At the same time.
Golden Gate Country.
Though it was called Golden Gate Country, there was only a tall wooden sign erected at the entrance, bearing several large words in Golden Gate Country's special script—Golden Gate Country, territory of the Lord of Silent Thunder.
It was strange. Despite already being in modern society, one could still see this sort of carving out territory and declaring oneself king. Who knew what age this truly was?
Tap.
Footsteps sounded outside Golden Gate Country.
Fang Yi slowly raised his head and looked toward the city within Golden Gate Country.
His pitch-black pupils reflected the plight of Golden Gate Country's ordinary people. Each of them trembled in fear, dressed in tattered clothes. It felt like wild prey that had been captured and penned together for breeding. They were skinny and pitiful, utterly unable to resist. Clearly, the Lords under the Lord of Silent Thunder did not regard these ordinary people—or rather, these weaklings—as human at all.
Fang Yi stepped into Golden Gate Country.
Crack—!
The sound of a barrier shattering rang out softly.
For powerful Lords, methods of creating barriers were no longer anything unusual. Such things were like formations, capable of providing a certain degree of protection and warning.
And at this moment,
the instant Fang Yi entered Golden Gate Country, the Thunder Barrier created by the Lord of Silent Thunder was instantly shattered.
The wooden sign above him exploded with a bang, and vast light bloomed like fireworks bursting overhead.
"Who goes there?! How dare you trespass into Golden Gate Country!"
Someone hovered in the sky.
A scalp-numbing aura instantly spread through all of Golden Gate Country. The ordinary people below screamed and scattered in terror.
A Lord had come!
A Lord had come to kill!
There seemed to be some sort