Luo Yi had displayed terrifying strength, even greater than Senior Qin Yezhou's, whom Lu Beishen had always hoped to surpass. Doubt rose in Lu Beishen's heart.
At that thought, he stole a glance at the friend standing behind him. She looked just as stunned by the young man's terrifying strength as he was.
The knot in his chest eased a little.
After all, they were old hands who had spent countless years trapped at Great Vehicle Perfection, devoting themselves to the study of every kind of fighting technique.
To see a young man not yet a hundred years old, barely at Early Great Vehicle, surpass them in both technique and combat strength far beyond his cultivation was hard to swallow.
"All right, Old Lu. That bastard Ao Quan saw how things were going and fled early. By now, he's probably almost reached the Southern Sea Dragon Palace!"
"If he brings a Tribulation-Crossing Pseudo-Immortal Realm expert from the Southern Sea Dragon Palace back here, we'll be in trouble. Let's leave while we can!"
"Otherwise, getting away later might prove difficult."
Gao Yuliang had seized the lull to tend her wounds. The Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy in her body, drained dry earlier, had finally recovered a little.
She staggered to her feet and looked at her friend.
She knew exactly why Lu Beishen was so shocked.
But though the young man's terrifying strength had stunned her too, she still could not help warning everyone.
Since Ao Quan, the Fifth Prince of the Southern Sea Dragon Palace, had dared plot against her, a Heavenly Star Sect Inner Sect Elder, here, he might well have other tricks in reserve.
The enemy lurked in the shadows, while they stood in the open.
Keeping oneself out of danger was the single most important reason a