Buying Hearts

"Is that you?" Cloud Harmony Great Sage, his path blocked by Lu Chong, said disdainfully, "I spared your life, yet you've come to throw it away yourself."

As he spoke coldly, he had already slashed out with his blade. The blade light was like a ray that split the sky, cleaving straight toward Lu Chong's face.

In Cloud Harmony Great Sage's eyes, Lu Chong was merely an ordinary peak Great Sage.

But when Lu Chong casually raised a hand and dispersed the blade light, Cloud Harmony Great Sage abruptly realized something was wrong and retreated again and again.

"Who exactly are you?" Cloud Harmony Great Sage asked uncertainly.

Lu Chong gave a dark chuckle. "You people really were too slow to react."

"Didn't you notice that the ones who appeared before were only my Dharma manifestations?"

Now that the Dao Seed had been successfully refined, Lu Chong no longer had any pressure on him. He did not mind toying with the people who had just posed a threat to him.

"Dharma manifestations..." Cloud Harmony Great Sage's gaze shifted between Lu Chong and Leaning Jade Great Sage behind him as thoughts raced through his mind.

"You... you're the one who refined the Dao Seed!" At last, he understood.

Of course!

If that were not the case, why would Lu Chong have sent out only Dharma manifestations?

And Leaning Jade Great Sage had gone to such lengths to lead them away merely to cover for Lu Chong's true body while he refined the Dao Seed!

"You're not entirely stupid." The Cosmos Staff appeared in Lu Chong's hand as he teased.

"But how could this be..." Cloud Harmony Great Sage still refused to believe that he had been fooled.

Clearly, Leaning Jade Great Sage had obtained a superior Dao Seed. How could she