The Furious Lion!

"What's going on? Xiao Ning was beaten up?"

As the Great Elder hurried toward the Dou Skill Pavilion, he questioned the attendant behind him.

"Yes. Young Master Xiao Ze came looking for trouble with Young Master Xiao Ning. Young Master Xiao Ze is very strong—he pinned Young Master Xiao Ning to the ground and beat him."

The attendant explained hurriedly, and the Great Elder's brows drew tightly together.

Xiao Ze had always kept a low profile. He had not even attended the Assessment Assembly. Who would have thought that he had been hiding his strength?

The Great Elder had originally looked down on Xiao Ze for not attending the Assessment Assembly. Like most people outside the family, he believed that Xiao Ze had feared being compared to Xiao Yan and mocked for being inferior to him.

He had not paid much attention to Xiao Ze's absence from the Assessment Assembly.

He could hide for a while, but not forever.

Every member of the Xiao Family had to take part in the coming-of-age ceremony, and they would still have to be tested then.

If their Dou Qi did not reach the seventh stage, it meant they no longer had the potential to cultivate. They would be stripped of their right to enter the Dou Qi Pavilion and select a Dou Qi Technique.

At the same time, they would be assigned to the Xiao Family's ordinary businesses and manage those properties for the family.

Those were the Xiao Family's rules. Not even the Patriarch could violate them!

But now, the attendant was telling him that Xiao Ze did not lack cultivation talent.

On the contrary, he was extremely strong. If he could pin Xiao Ning down and beat him, then he was at least at the high stages of Dou Qi!

Though thoughts raced through the Great Elder's mind, his feet did not stop as he hurried onward.

The moment he arrived at the Dou Skill Pavilion, he saw Xiao Ze beating someone.

Xiao Ze was straddling the man, his fists raining relentlessly upon the fallen person's head.

The man looked utterly miserable. He screamed frantically, his face swollen like a pig's head.

If the attendant had not told him that Xiao Ze was beating Xiao Ning, the Great Elder probably would not have recognized him!

After a brief daze, the Great Elder was overcome with heartache, followed immediately by fury!

Consumed by rage, the Great Elder ignored the family rule:

No attacking juniors without cause!

Dou Qi surged through his body as he charged explosively toward the center of the crowd.

The powerful pressure of his Dou Qi made the surrounding onlookers turn pale.

The Great Elder quickly reached Xiao Ze. Dou Qi gathered in his palm as he struck toward Xiao Ze in anger.

Xiao Ze had noticed the Great Elder's approach long ago. His Soul Perception was no weaker than anyone's!

The Dou Qi vortex within his body spun madly, squeezing out a vast amount of Dou Qi and gathering it in both palms along a specific circulation route.

Profound Tier High-Grade Dou Technique, Swallow Return Strike!

The pale blue glow of Xiao Ze's Dou Qi suddenly flared brilliantly as he exchanged a blow with the Great Elder's palm!

Xiao Ze did not clash head-on with the Great Elder. Instead, he borrowed the force of the strike, flipped through the air several times, and landed lightly at the edge of the training ground like a dragonfly touching water.

The surrounding spectators, their faces pale, stared wide-eyed at Xiao Ze in utter disbelief.

If the Attribute Dou Qi in Xiao Ze's hands had shocked them before, then now they simply could not believe what they were seeing!

Xiao Ze had actually blocked the Great Elder's attack with the strength of a Dou Zhe!

The Great Elder was also slightly stunned when he saw how easily Xiao Ze had neutralized his attack.

A hint of absurdity rose in his heart.

Though anger had clouded his mind, he still retained some reason and had not used a Dou Technique.

However, he had still used a portion of his Dou Qi, intending to teach Xiao Ze a lesson.

Yet Xiao Ze had safely dispelled it with the power of a Da Dou Shi. The Great Elder was truly shocked.

Before the surrounding crowd could react, an enraged shout came from outside the Dou Skill Pavilion, like the roar of a lion.

"Old bastard, how dare you!"

