After finishing his words, the man in the black robe raised his hand and pointed.
A thumb-thick red light flashed and vanished in an instant, appearing right in front of Zhang Yuge.
The sound of flesh being pierced reached Zhang Yuge’s ears, and almost simultaneously, his body instinctively twisted to the side.
Then, a burning sensation flared in his right shoulder, followed by sharp pain.
Zhang Yuge’s face changed drastically.
He turned his head to look and saw fresh blood streaming down his right shoulder, where a blood hole as thick as a finger had appeared.
I didn’t even react in time?
The strength of someone at the late Foundation Establishment stage was clearly beyond what he could handle.
If only he still possessed the power he had when he swept through the Ye family earlier today, he wouldn’t be struggling so much.
Now that Yun Lan was asleep, she couldn’t help him.
Wu De’s pills had all been consumed, but they only raised him to mid-Foundation Establishment strength.
Though Zhang Yuge knew the National Instructor was stronger than Wu De, he hadn’t expected him to be so ridiculously powerful.
In Wu De’s memories, the National Instructor wasn’t this strong.
Had he improved at an incredible pace, or was he deliberately hiding his true power?
Lost in panic and confusion, Zhang Yuge was unaware that the man in the black robe was even more shocked that his attack hadn’t killed Zhang Yuge.
Don’t be fooled by how effortlessly that move seemed to be cast.
In fact, it was his finishing blow, and he would need a long cooldown before he could use it again.
At that moment, news came from the other side of the battlefield.
King Kang Li Yuluo was defeated by Zhang Qingyao, who had taken drugs.
An idea sparked in Zhang Yuge’s mind, and he immediately ran toward the two.
Seeing this, the man in the black robe was deeply unsettled.
Li Yuluo was already no match for Zhang Qingyao; now with Zhang Yuge joining, he was frozen in place with fear.
“I’ve got you now.”
Zhang Yuge subdued Li Yuluo with two or three moves and held him captive.
Because of the blood hole in his right shoulder, Zhang Yuge was too pained to hold his sword with that hand, so he gripped it with his left, the blade pressed against Li Yuluo’s neck.
Zhang Qingyao took charge of locking Li Yuluo’s hands behind his back.
“National Instructor, you’d better not act rashly, or don’t blame me for being ruthless with this blade,”
Zhang Yuge said with the arrogance of someone who had gained power.
Upon hearing the threat, the man in the black robe indeed stopped.
“Em… National Instructor, save me!” .
Li Yuluo, unable to move and pale with anxiety, begged with the blade almost touching his neck.
Em…?
Though Li Yuluo immediately corrected himself, Zhang Yuge caught the suspicious hesitation.
The man in the black robe paused briefly before bursting into loud laughter.
“Hahaha, do you really think you can threaten me like this? Watch me kill you all!”
With that, a fiery red blood orb condensed in his hand.
Seeing that his opponent intended to kill him too, Li Yuluo’s face turned ashen.
Suddenly, the blood orb vanished.
The man’s other hand tightly grabbed the casting hand, forcibly interrupting the spell.
Then, he muttered a series of strange words.
“I… I won’t let you hurt him…”
“…Get away, don’t interfere…”
“I… absolutely won’t let you succeed…”
“You’ve ruined my good plans, I won’t let you off…”
Struggling desperately, the man in black clung onto the casting hand, while the casting hand tried repeatedly to break free.
From an outsider’s perspective, he looked like a madman.
“Young Master, what’s wrong with him all of a sudden?”
Zhang Qingyao asked nervously.
Zhang Yuge sensed it was a good chance to escape.
“While he’s losing it, let’s get out of here quickly.”
Following the original path, Zhang Yuge and Zhang Qingyao escaped with Li Yuluo held captive, successfully evading the National Instructor’s pursuit and returning to the study where they had entered.
However, when they reached the surface, they found the manor in chaos.
The loud noises from Zhang Yuge’s fight with the man in black had alarmed the servants upstairs.
Unable to find their King, they assumed something had happened and were searching frantically.
Zhang Yuge crouched by the study window, observing the servants outside, waiting for an opportunity to slip away.
Unexpectedly, Li Yuluo shouted loudly behind him.
“Help! The King is in the study, there’s an assassin! Someone—ugh, ugh, ugh…”
Zhang Qingyao quickly covered his mouth to stop him from yelling further.
But it was too late; the guards outside had already heard their King’s cries for help.
“The King’s in the study, hurry and rescue him!”
“Trouble, the guards are all rushing over, let’s get out quickly,”
Zhang Yuge said.
“Should we bring this guy along?”
“Yes, I have many questions for him.”
After saying this, Zhang Yuge knocked Li Yuluo unconscious with one palm and then carried him away.
Most of the manor’s guards were second-rate fighters, just stronger mortals, so naturally, they couldn’t stop Zhang Yuge and the others.
The escape went relatively smoothly.
By the time they returned to the pawnshop near Xicheng Gate, it was nearly dawn.
Wang Quan had already left, but Zhang family’s servants still waited anxiously for their young master’s return.
“Young Master.”
“Young Master.”
“You’re finally back. Lv Zhu was so worried about you. Huh? Who’s this?”
Lv Zhu was stunned to see Zhang Yuge bringing back a stranger.
This… a few hours ago, Young Master caught a cultivator, and now he’s bringing someone else back?
Could it be another enemy who provoked Young Master?
They had barely buried one, and now they might have to bury another.
“Lv Zhu, go make some tea.”
“Yes, Young Master.”
Zhang Yuge hoisted Li Yuluo into the secret room and tied him to the same pillar where Wu De had been bound before.
The bloodstains on the floor had been cleaned, the entire floor renewed, showing no signs that anyone had died there.
Though he wanted to bathe, he had already done so once earlier, and his clothes weren’t stained with blood this time, so he skipped it.
“I’m a bit hungry. Xiao Yao, go get some pastries.”
“I’m so tired. How about someone else does it?”
Zhang Qingyao, who had accompanied Zhang Yuge all night, didn’t want to move anymore.
“Hm?”
“All right, Young Master.”
Zhang Qingyao left the secret room reluctantly.
The remaining Zhang family servants looked at each other, no one daring to speak first.
Finally, one couldn’t help but ask,
“Young Master, what about this person… should we kill him too?”
The servants increasingly felt that the orders from Young Master Zhang Qingyao were no different from bandits.
“Not yet. I want to interrogate him properly first before making a decision.”
“Young Master, please think carefully before issuing orders this time. If we act hastily again, it’ll be awkward.”
“Ahem…”
Zhang Yuge cleared his throat awkwardly and said,
“The last one should have died. You did well.”
If he hadn’t killed Wu De, Zhang Yuge wouldn’t have gained a new system or all those pills and magical items.
He also wouldn’t have discovered the many unscrupulous things Wu De had done behind the scenes.
No matter what, he had a strange feeling about the National Instructor.
He said that even if someone took the Blood Condensation Five Elements Pill, it was still possible to break into the Nascent Soul realm—it was just that Zhang Yuge had never heard of it before.