Chapter 212 Those Who Offend Cheng Yu Never Come to a Good End!
Watching the sudden turn of events unfold.
No matter what, Lu Zhi could never have imagined that Ning Dingyuan would suddenly erupt and attack Lu Ming!
An incomparable fury ignited in his heart.
Could that madman Ning Dingyuan not tell that Lu Ming was helping him escape?
Why had he suddenly wounded him?!
When Cheng Yu saw this scene, he revealed a cold smile. This kind of dog-eat-dog spectacle was his favorite.
He recognized the figure who had launched the sneak attack. It was a great general under Prince Chu, Blood Owl, the “Cold Thorn General” ranked eighth on the Earth Ranking!
A Late Ninth-Rank martial artist!
It was not his true body, but an avatar formed by consuming Origin Internal Energy. It possessed half of the main body’s strength.
Although an avatar’s strength would be reduced compared with the main body.
It was more than enough to ambush Lu Ming.
Ning Dingyuan’s eyes were utterly bloodshot. He looked deeply in the direction of Duke Dingguo’s Estate.
At this point.
Everyone in Duke Dingguo’s Estate except him was finished!
Suppressing grief and fury in his heart, he looked at Blood Owl. “General Blood Owl, my identity has already been exposed. I must head to the Far North to find His Highness. You and I will kill our way out together!”
After saying this, he gritted his teeth and fled madly.
Blood Owl nodded and did not ask any questions. He seized Lu Ming by the throat and pulled out the thick, spike-shaped weapon in his hand.
With that pull.
Blood sprayed from the massive wound in Lu Ming’s chest, and his entire body swayed on the verge of collapse.
From the moment he was ambushed, his mind had already been completely occupied by terror. He had no strength to mount any resistance.
“A member of the Jinyiwei’s Lu Family?”
Blood Owl sneered and clenched his five fingers. Strands of blood were drawn out of Lu Ming’s body, transforming into a strange vermilion blood bead.
Blood-Seizing Cultivation!
Lu Zhi saw what Blood Owl was doing, and boundless fury erupted from his heart.
If Lu Ming had his Vital Blood seized, even if he did not die, he would be crippled!
“Ming’er!!!”
He roared madly and was about to rush out to save his son, but to his shock, a tremendous force suddenly pulled him back.
Someone dared stop him?!
Lu Zhi’s pupils abruptly widened, and his expression trembled with rage. He turned back and looked over. “Cheng Yu!”
Cheng Yu was stopping him, just as he had stopped Cheng Yu moments ago!
“Did Commander Lu not say he wanted to bring me back and punish me? Are you in such a hurry now?”
Cheng Yu held Lu Zhi with one hand, his face filled with a mocking smile.
An extremely powerful force from his Hard-Body Training erupted. His body was as heavy as a great mountain, pinning Lu Zhi firmly in place.
Lu Zhi discovered that he could not resist for the moment, and he flew into a rage. “Let go!”
But when he said those words.
On the other side, Lu Ming had already had a large amount of his Vital Blood and Internal Energy sucked out by Blood Owl. His entire body resembled a dried corpse.
“He even has a Grandmaster’s Divine Sense protecting his body? As expected of the Lu Family. What a pity...”
Blood Owl smiled and shook his head, putting away the blood bead.
He did not care that he had failed to drain Lu Ming completely.
After swallowing the blood bead filled with surging power, he threw Lu Ming in Lu Zhi’s direction and swaggered off in pursuit of Ning Dingyuan.
Although he was only an avatar.
If he were caught and lost his origin essence, it would also bring many disadvantages to Blood Owl’s true body.
Leaving together with Ning Dingyuan was just right for returning to his main body.
Seeing this, Cheng Yu released his strength and allowed Lu Zhi to catch Lu Ming’s ruined body.
“Ming’er!”
Lu Zhi held Lu Ming and shouted hysterically. His son’s meridians were shattered, his Internal Energy flow severed, and he was practically crippled!
He frantically took heavenly materials and earthly treasures out of his Storage Space and stuffed them into Lu Ming’s mouth.
Unfortunately, it was of no use.
He could only watch helplessly as Lu Ming’s condition worsened.
Lu Zhi felt overwhelming grief, and incomparable rage appeared in his eyes as he looked at Cheng Yu.
Cheng Yu had stopped him!
Cheng Yu had harmed Lu Ming!
When Cheng Yu saw this, he immediately laughed.
