“Brother Xuan, I’m not leaving!”
“I want to be with you!”
“Even if we die, we’ll die together!”
“I absolutely won’t leave you here alone!”
The Lu family’s main hall was already filled with a large crowd.
This included direct descendants of the Lu family like Lu Lin'er and Lu Ming Yuan.
There were also some Lu family security guards and servants, people not of the Lu family.
They had all been forcibly brought here by the subordinates of the black-clothed man at Zhou Xuan’s request.
Some of them didn’t even know what had happened yet.
“Don’t act out, Ling’er!”
“If you don’t leave, all that will happen here is another corpse!”
“It won’t be of any help to me!”
“You and Grandpa leave first. After I die, at least there will be someone to collect my body!”
“You don’t want me to be left unburied in the wilderness, do you?”
“Besides, Grandpa is already old!”
“Do you want him to go through this again, a parent sending off a child? Such a tragic event?”
“Be good, listen to me!”
“You and Grandpa leave first!”
“As long as you are safe, I can die with peace of mind!”
Hearing Lu Ling’er’s words, Zhou Xuan gently stroked her small head and softly coaxed her.
“But if you’re not here anymore, what’s the point of me staying in this world alone!”
“I can’t care about all that!”
“When things can’t be balanced, I only cherish what’s in front of me!”
“Today, I am going to stay with you!”
“Even if I die with you, I will never regret it!”
Hearing Zhou Xuan’s persuasion, Lu Ling’er shook her head resolutely, refusing to leave.
“Old Master Lu, please persuade Ling’er quickly, she…”
“The girl has grown up!”
“She has the right to choose her own path!”
“Whatever decision she makes, I will support her!”
Seeing Lu Ling’er’s determined look, Zhou Xuan helplessly turned to Lu Ming Yuan for help.
But before he could even finish speaking, he was directly interrupted by Lu Ming Yuan.
“See!”
“Grandpa said he supports me!”
“You can’t force me to leave anymore!”
“Whatever happens, we’ll face it together!”
“Even if we really can’t escape death today, so what?”
“As long as I can be with you, I don’t care about anything!”
“You foolish girl!”
“Why must you do this?”
“Of course, I know your feelings!”
“But it is precisely because of this that I cannot let anything happen to you!”
“So, I apologize!”
Hearing Lu Ling’er’s words, Zhou Xuan was deeply moved.
He directly pulled Lu Ling’er into his embrace.
Just as Lu Ling’er thought Zhou Xuan had agreed to her request.
She suddenly heard Zhou Xuan say something inexplicable, and immediately felt something was wrong.
As she was about to break free from Zhou Xuan’s embrace, Zhou Xuan’s hand reached out and pressed the acupoint behind her ear that induced sleep.
Immediately, Lu Ling’er felt her head grow heavy, and her body went limp.
“Black Tiger, take care of her for me!”
“After leaving the Lu family, get away from here immediately!”
“If I really die today, tell her to find another good man!”
After speaking, Zhou Xuan slowly handed the unconscious Lu Ling’er to Black Tiger.
“Big Brother, you…”
“No need to say anything, hurry and go!”
“If we delay any longer, something might happen!”
Interrupting Black Tiger’s words, Zhou Xuan directly urged him to quickly take everyone and flee.
“Big Brother, take care!”
“After I leave, I will immediately notify the sect!”
“If you suffer any misfortune today!”
“In the future, I will personally avenge you!”
Seeing Zhou Xuan’s determined expression, Black Tiger ultimately did not insist further.
Because he knew that staying here now would not help Zhou Xuan in the slightest, and could even be a burden.
What he should do now was to follow Zhou Xuan’s instructions.
Take Lu Ling’er and the others, and quickly escape this dangerous place.
Then, immediately send a message to the sect, asking them to come to the rescue as quickly as possible.
Unfortunately, Black Tiger also knew that this opportunity was very slim.
Because the sect was a considerable distance from the Lu family.
Even if his sect leader master personally came to the rescue, it would probably take at least two hours.
And could Zhou Xuan wait until then?
