Ye Ziyu was temporarily out of reach. Without her, Lu Xiaotian had no connection whatsoever to City Lord Ye. The only one he could rely on was the Qinglian Temple. He had worked with Wuyuan before. Perhaps Wuyuan himself wasn't someone Wu Changlian would pay attention to, but Wu Changlian would never dare provoke the Danzhu Buddhist Sect behind him. That greedy bald donkey Wuyuan would never leave Lu Xiaotian in the lurch—not when his own interests were at stake.
Lu Xiaotian was still confident of that much. Vice City Lord Wu had kept him behind to refine pills, while Zhu Jinfu and Guo Jingyu were still free to leave. After spending some time aboard Wu Changlian's ship, they got in touch with people from their Lineage. Especially after receiving Lu Xiaotian's request, they soon felt there was no point staying aboard, and became too anxious to remain. So they each left, though they still found ways to keep in contact with Lu Xiaotian.
"Boom!" On the third day after Zhu Jinfu and Guo Jingyu left, Lu Xiaotian was refining pills when a thunderclap suddenly rang out. A muffled groan followed from the sky.
"Looks like Vice City Lord Wu has taken a hit." Lu Xiaotian's eyes snapped open. Without a thought for the batch of spirit pills he was refining, he waved a hand and recalled all the Brahma Rakshasa True Flame. He put away the pill furnace without even cleaning it, then flashed out of the pill room. The sky, which had been a clear, deep blue, now held two figures drifting back and forth. Lu Xiaotian took a closer look and realized that one of them, faintly glowing with a green light, was Wu Changlian. The other was an eagle demon in human form, still sporting an