"Madam, I will be more careful from now on," Lu Mingde nodded solemnly.
When Xia Yueyou called him Old Lu, she was always speaking to him in the capacity of his wife. But when she addressed him as the Grand Elder, it was in her capacity as the Third Elder of the Immortal Sect, and he would naturally shift his own tone accordingly.
Lu Mingde felt utterly helpless deep down. When he died for the first time, he was a Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator facing a Late-stage Deity Transformation enemy. This time around, it was even worse: a Deity Transformation Early-stage against a Body Integration (late) opponent, a gap of three entire realms! Staying alive was practically a miracle!
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