Lu Feng's Aura

The newcomer was none other than Xiong Yuan!

Only then did the taut string in Lu Feng's heart finally loosen. Seeing the Body Sect members arrive one after another and surround Flower Scorpion, he knew that Bai Li and he were safe.

Flower Scorpion looked gravely at the people encircling him. Catching sight of the strange black markings fading beneath Tang Yuan's neck, he finally understood, from their familiar pattern, how Tang Yuan had taken that palm strike and remained unharmed.

It was all thanks to the Body Sect's sect-defending Body Refinement Technique, the Nine Revolutions Undying Art.

As Flower Scorpion looked upon the tall, broad-built Body Sect disciples around him, merely standing there in a ring, they already gave him a terrifying sense of oppression.

"Consider yourself lucky today!"

Gritting his teeth, Flower Scorpion stepped forward, preparing to leave.

"Hm?" Xiong Yuan signaled, and the many Body Sect disciples began closing in.

Flower Scorpion roared, "What is the meaning of this, Body Sect? Are you going to make enemies of our Black Scorpion Gate?"

Tang Yuan stepped forward and said, "You hurt my brother. I don't care what gate you belong to—even if the Heavenly King himself came, he'd still have to die!"

Flower Scorpion's expression darkened. His dark green sleeve suddenly swept toward the crowd.

"Watch out!"

Xiong Yuan stepped forward to shield Tang Yuan.

A rapid series of clattering metal impacts rang against the ground.

In that instant of sweeping his sleeve, Flower Scorpion had launched more than ten hidden weapons in a circular spread.

He intended to carve out an escape route!

Had it been another faction, such a sudden assault might truly have opened a path to survival for him.

But the Body Sect disciples had always been thick-skinned and tough-bodied. Faced with such a situation, unlike ordinary people, they would not instinctively dodge. Instead, they would instinctively meet it head-on, to see whether their own defenses were stronger or their opponent's attacks more formidable!

Seeing the wall of bodies around him remain as immovable as mountains, Flower Scorpion's furious face could not help but twitch.

With sinister malice, he suddenly released the Little Scorpion he kept in his robes, sending it flying toward Lu Feng.

"Watch out!"

Tang Yuan and Xiong Yuan both shouted urgently at once.

Though the Body Sect possessed formidable defenses, their reactions were somewhat slower than those of ordinary Soul Masters. Tang Yuan and Xiong Yuan were not far from Lu Feng, but faced with this abrupt turn of events, they still found it difficult to rush to his aid in time.

The palm-sized Little Scorpion had already raised its emerald green venomous tail high as it flew, ready to stab Lu Feng.

Lu Feng's gaze instinctively narrowed. Driven by his desire to survive, a faint flash of black light flickered deep within his eyes.

The next moment, a terrifying aura inexplicably burst forth from within him.

In an instant, the flying Little Scorpion shuddered and voluntarily flattened itself against the ground, then fled into the soil as though escaping for its life.

Xiong Yuan had yet to grasp what had happened. Still maintaining the posture of rushing over to rescue him, he arrived beside Lu Feng, vigilantly sensing the ground around them as he urgently warned, "Be careful. That scorpion might burst out from anywhere and launch a sneak attack."

But Bai Li suddenly threw out her hand, shooting a long nail into the ground before her.

Screech—

A faint sound of something being pierced rang out.

She had precisely nailed the scorpion that had burrowed underground, pinning it dead within the soil.

Not far away, Flower Scorpion stared in shock. Looking painfully at the Little Scorpion that had died before his very eyes, he let out a furious roar. "What exactly did you do to Little Flower?! Why did it stop obeying my commands?!"

As he spoke, several Body Sect disciples had already closed in on him.

Though Flower Scorpion still wanted to struggle, he could not withstand so many thick-bodied opponents. After only a few movements, he was firmly restrained and pressed to the ground. Every one of his Major Acupoints had been sealed, leaving him unable to stir up even the slightest wave.

