After returning from the Hot Springs, they slept soundly.
Well, Lu Zheng was rather tired. It was the other women who slept soundly after their activities.
Early in the morning, Liu Qingyan went to Renxin Hall. Lu Zheng sat at the table in the main hall at home, drinking yam, goji berry, and red date porridge, and let out a satisfied breath.
But just as he had drunk half of it, Lu Zheng frowned and looked toward the gate.
Before long, a yellow oriole as large as a giant falcon appeared in the sky. It swooped down, flashed upon landing, and transformed into Yu Mingxin, whom they had only parted with yesterday.
Before Lu Zheng could ask anything, Yu Mingxin hurriedly said, "Yue Honghai has been seriously injured. He's carrying demonic qi, and he's at Five Beauties Manor right now!"
Lu Zheng's gaze flickered. With a movement of his body, true qi wrapped around Yu Mingxin, and he rose on the clouds, flying straight toward Five Beauties Manor.
Lu Zheng was faster than Yu Mingxin. A moment later, he arrived at Five Beauties Manor.
Then he saw a huge crocodile, four or five zhang long, lying in the rear courtyard of Five Beauties Manor.
Yue Honghai had actually revealed his true form! The giant crocodile was pale blue-green, surrounded by rings of rippling water that carried the aura of the Black Turtle Water Control True Spirit Secret, suppressing the demonic qi constantly emerging from within his body.
That demonic qi had taken the form of flames. Streams of black flames tinged with red scorched Yue Honghai's five viscera and six bowels. If not for his cultivation art being a secret transmission from the Upper Realm, and for his own cultivation being decent enough, he would already have been burned to