When Kong Yang realized he had fallen into a trap, the numerous Soul Tethers in the Dining Hall had already completely surrounded him.
As soon as he moved, the people around him instinctively backed away, their expressions filled with dread as if they were looking at a god of plague.
If he stood up right now, he was afraid he would be torn to shreds.
Kong Yang stayed low, watching the Luo Family siblings and Lu Yunze approach him.
Lu Yunze glanced at the large hole in the Ceiling and couldn’t help but mock him, “We were just about to look for you. I didn’t expect you to deliver yourself right to our door.”
“It seems that in addition to the crime of assassinating the Master, you’ll have to add another for damaging the architecture. I wonder if you can afford that,” Luo Yao’s voice carried a hint of frost.
“So, are we going to fight?” Luo Heng was already eager for action.
“Wait!”
Kong Yang suddenly raised his hand and shouted, stopping Luo Heng who was about to release a Secret Art.
“Before we start, can you at least listen to me for a moment?”
“Speak.”
“The crime of destroying the building cannot be pinned on me! It was that little girl’s doing!”
His intention was to divert the others’ attention, but as Kong Yang pointed toward the hole above, he himself was stunned for a moment.
Jiang Sui’s figure was nowhere to be seen near that hole; in just that short amount of time, she had already made her escape.
Kong Yang’s eye twitched, and he spoke again, “I’m telling the truth. I wasn’t the only one who snuck into this mansion. There were others.”
“Oh?” Lu Yunze asked. “Was it a young woman with purple hair? And was she wearing a white Cloak?”
“Yes, yes, yes! How did you know?”
Without answering Kong Yang’s confusion, Lu Yunze fell into thought and couldn’t help but mutter to himself, *Why would Xiao Yan appear here?*
*Did she really still intend to move against the Luo Family?*
“Have I also seen that person before?” Luo Yao was also pondering.
Only Luo Heng looked dazed, muttering about why everyone else had seen the person but him.
“Whether what you say is true or false remains to be seen. The grudge between us hasn’t been settled yet.” Luo Yao’s gaze was cold, so cold that Kong Yang couldn’t help but shiver.
“Little auntie, can’t we talk? Like, discuss the possibility of a reconciliation or something?”
“You want to reconcile now? Too late!”
Kong Yang sighed and muttered a sentence, “It is indeed too late.”
But it didn’t matter, because he had never intended to reconcile in the first place!
Taking advantage of their lack of attention, Kong Yang had already crushed the Brown Crystal in his hand. Walls of earth rose around him, forming a sufficiently safe barrier.
Not only that, but sharp spikes protruded from the surface of the earth walls. The guests who didn’t have time to retreat were pricked and cried out in fear.
“Get back!”
Luo Yao’s hand swept down like a blade toward this turtle shell.
A sharp Wind Blade sliced right through the barrier, splitting it in two. However, as the barrier collapsed to both sides, they didn’t see Kong Yang’s figure inside.
Lu Yunze was the first to notice a hole in the ground, with a protruding trail on the surface rapidly extending toward the door.
“Is this guy a mole?”
Light Jade tried to pour wind into the hole, but Lu Yunze was one step ahead.
Lu Yunze leaped high and summoned his Heavy Sword in mid-air. The moment he landed in front of Kong Yang’s escape path, he plunged the sword forcefully into the ground.
*Boom!*
The floor cracked. Lu Yunze heard a very clear thud. Kong Yang had crashed into the front of the Heavy Sword.
Seeing no further movement, Lu Yunze pressed down a force point on his glove and reached into the ground, pulling out the object he had caught.
“Caught you… Huh?”
Seeing what was in his hand, Lu Yunze was dumbfounded.
It wasn’t Kong Yang, but a human figure sculpted out of mud.
It was a Decoy Art!
The figure shattered on the ground. Lu Yunze and the others surveyed the surroundings again, but after a tense moment, there was no more activity.
Kong Yang had managed to escape after all.
Lu Yunze retracted the Heavy Sword and shook his head at Luo Yao and Luo Li. The expressions of the Luo Family siblings also became very unsightly.
