"Whoosh!"
The sound of ripping through the air rang out. Several figures suddenly appeared beside the newly risen Luo Lingtian.
They were none other than the Luo family's old ancestor, Luo Canglin, and the two clan elders.
Luo Canglin's gaze, heavy with gloom, fixed upon Chu Ge, while the eyes of the two elders beside him were brimming with naked killing intent.
Chu Ge, however, remained completely unafraid. It wasn't as though he had no one backing him.
"Well done."
A cool, clear voice reached his ears as Luo Huangjun and Dantai Jinglian also appeared.
"Why haven't you scrammed yet? Or are you unwilling to accept this? I wouldn't mind exchanging a few moves with you."
Dantai Jinglian had no intention of giving the Luo family any face at all.
Seeing the hostile gazes of those three old geezers, she immediately stepped forward. Her crimson pupils burned like raging flames—at the mere flicker of her thought, she could incinerate mountains and boil seas!
Luo Huangjun's gaze was equally cold and sharp as frost. Though she spoke not a single word, the glacial aura she emitted alone was enough to strike fear into the heart!
"Let's go."
Luo Canglin finally gave Chu Ge one deep look before leaving with Luo Lingtian and the others.
Before departing, he did not forget to take away the Luo family's Great-Power Realm member who was still lying unconscious.
This was undoubtedly yet another failed operation.
Not only had the Huanglong Seal not been obtained, but they had even lost a Supreme remnant weapon!
A treasure of that level—even in a shattered state—was still far beyond anything ordinary.
Even for a clan like the Luo family, with its profound foundation and ancient inheritance, treasures of this caliber were exceedingly rare!
Even though this remnant weapon belonged personally to Luo Lingtian and did not directly come from the Luo family, they still felt intense pain at the loss.
And this was only the loss on the surface.
'The losses… go far beyond this…'
Luo Canglin glanced at Luo Lingtian, who had not spoken a single word since leaving Taihuang, his eyes hollow and unfocused, and thought silently.
With his level of insight, how could he fail to see that Luo Lingtian's mental state was now extremely unstable, and that his Dao heart had suffered an unprecedented blow?
If he could not walk out of this defeat, he would very likely fade into mediocrity from this day onward.
'Chu Ge… may become a great calamity in the future…'
Luo Canglin's eyes grew deep and unreadable. No one knew what he was truly thinking.
...
Chu Ge, though unaware that a Ninth-Heaven-level ancestral figure had already regarded him as a future great threat, had long since raised his guard.
He had clearly caught the gaze Luo Canglin cast at him before leaving.
Without even thinking about it, he knew he had already been marked by the other party—especially with the matter of the Huanglong Seal involved.
Although both attempts at seizure had failed, Chu Ge did not believe that people from such a great clan would simply give up.
"All of you, disperse."
On the martial arena, Luo Huangjun swept her gaze across the surroundings and spoke calmly.
As an order from the Holy Lord, everyone naturally obeyed, daring not to disobey. Before long, most of the crowd had dispersed.
However, news of today's battle spread with astonishing speed.
Although Luo Lingtian's fame among the current outer world's younger generation was not particularly great,
the Luo family behind him was a genuinely top-tier force. Not just within Lingzhou—across the entire Eastern Profound Domain, they possessed overwhelming prestige and influence.
Among many great sects and holy lands, there were often disciples of the Luo family cultivating within.
And yet, a heavenly genius from such a great clan—one who even possessed Supreme bloodline—had been defeated across realms.
Once this matter spread, it was more than enough to stir up enormous waves within the younger generation.
After all, although Luo Lingtian's reputation was not widespread, the strength he displayed was by no means weak.
At the peak of the Fourth Heaven, his battle power rivaled the Sixth Heaven. Even across the Eastern Profound Domain, he was considered a top-tier prodigy—
and yet such a prodigy had been defeated by someone who leapt realms to strike him down.