Lu Feng felt the palm force hurtling toward him and could not help realizing that Jun Ziya had clearly not come prepared this time. Judging from this palm strike, which had not gathered much strength, she had likely acted on a sudden impulse.
Perhaps she had been lying low here for some other purpose and had happened to run into him. With their past grievances stirring her anger, she had suddenly been unable to resist making a move against him.
But whatever Jun Ziya's state of mind, Lu Feng in his current condition was in no position to fight her.
After taking the palm strike head-on—
Lu Feng borrowed the force that sent him flying and fled straight toward the depths of Deep Mountain Ridge without looking back.
Jun Ziya was evidently stunned for a moment by Lu Feng's reaction. Her sneak attack had merely been meant as a lesson; she had assumed it would not succeed, never expecting to injure Lu Feng so easily.
In an instant, Jun Ziya came to her senses. Lu Feng had to be wounded!
Watching Lu Feng's bedraggled retreating figure, a teasing chill surfaced at the corners of Jun Ziya's lips.
Turning back, she ordered Flame Sparrow at the entrance of a nearby mountain cave, "Guard the bundles well. Keep watch here and wait for my return!"
Flame Sparrow hurriedly nodded, shifting several bulging bundles at her feet farther into the cave.
Had Lu Feng seen what was inside those bundles, he would surely have been shocked speechless. They were packed with crescent-shaped pendants of every sort—white, black, and quite a few red ones as well!
They had clearly all been obtained by hunting Moon Corpses!
With Jun Ziya relentlessly pursuing him, Lu Feng had no choice but to flee toward the upper peaks