No one expected a perfectly good Birthday Banquet to be turned into such a mess.
After the commotion just now, it was impossible to continue the banquet in this Dining Hall. Moreover, Kong Yang’s actions earlier had injured many guests. No one was in the mood to continue festivities, and they all bid their farewells and left.
“It’s over. Father is definitely going to scold us,” Luo Heng scratched his head. “Little sister, what do we do? When the time comes, you have to put in a good word for me. If I say something nice, maybe…”
“Don’t come to me,” Luo Li’s voice had no fluctuation, yet it made Luo Heng back away with a forced smile.
Luo Tianyu had entrusted them with maintaining order at the venue before he left. Now that things had turned out like this, Luo Li was the one most bothered by it.
As the venue became quiet once more, a person returned. The three turned back and found that it was actually Luo Tianyu.
“Father, why did you come back?” Luo Yao’s eyes widened.
“I came to see the results of your hard work.”
As soon as Luo Tianyu said this, the Luo Family siblings didn’t dare to meet his gaze directly.
“It seems you are very dissatisfied with the current situation.”
“If you want to scold us, Father, then go ahead,” Luo Yao lowered her head.
“I feel like the blame can’t be entirely on us…” Luo Heng was halfway through when Luo Yao poked him hard.
“Do you know your mistakes?”
“We do.”
“Then take it as a lesson. To be honest, I never expected you to truly be able to handle it perfectly,” Luo Tianyu continued. “However, that Assassin returning after leaving was indeed beyond my expectations.”
“We almost had him,” Luo Heng muttered.
“Who put in the most effort?” Luo Tianyu heard him.
“Luo Yao, and Lu Yunze.”
Luo Tianyu’s expression didn’t show much surprise. Facing Luo Yao, he simply gave a few words of caution, telling her the road ahead was long and to learn more from her older brother and sister.
As for Lu Yunze, Luo Tianyu specifically walked up to him.
“I’m sorry, Uncle Luo,” Lu Yunze couldn’t help but speak.
“Your personality is just like your father’s, but your experience and methods in handling things can’t compare to his yet.”
Lu Yunze’s impression of his parents was already very blurred, especially regarding his father. He still remembered his Mother as a boisterous and carefree Researcher, but his father… he couldn’t even remember his face clearly.
“I didn’t expect you to look so much like your father. I believe you will remember this lesson.” Luo Tianyu didn’t seem to have any intention of blaming him.
He didn’t blame me, even though he reprimanded his own children.
After his initial confusion, a trace of gratitude flashed in Lu Yunze’s eyes. He opened his mouth and asked, “Was my father very good at fighting?”
“Of course. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been my best comrade-in-arms.”
As soon as this topic was mentioned, the two of them were like a box being opened. They forgot the accidents that occurred tonight and immersed themselves in another world.
***
At the same time, a pair of eyes that had been observing from outside finally retracted their gaze.
It seemed Luo Tianyu wouldn’t make things difficult for Lu Yunze.
Jiang Sui put her Cloak back on and couldn’t help but sigh.
“What a waste. They actually let him run away.”
In the end, she still had to rely on herself to hunt him down and settle things. She hoped he hadn’t run too far.
Jiang Sui used the Moonlight to slip out of the Luo Mansion. Just as she was about to set off in the direction Kong Yang had fled, she suddenly heard a familiar pig’s squeal.
“Sword Pig?”
Sure enough, she saw a Black Pig squatting by the roadside.
“I thought you wouldn’t be able to make it back.”
“What kind of talk is that? Cursing me the moment we meet?” The Black Pig narrowed its eyes.
“Is the business from before finished?”
“Hmph, precisely,” the Black Pig nodded. “It looks like I didn’t arrive at the right time.”
Hearing this, the corners of Jiang Sui’s mouth curled up.
“No, Senior, you have arrived at just the right time. There is something only a Senior who is a Pig King can help me with.”
As she spoke, she opened her hand. In her palm lay a syringe still containing half of a purple liquid.
“You…”
The moment the Black Hunter saw this thing, its eyes widened. It felt as though its bristles would stand on end in the next second. “Where did you get this thing from?!”