“What is wrong, Lord Lu? Duke Dingguo has already escaped, and I am obediently staying right in front of you. Why are you still so unhappy? Did something happen at home?”
Hearing Cheng Yu humiliate him like this, Lu Zhi gnashed his teeth even harder.
“You are courting death!”
Cheng Yu spread his hands. “That is right. I am courting death. But that is still far better than certain people whose sons are truly about to die.”
Hearing this.
Lu Zhi’s Internal Energy surged with rage again, but after a moment, it could only dissipate powerlessly.
He knew very well that no matter how he fought for victory with words, the only one who would suffer was Lu Ming!
Lu Zhi lowered his head in despair and began muttering to himself, “Why... why did Ning Dingyuan injure Ming’er...?”
He could not understand it!
Duke Dingguo had even colluded with Prince Chu. He had long since put his head on the line and staked his life.
With such ironclad evidence this time.
Why had he gone mad and injured Lu Ming just because of Cheng Yu’s casual threat?
When Cheng Yu heard this, he laughed.
“It is very simple. Because he did not know he had been exposed, so he got agitated and did this.”
“How is that possible!”
Lu Zhi abruptly raised his head, feeling that Cheng Yu was simply talking nonsense.
“Did you not have evidence? There was no way he could keep it hidden! How could he not know he had been exposed?!”
The Jinyiwei had already come to Duke Dingguo’s Estate to raid the household.
How could Ning Dingyuan possibly not have realized he was exposed?
Cheng Yu revealed a mysterious expression. “What evidence? What evidence do I have?”
The only evidence.
Was what Ning Cen had said back then in the Imperial Prison while he was in an extreme state. Cheng Yu had verified it with the Heaven-Reckoning Disk, and it was definitely not false.
Duke Dingguo had colluded with Prince Chu.
But that was a fact.
And facts and evidence were not the same thing.
If this were reported to Xiao Wuji, how could the wild ravings of a deranged second-generation wastrel whose reputation was already vile be used as conclusive proof that Duke Dingguo had rebelled?
Lu Zhi’s eyes widened, and stormy waves surged in his heart.
In other words... this raid on Duke Dingguo’s Estate was Cheng Yu shooting the arrow first and drawing the target afterward!
Raid first, then look for evidence?
“Madman!”
Hearing this, Cheng Yu helplessly waved his hand. His Internal Energy turned into a fierce astral wind and blasted violently to the side. Duke Dingguo’s room collapsed with a thunderous crash.
It revealed an empty underground chamber. There was no evidence here at all!
Ning Dingyuan had been extremely cautious regarding matters related to Prince Chu. Other than father and son knowing about it, every witness and every piece of physical evidence had been eliminated.
He had even sealed Ning Cen’s memories, and he tried his best not to bring up the matter in his own heart to avoid being noticed by a Grandmaster.
Yet he had never imagined.
Because Cheng Yu found Ning Cen displeasing, he tortured him madly and, by pure accident, forced an extraordinary piece of information out of him.
Cheng Yu had not known any of this at first either. It was only just now, when he operated the Heaven-Reckoning Disk at full power, that he calculated it.
“Just now, Lord Lu, you were in such a hurry, so I simply said it aloud. I did not expect Duke Dingguo to be so cooperative and directly confirm the charge.”
Lu Zhi’s eyes were wide as he stared fixedly at Cheng Yu. At this moment, he thoroughly understood one thing.
Cheng Yu was a madman!
He would retaliate against anyone who obstructed him!
Even if he gained no benefit, as long as he could take revenge on someone and bite off a chunk of flesh, he would do it without hesitation!
This personality.
Made Lu Zhi think of a certain person from centuries ago, Daoist Taiyi.
This founding Patriarch of Taiyi Sect, aside from the dazzling label of being the strongest person of his era, had left the deepest impression on others because of his madness!
A madness that would never stop until he achieved his goal!
“Sigh, the rebel who colluded with Prince Chu has escaped too. How boring.”
Cheng Yu shook his head helplessly and no longer paid any attention to the Lu father and son. He left with the Jinyiwei subordinates who had come with him.
Not long after he left.
An incomparably scorching aura enveloped the ruined Duke Dingguo’s Estate from above.
“Hm? Where is everyone?”
The Royal Retainer Expert sent by Xiao Wuji had just arrived. Looking at Duke Dingguo’s Estate, which was in complete disarray, he was dumbfounded.
Where was Duke Dingguo, the rebel?
Where was that noisy little Jinyiwei who had been clamoring about risking his life?
Why was everyone gone?