Xiao Family's Xiao Lin

That simple sentence put Xiao Zhan in a position where he dared not respond.

Fighting Spirits?

Dou Wang?

A Battle Emperor?

Xiao Zhan knew that even a Dou Huang-level expert couldn't force his Dou Qi back along its original path. He felt that Ye Feng's cultivation might have reached the Dou Zong realm.

"Dou Zong?"

The more Xiao Zhan scrutinized Ye Feng, the more shocked he became.

It is rumored that even the top experts in the Gamma Empire are only at the Dou Huang level. Ye Feng is currently just a young man, not much older than Xiao Zhan's child, yet Ye Feng is already a Dou Zong, a level that Xiao Zhan would have to look up to.

"Use force? Of course we won't use force."

Xiao Yan, as the person involved, stepped forward and said, "Your actions are not worth my time to use force."

Snap

Ye Feng stretched out his hand and slapped Xiao Yan across the face. His palm compressed the air and struck Xiao Yan's face.

Xiao Yan: "..."

Xiao Yan was stunned. He stared at Ye Feng.

If it were Xiao Yan from a few years ago, he would definitely have rebuked and retaliated against Ye Feng. After being treated as a good-for-nothing for several years, enduring so much cold stares and ridicule, Xiao Yan, despite being beaten in front of everyone, didn't roar, but instead stared sharply at Ye Feng.

"Any objections?" Ye Feng asked.

Xiao Yan remained silent; he would never forget this grudge. Xiao Zhan also remained silent, for he knew that Ye Feng was a terrifying figure that the Xiao Family could not contend with.

The members of the Xiao Family, along with the First Elder, watched Xiao Yan Xiao Yan and Xiao Zhan being beaten with mocking eyes. They wanted to see how Xiao Yan and Xiao Zhan would ever have the face to stand in the Xiao Family again.

"Cough."

Ge Ye coughed and took out a brocade box from his Storage Ring, saying, "Clan Chief Xiao, we know that today's matter was a bit unreasonable. This is Gathering Qi Powder refined by Gu He of our Yunlan Sect, as our apology to you."

Gathering Qi Powder: An item that can increase the success rate of Dou Zhe in condensing a Qi vortex. Gathering Qi Powder produced by Pill King Gu He can sell for three to four hundred thousand Gold Soul Coin.

Xiao Zhan was unmoved by the Gathering Qi Powder.

Xiao Yan glanced at his father, Xiao Zhan, feeling immense relief. He then looked at Nalan Yanran and asked, "Nalan Yanran, I want to ask you, did your grandfather allow this annulment?"

"Grandpa didn't know about this."

"Since Elder Nalan Jie did not agree, and my grandfather is already dead, then I cannot do something so disrespectful to the dead," Xiao Yan said.

"Is it to avoid blasphemy, or have you taken a fancy to Nalan Yanran's beauty?" Liu Ling looked at Xiao Yan with a mocking smile. "As far as I know, you and your junior sister have absolutely no feelings for each other. There's no room for the word 'feelings.' Why won't you agree to annul the engagement?"

"I said, this is an act of blasphemy against our deceased ancestors. As juniors, we cannot be unfilial," Xiao Yan replied.

"What if I cancel my plans today?" Ge Ye asked.

Xiao Yan stared at Ge Ye, wanting to utter that well-known line, but Ye Feng spoke first.

"If the problem is that the Xiao Family Xiao Family patriarch hasn't agreed, then why not just ask him to clarify things?" Ye Feng smiled, looking at Nalan Yanran. "If the Xiao Family family patriarch agrees, I think even if your grandfather finds out, he won't blame you. Don't you think so?"

"But the patriarch of the Xiao Family is already dead," Nalan Yanran said.

"So what if I'm dead? Does being dead mean I can't speak?" Ye Feng smiled, his eyes narrowed. Suddenly, he opened his eyes, waved his hand, and a coffin was moved to the Xiao Family's ceremonial hall.

A coffin suddenly appeared out of nowhere, startling everyone present.

Ye Feng waved his hand, and a gust of wind blew open the coffin lid. Inside lay a corpse that had decomposed into a skeleton.

"Father!"

"Grandfather!"

"Big brother!"

Xiao Zhan, Xiao Yan, and the First Elder of the Xiao Family almost spoke up. They could tell from the burial objects that the person was the previous Clan Chief of the Xiao Family.

"You..."

The young man from the Xiao Family pointed at Ye Feng, his hair standing on end in fury.

Digging up someone's ancestral graves is an irreconcilable crime.

Ye Feng's behavior is simply unacceptable.

Despite being condemned by everyone, Ye Feng remained remarkably calm. "Xiao Lin, say something to the person next to you."

Ye Feng waved his hand, and a wisp of gray energy seeped into the skeleton.

A splash of red appeared on the hollow eye sockets of the skeleton. A skeletal hand climbed onto the edge of the coffin. A thud sounded. Then, the same skeletal hand emerged from the coffin and climbed onto its edge.

Then, with a simultaneous exertion of force from both skeletal hands, they sat up from inside the coffin.

"I'm alive?"

A hoarse, low voice came from the skull's mouth. The voice seemed to come from the Nine Nether Hell.

"Zhan'er, Second Brother, Third Brother, Fourth Brother."

The skeleton greeted everyone around it.

"Are you the eldest brother?" the Second Elder asked uncertainly.

"Now that you're awake, tell the younger generation about the engagement from back then," Ye Feng said.

"Engagement?"

"The marriage agreement with the Nalan Family."

"Did you resurrect me?"

"Yes."

"Is there a problem with the engagement?" Xiao Lin asked.

"The young lady of the Nalan Family does not agree to this engagement. She came here to find your grandson to break off the engagement, but your grandson disagrees. He says that breaking off the engagement is a desecration of the deceased ancestors."

"My grandson?"

Xiao Lin scanned the people around him, his gaze finally settling on Xiao Yan. Xiao Yan and Xiao Zhan bore a striking resemblance.

"Stop standing there, say something. What's your opinion on the marriage between Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran?" Ye Feng urged.

"This engagement was made when Nalan Jie and I were drunk. Since someone is unhappy about it, let's annul the engagement. Let's not let this affect the relationship between our two families," Xiao Lin said.

Xiao Lin was wary of Ye Feng's terrifying cultivation level. He had actually managed to resurrect him from the dead. Such power meant he could wipe out the Xiao Family with a single finger. Overwhelmed by Ye Feng's tyrannical influence, Xiao Lin had no choice but to compromise.

"Alright, now that you've made things clear before you died, go back to your coffin. After all, bringing the dead back to life goes against the laws of nature," Ye Feng said.

Bullshit natural laws.

Ye Feng didn't want to revive Xiao Lin because he didn't want to benefit Xiao Yan. He was the Creation God; defying the heavens was his style. Why would he care about the laws of nature?

Xiao Lin slowly lay back down in the coffin. Ye Feng waved his hand, and a gray energy flew out from Xiao Lin's skeleton, turning Xiao Lin's eyes, which had originally glowed red, back into two empty sockets.

With a flick of his sleeve, Ye Feng closed the coffin lid. The coffin was then teleported back to its original location by Ye Feng's spatial teleportation.

"Should we go now?" Ye Feng asked Nalan Yanran.

"Oh, okay," Nalan Yanran replied.

"Then this Gathering Qi Powder ..." Ge Ye looked at the brocade box in his hand.

"Of course it's been taken back." Ye Feng's lips curled slightly. He turned and walked out of the Xiao Family's council hall with a smug look on his face.