"Lu Chen?"
"Are you really Lu Chen?"
Zhu Hanjiang walked up to Lu Chen, still scarcely able to believe his eyes.
Seeing Zhu Hanjiang's stunned expression, Lu Chen smiled.
"Lord Zhu, I am Lu Chen."
Zhu Hanjiang opened his mouth, but for a moment, he had no idea what to say.
He looked at the corpses strewn across the ground, then at the young man before him. The shock in his heart refused to subside.
Bloodhand Daoist, a Sinew-Piercing Realm expert and a branch master of the Blood God Sect.
Even he could only fight the man to a draw.
Yet just moments ago...
Lu Chen had struck with thunderous force, killing him with a single punch.
Then he had killed He Chenzhou and Ma Changkui, two more Sinew-Piercing Realm experts.
Everything had happened too quickly.
So quickly that it almost felt unreal.
Zhu Hanjiang drew a deep breath.
When Lu Chen had first arrived in Gaolin County to report for duty, he had not thought much of him.
A young Scarlet Valorous Guard from Scarlet Cloud County.
His cultivation was only at the Blood-Moving Realm.
Though he had taken first place in the Martial Examination, examination results did not mean everything in Jianghu's life-and-death struggles.
He had never imagined that, when Gaolin County fell into peril, this young man would turn back the raging tide and quell the rebellion single-handedly.
Zhu Hanjiang looked at Lu Chen and gave a wry laugh.
"When you first arrived, I wondered whether Zhou Lingfeng was taking too great a risk."
"Now it seems..."
"I was wrong about you."
Lu Chen shook his head.
"If you hadn't been holding the fort in Gaolin County all this time, Lord Zhu, I wouldn't have had the chance to grow stronger."
At those words, a complicated look