White-Robed Chief

The young girl regarded the crowd coldly before she nodded. “Junior Sister Li, you’re here!”

Li Ruolan approached the couch with knitted brows and looked at the young girl’s left shoulder. “Senior Sister Lu, what happened?”

“Can’t you see?” Lu Zhen said wanly, “My arm has been cut off!”

“Who did this?” Li Ruolan gritted her teeth.

Lu Zhen replied, “Zhi Shan from the Reincarnation Temple!”

“It’s him!” Li Ruolan turned to look at Chu Li.

Zhou Jinchun clenched his teeth angrily. “That bloody monk, I’ll never forgive him!”

Lu Zhen stared at him and spoke, “Senior Brother Zhou, you’ll die if you encounter him!”

“Argh…” Zhou Jinchun slammed his fist on the stone table and cracks appeared on its surface at once.

Lu Zhen frowned. “What are you trying to do?”

Zhou Jinchun felt embarrassed as he held back his fist. “Junior Sister Lu, I can’t take down this monk on my own. Let’s face him together and smash him to smithereens!”

Lu Zhen responded grumpily, “If a bunch of experts from the White Tiger Sect, the Flaming Sun Sect, and the Tian Luo Sect was to surround him and fight him together with me alongside Altar Leader Mo, he would have clobbered us silly!”

Zhou Jinchun frowned. “Seriously?”

He then looked at Chu Li.

Chu Li said, “He cultivates the Earth Matrix and Reincarnation Scripture and is capable of using force to his advantage. He isn’t afraid when he is surrounded. On the contrary, getting surrounded is more advantageous for him than fighting one-on-one.”

“The Earth Matrix and Reincarnation Scripture!” Lu Zhen muttered viciously, “The damn Earth Matrix and Reincarnation Scripture!”

Lu Zhen’s eyes gleamed with anger and harshness. She looked towards Chu Li. “You are…?”

“Zhao Dahe,” Li Ruolan answered.

“I have heard of this name before…” Lu Zhen’s long, elegant eyebrows twitched as she pondered. “Zhao Dahe…”

“The Light Blade,” Li Ruolan added.

“Oh, right, the one you brought into the mountain. The one with the greatest mastery of the Light Blade!” Lu Zhen gasped while she scanned him from top to toe. “An ugly one, indeed!”

Chu Li glared at her with a sour expression.

Lu Zhen continued, “However, it’s fine if a man is ugly, as long as he’s competent in martial arts. It’s amazing that he could to achieve great heights in his mastery of the Light Blade. He’s way better than those men who are handsome but are good for nothing!”

She gave Zhou Jinchun and Ji Xin a side-eye.

Zhou Jinchun smiled sheepishly, but Ji Xin’s expression sank.

Lu Zhen spoke, “You can leave now to attend to other matters. Senior Sister Li and Junior Brother Zhao shall stay.”

“Junior Sister Lu, we don’t have other matters to attend to,” Zhou Jinchun said.

“But I have things to attend to. Leave now and stop bothering me!” Lu Zhen scoffed.

“Senior Brother Zhou, let’s go!” Ji Xin tugged at Zhou Jinchun’s arm and walked away.

Unwilling to be led away by his companion, Zhou Jinchun complained, “I wanted to stay for a little longer!”

“Why subject yourself to humiliation?” Ji Xin snorted. “Senior Brother Zhou, why give in to that sort of behavior from Senior Sister Lu?”

Zhou Jinchun replied, “Junior Sister Lu’s bark is worse than her bite. That’s how she behaves.”

“Her bite is as bad as her bark. Only you, Senior Brother Zhou, would think that her bark is worse than her bite!” Ji Xin shook his head. “I don’t understand how you can be attracted to a woman like that!”

“Get lost, what do you know?” Zhou Jinchun waved his arm dismissively.

Ji Xin snorted. “She will never bat an eye if you’re weak in martial arts, but if you’re powerful enough, she will happily greet you. What a snob!”

Zhou Jinchun laughed. “Junior Sister Lu pays more attention to one’s martial arts prowess than one’s looks, just like how you pay attention to one’s beauty. What’s wrong with that? I think it’s better than focusing on one’s appearance!”

“Oh, you…” Ji Xin shook his head.

Now, there were only three people in the courtyard.

Chu Li stood still beside the two women. Li Ruolan sat on the couch and spoke to Lu Zhen, “You should give them some face.”

“Aw, feeling sorry for Senior Brother Ji?” Lu Zhen pouted her lips. “He’s a real blockhead, yet you treat him like a prince!”

“Senior Sister Lu!” Li Ruolan frowned.

