Princess Red Lotus Brings Dinner

Then there was the Iron Body Art, a Sixth-Rank True Force Realm technique he had trained to Transcendent Mastery.

He could already draw out one and a half times the power of the original art.

Unfortunately, that wisp of golden True Force was suppressed. Otherwise, he could have begun practicing its accompanying martial skill, True Force Iron Armor.

With that one-and-a-half-times boost, his True Force Iron Armor would also be far more formidable than that of other Demon Extermination Guards in the Demon Suppression Bureau.

His other abilities had improved too, though none had crossed into a new level.

With his strength at its current limit, Su Xinghe began studying Red Lotus Treasure Vase Qi (Modified), the secret art he had pieced together.

From his research over this period, the art seemed to be a Mental Secret Art of the same kind as the Listening to Tides Art.

It was also thanks to this supreme secret art that Princess Red Lotus, despite her young age, could fight Gong Hao, a Fourth-Rank Commander of the Demon Suppression Bureau, to a standstill.

Without her Mental Force Field, she would probably be no different from Li Shunjun.

After all, even a Grandmaster like Li Shunjun would sooner or later lose to a Sixth-Rank True Force expert from a major power like Zhan Yun.

Su Xinghe thought that if he could master two Mental Secret Arts on top of his current Sixth-Rank True Force strength, he might be able to give Princess Red Lotus a fight.

Just as he devoted himself to studying Red Lotus Treasure Vase Qi (Modified),

inside the dim secret chamber,

a familiar scent of gardenias drifted in.

Su Xinghe jolted.

He had smelled that fragrance twice before, and each time it had plunged him into utter despair.

The first time