"I'm Lu Ren!"
Lu Ren stepped forward.
Gui Xinghai looked him up and down. "His Majesty the Emperor Lord ordered me to capture you first. Are you the strongest of these prodigies?"
Xiao Kuang gave a mocking smile. "How could he be the strongest? I beat him in the first round!"
"He isn't the strongest? Then why did His Majesty order me to capture him first?"
Puzzlement crossed Gui Xinghai's face.
But he gave it no further thought. He took a great stride, appeared before Lu Ren in an instant, and drove a palm strike at him.
So fast!
Lu Ren instinctively moved to block, then stopped. He took the blow head-on and was sent flying, crashing heavily to the ground and coughing up a mouthful of blood.
Gui Xinghai flicked a finger, sending a streak of light into the space between Lu Ren's brows.
The light became a powerful Immortal Soul attack, carrying an aura that could muddle the mind.
Lu Ren secretly activated the Reincarnation Ancient Pagoda. Before the Immortal Soul attack could even reach it, the attack shattered.
Lu Ren let his head slump to one side and pretended to pass out.
Gui Xinghai's task was to knock their group unconscious and take them away.
So Lu Ren only had to wait until Gui Xinghai had knocked everyone out. Then he could act.
But he could not act yet. If he did, he would give himself away completely.
"Too weak!"
After defeating Lu Ren, Gui Xinghai turned his gaze on Xu Tianji, Yuan Qingcang, and the others. "Don't waste time. Come at me one by one, or all together!"
"I heard the Heavenly Ghost Teleportation Technique lasts only as long as one stick of incense takes to burn. If we can hold out that long, Elder Zixu