As soon as the bedroom door opened, Lu Zheng saw Fan Boyu crouching on one knee, one hand pressed to his chest. His face was white as paper, and his breath was weak and listless.
"Young Master Lu..."
Lu Zheng's gaze narrowed slightly. He looked Fan Boyu up and down three times before flicking his hand and sending a strand of Innate Cloud Qi into Fan Boyu's body, helping him stabilize his injuries.
With a gentle wave of his hand, a mass of white cloud lifted Fan Boyu up, and Lu Zheng brought him toward the side room beside them.
"Mister Fan..."
Seeing Fan Boyu's face filled with unbearable grief and eyes that looked as though his heart had died beyond all hope, Lu Zheng could not help asking carefully, "What happened? Did something happen within the Yuan Sheng Sect?"
Fan Boyu turned to look at Lu Zheng, then saw Liu Qingyan emerging from the bedroom as well.
"Young Master Lu, Qing Xin Saintess of the New Sect colluded with outsiders to stage a rebellion. She killed Yu Kun Saintess, imprisoned Yun Lu Saintess and Zhi Lan Saintess, and slaughtered countless disciples of the Original Sect lineage!
The Yuan Sheng Sect is now completely dominated by the New Sect lineage. Disciples unwilling to submit to the New Sect were either killed or imprisoned. Only some sect members who were outside the sect managed to escape by sheer luck.
I was in the sect at the time. Two priests of the New Sect besieged me, and only after exhausting every last ounce of strength did I manage to flee."
As he spoke, Fan Boyu's expression changed, and he said anxiously, "Young Master Lu, you should move away at once. It would be best to move to Sanjiang Province, preferably somewhere near