Chu He had never imagined that Green Calamity, the Demon Puppet he had regarded as his last straw of salvation, would turn around and kill the Thunder Dharma King the moment she appeared.
Green Calamity did not even spare Chu He a glance. Instead, she turned her gaze back to Lu Yuan.
"Handsome young man, would you come home with me and enjoy a life of pleasure?"
Green Calamity smiled seductively again, then flicked out a scarlet, forked tongue.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"
Lu Yuan's answer, however, was three throwing knives that became streaks of light.
Although his Flying Blade Technique had yet to break its limits, it had reached perfection. Bolstered by his five-element internal energy and Gang Thunder, the power carried by the three knives was still terrifying.
They crossed the distance of fewer than a hundred paces in almost the blink of an eye.
"Shhk! Shhk! Shhk!"
With three soft sounds, three flowers of green blood blossomed across Green Calamity's body at once.
Her entire body flew backward and slammed heavily into the ground.
"Th-this... how is this possible?"
Chu He and the others were utterly dumbstruck by the sight.
They had assumed that after killing the Thunder Dharma King, Green Calamity would at least capture Lu Yuan, even if she did not kill him outright. Whatever she chose to do with him, it would resolve the crisis facing the Chu Family today.
Yet Lu Yuan had effortlessly inflicted grievous wounds on Green Calamity with his hidden-weapon technique.
"Lord Lu Yuan is mighty!"
The dozen or so Bronze Sword Envoys and over a hundred Iron Sword Envoys of the Sword Hanging Division were all exhilarated.
"He wounded a Demon Puppet comparable to a First Rank martial artist so easily!"
The purple-robed girl watching from the distant tower was