"Brother Yun, there's something you don't know."
Lu Jingxuan gave a bitter smile and shook his head. "Wu Jianfeng is the Deputy Alliance Leader of the Sword Alliance. His status and standing are extraordinary, and Deng Yu is no slouch either. Besides..."
"Back in the Qiankun Sect, Wu Jianfeng lured us to the Southern Frontier Battlefield with the promise of breaking through to Eternal True God. But in reality, once we followed him here, we effectively lost our freedom."
Recalling the past, Lu Jingxuan could not help feeling wistful.
Back at the Qiankun Sect, when Wu Jianfeng invited Qin Hao and Qin Hao refused, Lu Jingxuan had felt that Wu Jianfeng had gone too far. He had therefore intended not to come to the Southern Frontier Battlefield.
At the very least, he had not intended to come with Wu Jianfeng.
At the time, Lu Jingxuan had never even imagined Wu Jianfeng's subsequent schemes. He had simply felt that Wu Jianfeng had poor character and did not want to become close to him.
Unfortunately, Wu Jianfeng had never given Lu Jingxuan a chance to refuse.
In the end, he had been forced to follow Wu Jianfeng to the Southern Frontier Battlefield as well. Once they arrived, everything changed. Wu Jianfeng demanded that they fight the Outer Realm Demon Spirits, while he or Deng Yu delivered the killing blow.
Thus, Wu Jianfeng and Deng Yu took the largest share of the battle merit.
Some had tried to resist along the way, but Wu Jianfeng and Deng Yu had used all manner of "accidents" to force them to split off on the Southern Frontier Battlefield.
Without Wu Jianfeng and Deng Yu's "protection," cultivators like them, with Heaven and Earth True God Peak Cultivation, had no power to resist if they encountered powerful Outer