Lu Huanzhang noticed something amiss with his son and frowned slightly. "What's wrong?"
He had spent decades confined to his sickbed and rarely asked about events outside. Lu Chengen had never dared disturb his peace with such troubles, but his son's reaction now was clearly not right.
Lu Chengen glanced at Lu Changfeng, then at his father. Gritting his teeth, he said quietly, "Father, you know the Xu brothers recently brought Liu Xuance and Liu Ciyuan back."
"I've heard a little." Lu Huanzhang nodded. "That uncle and nephew went to the Central Plains and apparently suffered a crushing defeat. Almost their entire force was wiped out. What does that have to do with this object?"
Lu Chengen glanced at Lu Changfeng again, his gaze complicated.
"A few days ago, after the two Lius returned, they publicly revealed the identity of the man who captured them and declared him a great enemy of Dragon-Slaying City. One of his personal weapons is emerald green like this, shaped like a long ruler, and capable of both healing and poisoning..."
Lu Huanzhang was, after all, a seasoned veteran of the Jianghu at the sixth realm. He had not gone senile.
His gaze shifted from Lu Changfeng's face to the ruler, then back to Lu Changfeng's face. His cloudy eyes moved, and suddenly he understood something. "Could you be-"
He did not finish, but his meaning could not have been clearer.
Lu Changfeng neither denied nor confirmed it. His gaze settled on Lu Chengen's face, and he smiled.
"Lu Family Head. Shall I save him or not?"
That single question put Lu Chengen over the fire.
Save him?
The man before him was Dragon-Slaying City's mortal enemy.
The news the Xu brothers had brought back had already spread throughout the city. Liu Xuance and Liu