"I am Luo Zheng. I'm here to find Lu Xiao." Luo Zheng approached and called out loudly.
By the firelight, the two soldiers saw that the newcomer was actually Luo Zheng, and both their eyes filled with surprise. Their tones immediately softened, carrying a hint of gratitude. "So it's Brother Luo Zheng!"
These two soldiers were also members of the Azure Mist Squad—or perhaps it was more accurate to call them survivors of the Azure Mist Squad!
Lu Xiao himself was extremely steady and never rash. Moreover, the battle formations he devised were exceedingly reasonable. Under Lu Xiao's leadership, few soldiers had ever been sacrificed.
Yet in today's battle, dozens of brothers from the Azure Mist Squad had died. Without a doubt, it had dealt them a tremendous blow.
All the soldiers who had survived knew perfectly well that if Luo Zheng had not drawn away the Blade Worm Mother Empress, not a single one of them would have made it out alive today.
Even if Lu Xiao had been the one to lure away the Blade Worm Mother Empress, after killing Lu Xiao, it could still have swiftly caught up with the others from the Azure Mist Squad.
Luo Zheng had exchanged his own life for theirs. He was practically their lifesaving benefactor, their reborn parents!
How could these soldiers not be grateful?
And the Luo Zheng whom they had thought doomed to die had actually returned safe and sound. How could that not astonish them?
They all knew that although Luo Zheng was a disciple of the Azure Cloud Sect, his cultivation was only at the Marrow Refining Realm. His strength was indeed astonishing, far beyond that of an ordinary Marrow Refining Realm cultivator, but he was still only at the Marrow Refining Realm. They had no idea