Lu Ren's calm words seemed to hold a thunderclap within them, plunging the entire hall into dead silence.
The Northern Hall guards stared, dumbfounded. They could hardly believe what they had heard.
He wanted two deputy commanders at the Peak Dao Severance Third Realm... to come at him together?
After a brief silence came a chorus of sharp breaths and an unstoppable swell of discussion.
"Has he gone mad?"
"Deputy Commander Shi and Deputy Commander Jian Gu are both at the Peak Dao Severance Third Realm. They've cultivated for years and each comprehended a powerful Grand Dao True Intent. Together, they could probably hold their own against an ordinary expert in the Early Dao Fusion Realm!"
"This Lu Ren... is far too arrogant!"
The astonishment on Shi Sanlei's and Jian Gu's faces swiftly gave way to surging anger.
As deputy commanders of the Northern Hall, they had years of seniority and formidable cultivation. When had anyone ever looked down on them like this—let alone a junior whose cultivation was below theirs, publicly telling them to attack him together?
"Arrogant!"
Shi Sanlei had the fiercer temper. Gray-white lightning burst around him, and a domineering, violent Grand Dao True Intent soared skyward.
As that intent erupted, a vast expanse of white lightning took shape behind him, raging wildly as though it would tear the entire space apart.
The guards felt the surge of true intent, and shock spread across their faces.
"That's Lord Shi Sanlei's True Thunder Great Dao Intent!"
"With fluctuations like that, isn't he close to reaching the second tier?"
The crowd broke into discussion.
Generally, one comprehended Grand Dao True Intent through the Dao one cultivated, aided by inherited texts on the Dao.
Shi Sanlei, for instance, cultivated the Thunder Great Dao. The Grand Dao True Intents he had