Do you want to dance, too?
D-d-dance...
Wine Fox Immortal's delicate, round face froze, her short, wispy hair tousled in the wind.
At that moment, she finally remembered the fear of once being under Lu Ya's thumb.
It was the first time she had ever... been pinned down on a bed by a man and made to do that sort of thing!
The memory of it still lingered in her mind.
"How dare he do that sort of thing to my little sister Xuan Ye? Even I haven't... Unforgivable! Unpardonable! Where's Lu Ya? Tell that bastard to get out here!"
The moment the words left her mouth, an irresistible, terrifying force seized her out of thin air. Her feet slipped, and she tumbled down from the sky, spinning and whirling through the air.
When she blinked, she had already rolled onto Ning Zhongzi's bamboo bed. Before she could react, she saw an elegant, easygoing man sitting cross-legged beside her, smiling.
"Hello, I'm Lu Ya. The organization has an important mission for you."
And ever since, that bastard had treated her like a tool, using her right up to the present...
Speaking of dancing, she had just been forced to perform one for Lu Ya.
The thought of an Immortal Court deacon dancing for a man made her so furious she wanted to curse!
If I weren't monitoring you people, would I put up with this kind of humiliation?
Still, she really wanted to see how Lu Ya had done it—what power or spell he had used to whisk someone away without the slightest fluctuation of spiritual energy.
Everyone else was still bewildered, unable to fully process what had happened.
Their divine senses swept blankly across the sky, unable to locate the source of the voice.
At the same time,
space shuddered faintly. In an instant, it abruptly shifted!
A plump figure began to dance on the wind, like a drifting leaf...
Floating up into the sky!
Under the stunned, bewildered, and puzzled gazes of everyone—
Xu Yinglong tumbled up into the sky!
A long, piercing scream tore through the heavens.
In the blink of an eye,
before Xu Yinglong could react, his robe-wrapped bulk was already sprawled across the prow of the Flagship Immortal Boat, his enormous head pinned beneath a bamboo sandal!
Wine Fox Immortal hadn't seen what happened at all...
It had seemed slow, then suddenly it had happened.
How had he done that?
Clearly, this wasn't a matter of cultivation level, but of immortal arts and technique!
Wine Fox Immortal raised her head to gaze at the tall, relaxed figure standing at the bow. Even from a hundred zhang away, she could still make out his elegant, easygoing, terrifying face.
That man was a demon!
The whole scene fell utterly silent.
The city's residents.
The tourists.
Even the ship's guards.
And the inspection deacons aboard the other boats...
Everyone stood rooted in shock!
For a brief moment, a blankness filled their minds.
After a long while, they finally came to their senses.
Someone really dared to attack the Immortal Court!
Who would believe it if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes?
The question was...
Why was City Lord Lu aboard the Immortal Ship?
Did he not even know Deacon Xu's background?
Lu Ya really didn't.
But that didn't change the outcome.
Standing at the flagship's prow, one foot on Xu Yinglong, he felt the gentle gale sweep past.
Lu Ya found the whole thing rather baffling.
If you wanted Kun meat, you could've paid for it, couldn't you?
If you didn't want to pay, you could've brought some experts and tried to take it by force.
You'd made such a grand show of it, sailing in on seven beautiful Immortal Ships, only to bring along two Nine Star Immortal Sect Masters. Didn't you know how Golden Peng and Void Kun had died?
Or did you know, but refuse to believe it?
Lu Ya had grabbed Xu Yinglong and hauled him aboard with barely a sliver of effort.
Then he realized that sliver had been far too much.
This bastard's so-called half-step Immortal Sect Master cultivation was fake!
It was all a facade propped up by a restriction inside his body. His actual cultivation wasn't even close to an Immortal Sect Master—not even an Immortal Master.
He'd spouted one terrifying official pronouncement after another, yet turned out to be a complete weakling.
Had he come here just to get himself killed?
Feeling a little awkward, Lu Ya stood on Xu Yinglong's huge head and said listlessly,
"Your ship's beautiful, but you're really no good."
"You—"
Xu Yinglong's voice caught in his throat, and he nearly choked himself unconscious.
In his four thousand years of life, he had always been the one stepping on others. This was the first time anyone had ever pinned him beneath their foot.
How could he endure such humiliation?
His towering fury built up in his chest.
But he had nothing to show for all that rage. Faced with a reckless brute who dared to fight back, he suddenly had nowhere to vent it.
All he could do was shout down from the Immortal Ship,
"What are you waiting for? Kill this bandit!"
The whole scene fell utterly silent.
The entire Azure Phoenix City seemed frozen.
At the edge of the cliff by the plaza,
Ning Zhongzi shook her head without a word.
The thing she had feared most had still happened.
She knew Lu Ya was powerful, but when facing the Immortal Court, no matter how powerful he was, he had to bow his head.
The Immortal Court was a coalition formed by the strongest in the Immortal Realm, protected by countless deities.
In the Immortal Realm, the Immortal Court was the Heavenly Dao—the supreme authority no one could resist!
Liu Xuanye alone had been enough to give her a headache. Now Lu Ya had arrived as well.
She truly didn't know how long the Bamboo Spring Sect could hold out.
