Lu Mingfei, how can you slay a dragon if you don't play the villain?

So, Su Xiaoqiang swung her fist and smashed it hard into Lu Mingfei's face.

But just as she was halfway through her swing, she was stopped in mid-air by an invisible force.

"Let me go, you bastard!" Su Xiaoqiang roared and struggled.

It wasn't that Lu Mingfei didn't want to take that punch.

He was even willing to let her hit him to vent her anger.

The real key lies in...

Lu Mingfei's body of steel now far exceeds the norm!

If Su Xiaoqiang, in a fit of rage, were to unleash a punch with all her might and land it on his face...

She likely suffered a fracture!

There was no other way but to make her stop this attack.

At this moment, Liu Miaomiao stood up and looked at Lu Mingfei:

"Lu Mingfei, I don't like what you just said!"

Su Enxi said softly:

"Boss, I'm happy that you're willing to give us a chance, but what you just said really hurt me!"

"You need to understand that each of them has extremely strong feelings for you, which is why they risked danger to stay by your side, isn't that right?"

"But what about you, Lu Mingfei?!"

What do you give back to this sincerity?

"It's your seemingly respectful but actually indifferent 'come and go as you please' attitude!"

"This is so disheartening!"

"Why? Why can't you even utter the purest words," Su Enxi's voice was filled with intense emotion, as if she were questioning everyone: "'I want you by my side!' 'Please don't leave me!'"

She took a deep breath, trying to calm her turbulent emotions:

“I know you’re worried about their safety and afraid of getting them involved.”

“But relationships are always a two-way adventure!” Her gaze pierced Lu Mingfei. “Boss, let’s make a hypothetical scenario.”

“If the roles were reversed today, all of us, including Erii, whom you cherish so much, would stand before you.”

"I'd like to tell you: 'Lu Mingfei, you can stay if you want, or leave us now and disappear forever!'"

"Hearing such words..."

"What do you think?!" Su Enxi's words were like a violent, icy rain, freezing Lu Mingfei in place.

Having said all that, even if Lu Ming were to be stubborn, he would understand where he went wrong.

Yes... if I were really treated that way.

He will be really sad.

He looked at Su Xiaoqiang, who was burning with anger, and said softly:

"I'm sorry...it was my fault!"

Su Xiaoqiang snorted angrily, then wiped her eyes hard and released her grip on his clothes.

Lu Mingfei's gaze swept over the girls.

The group remained silent, awaiting his answer.

His throat bobbed slightly, and he said earnestly:

"Please...don't leave me, stay...by my side forever!"

As soon as the words were spoken, the girls breathed a sigh of relief.

In this way, their feelings for him will no longer be one-sided.

It is no longer a reflection in water or a flower in a mirror, but something that could shatter at any moment.

After being awakened, Lu Mingfei felt a clarity in his mind that he had never experienced before.

He felt that he might be about to make a breakthrough.

Before he could explain, his figure suddenly transformed into a streak of light tearing through the darkness, instantly breaking through the classroom and sweeping past the thick night clouds at an astonishing speed. In just a few breaths, he landed in a desolate, uninhabited mountain valley outside the south of the city.

My toes just touched the soft soil.

Buzz! A surge of emotion from the deepest part of my body suddenly erupted!

The breakthrough has begun!

It wasn't earth-shattering, but rather a natural progression.

He focused his mind on his dantian.

No guidance or external force required!

The once vast and surging sea of ​​sword energy was now as if it had been solidified by an invisible force!

The liquid sword energy was compressed to the extreme, collapsed, and solidified...

The instant he landed and stood firm!

A sword core, radiating a chilling, sharp light and naturally adorned with complex and mysterious sword patterns, had silently formed at the very core of his dantian... perfectly formed!

Lu Mingfei froze on the spot, his pupils slightly dilated with shock.

"This... is it done?"

He never imagined the breakthrough would be so dramatic.

He was on edge, awaiting the imminent arrival of the third-order calamity.

However... the night wind rustled through the forest, and the grass and trees were silent.

The deep night sky was still and unmarked, and the dark earth was as steady as ever.

There was no unusual movement indicating the impending calamity.

To ensure that no accidents occur.

He held his breath and stood there cautiously for ten minutes... There was nothing there!

Apart from the rustling of leaves in the mountain breeze, there were no other unusual signs.

"This... is it over?" Lu Mingfei looked down at his hands, which showed no abnormalities, and murmured almost unconsciously.

The legendary, extremely dangerous third-tier breakthrough that has caused countless cultivators to perish...

How come it became... a sudden enlightenment on the spot, a realm opening up silently for him?

"Wasn't it supposed to be... that breaking through to the third rank would inevitably bring calamity?" Lu Mingfei looked up at the night sky, full of confusion.

He calmed down and thought back on what had happened that day.

First, he "showed off his divine abilities in front of others," then he resolved Chen Wenwen's matter, and afterwards he entered into cultivation.

Ultimately, there was an emotional exchange with several girls.

After Su Enxi pointed out his awkward feelings and he made promises to several girls, he suddenly felt a sense of clarity and breakthrough.

A thought that made him both laugh and cry suddenly popped into his head:

"Is it possible..."

"This sudden emotional realization and the fulfillment of a promise..."

"This is the 'mental tribulation' I'm about to experience?!"

Lu Mingfei was speechless for a moment, and could only shake his head, smile bitterly, and sigh softly:

"Truly... 'Calamity' arises from the heart, and it also perishes from the heart!"

If Su Enxi hadn't enlightened him, when would he have been able to break through?

Now he owes Su Enxi a huge favor.

If Su Enxi were to take this opportunity to make a request of him, he would find it difficult to refuse.

The grace of attaining enlightenment is too heavy!

However, now that I've broken through to the third level, my plans to go to Japan need to be changed slightly.

"In any case, let's try out the 'Sword Control Technique' after the breakthrough first..."

Before he could finish speaking, Lu Mingfei pushed off with his foot and shot into the sky.

He did not use the Void Soaring Dragon Step or the Meteor Escape, but instead used himself as a sword to fly as a "sword".

"boom!"

His figure swept across the sky in an instant, followed by a deafening roar.

He knew he had broken the sound barrier.

And it wasn't even just after breaking the sound barrier.

He exerted all his strength, his entire body sweeping across the clouds.

Because of his incredible speed, he looked like a silver meteor streaking across the sky.

In less than five minutes, he had already traveled from that small town to the East China Sea.

Looking at the distant coastline where light and shadow intertwined, Lu Mingfei felt a surge of emotion and burst into uncontrollable laughter:

"Ha ha ha ha--!!"

……

Inside a top-secret command center.

Time seemed to freeze at this moment.

In front of the huge satellite monitoring screen, all the combat personnel, analysts, and senior officers felt as if they were being choked by an invisible force, their eyes fixed on the constantly refreshed and finally fixed data trajectory map.

On the screen, a target codenamed "Celestial Immortal"—Lu Mingfei—was clearly marked.

Monitoring results show that: