"Brother Xu, please help us defeat this formidable enemy!"
Li Shun's shout caught everyone's attention. Gao Peng and Gu Haoming looked delighted.
Though the man ambushing them had reached astral qi mastery, his breakthrough had been recent. The three of them could barely hold him off.
With Xu Yang joining them, protecting themselves would be no problem.
It was not that they valued money over their lives. The man had simply attacked without a word the moment he appeared, forcing them to fight back.
"Brother Xu, please help us! We'll give you one of the Tenfold Great Tonic Pills we won at auction!" Gu Haoming shouted.
His robes were stained with blood, his hair disheveled.
Of the three, he was the most seriously injured.
The Black-Clad Man kept focusing his attacks on him, as though he bore a grudge against him.
He offered a reward outright, unlike Li Shun, who expected someone they barely knew to risk his life for empty words. He would rather give Xu Yang a Tenfold Great Tonic Pill than be beaten to death and have the pills stolen.
The Black-Clad Man also found a moment to glance back at Xu Yang. His eyes were vicious, seemingly warning Xu Yang to stay out of it.
"Interesting!" A smile curled at the corner of Xu Yang's mouth.
Though the Black-Clad Man had covered his face and deliberately disguised his punches and techniques to conceal his origins,
Xu Yang had already undergone marrow cleansing. His five senses were extraordinary, and he had identified the Black-Clad Man through his aura.
Lu Ren!
The man ambushing Gu Haoming, Li Shun, and Gao Peng was none other than Lu Ren, who had not attended the auction.
Xu Yang had assumed Lu Ren had missed the auction because he had entered the