"Young Master, why don’t you put me down!"
Qin Yaotiao also noticed the urgency from Lu Chen’s expression and struggled to get down.
"Don’t move!"
Lu Chen scolded and then turned back to see that the three Martial Artists leading the chase had already notified others, with more people steadily pursuing from behind.
"Running to the broken temple like this probably won’t work; but I don’t have any Spiritual Power, I really can’t outrun them!"
Lu Chen felt anxious and was more worried that the Martial Artists would split up to encircle him.
Although this was a narrow alley, it would eventually lead to a main road.
By then, it would be darker, and they would become even more reckless!
Lu Chen murmured to himself while continuing to run non-stop. Without a plan to counter them, he still kept looking back to see the Martial Artists getting closer.
There were more than a dozen in total, all stepping with a unique sword step of the Lu Family, extremely fast.
"Hold on, they have Spiritual Power, but don’t I have... Imperial Command?"
Lu Chen, in a flash of ingenuity amidst the crisis, suddenly thought of this method and attempted to channel Spiritual Power into his legs!
Instantly, he felt his legs grow more agile, and his speed increased sharply!
But having never tried this before, he was still not used to it. At one point, he nearly didn’t see the road clearly and almost stumbled and fell.
In desperation, Lu Chen whispered to Qin Yaotiao, "Yaotiao, quickly help me take off the blindfold!"
Qin Yaotiao immediately complied, and Lu Chen quickly closed his right eye.
As his field of vision widened, Lu Chen moved nimbly through the alleyways like walking on flat ground, watching as he gradually put distance between himself and the Martial Artists. He couldn’t help feeling a bit proud.
The wondrous uses of Spiritual Power were far more than this!
As the sky grew darker, Lu Chen was unaffected and quickly managed to shake off the Martial Artists!
"Damn it, he got away!"
"Isn’t he supposed to be blind in one eye? How can he still run so fast after it got dark?"
"Not just that, he’s also carrying someone with him. We previously said he was useless!"
At this point, everyone fell silent.
If Lu Chen was considered useless, then weren’t they even worse than a useless person?
After a while, someone said, "Who will inform the Patriarch or the Elders, while the rest continue to search in this direction!"
...
Meanwhile, within the disrupted space.
"It seems like someone is coming!"
Xu Yueru was still panting moments before, but the next, she pushed the man on top of her away and put on her dress.
She was not ready to let go, with strands of straw tangled in her hair. Her face, still flushed with afterglow, appeared even more seductive.
But as the heavy footsteps approached from outside, she heard the faint sound of Lu Chen’s voice.
"I’m here."
As soon as he spoke, Lu Chen, with Qin Yaotiao in his arms, had already arrived in the broken temple.
"The Lu Family has made their move ahead of schedule; we need to leave the city quickly!"
Glancing at Xu Yueru with her disheveled clothes, Lu Chen spoke indifferently, as if he saw nothing.
Their original plan was to slip out of the city after dark, but they hadn’t anticipated the Lu Family’s premature action.
"Lu Changkong... must have been used by someone."
Xu Yueru looked down at the spring scenery revealed on her chest and after a moment of thought, she understood the crux of the matter.
"Used?"
Lu Chen, originally uninterested in the Lu Family, clenched his fist at the mention of Lu Changkong.
"Did you think the Lu Family was a solid block of iron?" Xu Yueru laughed softly. "Lu Changkong is still the nominal head elder, but in reality, he wields the power of a Patriarch! And the other elders, who doesn’t want to be the Patriarch themselves?"
A chill went through Lu Chen’s heart, "What do you mean?"
Xu Yueru shook her head with a look of regret, "The entire Lu Family... It’s only your father, Lu Changren, who’s honest and straightforward."
A fierce light flashed in Lu Chen’s eyes, "Shut up, you’re not worthy of my father’s name!"
Xu Yueru took several steps back, startled by his gaze, but then she thought that Lu Chen would soon be dead anyway, so it didn’t matter he showed some ferocity.
"Enough with the chit-chat. Since Lu Chen has arrived, we should leave the city now!"
The black-clothed man at the Marrow Refinement Realm stood between them, looking at Lu Chen with profound meaning.
That look, it was as though he was staring at a dead man!
Lu Chen suddenly calmed down; acting on impulse would be of no use, as the enemy would surely act after obtaining the eye... against a Martial Artist at the Marrow Refinement Realm?
Lu Chen’s hand involuntarily reached for the fire poker at his waist. After several days of hard training, wasn’t it to kill him first, and then Xu Yueru?
But who would have thought that this move would draw the Marrow Refinement Realm Martial Artist’s attention? He showed a mouthful of yellow teeth and laughed derisively, "You want to kill me?"