Lu Chen caused trouble outside to draw the Luo family's attention, while Yun Niang and Zhou Yan slipped into the Luo residence.
Having received his orders, the steward went out and ran into a slender figure at the corner.
Smiling sweetly, Yun Niang crushed a communication jade talisman. Array flags fluttered from her sleeve like butterflies, and in the blink of an eye, she set up a soundproof barrier.
"Y-you..." The steward's throat made choking sounds, and a golden thread had already cut a bloody mark into his neck.
Yun Niang lightly wound the golden thread around her fingertip, her voice icy. "You betrayed your country for glory. You deserve death!"
Pfft!
With a tug of the golden thread, the steward's head fell off and rolled twice across the ground.
The steward had only held the post for a little over a month. He had not even had his fill of it before losing his life.
At the third quarter of the midnight hour, in the Luo family's forbidden grounds.
Lu Chen, whom Zhou Yan had let in, crept along the wall when a faint fragrance suddenly reached his nose.
Turning his head, he saw Yun Niang emerge from the shadows. A gauze veil covered her face, revealing only a pair of limpid autumn-water eyes.
"What are you looking at?" she glared.
"I'm looking at the wrinkles on your face. They could pinch a caterpillar to death!"
Yun Niang gritted her teeth. This bastard was truly beyond saving.
He did not even look at where they were before joking around.
Pinch a caterpillar to death? She ought to pinch him to death!
Meanwhile, Zhou Yan, who was keeping watch, silently cursed the dog man and dog woman.
He simply could not understand why Lu Chen paid so much attention to this ugly woman. Did teasing her give him such a sense of accomplishment?
That taste of his was damn heavy.
Just as Yun Niang raised her hand to hit him, Lu Chen suddenly turned serious. "Two Foundation Establishment demonic cultivators at the northeast corner. Three linked killing formations in the southwest. Watch that artificial hill."
Yun Niang rolled her eyes and tossed half a formation map to Zhou Yan. "Half an incense stick. Is that enough?"
Zhou Yan's mentality nearly collapsed.
You can't do this to me.
I'm risking my life while you two are showering each other with sweetness. What the hell is this?
"You're asking for my life..."
With a mournful face, Zhou Yan reached toward the stone beast. The instant his fingertips touched the formation markings, the entire artificial hill shook violently, alerting the two demonic cultivators.
"Idiot..." Before Yun Niang could finish, Lu Chen had already lunged at the demonic cultivators like an arrow loosed from the bow.
The Soul Severing Saber swept forth with wind and thunder, shattering the protective blood shield with one slash. His left hand, wrapped in Blood Qi, stabbed straight into his enemy's abdomen.
The other demonic cultivator waved his banner and summoned vicious ghosts, only for the Myriad Manifestations Furnace to swallow them all headfirst.
"The Soul Devouring Banner is mine!" Lu Chen snatched the crimson banner from the air. With a sweep of furnace flames, the resentful souls within shrieked as they turned into green smoke.
The blood pool at the center of the forbidden grounds suddenly boiled, and countless wronged souls struggled to emerge.
Yun Niang bit her fingertip and used blood as ink to draw a talisman in midair. "Nine Luminaries Seal Demon, suppress!"
The instant the golden talisman descended upon the blood pool, Zhou Yan finally destroyed the stone beast.
The formation markings flickered three times before collapsing with a boom.
Lu Chen took the chance to toss the Soul Devouring Banner into the furnace. Blood light shot into the sky, only to be completely devoured by the furnace.
An earth-shaking roar came from the Luo family ancestral hall. The three hurriedly activated their Earth Escape Talismans and vanished.
On the peak of a barren mountain ten li away, Lu Chen glanced sideways at Yun Niang, who was touching up her makeup. "Wouldn't it be nice to look pretty? Why insist on pretending to be an ugly woman?"
"None of your business!" Yun Niang snapped. "You're already a homeless dog, yet you still poke your nose into everything. What does it have to do with you?"
Lu Chen's expression stiffened.
Damn, that mouth was vicious enough to poke straight into someone's lungs.
After resting briefly, the three secretly returned to Cangwu City.
The next day, south of Cangwu City, Lu Chen leaned against the window, his fingers rubbing a wine cup as his gaze swept over the crowd below.
Yun Niang sat diagonally across from him, stirring porridge with a silver spoon.
"They wiped out forty death guards in three days. The Luo family is probably going mad."
She scooped up a spoonful of sweet soup, her lips curling slightly. "Do you think they'll skin you alive or pull out your tendons?"
