Seeing that his attempts to persuade Su Huaijin had borne no fruit, Lu Feng chose to stand by and watch.
Su Huaijin had not hesitated to swallow a pill that boosted her strength. That alone startled him for a moment, and he found himself increasingly unable to see through this woman.
He was no great figure himself, so why would she make such a sacrifice over a trifling favor?
Or was it simply for the villa's honor? Could she not tolerate an outsider's affront?
Or perhaps his earlier words had wounded her vanity, and she wanted to put on a show?
Lu Feng looked toward the two women locked in fierce combat in the distance. If he did not have to intervene, he was naturally happy to keep things quiet. Besides, the faint enlightenment lingering in his heart since Observing Clouds for Enlightenment had been appearing and vanishing, impossible to grasp. If he went through another intense battle, he feared he would have even less chance of attaining that Sudden Enlightenment.
What surprised Lu Feng, however, was that Su Huaijin was clearly far weaker than the female assassin. Even after taking a strength-enhancing pill, she had only barely reached the Half-Step Heaven Soul Realm.
Logically, strength at that level should have been utterly incapable of withstanding a female assassin at the Heaven Soul Realm Second Breath, or perhaps even higher.
Yet, to his surprise, the two were evenly matched at the start of their clash.
Not only did Su Huaijin fend off the assassin's attacks, she even faintly displayed a sharp edge of counterattack.
Facing the female assassin's two small crescent blades, Su Huaijin still held only the short dagger she had thrown earlier.
Such a tiny dagger should not have been suited for this sort of frontal confrontation; it