In truth, Zhang Yuan had little affection for the Chu Family. For one thing, he knew very few of them. For another, even those he had known the longest, such as Chu Qingyuan and Chu Zhankuo, had only been acquainted with him for three months. He had spent most of that time in seclusion and seldom seen them. They were merely chance acquaintances, and he was only staying with the Chu Family temporarily.
Even the things Chu Qingyuan had said to him might not have reflected her own intentions, but rather the influence of a Golden Core True Lord. Otherwise, how could someone with the discernment of outer dao foundation establishment possess such insight?
Yet that was precisely what made this trap so formidable.
Whoever laid this trap had no need for Zhang Yuan to be particularly close to the Chu Family. They only needed him to know that its destruction had happened entirely because of him.
That left only two choices: either hang the matter high overhead as none of his concern-what did the Chu Family's deaths have to do with him?-or do as he had now, braving enormous danger to raise his blade in fury and destroy the Shang Family.
The former attacked his heart; the latter threatened his life.
Lu Chaosheng had been ready to fight to the death, but the South Sea Dragon Clan's sudden interference gave him another chance to escape. Relying on several Life-Saving Trump Cards he carried, he fled in a panic to Flowery City.
The Grand Hua Jade Heaven Sect was nowhere nearby. Its grounds lay far away in the Central Land of the Boundless Southern Heaven Realm. Even a Spirit Transformation cultivator using Skyflight at full speed would need many days to reach the Central Land.
Moreover, the Boundless Southern