The father and daughter discussed for a while more before Zhou Xin left the Zhou Clan Patriarch's room.
Zhou Xin let out a long sigh as she gazed at the bright moon in the sky.
"Lu Shaoqing, I hope you don't blame me. All of you are peerless geniuses with great fortuitous encounters and are high and mighty. But people like us who don't have the best natural talent have to use some methods to rise up. Otherwise, how can we compare to all of you?"
Zhou Xin murmured to herself. Slowly, her gaze became firm.
.....
The night passed quickly. At noon the next day, Zhou Xin's voice sounded from outside Lu Ming's room.
"Young Master Lu!"
Zhou Xin called out softly.
Lu Ming ended his cultivation and opened the door. He saw Zhou Xin standing gracefully at the door.
Zhou Xin had specially dressed up today. She looked like a lotus flower that had just emerged from the water and was peerlessly beautiful. To be honest, Zhou Xin was a rare beauty. Many men would be moved by her.
However, Lu Ming had seen too many beauties. Xie Nianqing, Jing Kongling, Sandalwood Fairy. Every single one of them was devastatingly beautiful and peerless.
There was also Mid- Autumn Moon and Moulins. They were also rare in the world and far from what Zhou Xin could compare to. So, Zhou Xin seemed very ordinary in Lu Ming's eyes.
"Miss Zhou!"
Lu Ming smiled lightly.
"Young Master Lu, my father has prepared a banquet to thank you!"
Zhou Xin smiled sweetly.
"Patriarch Zhou is too courteous. Then let's go!"
Lu Ming smiled faintly and followed Zhou Xin out.
After a while, they arrived at the courtyard of the Zhou Clan Patriarch's Estate.
"Hahaha, Young Master Lu, you're here. Please!"
As soon as Lu Ming arrived, the Zhou Clan Patriarch came over to greet him. There were two old men beside the Zhou Clan Patriarch.
Lu Ming swept them with his gaze and noticed that the two old men's auras were thick. They were actually Spirit God Realm experts.
However, they shouldn't be too strong and should be at the 1st level of the Spirit God Realm. The Zhou Clan Patriarch was obviously stronger. Lu Ming guessed that the Zhou Clan Patriarch might be at the 2nd level of the Spirit God Realm.
"Patriarch Zhou is too courteous!"
Lu Ming cupped his fists and walked into the courtyard with the Zhou Clan Head and the others.
The courtyard was already filled with fine wine and delicacies. It was extremely sumptuous.
The dishes were not ordinary. There were flood dragon tendons, lightning bird wings, thousand year Fire Lobsters, and so on. They were all rare delicacies. If eaten regularly, they would be greatly beneficial to a martial artist's cultivation. They were extremely expensive, and ordinary people would never be able to see them in their entire lives.
Everyone sat down and Zhou Xin poured wine for everyone. She raised her cup and said, "Young Master Lu, Zhou Xin offers you a toast. Thank you for saving us!"
"Haha, Miss Zhou, Patriarch Zhou, you're too polite!"
Lu Ming smiled. The father and daughter of the Zhou family were too polite, making Lu Ming a little embarrassed.
Lu Ming picked up the wine glass. He did not feel anything strange and drank it in one gulp.
Seeing Lu Ming drinking the wine, the Patriarch of the Zhou Clan and the two old men were pleasantly surprised.
In Zhou Xin's eyes, there was a hint of reluctance, but it was quickly replaced by determination.
"Good wine!"
Lu Ming drank it and sighed with praise, and he still seemed as if he hadn't noticed anything unusual.
"Haha, since Young Master Lu thinks it's good wine, then drink a few more cups!"
Said the Zhou Clan's Patriarch with a smile.
"It is good wine. Unfortunately, it's poisoned, so it isn't good wine anymore!"
Lu Ming spoke abruptly.
"What?"
The Zhou Clan's Patriarch and the others were slightly stunned.
"Kill!"
Lu Ming suddenly roared explosively as Dragon Energy erupted, and then he slapped his palm towards one of the old men.
This palm strike caught the old man off guard, and he didn't have the time to defend himself at all before Lu Ming's palm struck him.
