Man Gu and Lan Ting were just about to go help Lu Yang, but before they could make a move, they saw him behead the Heartless Sect elder with a fluid, flowing series of sword strikes.
Seeing the Heartless Sect elder's eyes wide open, with nothing but his head left to stare at them, they still felt a sense of unreality.
The two of them took turns explaining what had happened, and Lu Yang finally got the general idea.
"So you two ran into an elder of the Heartless Sect you couldn't beat, so you called me over?"
"We called for the strongest ancestor of our Barbarian Tribe in the Spirit Transformation stage," Man Gu corrected him.
Hearing that, Lu Yang rubbed his forehead helplessly. He remembered that, in order to learn the art of playing dead, he had once gone so far as to take the Undying Fairy as his master. The Undying Fairy had said that becoming her disciple would raise his seniority and put him on the same level as the Ancient Barbarian Tribe.
Now it seemed the Undying Fairy really hadn't tricked him.
What defined the Ancient Barbarian Tribe? They were a special branch of humanity that the Undying Fairy had put under a spell. From that perspective, Lu Yang was a proper Ancient Barbarian.
He was even the oldest and purest of them all.
Man Gu's Primordial Spirit could call upon the power their ancestors had left behind in the world. Since those ancestors had all become history, only a small portion of their power remained between heaven and earth, and Man Gu's Primordial Spirit could summon only that small portion.
But now, their proper ancestor was still alive. Of course he'd been summoned directly.
"I had no idea, Brother Lu. You're actually an ancestor