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The guard exclaimed in surprise.
At this moment, the black-robed middle-aged man also narrowed his eyes, a hint of doubt flashing within them, and slowly spoke:
"Oh? So you are the Zhuge Lan our Young Sect Master has been waiting for?"
His voice was filled with authority, as if he were interrogating Zhuge Lan.
However,
Zhuge Lan opened his eyes wide, pretending to be foolish and said,
"Waiting for me? Then you must have the wrong person. I'm not Zhuge Lan, I'm Zhuge Hong."
As he spoke, he blinked, looking very much like a fool.
At this point, the guard urgently shouted,
"Captain, it's him! He's Zhuge Lan, I recognize him."
His eyes were filled with certainty.
Another guard echoed,
"Yes, it's him, I saw his portrait!"
Seeing that his excuses were futile, Zhuge Lan simply stopped pretending and instead deliberately acted cool.
He gently ran a hand through his hair, then narcissistically muttered to himself,
"I didn't expect that little sister Qian Renxue would be so infatuated with my good looks."
His words were full of confidence and teasing, as if he was incredibly confident in his own charm.
"Impudent! How dare you speak such wild words and be disrespectful to our Young Sect Master!"
The middle-aged man roared furiously.
Then, he turned to a guard and said,
"Go immediately and inform the Young Sect Master. Tell her that Zhuge Lan has taken the bait and is inside Spirit Hall!"
"Yes!"
The guard responded, then turned and hurried away.
Then, the middle-aged man stared intently at Zhuge Lan and shouted loudly to all the guards present,
"Everyone, attack! Capture Zhuge Lan for me, and there will be a heavy reward!"
"Wait a moment!"
Just as everyone was about to rush forward, Zhuge Lan suddenly interrupted them.
"Hmph, what new trick are you trying to pull?"
The middle-aged man shouted angrily.
Zhuge Lan put on a very innocent and helpless expression, sighed, and said lightly,
"There are so many of you, a dense crowd, and I only have two people on my side, one of whom is an old man. Isn't it a bit too bullying for so many of you to fight so few? If this gets out to outsiders, for Spirit Hall, the pinnacle of the World, to still resort to bullying with numbers, wouldn't that be too embarrassing?"
As Zhuge Lan spoke, he glanced at the middle-aged man, trying to provoke him with a goading tactic.
And the middle-aged man indeed fell for it.
After all,
He, who had always lived a pampered life in Spirit Hall, always looked down on others, and had extremely strong self-esteem.
Upon hearing Zhuge Lan's mocking words, he immediately became furious and said viciously,
"Good, then I will have a 1v1 duel with you. I want to see what abilities you truly possess."
The middle-aged man's tone was full of disdain.
He took a step forward, and the spirit power fluctuations on his body instantly erupted, adopting a combat stance.
"Ah... wait again!"
Zhuge Lan interrupted him again.
At this moment,
The middle-aged man's eyes blazed with anger, staring intently at Zhuge Lan, his entire body trembling with rage.
"Since it's a duel, there must be an order, right? How can you directly challenge the strongest person, me, at the very beginning? You have to start by fighting my bodyguard first!"
Zhuge Lan gestured to Dugu Bo with his eyes, indicating him to the middle-aged man.
When Dugu Bo heard Zhuge Lan call him his bodyguard, he immediately became furious and roared at Zhuge Lan,
"You damn bastard, who's your bodyguard?!"
Zhuge Lan quickly covered Dugu Bo's mouth and whispered an explanation,
"Shh, don't shout, don't shout! Isn't this just finding an excuse to stall him? You keep him busy for a while, and I'll secretly use the Time-Space Brush to escape."
Dugu Bo was displeased:
"Do we still need to escape now? It'd be easy to just kill these ants."
Zhuge Lan said,
"Oh, it might be easy, but it's time-consuming and energy-consuming. Don't you agree? It's better to just rescue the person and leave, too lazy to waste time."
Dugu Bo thought about it and felt it made sense, so he just snorted, which counted as his acquiescence.
Seeing this, the middle-aged man sneered,
"Hmph, stop playing these little tricks. No matter who it is, no one will leave easily today."
With that, his gaze was fixed on Dugu Bo, and the spirit power fluctuations on his body grew even stronger, as if he could launch an attack at any moment.
Dugu Bo also stopped talking nonsense, a faint green light appeared around him, and a poisonous mist began to spread.
Zhuge Lan quietly retreated a few steps, secretly gripping the Time-Space Brush in his hand, waiting for an opportunity to cast the Time-Space Gate.
Suddenly, Dugu Bo seemed to have thought of something.
With his palm facing downwards, a burst of poisonous mist spread outwards from him, enveloping Zhuge Lan as well.
In that mysterious space filled with dense poisonous mist, Dugu Bo stood within it, a smug smile on his face.
He turned to look at Zhuge Lan, who was also in the poisonous mist beside him, and said,
"Why bother fighting? Just get your thing done and it'll be over."
Zhuge Lan, who was in the poisonous mist, was initially a bit confused, but upon hearing Dugu Bo's words, he instantly realized.
How could he not have thought that as long as Dugu Bo created a poisonous mist, he could just open the Time-Space Gate inside and be done with it?
He had complicated such a simple problem...
He praised Dugu Bo,
"Wow, Old Poison, you're really something."
Dugu Bo rolled his eyes at him, already accustomed to his insincere praise.
Dugu Bo said impatiently,
"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up."
After speaking, he turned around and began to pay attention to the surrounding movements.
He wanted to create a relatively safe environment for Zhuge Lan so that he could successfully cast the Time-Space Gate spell.
Zhuge Lan skillfully manipulated the Time-Space Brush, and in a short while, the teleportation gate reappeared before them.
"It's ready, let's go."
Zhuge Lan said to Dugu Bo behind him.
Then, the two, one after the other, entered the Time-Space Gate and teleported to another location within Spirit Hall.
Meanwhile, the middle-aged man and the many Spirit Hall guards outside the poisonous mist.
Upon seeing this poisonous mist, they also sensed its extreme toxicity and did not dare to act rashly.
The middle-aged man gritted his teeth in anger outside the poisonous mist and said to the guards,
"Do not enter the poisonous mist. Its toxicity is extremely strong. We will surround him and wait for his poisonous mist to dissipate!"
He was both angry and helpless, only able to watch the strange poisonous mist spread in place.
As Dugu Bo departed, the poisonous mist began to gradually dissipate.
When the poisonous mist gradually cleared, the middle-aged man found that the people were gone and immediately flew into a rage.
"What's going on! Didn't we surround this poisonous mist?! Did anyone see them run away?"
The middle-aged man furiously shouted at the surrounding guards.
"We didn't see them escape, they disappeared inside the poisonous mist."
A guard replied.
"Damn it! They actually got away!"
The middle-aged man said through gritted teeth.
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