Amid the surging pale green Dou Qi, a figure raced over like a gale.

It was as if a level-eight hurricane had swept through the entire Dou Skill Pavilion, making the spectators sway unsteadily as their faces turned even paler.

The pressure of a Da Dou Shi's Dou Qi made their chests feel unbearably tight.

Powerful Dou Qi surged over Xiao Zhan's entire body, eventually gathering on his face to form an illusory lion's head.

The lion's face was filled with fury, as though it would choose someone to devour. It was utterly terrifying!

It was the Xiao Family's top-tier technique, the Profound Tier Mid-Grade technique that only the Patriarch could master—Furious Lion's Roaring Aura!

The Great Elder's expression changed drastically as he felt the oppressive Dou Qi rushing toward him, along with a faint sense of deadly danger.

His mouth opened slightly as he tried to explain, but a lion in full fury would not listen to explanations. It had already transformed into a gale and pounced upon him.

In his haste, the Great Elder could only gather his Dou Qi.

Boom!!!

The two powerful streams of Dou Qi collided. There was not even a moment of stalemate before the pale green Dou Qi sent the other side flying with overwhelming force!

The crowd had already retreated to the edge of the training ground, yet they still felt crushing pressure in their chests, as if massive boulders were weighing down on them.

Everyone stared intently at the center of the field.

This was the strong. This was the rule of the Dou Qi Continent!

The strong could do whatever they wished, while the weak could be injured even just by watching!

Some people turned their gaze toward Xiao Ze, who remained standing still where he was.

A pale blue radiance surrounded Xiao Ze, blocking the impact of the Dou Qi.

Their eyes were filled with envy. This was a Dou Zhe!

An existence they could only look up to.

The Great Elder staggered back dozens of steps, every step sinking deeply into the training ground's floorboards.

The fierce impact made his blood surge. His face first flushed red, then the color drained away, leaving it deathly pale.

The Great Elder forcibly swallowed the blood threatening to spill from his mouth, making his expression even uglier.

Xiao Zhan... he wants to kill me!

"Old bastard, do you really think I don't dare kill you?!"

Xiao Zhan's beard and hair bristled with rage, his eyes glaring wide. Pale green Dou Qi roiled around him like a lion in full fury.

His third son had just been beaten earlier that day, and Xiao Zhan's anger had already reached its limit.

Then, not long after, he had personally witnessed this old bastard, the Great Elder, bullying the weak and attacking his youngest son!

Xiao Zhan could no longer hold himself back!

A five-star Da Dou Shi combined with a Profound Tier Mid-Grade technique—this blow was more than enough to make the Great Elder suffer!

Xiao Zhan looked ready to continue attacking.

The Great Elder's blood and Qi were in turmoil, and his face shifted between green and purple.

But for the sake of his pride, he held back the blood he wanted to spit out and failed to explain in time.

At the crucial moment, Xiao Ze spoke.

"Father, I'm fine."

Enduring the pressure of a Da Dou Shi's Dou Qi, Xiao Ze stepped forward and smiled as he reassured Xiao Zhan.

Then he turned to the Great Elder and said, "Great Elder, isn't this rather unfair of you?"

"This morning, you said that sparring between juniors was not something you elders should interfere with."

"Yet now you're bullying the weak and attacking me. What, Great Elder? Are your words nothing but bullshit?"

"Or is it only considered a spar between peers when your Xiao Ning is the one beating someone?"

"But when someone else beats your Xiao Ning, it no longer counts as a spar between peers and requires you, the Great Elder, to step in and pass judgment?"

Xiao Ze's barrage of words struck straight at the heart!

After all, that very morning, the Great Elder had said that the fight between Xiao Yan and Xiao Ning was merely a spar between juniors, telling Xiao Zhan not to be so petty and nitpick over it.

Yet that afternoon, when Xiao Ning was beaten, he had angrily intervened, bullying the weak and attacking a junior of the family.

Hearing Xiao Ze's words, the people in the training ground began discussing heatedly, pointing at the Great Elder and criticizing him from all sides.

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