Amid his unwilling fury, Flower Scorpion's face still held far more shock. He simply could not understand why the beloved pet he had raised for over twenty years had, in the instant it attacked Lu Feng, severed that trace of control midway through its flight.

Not only that, at the moment the connection broke, he had clearly sensed fear coming from Little Flower, as if...

It had not been severed by another person, but Little Flower had broken free from his commands of its own accord.

But how could that be possible?

Flower Scorpion knew clearly that the scorpions he had raised for so many years had never shown any rebelliousness. Even when Little Flower had encountered a ferocious beast last time...

Wait.

Flower Scorpion suddenly trembled, his eyes widening in utter disbelief as he stared at Lu Feng behind Bai Li.

Then he calmed down again, inwardly mocking himself for overthinking.

If a ferocious beast suddenly erupted with a savage aura, it might indeed suppress Little Flower's instincts, causing fear to give rise to rebellious tendencies. But Lu Feng was a living human being—such a thing was absolutely impossible.

Even the most powerful killing intent could at most make Little Flower hesitate. It would never evoke the fear ingrained in its nature and frighten it into fleeing.

As Flower Scorpion pondered in confusion, he suddenly noticed Tang Yuan gently lifting his hands.

Immediately afterward, an ingenious force seeped through his meridians and into his bones. "Urgh!"

Flower Scorpion instantly let out a furious, pained howl.

His restrained hands now went limp like vines. The joints and bones within them had all shattered and dislocated the moment Tang Yuan touched them.

The moment Lu Feng saw this scene, he recognized Tang Yuan's technique.

It was precisely the Bone Removal Technique he had shared in Azure Dragon Town!

He also understood that Tang Yuan's retaliation was entirely meant to vent Lu Feng's anger for him.

Just as Tang Yuan was about to go further and kill Flower Scorpion—

Lu Feng quickly called out, "Leave him alive. He still has value!"

Tang Yuan froze for a moment, then knocked Flower Scorpion unconscious with a palm strike and turned a questioning gaze toward Lu Feng.

He did not understand. Why spare such an evil man? Was he waiting for him to seek revenge later?

Lu Feng said, "I'll explain it to you later. First, help us make a trip down to the bottom of the cliff."

Lu Feng had learned from Bai Li that she and Zhu Qingyue had been forced to the Cliff Edge by the Black Scorpion Gate members. In order to save themselves, they had both chosen to jump. Fortunately, vines growing along the cliff wall caught and slowed them, allowing them to barely survive.

She had tried to carry Zhu Qingyue back up with her, but she had been too exhausted at the time. Moreover, the cliff wall below was incomparably steep, making it difficult to climb while bearing weight. Left with no choice, she gave up and ultimately endured the pain to climb up alone and seek help.

Zhu Qingyue, however, was still beneath the cliff at this moment.

The reason Flower Scorpion had remained here was entirely because he was unwilling to accept the outcome. It was not as he had previously claimed—that he had successfully violated Bai Li and Zhu Qingyue—but because he had led the Black Scorpion Gate members in forcing the two women off the cliff, yet still failed to capture them. So he had stayed behind, hoping to see whether their companions would come.

He had never expected the one who came to be Lu Feng.

Upon hearing that there was a severely injured woman at the bottom of the cliff, Xiong Yuan instinctively looked toward the crowd behind him.

One of them, a hulking man with his thick arms exposed, stepped forward in response to his gaze and said with a sweet smile, "Senior Brother, since it is a woman, let Junior Sister go."

"J-Junior Sister?" Lu Feng's mouth could not help twitching. Hearing that soft, sweet female voice enter his ears, he felt a chill run through him.

This burly man before him... no, this burly woman, was even broader than Tang Yuan. The muscles on her arms were so massive they seemed capable of crushing someone to death. Without exaggeration, she could carry a Bai Li in her left arm and a Blazing Enchantress in her right without the slightest effort, and it would not even look out of place.

Such a person... was actually a woman?

And judging by what she said, she even seemed to be younger than Xiong Yuan?