Yan Family Castle

A long time had passed since the Blood Trial, and Lu Shang was walking near Yan Family Castle.

"It was time to meet the Ghost Spirit Sect's young master."

But Lu Shang had not come unprepared.

Wang Chan was the Ghost Spirit Sect's young master, after all, so Lu Shang had made quite a few preparations.

The most important of these was feigning friendship with a Core Formation Stage elder of the Spirit Controlling Sect and obtaining a guest elder's token.

With it, he could avoid a great deal of trouble.

As for that elder, his greed had been a snake trying to swallow an elephant. He had even tried to ambush Lu Shang and had already been executed.

Lu Shang had no concerns about whether the Spirit Controlling Sect would set its sights on him. He was a rogue cultivator with nothing tying him down, and he had learned a Thunder Escape Art. He had nothing to fear.

As for his purpose in coming here, he had only wanted to wander around. Hearing that Yan Family Castle planned to hold a Treasure Grabbing Assembly soon, he had come to join the excitement.

Before this, Lu Shang had even done a good deed.

Lu Shang had thought that, since Han Li had disappeared, he could try walking someone else's path and see if he could find his own "Lu"-his own road as a transmigrator-along the way.

He arrived at the Treasure Grabbing Assembly.

Quite a few disciples of the Seven Sects had already gathered, all hoping to compete for the Top-Grade Magical Artifact offered by Yan Family Castle.

So-called magical artifacts were merely toys for low-level cultivators. As someone at middle Core Formation, Lu Shang naturally had not come for that artifact.

He had come simply to join the excitement.

Cultivation was far too tedious for Lu Shang, and missions had not yet become available.

As the assembly began, a conspiracy swiftly unfolded as well.

Using his divine sense, Lu Shang discovered that many people had already gathered nearby.

Lu Shang smiled.

But he was not smiling at those people behaving strangely. His attention was on a guest elder of Yan Family Castle.

Ever since the Treasure Grabbing Assembly began, the man seemed to have been searching for something.

Now his gaze was fixed intently on a woman in the spectator stands beside the arena.

The woman looked only around twenty, but Lu Shang could tell at a glance that the cultivation technique she practiced was an Enchanting Art.

That guest elder should be the Ghost Spirit Sect's young master, and that woman must be Dong Xuan'er! Lu Shang merely murmured inwardly.

Lu Shang had no desire to intervene in such matters. Wang Chan would certainly discover what was unusual about Dong Xuan'er and would later send her to Old Devil Yunlu.

Old Devil Yunlu was the second elder of the foremost Demon Sect in the Heavenly South. The Ghost Spirit Sect did not want to make an enemy of him.

A moment later, members of the Ghost Spirit Sect and Yan Family Castle suddenly poured in and began a massacre.

Many cultivators in the venue descended into chaos.

Lu Shang had no intention of acting. He simply sat there and watched everything unfold.

At this point, Lu Shang could not casually intervene in the war between the Seven Sects and the Demon Sects.

A moment later, Yan Family Castle activated the Ten Thousand Ghosts Formation, cutting off all the Seven Sects' disciples in the venue and slaughtering them.

Dong Xuan'er, whom Wang Chan had targeted, could barely fend for herself and was driven back again and again by his attacks.

Seeing Lu Shang sitting calmly, easily repelling every Yan Family Castle cultivator who approached him, Dong Xuan'er moved toward him as though she had spotted a straw to clutch at while drowning.

"Senior, save me!" As she spoke, Dong Xuan'er approached Lu Shang and hid behind him, begging for his protection.

Wang Chan also noticed this unexpected presence.

"Senior, you would do well not to meddle in the Ghost Spirit Sect's affairs," Wang Chan said, staring fixedly at Dong Xuan'er behind Lu Shang.

"Are you threatening me, boy of the Wang Family?" Lu Shang asked contemptuously.

Wang Chan seemed to feel the contempt radiating from Lu Shang. Lu Shang had clearly done it on purpose; he had more than enough strength to face these people.

