Chen Xin frowned slightly when he saw Acheron.
Because he saw the sword at Acheron's waist, he was reminded of the Blade Qi he had seen in the forest before.
Could it have been left behind by this girl?
However, Chen Xin quickly dismissed that thought.
Because the girl before him did not look like a master of the blade at all.
The cultivation of blade and sword techniques differed from ordinary Soul Power cultivation.
Without years upon years of accumulation, it was simply impossible to improve in such arts.
Moreover, Chen Xin could not sense any Soul Power from this girl at all.
It seemed that she was not particularly strong.
The expert he had encountered in the forest that day could not have been her.
Thus, Chen Xin said to Lu Jiang,
"Hmph. Do you think you can come and go from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect whenever you please?"
"Now that you want to leave, does that mean you have a guilty conscience?"
After Chen Xin spoke, his aura intensified by another thirty percent.
Although Lu Jiang's Soul Power had now reached the realm of a Soul King, there was still a considerable gap between him and a Titled Douluo.
If an ordinary Soul King stood before a Titled Douluo, that pressure alone would be enough to force them to their knees.
However, Lu Jiang was not afraid of that.
His God-Tier Martial Soul made him immune to all fluctuations of Soul Power.
Even when facing a Titled Douluo.
Lu Jiang looked coldly at Chen Xin and said,
"My legs are my own. I'll go wherever I want. It's not your place to tell me otherwise."
"If you want to fight, I'll see it through to the end."
Lu Jiang's neither servile nor overbearing attitude did not anger Chen Xin. Instead, it earned a measure of his appreciation.
He had cultivated under his father's guidance since childhood. Given his talent, he likely should never have had the chance to become a Titled Douluo in his life.
Yet it was precisely because he looked down on all else and dared to contend with heaven that he had broken through to become a Titled Douluo in one stroke.
Thus, when Chen Xin saw Lu Jiang, he could not help but feel some fondness toward him.
Unfortunately, the sect master had ordered that Lu Jiang be confined within the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect for a year, so his loyalty could be investigated.
Now, it seemed that even if Lu Jiang was not the culprit who had blown up the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, he was definitely concealing something else from them.
Anyone who might threaten the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had to be eliminated!
Moreover, he was one of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's guardian Douluo.
Lu Jiang dared speak to him in such a tone, so arrogantly. Chen Xin felt it necessary to teach him a lesson.
With that thought, several Flying Swords instantly appeared around Chen Xin.
His gaze was blazing as he stared at Lu Jiang. He had long heard that Lu Jiang was exceptionally talented, or else he would not have gained the favor of the sect master and Rongrong.
Today, he would test Lu Jiang's strength on their behalf.
"What a big mouth. You are nothing but a junior, yet you dare speak to me like this."
"Today, I'll teach you what respect means!"
Then, Chen Xin drove the Flying Swords at his side toward Lu Jiang.
Lu Jiang frowned and asked Acheron beside him,
"What do you think? Can we win?"
Acheron nodded, then said,
"I've mostly recovered. And because your strength has improved, it seems some of my power has returned as well."
"Dealing with him should not be much of a problem."
"Or rather, victory is certain."
After saying that, Acheron placed her hand on the hilt, ready to sever Chen Xin's Flying Swords at any moment.
However, just then.
A pitch-black spatial rift suddenly appeared ahead of the Flying Sword.
Then, the skeletal remains of some unknown Soul Beast slowly crawled out from the rift.
It clamped down on the Flying Sword and dragged it into the rift.
"Old Bone? What are you doing here?"
Chen Xin cried out in surprise.
The one he called Old Bone was the other of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's twin guardian Douluo, Bone Douluo—Gu Rong.
"Hehe, old bastard. This is the sect master's man. If you damage him the moment you attack, the sect master will be angry."
A sinister voice emerged from the rift.
Then, a young man with black hair and black robes slowly crawled out of the rift.
After Gu Rong emerged from the rift, Ning Fengzhi stepped out right behind him.
"Sect Master."
Upon seeing Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin called out respectfully.
Ning Fengzhi nodded, then turned around and stared at Lu Jiang with icy eyes as he said,
"I knew it. You suddenly wanted to return to the sect, so you definitely had no good intentions."
"Now that you want to leave, you must have gotten what you wanted, right?"
As he spoke, Ning Fengzhi slowly extended a hand toward Lu Jiang.
In a voice filled with killing intent, he said to Lu Jiang,
"Hand it over. Otherwise, you die here."
Ning Fengzhi had figured it out by now. No matter what he did, he could not persuade Lu Jiang to sincerely join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
Since that was the case, it would be better to destroy him here.
If they could not have such a genius, they absolutely could not allow another force to have him either.
They had to nip Lu Jiang in the bud before he could grow stronger.
After he spoke, the two Douluo behind Ning Fengzhi unleashed their domains at the same time.
Two different filters, one white and one black, covered all the space around Lu Jiang.
He knew that he likely would not be able to leave so easily this time.
However, Lu Jiang had no intention of backing down.
He summoned his Martial Soul, and four spirit rings lit up beneath his feet.
When the three from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect saw Lu Jiang's spirit rings, they were all stunned.
What kind of configuration was this?
Who could absorb a Ten Thousand Year Spirit Ring right from the start?
Even if someone could help Lu Jiang kill a ten-thousand-year Soul Beast, the limits of the human body made it absolutely impossible to absorb a Ten Thousand Year Spirit Ring at level ten.
Even a thousand-year spirit ring had never appeared before.
Lu Jiang's talent could truly be called unprecedented and unsurpassable.
And that only strengthened Ning Fengzhi's resolve to keep him here.
Dead or alive, Lu Jiang was not leaving this place.
"Uncle Jian, Uncle Bone. This person is not simple. To be safe, the three of us should attack together."
Chen Xin snorted disdainfully. As a Titled Douluo, fighting a Soul King was already humiliating enough.
And now the three of them were supposed to attack together?
If word got out that Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo had to use their full strength just to bully a junior, would they not be laughed to death?
Gu Rong, meanwhile, narrowed his eyes and looked at Ning Fengzhi with a grin.
"We will obey all the sect master's orders. Since you want us to act, then we shall act."
After speaking, Gu Rong tore open another rift before him.
Then, a massive tailbone extended from it and swept toward Lu Jiang like a sharp Blade.
Chen Xin merely watched from the side, with no intention of attacking.
However, at that moment, violet light flashed through Acheron's eyes.
Then, she instantly drew a streak of blade light and cleaved Gu Rong's weapon in two with a single strike.
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