Though the girl in green could not match Tan Chengcheng's beauty, she still had looks that could make fish sink and geese fall from the sky. Unlike Tan Chengcheng, who stood high above the clouds, she was much more approachable, with the charm of a girl next door.
Lu Chaosheng was about to agree readily to the girl's request. But just as he opened his mouth, before a sound could emerge, alarm bells suddenly rang in his heart. A talisman flew out on its own and turned into a barrier enveloping the entire private room in the teahouse.
This talisman had been given to him by Lu Zhang, the patriarch of the Lu Household, as a means of preserving his life. It could protect its master on its own at a critical moment. As long as the attacker was not an Ascension Realm Great Cultivator striking with full force, it could keep Lu Chaosheng alive.
Boom!
Before the girl in green, Tan Chengcheng, or the others could understand what was happening, a streak of Three-Colored Qi Light cleaved in through the window, smashing the barrier to pieces. The scattered qi light surged into the private room like a tide. Tables, tea sets, and ornaments alike vanished into nothing within that tide.
What... what was happening?
Horror filled their hearts, their gazes blank as they turned toward the outside of the room, looking in the direction the qi light had come from.
A white-robed figure stood upon golden light, sword in hand, his expression impassive. Qi light roiled along his blade, and an utterly terrifying pressure immediately bore down upon their heads.
Who was he?
He actually dared to attack in the Capital City, right in front of the Eldest Princess and the Third Prince.
As everyone looked at Zhang Yuan,