Hopefully, it wouldn't be today...
At the same time,
Zhang Pingzhi was also shocked by what Lu Ya had done.
But only on the surface. Inside, he was secretly delighted.
He thought Lu Ya was far too arrogant and reckless. There was no way he'd survive the day.
Truthfully, he didn't want Lu Ya to die too soon.
His original plan had been to lock him in the Immortal Prison, then watch himself rise to glory step by step while Lu Ya wasted away in his cell...
That would have been the perfect ending!
That would have soothed the hatred in his heart.
That's what you got for roasting my falcon!
That's what you got for mocking me for not having a falcon!
What a shame I'd get to see you die today...
So be it.
Zhang Pingzhi nodded.
A hint of calm appeared on his pale, gloomy face.
At that moment,
the two Nine Star Immortal Sect Masters were scowling, their faces dark. Their vast seas of qi surged like turbulent waves, while their Immortal Court Cloaks fluttered and rustled in the wind, radiating the fierce majesty of the Immortal Court.
"You're courting death!"
The spiritual pressure of the two Nine Star Immortal Sect Masters surged. They took a step, their figures flickering as they flew toward the Immortal Ship.
Halfway there, they suddenly frowned.
Was it their imagination?
The two of them felt that space was unstable.
They were flying very slowly...
What was going on?
Was there another expert here?
At the same time,
Xu Yinglong, pinned beneath Lu Ya's foot, finally understood.
This man was from out of town and had no idea who he was.
That was why he dared to commit such a vicious act against him, relying on a little cultivation!
His eyes bulged with fury as he roared,
"You bastard! Do you even know who I am—"
Unfortunately, Lu Ya didn't give him the chance to list his titles.
"Watch what you say, lest the Immortal Court suffer along with you."
"You..."
Xu Yinglong froze.
He felt like he'd run into a lunatic. There was no reasoning with him!
He continued to roar.
"You dare insult an Immortal Court Inspection Deacon? I'll make sure the Bamboo Spring Sect has nowhere to bury its dead!"
"Is that so?"
Lu Ya nodded slightly, preparing to turn the man to dust.
Just then, he heard a strand of divine sense from Ning Zhongzi.
"Senior Brother, you can't kill him!"
It wasn't as if Lu Ya particularly wanted to kill trash like this. He'd just gotten annoyed and suddenly felt like turning him to dust.
And if you really considered his misdeeds, all he'd done was covet Kun meat. It wasn't as though he had to die.
A sudden idea struck him, and he said to Xu Yinglong,
"Open your eyes and look down. My gentle, beautiful senior sister told me not to kill you."
"Don't you think she's kind? Don't you feel an urgent desire to repay her?"
"I'll give you that chance. My senior sister loves sailing most of all. You can leave, but leave your ship behind. We'll pretend none of this ever happened. I'm sure she'll be delighted."
"You're courting death—"
Xu Yinglong was so furious he nearly spat blood!
The two Immortal Sect Masters were growing anxious as they waited.
Lu Ya was sick of it.
He pressed down ever so slightly with his foot.
With a crack, Xu Yinglong's enormous skull split open.
And he knocked him unconscious.
Lu Ya spread his hands toward Ning Zhongzi, indicating he couldn't help it either.
He thought, trying to knock out an ant without crushing it...
Wasn't easy, either.
"Bastard!"
When the two Nine Star Immortal Sect Masters saw Xu Yinglong's skull cracked beneath Lu Ya's foot, they flew into a rage.
But spatial turbulence had them tangled up, keeping them from gaining speed. So the two of them formed hand seals and performed Immortal Release—
"Immortal Release!"
"Immortal Release!"
Two Golden Bodies rose into the air. With a flash, they charged straight at Lu Ya!
But Lu Ya still looked wholly uninterested.
He hadn't gotten much exercise lately, but these two old men were weak, and he respected the elderly. He couldn't be bothered to fight them himself.
"Don't rush. I'll have my dear wife and Master Wine Fox fight you."
Me?
Wine Fox Immortal knitted her brows, feeling that Lu Ya had made her into his tool again.
The problem was, you wanted me, an Immortal Court deacon, to fight my seniors from the Immortal Court?
You couldn't play like that, could you?
Meanwhile.
Little Bamboo Spring Mountain.
Three thousand sword-lights rang out with a metallic clamor.
Liu Xuanye walked slowly onto Sword Terrace.
She stood with her hands behind her back at the edge of the cliff, a languid curve lifting her cool, red lips.
She thought,
Lu Ya probably hadn't been very satisfied with the sword strike she'd used to ambush Golden Peng last time.
So he'd specially found an opportunity this time to help hone her swordsmanship.
A sudden wave of emotion washed over her. She'd only meant to find a cultivation partner in name, yet it seemed she'd found a teacher instead.
She'd never seen him draw his sword.
Outside the Hundred Herbs Shop.
The tall black goats were nowhere to be seen.
The shepherd leaned against the doorway, drinking wolfberry tea.
The tea steeping in the Porcelain Sand Pot was Eastern Divine Wolfberry.
After one gulp, his whole body jolted violently.
"This wolfberry's got quite a kick."
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