Zu An didn’t even have to look to know that the person protecting Shi Kun was Shi Lezhi. The Rage points flooding in told him all he needed to know.

You have successfully trolled Shi Lezhi for 444 Rage points!

That very instant, Zu An found himself unable to breathe. The gap between the two of them was too huge; in his current state, an eighth rank cultivator was beyond his ability to handle.

He wanted to dodge, but the pressure his opponent exerted made it hard for him to even move his fingers. Left with no choice, he could only channel the Primordial Origin Sutra in a hurried attempt to temper his body, hoping that it would be enough to withstand Shi Lezhi’s incoming attack.

Just then, a white silhouette flashed across his vision.

If there was anyone who knew in advance that Zu An was going to make a move, that person would be none other than Chu Chuyan. She knew that the other party was doing it in order to exact vengeance for her.

She’d been forced into a corner where she had no choice but to collapse her own ki meridians, and it was only by chance that they found the Evanescent Lotus, allowing her to barely cling on to life. If not for all of the fortuitous encounters they’d had afterwards, she would have...