By all rights, such a shameless move really did sound like something Daoist Ever Silent would teach, but Meng Jingzhou always felt that Lu Yang was not telling the truth.
"Did the Sect Master really say that?" Meng Jingzhou asked suspiciously, eyeing Lu Yang.
Lu Yang was quite displeased by Meng Jingzhou's suspicion. He had clearly been telling the truth. "If I'm lying to you, then I'll take two extra lightning strikes when I undergo Tribulation Transcendence, all right?"
Lu Yang felt that he had already undergone the first tribulation of the Spirit Transformation-level Heavenly Tribulation—the Dry Heavens Tribulation—while still in the Nascent Soul Realm. Once he reached Spirit Transformation and underwent Tribulation Transcendence, wouldn't it be easy and effortless?
Meng Jingzhou rolled his eyes. He was just about to say something when Lu Yang suddenly vanished from before his eyes without warning, startling him.
"Where'd he go? Did he really get his comeuppance?"
Deep in some barren mountains of Great Xia, three figures darted about as they fought fiercely. Mountains shifted, and heaven and earth were overturned.
Boom—
The two weaker figures were sent flying. They pierced through one mountain and slammed into the cliff face of the mountain behind it.
"Senior Sister Lanting, are you all right?" Man Gu grimaced as he crawled out of the cliff and asked with concern. His thick skin and solid flesh meant that a blow like this was nothing serious for him, but Senior Sister Lanting might not be so lucky.
Wrapped in her sash, Lanting climbed out of the cliff beside him. Her sash had negated most of the attack, so her injuries were not too severe.
"Do you two juniors really think that reaching the early stage of Spirit Transformation means you can challenge me across a realm?" Their