Nobody was perfect. Senior Brother Ji had his flaws, but there were also a lot of good things about him. One should not constantly focus on someone’s imperfections, or else nobody would be likable at all.

Lu Zhen scoffed. “Fine, as you wish, but you’ll regret it one day! Junior Brother Zhao, have you fought with Monk Zhi Shan?”

Chu Li shook his head. “Not exactly, it was more like I escaped from his clutches.”

“It’s pretty impressive that you’ve managed to escape from that bloody monk!” Lu Zhen said, “Can’t you tackle him with your Light Blade?”

“He possesses some mystical art which allows him to evade the Light Blade’s attacks,” Chu Li explained. “I had to use my wits to run away from him.”

“No doubt, hidden weapons are useless against this fellow.” Lu Zhen nodded. “The Musical Assassination Technique is also ineffective. In conclusion, he’s like a beast. It’s so embarrassing that he alone could defeat all of us!”

“Is he really invincible?” Li Ruolan asked.

“I’m prepared to risk my life to hurt him!” Lu Zhen pointed at her missing left arm. “I attacked him earlier. Unfortunately, I didn’t deal too much damage.”

“Senior Sister Lu, you ought to change your behavior.” Li Ruolan shook her head disapprovingly. “It’s very easy for you to get the short end of the stick. Altar Leader Mo should be the one in the frontline!”

There was no rule in the Holy Church of Light which stated that low-ranking disciples had to sacrifice themselves first. Instead, whoever ranked higher had to be in the frontline — this was an established rule of the Church.

“I simply didn’t expect him to be so savage!” Lu Zhen hissed.

Li Ruolan sighed and did not say another word.

Lu Zhen spoke, “It would be better if all of you could leave as soon as possible, in case that bloody monk returns!”

“In that case, we shall stay,” Li Ruolan said. “We must stick together!”

“That monk is brutal!” Lu Zhen growled. “I’ve lost an arm, but a female disciple from the Tian Luo Sect is dead!”

There was a subtle shift in Chu Li’s expression. He asked immediately, “Senior Sister Lu, do you know who these experts from the Tian Luo Sect are?”

“They are disciples led by Bai Feng,” Lu Zhen replied. “Do you know them?”

Chu Li’s expression changed once again.

Li Ruolan stole a glance at him and she immediately understood his worry. So, she asked, “Senior Sister Lu, what’s the name of the dead female disciple?”

“How am I supposed to remember these details?” Lu Zhen pouted while snapped back at her. “Anyway, she came together with Bai Feng. I didn’t bother to remember that!”

Chu Li’s face darkened.

Lu Zhen was surprised. “Don’t tell me she’s someone you know? Do you have ties with female disciples of the Tian Luo Sect?”

With his appearance, it was impossible for him to charm the hearts of the Tian Luo Sect’s disciples. Every single one of the female disciples of the Tian Luo Sect had been through all sorts of life experiences and it was not easy for them to be attracted to men.

“He rebuilt the Radiance Clan and stirred up a storm in Gale City,” Li Ruolan said.

Lu Zhen was bewildered. “The Radiance Clan has been rebuilt?”

Chu Li nodded half-heartedly.

He could see what occurred five kilometers away with the Omniscient Mirror, but Bai Feng was nowhere in sight.

“Where’s Elder Bai?” Chu Li asked. “Isn’t she in the city now?”

“She’s at the eastern point of the city,” Lu Zhen replied. “The Four Major Sects guard each side. The northern point doesn’t need to be guarded, so we guard the Town Defense Prefecture.”

Chu Li wanted to go there to have a look.

Lu Zhen said, “Bai Feng will probably arrive very soon. This batch of medicine will also be divided among the three sects!”

Li Ruolan said, “Then we shall wait.”

Chu Li nodded slowly.

Li Ruolan sighed. “Senior Sister Lu, what are you going to do in the future?”

“I still have my right arm and my martial arts ability, which are enough for me!” Lu Zhen replied.

Chu Li was in awe of her open-mindedness, which this quality was seldom seen among men. Initially, he assumed a frail, obedient-looking young woman like her would cry over this matter.

“Unfortunately, you can’t cultivate the Asura Power Technique,” Li Ruolan muttered. “I heard that it can regrow limbs.”

“The Bloody Garment Divine Power can also regrow limbs,” Lu Zhen quipped.

Li Ruolan asked, “Are you going to find a way to cultivate it?”

Lu Zhen rolled her eyes. “Those who cultivate the Asura Power Technique will go mad, whereas the Bloody Garment Divine Power is a sect-suppressing technique of the Fu Dynasty’s Church of the Divine Blood. It can’t be taught to outsiders!”

All of a sudden, Chu Li’s expression changed. Bai Feng had appeared in the Town Defense Prefecture.