When Yang Zhengshan said he was going to have them killed, Cheng Wuji and Han Changshun immediately began struggling violently.
Deng Yuehe's already uneasy heart grew even more unsettled.
"What are you standing around for? Help drag them away and butcher them!" Seeing how fiercely they were struggling, Luo Jinsong hurriedly said to Li Chang beside him.
Li Chang and several Personal Attendants stepped forward and dragged Cheng Wuji and Han Changshun straight away.
Yang Zhengshan looked towards Deng Yuehe. She was an old woman, though she looked only to be in her forties. The corners of her eyes were covered with crow's-feet, but one could still tell she must have been an exceptionally beautiful woman in her youth.
Of course, what Yang Zhengshan cared about was not her looks, but what use she had.
"How high is your cultivation?"
"Replying to the Marquis, this old body condensed Innate True Qi twenty years ago, but in the past ten years, my cultivation has rarely advanced any further!" Deng Yuehe said with utmost respect.
Yang Zhengshan calculated in his heart. Twenty years ago—then this Lady Deng had not even been forty when she cultivated to the Half-Step Innate Realm. It showed just how high her cultivation aptitude was.
However, she was now nearly sixty, yet her cultivation still had not reached the Innate Realm. This could only mean that innate opportunity truly was something one could meet but not seek.
Yang Zhengshan thought about it, then flipped his sleeve and took out a jade box.
"A Three-Yellow Plum. It helps condense Innate True Qi and open the meridians. Although I cannot be certain whether it can let you break through to the Innate Realm, it should be of some help to you!"
"Since you are willing to seek refuge with Da