Not aware of what Black Tiger and the others were thinking, Zhou Xuan watched as they all walked out of the Lu family gate.
After they disappeared from his sight, Zhou Xuan’s hanging heart finally eased considerably.
“Alright!”
“I have fulfilled your request!”
“Now it’s time for you to honor your promise!”
“Don’t think about playing any tricks!”
“They haven’t gone far yet, I can still catch up!”
Seeing Zhou Xuan still standing there, the leader of the black-clothed men behind him couldn’t help but remind him.
“Don’t worry, I do have some integrity!”
“It’s just a family heirloom!”
“If you want it, I’ll give it to you!”
Hearing the black-clothed man behind him, Zhou Xuan turned around and smiled faintly.
Then, he took off the Void Ring from his left hand and threw it towards the leader of the black-clothed men.
“This is the treasure of your Zhou family?”
“Did that important figure back then commit a terrible massacre for such a small trinket?”
“Are you trying to fool me, kid?”
Catching the Void Ring thrown by Zhou Xuan, a look of excitement appeared on the face of the leader of the black-clothed men.
But no matter how he looked at the ring up close, he still couldn’t find anything extraordinary about it.
He even felt that a ring he bought at the farmers’ market for a few dozen yuan.
Was much better in quality than the one in front of him!
“Why would I fool you?”
“This is the treasured heirloom passed down through generations of my Zhou family, called the Void Ring!”
“It was forged by the third generation patriarch of my Zhou family, Senior Zhou Shenglong!”
“This ring can manipulate spatial energy, killing people invisibly!”
“It can also serve as storage space, containing a small independent world!”
“If a powerful enemy attacks and you can’t defeat them, you can hide inside the ring to seek refuge!”
“With it, even if a cultivator at the Ascension stage comes looking for trouble, you will be invincible!”
Seeing the confused look on the leader of the black-clothed men, Zhou Xuan immediately began to explain to him.
“Holy crap, this is amazing?”
“That’s not right!”
“If this ring is so powerful, why would you be so obedient?”
“With it, you could just blow a gust of wind and deal with all of us, right?”
Hearing Zhou Xuan’s explanation, the leader of the black-clothed men was so shocked his jaw almost dropped.
He quickly held the Void Ring tightly in his palm, as if afraid someone would snatch it away.
But then he was a little confused, why would Zhou Xuan, holding such a powerful weapon, not use it against them?
Was there some trick to it?
“Are you the idiot, or am I the idiot?”
“I’ve lost all my true energy and cultivation, how am I supposed to use it?”
“Besides, this ring was originally incomplete!”
“It was supposed to be a pair!”
“Only by using them together can they possess the power to overturn mountains and seas!”
“Now that I only have this one, it can only be used as storage space!”
“And I don’t have any true energy now, so I can’t open its storage space!”
“Otherwise, before you guys arrived, I would have directly opened the storage space and gone inside!”
“How could you have found me?”
Hearing the leader of the black-clothed men’s question, Zhou Xuan looked at him with the eyes of an idiot.
“Kid, you are a prisoner now!”
“I advise you not to be so arrogant!”
“Besides, this is all your one-sided story!”
“How do I know if it’s true or false?”
Seeing Zhou Xuan’s gaze, the leader of the black-clothed men felt his old face flush.
He immediately became somewhat ashamed and angry, and roared at Zhou Xuan.
“Then what do you want?”
Seeing his reaction, Zhou Xuan responded indifferently.
“Unless you can prove it to me with your own eyes, I won’t believe what you just said!”
“Otherwise, you are lying to me!”
“In that case, I will immediately go back and chase after those who just left!”
“And kill them all!”
Seeing that Zhou Xuan had no awareness of being a prisoner.
The leader of the black-clothed men was also so angered by him that he gritted his teeth and threatened him.
“Fine, I’ll show you then!”
Hearing the words of the leader of the black-clothed men, Zhou Xuan appeared to be coerced.
But in his heart, he was already overjoyed.
He knew that all the groundwork he had laid out had worked.
The fish had taken the bait, and it was time to reel them in.