Lu Wenliang was an Eighth-Order Middle Position Grandmaster and had his own metahuman family in Magic City.
However, his rise had been far too recent—only a little over a decade.
He was the family's only eighth-order metahuman. The strongest of the others were merely Seventh-Order Grandmasters.
Even a top-tier family like the Song Family, which had three eighth-order metahumans, had seen its businesses shrink dramatically after old Song Daoyuan's death.
That went doubly for a family with such shallow foundations as the Lu Family.
Once news of Lu Wenliang's death broke, the Lu Family would inevitably plummet, perhaps falling below even ordinary seventh-order families.
After all, Lu Wenliang belonged to Heaven's Mandate Sect. The Lu Family would certainly come under intense scrutiny afterward.
But none of that had anything to do with Xu Jingming. He had simply carried out his mission.
After Zhou Yu left, Xu Jingming, Catherine, and Yang Yao took an off-road vehicle back into the city.
Only after dropping Xu Jingming and Catherine off at the villa did Yang Yao respectfully bid them farewell and leave.
The living room of the original villa in Shui'an Community had been wrecked when Song Qiuyun's and Jiang Chuxuan's abilities transformed.
Xu Jingming had bought this villa for 400 million Great Xia Coins while taking Catherine out during the day.
The villa had four floors and a total area of over two thousand square meters.
Besides a swimming pool and a small garden, it also had a landing pad large enough for a fighter jet.
Song Qiuyun and Jiang Chuxuan, who had stayed at the villa, both breathed sighs of relief when Xu Jingming and Catherine returned safely.
"Xu Jingming, if there's nothing else, I'll head out. I'll come see you again tomorrow."
After sitting on the sofa and taking a