"Boring question!" Lu Ren said flatly.
"You only need to answer: yes or no!" Nethernight Imperial Daughter said.
"No!" Lu Ren shook his head.
Disappointment crossed Nethernight Imperial Daughter's face. "You're too cold, too heartless. We merely cultivate different paths. Perhaps if we joined swords, we could carve out a place for ourselves in the Myriad Heavens World!"
"I can do that on my own," Lu Ren said. "I don't want to rely on a woman!"
"Because you have a Seven-Marked Battle Body? Once you truly grow strong, you'll discover that a Seven-Marked Battle Body means little before the mightiest experts," Nethernight Imperial Daughter said evenly.
Lu Ren was not particularly surprised. The Seven-Marked Battle Body gave him an advantage only in physical strength. Even Wang Xingxiu, at the Mid Seventh-Step Supreme Realm, could crush him with ease.
"One more warning: the Star River Imperial Clan isn't as simple as you imagine. They want to capture you, but not to avenge their Battle Body!"
With that warning, Nethernight Imperial Daughter drew Deathflame Evil Ancestor back into her body and left.
Watching her retreating figure disappear, Lu Ren murmured in surprise, "Could Nethernight Imperial Daughter also know that Tenth Ancestor Wang Mie has already submitted to the Strange Dao?"
At the thought, Lu Ren gathered himself, searched the surrounding area, then slipped silently out of the Evil Burial Grotto.
Black Evil City!
By then, word of what had happened in the Evil Burial Grotto had spread throughout Black Evil City.
The entire city was in an uproar.
Lu Ren had killed Wang Tianyun and driven off Deathflame Evil Scion. A Star River Imperial Clan ancestor had suppressed him, only for the revived Deathflame Evil Ancestor to rescue him. Any one of those events would have shocked the entire Immortal Path Great