The hall where Ji Lanjun was located had ultimately not collapsed when the trembling earth finally settled.
But her circumstances had plunged into a new round of peril.
Taking advantage of the chaos to draw her attention, Liu Chenzhou had created an opportunity for Liu Zhongshu. Their sneak attack succeeded, and they sealed her acupoints once again.
This time, grievously injured as she was, there was no way she could force them open again. She was fish on the chopping board, at their mercy.
As she watched Liu Chenzhou, Liu Zhongshu, and Hu Buzui approach with lust-clouded minds,
Ji Lanjun's eyes were filled with the dead stillness of despair.
"If you dare touch me, Father will never let you go!"
Ji Lanjun threatened desperately.
"Don't worry." Liu Chenzhou bared his teeth in a wicked grin. "The Alliance Leader will never learn what happened here. When the time comes, I'll tell him that you were harmed by that heretical cultivator surnamed Lu, subjected to his endless humiliation before taking your own life. As for me? I'll surely rise like a fish in water within the alliance. All the glory that was meant to be yours will fall upon my head. Once the time is ripe, I'll send that old fellow to join you as well. The entire Defend the Dao Alliance will belong to me."
"Dream on, you fool!" Ji Lanjun's eyes brimmed with hatred and venom. She regretted having been too softhearted, allowing a petty wretch like Liu Chenzhou to survive until now and bring about such calamity.
If she had been given another chance, she would have blasted him to death on the spot in Mist Valley.
"Whether I'm a fool or not, I don't know," Liu Chenzhou said with an amused, sinister smile as he took out a