Chapter 202: Do You Mean to Stop Me?
The temperature in the courtyard surged without warning, and the air around them seemed to fill with blazing fire. In that moment, even the grass and plants in the courtyard withered and shriveled in the invisible heat within the blink of an eye.
And the terrifying aura Murong Xiaoya had managed with such difficulty to suppress burst free in an instant, sweeping outward like a howling tempest and crashing waves.
Hu Rui'an and the others all changed expression at once and immediately retreated, putting distance between themselves and Murong Xiaoya as quickly as possible.
Among them, however, Wu Shang alone not only failed to retreat, but was pulled forward by a force he could not resist and appeared before Murong Xiaoya in an instant without any control over himself.
"You just mentioned Han Cuiyuan. Do you know where the Han family's people are now?"
Murong Xiaoya's eyes blazed with blood flame as she looked at Wu Shang before her. Her voice was ice-cold, and carried within it a killing intent of staggering intensity.
The scorching heat radiating from her body was like a furnace, and standing directly in front of her, Wu Shang could only barely manage to circulate his martial True Qi to resist the overwhelming burning sensation pressing in on him.
What was worse, under the weight of her terrifying pressure, Wu Shang felt like nothing more than a small boat in a raging storm, impossibly small and fragile, and liable to be crushed and destroyed at any moment.
"Miss Murong... you have misunderstood... I truly do not know where the Han family's people are..."