Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
At this moment, the fire within Howard started condensing. He decided not to waste any more time with Lu Shu. Now that he had lost his ability to fight back, Howard wanted to end his own life before being coerced into a confession.
Lu Shu did not stop him. He would not make any compromises to Howard despite his eagerness to learn about the Puppet Master.
Quietly Lu Shu watched from the side as Howard destroyed his own foundation.
“From Howard Miller’s distress, +1000!”
As the person in charge of overseas affairs in the Phoenix Society, Howard was one of the most famous people in the international cultivation realm. It was not an overstatement to claim that he was even more well-known than the Saint, who had only fought once after his ascension to Class A.
Nevertheless, this man of glory had perished in Africa. For some reason, Lu Shu felt glum looking at his dead body. It was unexpected that a master like Howard would die in such a miserable way.
Meanwhile, Lu Shu was confused about his white flame. He once thought that he was just an ordinary orphan. But slowly he had come to realize that his real identity could be much more complicated.
He tried hard to recall his childhood memories, but nothing unusual stood out. He was just like any other normal kid, until one day, he was hit by a truck and his black pendant broke.
Lu Shu looked down at the white tree mark on his palm. Together with the white flame, these were his mysteries. Who on earth were his parents? What were they like?
He had once decided to accept his fate as an ordinary orphan, and the fact that he had been abandoned by his very own parents. He had given up on making guesses or trying to find his biological parents. But many clues had surfaced over time.
However, those broken pieces could not lead to any useful answer, except for messing with Lu Shu’s emotions.
Lu Shu removed the space ring from Howard’s finger. Then, he retrieved all the bodies from his Seal of Lands and burned them together with Howard’s. Everything was reduced to dust in the flame.
After that, he changed into Howard’s appearance. Although his ability to alter his appearance might have been exposed by the previous fake alliance incident, Lu Shu remained unconcerned. After all, they could not do much without knowing his true face.
Even Xia Rensheng and his team did not know it was him, let alone Francesco and Howard.
However, Lu Shu’s secret was not completely safe even after Howard carried the revelation to his tomb. There were still many loopholes. But Lu Shu decided not to care too much about them now. Meanwhile, he was ready to make the current situation even more mind-boggling using Howard’s identity.
The more messier it got, the more benefits he could gain.
Suddenly, he heard faint footsteps when he was about to leave. He saw moving shadows approaching him from all directions in the sparse woods!
Lu Shu’s face turned stern. Apparently those people were coming for him. Corpsedog and Concealed Arrow were on stand-by, and hundreds of beams of lightning aurablade swirled around his chi mountain.
He was confident in his abilities to kill his way out, as long as there were no Class A’s.
“Bravo, Howard.”
With that, Francesco’s figure appeared in the woods. His face hidden in the shadow under his white cloak. Francesco made his way to Lu Shu and said, “You fooled us into an alliance with you, while you have secretly signed the deal with Bennett. God punishes liars and cheaters.”
Lu Shu took a while to read into his lines. Was it simply that the Department of Faith Theory was vexed because of EO’s sudden announcement? Mimicking Howard’s tone, Lu Shu replied with an arrogant laugh. “The cultivation world obeys the laws of Nature, the survival of the fittest. You can’t blame your weakness on us after we’ve taken the first move.”
It served to accentuate the conflict between the Phoenix Society and the Department of Faith Theory. Hence, he must be mean.
Eh? Lu Shu suddenly noticed that Francesco did not produce any distress points. What? How could he be okay with such an insult? Lu Shu did not believe that Francesco was a man good at controlling his emotions.
In the next instant, there was a rustle in the vegetation behind him. Lu Shu gasped in shock as he glanced around. What the heck! All of them were the Department’s allies in Africa! There were a total of FIVE Class B’s from various large organizations!!
Lu Shu was distressed. He should not have been that proud just now! Five Class B’s were really too many for him, even though there were no Class A’s!
He could not even defeat two Class B’s simultaneously, let alone five!
In an attempt to save the situation, Lu Shu suggested, “Why don’t we halve the mineral reserves and share them together? The top priority now is to find the man who stole our weapons. We shouldn’t harm each other before that man is found.”
It would not even matter if he promised to surrender the entire mine to the Department of Faith Theory, since he was not Howard himself…
Yet, Francesco shook his head and said, “Howard, we can’t let you leave this place today. As for the Heavenly Network expert, there’s no rush to kill him now.”
Lu Shu was dumbfounded. What if I tell you right now that I’m the Heavenly Network expert you’ve been looking for? Will you let me go back and take a shower since you said you are not in a hurry to kill me now…
GG. Everything’s freaking doomed. Why had he become Howard now?!
In the past, Lu Shu really enjoyed acting as someone else because it felt as if everyone was under his control. It solely relied on people’s ignorance about the mask relic.
However, at this moment, he had inadvertently become Howard’s scapegoat… What could he do now? Who would believe his innocence? Lu Shu had never expected that the Department of Faith Theory were such ruthless murderers. They wanted to wipe out such an important man in the Phoenix Society just like this, unconcerned about the severe consequences of this act.
Moreover, they were very decisive. They had united their allies to kill Howard when he was alone.
But it was Howard’s life that they wanted to take, not Lu Shu’s… Lu Shu was innocent. Or was he? Lu Shu was not so sure of himself…
Nonetheless, it was meaningless to turn back into himself now. He could not possibly say, “Haha, I’m not the one you are looking for. I’m not Howard. I was just messing with you!”
Everything would have been exposed! He would still get a good thrashing…
Lu Shu was a tad distressed. What else could he do? Just run!
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