"Could it be that you know my father, Senior? You don't look like it!" Wang Chan questioned.

Indeed, Wang Chan's father was at the Nascent Soul stage, while Lu Shang was merely at middle Core Formation. Naturally, they were unlikely to have any connection.

With a light tap from Lu Shang, Dong Xuan'er lost consciousness and collapsed. He supported her with one hand.

With his other hand, he slowly took a token from his waist.

Under Wang Chan's puzzled gaze, Lu Shang displayed the token.

"The Spirit Controlling Sect!" Wang Chan stared at the token in Lu Shang's hand in disbelief.

But Wang Chan immediately recovered.

"Which senior of the Spirit Controlling Sect might you be? I don't recall the Spirit Controlling Sect having a middle Core Formation cultivator like you. And even if one of its Nascent Soul elders came here in person, I would still take this woman away!"

"She is very likely the daughter of Old Devil Yunlu of the Joyful Union Sect. If you don't want trouble, you had better hand her over!"

"Oh? You know she's Old Devil Yunlu's daughter?"

Lu Shang had not expected Wang Chan to know Dong Xuan'er's true identity already.

"From your tone, Senior, did you know all along?" Wang Chan grew even more puzzled. How the Ghost Spirit Sect's elders had learned this was something he would probably never understand in his lifetime.

"Of course. Since you know, I'll hand her over to you. Your Ghost Spirit Sect wouldn't dare provoke Yunlu anyway."

With that, Lu Shang waved toward Wang Chan, and a crimson attack instantly struck him.

The blow sent Wang Chan flying several meters away.

At the sight, everyone grew wary.

One man hurried to Wang Chan's side. "Young master, are you all right?"

Wang Chan pushed the man aside and called toward Lu Shang, "Senior, what is the meaning of this?"

"Hmph! If your father were here, naturally, I couldn't do anything to you. But with only you here, even if those two nearby Core Formation cultivators attacked together, killing a Foundation Establishment Stage brat like you wouldn't cost me much effort!"

"Understand your place. I am not someone you can question!" Lu Shang said coldly.

After speaking, Lu Shang flung Dong Xuan'er toward Wang Chan and swiftly escaped.

The others could only watch Lu Shang leave, both because he was at middle Core Formation and because of that token.

"Young master, he's gone."

"Get lost! I can see that!" Wang Chan roared.

"All of you, investigate when the Spirit Controlling Sect gained another middle Core Formation elder!" Wang Chan ordered.

Usually, news would spread whenever a sect gained another Core Formation cultivator, yet Wang Chan had absolutely no recollection of Lu Shang. This made him deeply suspicious.

"If I uncover anything wrong, just you wait!" Wang Chan's eyes bulged with fury.

This was the first time Wang Chan had suffered such humiliation and threats. Even the Nascent Soul elders in his sect would not speak to him in such a threatening tone. Now some Core Formation cultivator from who knew where had threatened him. Naturally, he was furious!

"Elders, are the two of you confident you can take down that Core Formation cultivator?" Wang Chan asked loudly.

"If you weren't present, young master, the two of us would have a very good chance of killing him," a voice came from nearby.

"Good! Next time we meet him, forget whether he belongs to the Spirit Controlling Sect. If necessary, I, Wang Chan, will offer a magical treasure to buy his life!"

"Yes, young master."

Lu Shang had no idea that such a scene had played out after his departure.

Although Lu Shang had not intended to make an enemy of Wang Chan directly on this outing, he had stumbled into doing so anyway.

Without Lu Shang knowing it, his name had already made it onto Wang Chan's Must-Kill List.

But a mere middle Core Formation cultivator and an early Core Formation cultivator were still far too green to take Lu Shang down.

When I probed with my divine sense just now, those two Core Formation cultivators probably held back because they feared I would seize Wang Chan. Hmph! Han Li was only at the Foundation Establishment Stage back then, so he had to fear this and that. I'm not afraid. Even if everyone in Yan Family Castle attacked together, I could still take Wang Chan's head from among them.

Such was Lu Shang's confidence.