"Gentlemen, how dare you treat my guest with such neglect?"
Seeing the spiritual power stirring beneath their surfaces, Elder Zheng's voice suddenly turned cold.
In an instant, the experts' hearts tightened, and they all withdrew their auras.
The pressure bearing down on Lu Chen abruptly vanished.
Lu Chen's body relaxed, and he could not help coughing softly twice.
Elder Zheng hurried forward. "Young Friend Lu, are you all right?"
Lu Chen waved a hand. "I'm fine."
"How did it go?"
Lu Chen pointed upstairs. "Come with me and you'll see!"
"Good!"
The two hurried upstairs.
The people downstairs were left looking at one another.
"City Lord Huang, then we..."
"Come on, let's follow them and take a look!"
"Yes!"
The group quickly arrived outside Madam Zheng's room.
Zheng Changguo suddenly remembered something. "Right, the masks!"
Lu Chen raised a hand to stop him. "They're no longer necessary."
With that, he pushed open the door directly.
Sure enough, the moment the door opened—
The miasma that had previously rushed straight at them had already vanished without a trace.
Lu Chen was the first to enter the room, his gaze immediately landing on the blood-red pearl floating above Madam Zheng.
—The Plague-Chiming Pearl!
Dark red light flowed within the pearl, while eerie green vapor coiled around its surface.
Lu Chen had merely come into contact with it for an instant.
Yet the methods for using this treasure had already become crystal clear in his mind.
"Th-this is..."
Behind him, Zheng Changguo stared at the scene before him in disbelief. "The poisonous miasma... actually dispersed?!"
The others accompanying them had not come here for the first time either, and every one of them was shaken to the core.
"That poison was so terrifying before. How did it just disappear?"
"Looks like this kid...