A shrill cry resounded as the old man's body was directly split into pieces.
"Dammit!"
The Zhou Clan's Patriarch roared furiously. An old man at the Domain Enlightened Spirit God Realm had been instantly annihilated, and his heart was on the verge of bleeding. There weren't many Domain Enlightened Spirit Gods in his Zhou Clan, and they'd accumulated them for a few thousands of years. Now, one had perished in an instant.
Bang!
A violent aura erupted from the Zhou Clan's Patriarch as he smashed his palm towards Lu Ming.
This palm strike was like an avalanche that caused the heavens and the earth to shake. The table and the dishes on it were instantly transformed into powder, and Lu Ming felt a strand of terrifying force surge towards him.
This was the strength of a second level Domain Enlightened Spirit God!
Lu Ming seized the opportunity to slap his palm out, and it collided with the Zhou Clan's Patriarch's palm.
A force that could topple mountains and overturn seas surged over, causing Lu Ming's body to shake violently before he was blasted flying. After that, he took over 10 steps successively on the ground, and every single step he took blasted open a large hole in the ground while the ground trembled without end.
"What formidable force! Let's go!"
Lu Ming didn't hesitate in the slightest to take a step forward, and the entire mountain shook violently as a terrifying force erupted, causing the mountain to be on the verge of exploding. If the Zhou Clan's main peaks hadn't been inscribed with grand formations, they would have probably exploded into pieces by now.
Lu Ming's figure shot into the sky.
"Stay right there!"
The Zhou Clan's Patriarch and another old man shot into the sky, and then their terrifying attacks blasted towards Lu Ming.
"I'll smash it!"
Dandan rushed out, and its four limbs retracted into its tortoise shell as it smashed towards the Zhou Clan's Patriarch.
Boom!
The Zhou Clan's Patriarch slammed his palm onto the tortoise shell, sending Dandan flying.
However, with this delay, Lu Ming had already rushed into the sky and was prepared to use the Nine Dragons Heaven Stomping Steps to escape. Right at this moment …
Boom!
Above Lu Ming's head, a mighty and unstoppable force erupted and landed on Lu Ming's body. Lu Ming's body seemed to have been smashed by a primordial divine mountain, and he plummeted downwards like a cannonball before crashing heavily onto the ground, creating a large hole.
Lu Ming half-knelt on the ground, his face pale as he coughed out blood continuously.
In the sky, a white-haired old man appeared. The aura on his body was incomparably terrifying, mighty, and unfathomable!
Earlier on, it was this old man who blasted Lu Ming down with a single palm strike.
Dandan wanted to escape, but the old man waved his hand and condensed a gigantic palm that blotted out the sky, grabbing Dandan in the palm.
"Fourth level Spirit God Realm and above!"
Lu Ming's heart sank.
This old man's cultivation must have reached the fourth level of the Spirit God Realm or even higher. He did not expect the Zhou Clan to have such a powerful existence.
Then, Lu Ming turned his gaze towards Zhou Xin and shouted with a cold gaze, "Why?"
Lu Ming was truly in disbelief. He had never expected the Zhou Clan to attack him.
"Lu Shaoqing, hand over your Grotto-Heaven treasure and the cultivation technique and martial technique you're cultivating. Tell me the secret of how you became stronger. Don't say that it's because of talent. For a paragon to rise, talent is one aspect, opportunity is another!"
The Zhou Clan's Patriarch walked to Lu Ming and said coldly.
"Hahaha, I see!"
Lu Ming suddenly burst out laughing.
He now understood that the people of the Zhou Clan were after his Mountain and River Pattern and some other treasures.
Ingrates. The Zhou Clan was a complete bunch of ingrates.
He had saved Zhou Xin twice, but the Zhou Clan turned hostile in the blink of an eye and wanted to deal with him. How ridiculous was that?
Zhou Xin's eyes flickered with a hint of pity, but she clenched her teeth and did not say anything.
Roar!
A dragon's roar was suddenly heard as the bloodline of the nine dragons appeared. Lu Ming transformed into nine dragons and soared into the sky.
"Nine dragons, it's the bloodline of the nine dragons?"
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