for his image.
Grabbing his hand, he shouted:
"Quick, throw that thing away!"
Yu Tianheng was somewhat uncomfortable. Why had Uncle Ning, usually so graceful and refined, suddenly gone mad today?
"Ah? You mean this?"
"I picked it up on the way here. I thought it looked nice, so I kept it as an accessory."
"What's wrong? Is this thing important?"
Yu Tianheng looked at Ning Fengzhi in confusion.
He had thought the gift box was some lost treasure of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
By then, Lu Jiang and the others had already left the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's territory.
They could only see the distant mountain where the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect stood.
At that moment, Sparkle suddenly called out to Lu Jiang.
"Little Grey Hair, it's about time."
"Want to watch a grand fireworks display?"
Sparkle suddenly smiled mischievously, then pulled a red button from her chest.
Lu Jiang stopped and glanced at the distant Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
Then he looked at the remote control in Sparkle's hand.
"Don't hide things in places like that next time."
"With that pitifully flat chest of yours, what if it falls out?"
Lu Jiang sighed, then walked behind Sparkle.
Sparkle, meanwhile, was feeling a little numb.
After all, she was about to witness a spectacular explosion.
Without Little Grey Hair, she never could have buried all those bombs so smoothly.
So this time, she would reluctantly forgive his rudeness.
"By the way, those bombs of yours won't kill anyone, right?"
Lu Jiang asked Sparkle curiously.
Sparkle wore an expression of utter delight at the thought of chaos and said with a smile:
"Wouldn't that be even better? If nobody dies, wouldn't it be completely unstimulating?"
Lu Jiang looked at Sparkle speechlessly. It perfectly matched his understanding of the Path of Elation.
The sort who would disregard life and death for the sake of fun, including their own.
"Now, let us offer a salute for the birth of a king! Ahahahahaha!"
Sparkle suddenly laughed maniacally and pressed the button in her hand.
The next second, an explosion suddenly rang out from the mountain where the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect stood.
However, compared with the enormous mountain of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, that explosion was like a fart.
"This is—"
Lu Jiang was just about to complain that an explosion of this scale was utterly boring.
Before he could finish, though, an even greater explosion suddenly erupted behind him.
Then came a second blast, then a third.
Each one louder than the last.
When Lu Jiang turned around in shock.
He froze on the spot.
A massive mushroom cloud slowly rose above the entire Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
Within the black smoke hid a dangerous red glow, like lava.
The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect itself had already been swallowed by the explosions, its outline completely obscured.
Scorching flames blanketed the entire Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
The once impregnable buildings were torn into fragments in an instant.
The massive boulders atop the mountain also rolled down one after another from the tremors caused by the explosions.
The entire sight was incomparably spectacular, leaving Lu Jiang dumbfounded.
He had never imagined that experiencing an explosion firsthand could be so soul-stirring.
It was like destruction cast down by the gods, without a trace of mercy.
"What, is even an explosion like this still not enough to satisfy you, Little Grey Hair?"
Sparkle slowly walked behind Lu Jiang, leaned against his shoulder, and spoke.
Lu Jiang shook his head and said to Sparkle:
"No, it's too spectacular. I'm just a little speechless."
Lu Jiang took one last look at the distant Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
It was as though all the humiliation he had endured over the years had vanished along with that explosion.
At that moment, Sparkle suddenly burst into laughter behind Lu Jiang.
"Hahahaha, looks like you really get it."
"I knew I hadn't misjudged you. You're the person who best fits our aesthetics of Elation!"
"Art is explosion!!!"
Sparkle suddenly jumped up and shouted.
Lu Jiang turned around and looked at Sparkle helplessly.
"I've wanted to ask since earlier, where did you learn all these lines?"
"Stuff like the birth of a king, art is explosion, and all that."
"None of that sounds like something you could come across in your world, does it?"
Sparkle put on a sly fox-like expression and said to Lu Jiang:
"Actually, I don't know what any of those words mean."
"You told me all of them yourself. I merely remembered them."
Lu Jiang scratched his head in confusion. Had he said those things to Sparkle before?
Still, it was nothing important anyway.
He had other matters waiting for him now.
With that, Lu Jiang looked toward Xiao Wu, who was sitting beside a rock in the distance.
Xiao Wu had already regained consciousness, but she knew there was no way she could escape from their hands.
So she simply gave up struggling and sat quietly where she was.
When she saw Lu Jiang walking toward her, her gaze wavered.
"What are you going to do?"
Xiao Wu watched Lu Jiang warily, her body instinctively shifting back.
Lu Jiang did not know how to explain it to her, so he simply said:
"You're a hundred-thousand-year soul beast. You should know what a normal Soul Master would want to do after capturing you, right?"
What Lu Jiang actually meant was that he wanted Xiao Wu to condense her Soul Power into a soul ring, just as she had sacrificed herself to Tang San in the original story.
While preserving a trace of Xiao Wu's soul, he would have her condense her Soul Power into a soul ring.
That way, whenever he needed her in the future, he could use his martial soul to summon her back into this world.
However, Xiao Wu had obviously misunderstood him.
She thought Lu Jiang wanted to kill her and take her soul ring.
"Third Brother won't let you off!"
"You selfish humans are always like this."
"You casually slaughter soul beasts for your own selfish desires!"
"One day, Third Brother will kill every last one of you!"
Lu Jiang's expression gradually darkened, and he said to Xiao Wu:
"If you hate humans so much, why place your hopes in a human?"
"When all is said and done, you're nothing more than a hypocrite with double standards."
"The person you like gets an exception, while those you dislike can be trampled however you please, right?"
Lu Jiang's words left Xiao Wu speechless.
Then she watched as he slowly placed his hand on her head.
A pale white light emerged from his palm.
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