Raiding the Wang Family

Lin Feng flipped his wrist, and a hideous, blood-stained Giant Python Head was thrown to the ground by him, making a dull thud.

The python head was abnormally huge, its scales reflecting a dim light under the setting sun. The severed neck was jagged, and foul-smelling snake blood gurgled out.

"Wang Teng's head is here," Lin Feng's voice was as cold and hard as iron, each word like an ice bead dropping. "Look closely! The human Prodigy you speak of, your good son, has transformed into this Monster!"

Wang Xiong's pupils contracted sharply, as if pricked by a needle.

He stared intently at the python head, the composure and mockery on his face instantly freezing over, replaced by an unbelievable, uncertain shock.

That aura... he wouldn't mistake it. It indeed carried Wang Teng's unique origin fluctuations, mixed with a demonic strangeness that made his soul feel disgusted!

But how was this possible?

The shock lasted only a moment. The composure of someone who had held a high position for many years and the need to protect his family's reputation instantly overwhelmed that sliver of doubt.

He absolutely could not admit it!

He immediately bristled, his hair standing on end, and shouted sternly, his voice becoming somewhat shrill from his desperate denial.

"Nonsense! Utterly absurd! This must be some Demonic Illusions you used, a Beast's head found from who knows where, disguised to look like my Teng'er!

Lin Feng, don't think you can deceive me with such base tactics and confuse my Wang Family's minds!"

Before he could continue his sophistry, Lin Feng's voice suddenly rose, like a thunderclap from the heavens, filled with chilling killing intent and unquestionable authority.

It clearly resounded throughout the front of the Wang Family manor, even reaching the ears of some onlookers in the distance.

"The evidence is conclusive, yet you still dare to quibble!

The Wang Family colludes with Demons, tolerates their monstrous offspring lurking in human Sects, and even plotted to harm the Imperial Brocade Guard General Banner Zhou Gang, killing him to silence him!

Are such actions any different from those of Demons?"

His gaze was like lightning, sweeping over the Wang Family members in front of him whose expressions had drastically changed, finally locking onto Wang Xiong. He spoke word by word, announcing the final judgment:

"I, Lin Feng, as the new Northern Commander, have been ordered to take charge of Black Rock City and purge the Demonic Evils!

Today, I am ordered to investigate the Wang Family! Wang Xiong, you, the ringleader colluding with Demons, why do you not surrender and accept your punishment!"

The words "Treason" struck every Wang Family member's heart like two invisible heavy hammers, carrying immense force!

The Wang Family experts who had been so imposing moments ago were now all deathly pale, their eyes filled with terror and panic. Colluding with Demons and harming an Imperial Brocade Guard – any one of these was a crime punishable by the extermination of the entire clan!

If proven true, the Wang Family would be irrecoverably ruined in an instant!

Wang Xiong trembled with rage, half from shock and anger, and half from the fear of his secrets being exposed.

He pointed at Lin Feng, his finger trembling slightly, and roared with feigned ferocity, "You... you're slandering me! Defaming me! This is blatant defamation!

My Wang Family has been loyal and upright for generations, how can you, a mere brat, frame us so wantonly!"

At that very moment, a cold, emotionless prompt sounded in Lin Feng's mind, audible only to him:

[Quest triggered: Slay Wang Xiong. Reward: Slaughter Points: 7500.]

A cold glint flashed in Lin Feng's eyes, like the sharpness reflected from millennia-old ice. His killing intent had surged to its peak.

This system quest further solidified his resolve.

Wang Xiong must die!

"Seeking death!"

Wang Xiong was utterly enraged, both by Lin Feng's "slander" and by the fear and shame of his potentially exposed secret being revealed in public.

The powerful aura of a Sixth Rank Perfection martial artist was unleashed without reservation, erupting with a roar!

His profound True Essence was like a tangible mountain, carrying a pressure that could crush everything, descending upon Lin Feng!

He moved, swift as a phantom, leaving only a faint afterimage in his wake.

His entire being was like a swooping eagle as he unleashed a punch!

The fist wind was ferociously powerful, tearing through the air with a piercing shriek. Before the punch even landed, the sharp gale had already made Lin Feng's face sting!

This punch, delivered in anger, condensed his life's power, vowing to kill Lin Feng with a single blow!

Lin Feng dared not be careless. The True Essence of his Seventh Rank Perfection rapidly circulated within him as he swung his saber to block.

The saber body was held horizontally, and the crimson gold Geng Metal True Essence instantly covered it!

"Clang—!"

Fist and saber met, producing a deafening clang of metal against metal!

An immense, irresistible force, like a bursting flood, came from the saber!

Lin Feng's tiger mouth instantly cracked, bleeding profusely. His entire arm went numb with pain, and his chest churned with Blood Essence. A sweet taste rose in his throat, and he almost spat out blood.

His body uncontrollably slid back several yards, plowing two deep furrows in the ground before he barely managed to stabilize himself.

