Returning to the Clan

At that moment, Lu You had not expected Old Ghost Black Soul to have ties to the Blood Pavilion.

What was more, the old ghost had actually managed to escape them.

It seemed the fellow was not as useless as he looked.

"Since you're already someone my Blood Pavilion is determined to kill, I have even less reason to let you go today."

Hearing this, Old Ghost Black Soul remained composed.

"How arrogant. But I really do have my doubts about whether you belong to the Blood Pavilion. From what I know of those fellows, they wouldn't show themselves so openly."

The Blood Pavilion's experts usually lurked in the shadows, waiting until their enemies were off guard before killing them in a single strike.

But Lu You had done no such thing.

Lu You merely smiled and asked, "Would you use all your strength to crush an ant?"

In Lu You's eyes, Old Ghost Black Soul was no different from an ant.

By now, a hint of anger had appeared in Old Ghost Black Soul's eyes.

He had roamed Demon Province for a hundred thousand years, yet this was the first time anyone had shown him such contempt.

"You'd better have the strength to back those words up."

Old Ghost Black Soul's voice was hoarse. In an instant, the winds and clouds changed, and the entire sky darkened.

As she felt Old Ghost Black Soul's presence swell, the woman he had captured felt a chill run through her body.

All she could do now was pray that the two would fight until both were gravely wounded. Only then might she have a chance to escape.

If Old Ghost Black Soul lost, the Blood Pavilion expert was very likely to kill her too.

That was her preconceived impression of the Blood Pavilion.

But just then, Lu You slowly raised a finger.

A drop of blood instantly condensed before him.

"This is enough to kill you."

The moment he finished speaking, the blood drop shot forward.

At the same time, Old Ghost Black Soul sensed the power Lu You had unleashed.

"A Seven-Tribulation Quasi-Emperor?!"

Old Ghost Black Soul was horrified. Almost without thinking, he turned to flee.

Had he known his opponent's strength earlier, he would not have said another word. But now, he was already drowning in regret.

Squelch!

The blood drop pierced straight through Old Ghost Black Soul's chest.

The next moment, Old Ghost Black Soul stopped fleeing and stared blankly down at his chest.

His already wrinkled skin shriveled visibly in an instant.

In just two breaths, he had become a dried corpse.

Whoosh~

A gentle breeze blew past.

Old Ghost Black Soul turned to ash and scattered in the wind.

"This..."

The woman stood rooted to the spot, her eyes full of fear.

By then, Lu You was already walking slowly toward her.

Seeing her unable to stop herself from retreating, at a loss for what to do, Lu You tilted his head and asked, "What's your name?"

"Lu Yao."

"Do you still have any family in Demon Province?"

Lu Yao shook her head. "They died long ago."

Lu Yao had not expected him to ask such a question, but for some reason, after exchanging a few words with him, she felt at ease.

He did not seem likely to kill her.

Stranger still, she felt as though she were speaking to an elder.

"I plan to leave Demon Province after stabilizing my cultivation."

After many years in Demon Province, she had reached the Quasi-Emperor realm, and she was tired of wandering from place to place.

Perhaps she would go to Qingzhou someday.

She had heard life was peaceful there.

Or perhaps she would establish a force of her own and become the master of a sect.

Seeing the light flickering in Lu Yao's eyes, Lu You smiled and revealed the power of his bloodline.

Sensing the unmistakable kinship between their bloodlines, Lu Yao froze.

She stared blankly at Lu You. "You?"

"My name is Lu You. I am an ancestor of the Lu Clan of Central Province. Lu Yao, will you not acknowledge your ancestors and return to the clan?"

Inside the Lu Clan's ancestral hall.

Ancestor Tianyan's laughter rang out.

"At last, I've found him."

As his words fell, Ancestor Dali rushed into the ancestral hall.

"You found him?"

"I found him."

Having received the answer he wanted, Ancestor Dali nodded with a smile. "You dared provoke my Lu Clan, so you must pay with your life!"

After several days of deductions, Ancestor Tianyan had finally identified the mastermind behind the black-robed Saint King.

His hiding place now lay exposed to the Lu Clan.

Before long, Ancestor Dali arrived at the wasteland.

"Get the hell out here!"

Above the wasteland.

Ancestor Dali let out an angry shout.

For a moment, the entire wasteland shook.

Under the oppressive presence of a Four-Tribulation Quasi-Emperor of the Dao of Strength, the Three-Tribulation Quasi-Emperor hiding in the wasteland slowly showed himself.

"Senior, we are both Quasi-Emperors. Why must you press me so hard?"

He was no match for Ancestor Dali to begin with, and with his heavenly tribulation soon to descend upon him, his situation had become desperate.

At that moment, he regretted provoking the Lu Clan.

Unfortunately, there was no medicine for regret in this world.

Rumble!

Just then, thunder suddenly rolled across the sky.

It was a sign that the heavenly tribulation was coming.

By showing himself, he had already been detected by the Heavenly Dao.

But he had done so deliberately.

He was going to die either way, so why not stake everything on a desperate gamble? If he managed to survive the heavenly tribulation by luck, he would reach the Four-Tribulation Quasi-Emperor realm and perhaps have a chance to escape Ancestor Dali.

But just as he was thinking this, the force of a fist came straight at him.

Boom!

He could not dodge in time and was smashed into the wasteland by a single punch.

Blood poured from him, and he was gravely injured on the spot.

"You... you have no martial virtue!"

He had not expected Ancestor Dali to attack him so suddenly at a moment like this.

Ancestor Dali sneered. "What did you think I came here for? To help you undergo your tribulation?"

At that moment, Ancestor Dali was also a little frustrated.

He had wanted to beat the fellow to death with his own hands, but he had not expected him to deliberately summon his heavenly tribulation. Since that was the case, he could only vent with one punch.

Before long, the heavenly tribulation had fully gathered.

The Three-Tribulation Quasi-Emperor had never had much confidence to begin with, and now that he was gravely injured, he lasted only half a day before dying beneath the heavenly tribulation.

After confirming that he really had fallen, Ancestor Dali left the wasteland.

He now had other targets to find.

After all, six Saint Kings had besieged the Lu Clan that day. Two had fallen, but four still remained.

Ancestor Tianyan had also deduced the details of those four; all that remained was for Ancestor Dali to pay them a visit.

And so, over the next two days, Central Province was shaken once again, time after time.

The Lu Clan of Central Province.

After the Xuan Clan was forced to seal itself off, the Lu Clan had become the undisputed hegemon of Central Province.

The Lu Clan began taking over a great many resource sites across Central Province.

By this point, the Lu Clan's development had begun to accelerate rapidly, and its former glory seemed on the verge of returning.

One day, the Supreme Purity Palace of Central Province received an uninvited guest.

"May I ask what brings Elder Lu to my Supreme Purity Palace?"

The palace master of the Supreme Purity Palace looked at the composed Lu Guangyao and asked somewhat cautiously.

Lu Guangyao had now reached the Half-Saint realm. He owed everything he had achieved to his Lineage, but for that very reason, the palace master of the Supreme Purity Palace was courteous to him.

For Lu Guangyao was a member of the Lu Clan, and its Grand Elder with real authority at that.

What did it matter if he was only a Half-Saint?

If Lu Guangyao was dissatisfied with anything, the palace master had no doubt that a Quasi-Emperor expert from the Lu Clan would come calling the next day.

In response to the palace master's question, Lu Guangyao wasted no words. "My Lu Clan lost something, and your Supreme Purity Palace picked it up. I've come today to take it back to the Lineage."