"You've taken a fancy to Lu Ren?"
Luo Hongyi shuddered, then pleaded, "Please, leave Lu Ren alone!"
"Look at you. You care so much about Lu Ren, yet you still claim you're just ordinary friends?"
Chu Hongjiao's voice turned cold.
"I heard long ago that the men who catch your eye all vanish under mysterious circumstances. You must have used them to cultivate!"
Luo Hongyi glared at her.
"Don't slander me. Besides, how could those men compare to Lu Ren?"
Chu Hongjiao leaned close to Luo Hongyi and whispered, "I'll take good care of him."
Luo Hongyi's expression changed. She reached out and seized Chu Hongjiao by the throat. "If you dare hurt Lu Ren, I'll kill you today!"
Chu Hongjiao stared at her coldly. "Kill me? You? Even if your Calamity Origin weren't damaged, what could you do to me?"
As she spoke, a powerful aura of calamity erupted from her body and blasted Luo Hongyi backward.
Luo Hongyi spat out a mouthful of blood and stared at her in disbelief. "Three Tribulation Transcendence? How is that possible?"
The outside world had always said Chu Hongjiao was only at the Ninth Shattered Realm. How could she have reached Three Tribulation Transcendence?
"Even my brother, a Battle Embryo genius, failed to break through to the Transcendence Realm. Of course I had to keep my Three Tribulation Transcendence a secret!"
The corners of Chu Hongjiao's mouth curved into a seductive smile. She swept out her fair-skinned palm toward Luo Hongyi.
Luo Hongyi gritted her teeth and struck her own abdomen. She spat out the Calamity Ash Origin Returning Pill she had just swallowed, tapped it several times, and sent it flying toward Chu Hongjiao.
"That's..."
Chu Hongjiao's expression changed drastically, and she retreated again and again.
Then the pill erupted with