The gap in their cultivation realms was vividly displayed at this moment.

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Seventh Rank Perfection against Sixth Rank Perfection, a gap of an entire major realm, like a chasm, difficult to overcome!

"Hmph! A firefly's light dares to compete with the bright moon?" Wang Xiong's momentum grew even stronger after his successful strike.

He showed no mercy in his victory, his movements swift as wind, his attacks a relentless tide. The air filled with a myriad of fist shadows, weaving a net of death that enveloped all of Lin Feng's vital points.

The force of his punches stirred up dust from the ground.

"With such meager abilities, you dare to claim you'll kill my Teng'er? You dare to slander my Wang Family with treason? You truly court death!" he taunted, his barrage of blows relentless, his words designed to shatter Lin Feng's focus. "That ungrateful wretch Zhou Gang is probably a cold corpse by now! You'll be joining him soon! You two can keep each other company on the road to the underworld!"

Lin Feng gritted his teeth, struggling to defend himself against the furious onslaught of punches.

His saber flashed, desperately parrying, yet he still appeared on the verge of collapse, in constant peril. Each block sent tremors through him, making his blood churn and his arms go numb. The suppression from their realm difference left him completely at a disadvantage, forcing him into a desperate struggle for survival.

In this moment of crisis, Lin Feng's mind raced. A vision flashed through his thoughts: the body-refining martial art he'd obtained from Wang Teng's storage ring, emanating an ancient aura – the Pebble True Skill. This was his only chance to break free!

Now!

He silently chanted in his sea of consciousness, "System, use 5000 Slaughter Points to upgrade the Pebble True Skill!"

[Consumed 5000 Slaughter Points. Pebble True Skill upgraded to Unity of Man and Heaven realm. Understood Pebble True Intent!]

The instant the cold notification sounded—

A scorching, boundless, and peculiar torrent, as if born from the void, surged into Lin Feng's limbs and bones! His entire body's sinews and bones crackled, as if repeatedly hammered by invisible giants. His flesh trembled violently, undergoing a fundamental transformation! His skin's surface gained a layer of tough, bronze luster at a visible rate, as if instantly tempered a thousand times, forging an indestructible body! To his further delight, the True Essence within him, which had been nearing depletion, was like a new spring had been tapped, surging and overflowing! The cultivation bottleneck that had plagued him for so long shattered like thin paper under the impact of this power! His cultivation forcefully broke through from Seventh Rank Perfection to Sixth Rank Early Stage! All these transformations happened in the blink of an eye, almost imperceptible to outsiders.

Wang Xiong launched another punch, seizing the moment when Lin Feng's old strength was spent and his new strength had yet to arrive. With the force of a thunderclap, he aimed directly at Lin Feng's exposed chest. He was on the verge of success, ready to heavily injure or even kill Lin Feng with this blow!

However, at this critical juncture, he keenly sensed a sudden shift in Lin Feng's aura! The previously dim aura, weakened by exhaustion and suppression, instantly became sharp and powerful, like a divine weapon unsheathed, its edge fully revealed!

"Huh? What's happening?" Wang Xiong's heart tightened, and his attack faltered slightly.

Lin Feng's eyes blazed with light, like lightning flashing in the dark night! His long saber, which had been passively defending, suddenly emitted a clear, resonant hum, transitioning from defense to offense! A crimson-gold light blazed on the saber's body with unprecedented brilliance, unleashing a force far sharper, hotter, and more dominant than before, carrying a resolve to cut through everything!

"Kill!" Lin Feng's voice boomed like thunder, a world-shattering roar! He no longer retreated but charged forward, the ground beneath his feet cracking with each step! His long saber transformed into a dazzling crimson-gold streak, as if igniting and tearing the surrounding air. With the momentum of cleaving mountains and breaking ridges, he ferociously met Wang Xiong's punch, which could shatter stone!

This saber strike was faster than the limit of human vision! It was ruthless and unforgiving! It accurately targeted the weakest point in Wang Xiong's fist technique! It condensed Lin Feng's newly broken-through pure True Essence of the Sixth Rank Early Stage, the boundless blood essence and resilient physique from the Unity of Man and Heaven realm's Pebble True Skill, and the Crimson Gold Saber Intent, which fused burning bloodlust with Geng Metal's sharpness, rendering it indestructible!

The mockery and confident ease on Wang Xiong's face froze in the face of this saber strike. It shattered like ice, replaced by an unconcealable shock and disbelief! He clearly felt the terrifying power contained within this strike; this power was like night and day compared to the Lin Feng who could barely defend himself moments before! How was such a transformation possible in an instant?

"How is this possible?! His aura... Sixth Rank?! And this saber intent..."

Under the horrified gazes of the surrounding Wang Family experts.

That crimson-gold saber light, capable of cutting through everything, and Wang Xiong's full-powered, incomparably fierce fist strike of the Sixth Rank Perfection, collided head-on in an instant, without any fancy maneuvers—