I couldn't tell whether Lu Yuan had let his guard down after dealing with the others so many times, or whether he was simply too furious. This time, he hadn't even bothered to pull on his cloak.
The moment he saw Xu Yi, he slammed a palm down and shattered the table. His eyes bulged with rage, his teeth ground together, and he cursed, "You shameless bastard! Do the people of the Heavenly King of the Imperial Way's Mansion treat their word like shit, or were you in cahoots with Xu Yi from the very start, plotting to harm us? You actually dared sign that South Mountain Pact. Aren't you afraid the heavens will strike you down with lightning..."
Lu Yuan was so furious his hair was practically standing on end, yet his anger didn't even reach half of Kuang Wenyuan's.
Lu Yuan clearly remembered that when Zhang Beiyue had explained the details of the South Mountain Pact signed by Xu Yi and Wang Rongrong, the five energies around Kuang Wenyuan had instantly gone berserk. He and Zhang Beiyue had struggled mightily just to help Kuang Wenyuan steady them.
Then Kuang Wenyuan's howls had rung through all of Spring Hut. His cries of "I'm in agony!" had forced Zhang Beiyue to throw up more than a dozen barriers before he could barely contain them and keep them from spreading.
Lu Yuan felt Kuang Wenyuan's pain as if it were his own. After all, once this whole operation was over, Xu Yi should have been cast into the dust.
Yet somehow, they'd ended up signing that damned South Mountain Pact. Now that it was done, the turmoil caused earlier by Wang Rongrong and the others seemed like it had been laid out specifically to pave the way for Xu Yi to