Off to one side, Huang Helou, Ru Jijie, and the others had long since been shocked pale by this exchange.
What kind of figure was Artisan Hero?
Even they had to address him as Senior.
It would have been one thing for Lu Feng to speak with him as an equal, yet he even seemed to carry a hint of coercion in his words.
His nerve was simply too great!
What shocked them most was that Lu Feng had actually invited a grandmaster of the array path like Artisan Hero to serve as his assistant and help him set up an array?
And the latter had actually agreed!
It was utterly earth-shattering, enough to shatter all understanding.
Seeing the two reach an agreement, Artisan Hero took out a finger-length jade sword. Faint, profound patterns surfaced upon it.
Ru Jijie understood that this concealed-weapon-like little sword was likely meant to teach Lu Feng the array-based attack technique he had mentioned earlier.
"Senior, should we excuse ourselves?"
Ru Jijie respectfully asked for instruction. If they watched such a transmission without permission, Artisan Hero might well punish and blame them for it.
"No need," Artisan Hero replied indifferently. "Without activating the cultivation art, given your strength, even if you saw it, you still wouldn't make heads or tails of it."
Those disparaging words made Ru Jijie and the others feel stifled, yet they could not muster the slightest temper.
"Watch carefully," Artisan Hero said, raising a hand and giving it a shake. He suspended the jade sword above his palm, then flicked his hand toward Lu Feng.
Whoosh—
The jade sword shot out in a flash, flying toward Lu Feng at extreme speed.
Lu Feng's gaze sharpened, and he immediately shifted sideways to evade its edge.
"It missed!?"
To Ru Jijie and Qian