Lu Mingxu walked into the room, smiling at the two of them.
Then...
No one paid him any attention.
The two young men in the room remained absorbed in their books, writing, sketching, and deducing something. Neither of them so much as glanced at him.
At the sight, Lu Mingxu instinctively sensed that something was wrong. He darted back outside and looked around warily, guarding against experts hidden in the shadows.
He suspected he had stepped into some sort of ambush, that Ji Yanchang and that old fellow were hiding nearby and watching him.
Yet after looking left and right again, he still found nothing amiss.
Other than himself, there truly were only those two young men in the courtyard.
Lu Mingxu remained extremely cautious. He did not go far, wary that the two might merely be putting on a bluff, hoping to scare him away so they could seize the chance to flee.
After observing the surroundings once more, he finally entered the room again, trusting both the information his grandmaster had provided and his own judgment.
A Grandmaster of the Celestial Empire could not make a move here. All he needed to deal with was a blind Grandmaster.
"You two needn't keep reading. Once you're beneath the Yellow Springs, you'll have all the time in the world to read."
Lu Mingxu stepped forward. With a twist of his waist and a turn of his hips, power spiraled through his arm into his palm as he struck straight at Huo Yuanhong!
The instant he made his move, he used his trump card—the Life-and-Death Wheel.
The core force-generating technique of this art was a method from internal martial arts: Millstone Strength.
He contracted his dantian and braced his side waist, forming a "combined force" through his core. Then his waist