Lu Chen rotated his wine cup and chuckled. "I'd say they'd most like to peel off that mask of yours and see your true face..."
"Honored guest, here's more wine!"
The waiter interrupted Lu Chen as he pushed open the door and entered, carrying a wine jug toward him.
"Honored guest, this is premium Bamboo Leaf Green..." Before the waiter could finish, three red centipedes suddenly sprang from his sleeve and pounced at Lu Chen's face.
Bang!
The three centipedes were abruptly smashed into a pile of flesh and blood by surging Blood Qi.
Lu Chen reached out and seized the waiter by the neck. With a tear across his face, he ripped away a human-skin mask and sneered, "Your disguise technique is far worse than Miss Yun's."
"Call me Auntie!" Yun Niang, who had come over, snorted coldly.
"Alright, Auntie Miss!"
"You're so annoying!" Yun Niang completely lost it, and at the same time, Lu Chen broke through his defenses too.
Damn, why had her voice changed too?
It sounded even more sweet and pleasant.
Even the waiter in his hand burst out laughing.
Damn it, could you show a captive some respect?
Then, with his neck being squeezed, he stuck out his tongue.
That ugly woman took over from Lu Chen and viciously gripped him.
"Talk. Who sent you? What are they planning next?"
Slap! Slap!
Before he could answer, she gave him two slaps. She was not even looking at him, instead glaring at Lu Chen with gritted teeth.
The sight of him... really turned her stomach!
"I found out, I found out!" The door opened, and Zhou Yan walked in excitedly.
"Oh." Yun Niang nodded, then with a crack, directly crushed the "waiter" to death.
The waiter's eyes bulged furiously, and he died with his eyes still open.
He really wanted to say that he did not want to die!
"What did you find out?" Seeing Yun Niang staring at him without letting up, Lu Chen hurriedly took a step back, waved his hand to collect the waiter's corpse, and laughed awkwardly.
Zhou Yan looked at the two of them, coughed, and said, "At the mass grave south of the city, they're refining the Soul Devouring Banner again..."
"Go!" Yun Niang suddenly turned around and coldly spat out a single word.
"Wh-what's wrong?" Zhou Yan asked curiously once Lu Chen came over.
"Women, you know, they have those days..."
Bang!
Before he finished speaking, a figure pounced over. Lu Chen cried out and was thrown straight out the window onto the street.
Yun Niang was truly furious this time.
Where had this lecher come from, daring to tease people like that? Did he want to die, or did he want to die?
Lu Chen was also dumbfounded.
Was there really any need to be this ruthless?
But how could he have known that he had yet to shake off the influence of the soul that had transmigrated here?
In the world he had transmigrated from, such jokes were harmless. But they did not work in this world!
This was vulgar, shameless behavior.
"Are you crazy?" He was angry too, his face full of fury.
Yet when he saw the Luo family members rushing at him, he leaped up and used Wind and Thunder Steps to shoot toward the outskirts.
Zhou Yan secretly clicked his tongue, his admiration complete and utter.
He really dared to say it!
Look how angry he had made that ugly woman. She was practically about to combust.
Lu Chen fought his way out of the south gate, turned and rushed toward the west of the city, shook off his pursuers, then circled back.
He found the two hiding in a mountain ravine.
"How can't you take a..."
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Before he could finish, three poisoned needles shot toward him.
Lu Chen's mouth twitched. With a sweep of his hand, he caught all three needles and gave a bitter smile.
"Is this really necessary?"
"I'll kill you!"
Yun Niang was so furious her lungs were about to burst. She wished she could skin this bastard alive. He never stopped provoking people.
"B-big brother, anyone would get angry hearing something like that... Ouch!"
Kind-hearted Zhou Yan clutched his head and fell backward.
Yun Niang had knocked him unconscious with a brick.
Lu Chen shuddered, as though he had realized something.
That sort of joke could be made on Earth, but not in this world!
Damn it!
"Come on, come on! Even if I die here today, I'm not done with you!" Yun Niang said as she flipped her hand over and pulled out a silver spear. With a flourish, she charged in violently.
"Holy shit!" Lu Chen was startled.
All these days, this girl had been pretending.
A formation master, my ass.
Smack! Smack! Smack!
Lu Chen's hands were wrapped in Blood Qi as he clashed head-on with the spear twice. Finally, he grabbed the shaft and yanked hard.
Yun Niang was pulled toward him, and he wrapped an arm around her waist and drew her into his embrace.
"Oh~~~..."
This feeling...
Soul-stirring. Absolutely soul-stirring.
Lu Chen even let out a trembling sound, like a rooster crowing.
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