Ka Dian Tanks the Hit

The Guard Captain hesitated for a moment, then waved his hand. The human wall parted in a few steps, opening a path.

"Well, well. The main character finally poked his head out."

Galeo Bi calmly swept his gaze over the guards. "I thought the Third Young Master was going to hide in his turtle shell for the rest of his life..."

Although these fellows had moved aside, the Dou Qi inside them had clearly grown even more active, as if they would launch an attack in the very next second.

The Xiao Clan's power has actually developed to this extent!

Gloom churned in Galeo Bi's eyes as his gaze fell back on Xiao Yan. This marketplace was under the care of the Third Young Master before him.

"Hah..."

Xiao Yan turned the bracelet on his wrist, his gaze picking out, one by one, the fellows in the crowd who had been shouting recklessly, fanning the flames, and embellishing the whole affair.

The planted shills in the crowd only felt a chill on their scalps. They instantly tucked in their necks and looked left and right, thinking they had been located by the Xiao Clan guards.

The roar of the surrounding crowd gradually died down.

"Patriarch Galeo, Your Excellency came to my Xiao Clan Marketplace for no reason and stirred up trouble. Are you trying to clash with my Xiao Clan?"

Xiao Yan's gaze turned to Galeo Bi.

"Heh—relying on your strength, you've repeatedly humiliated my son in the street. Do you really think I'll just let this go?"

Seeing those lackeys shut their mouths one after another, Galeo Bi grew somewhat irritated. His voice, compressed into a line by Dou Qi, poured into Xiao Yan's ears like a great bell.

"What's so scary about being honest..."

Xiao Yan picked at his ear, feeling that he had already been polite enough. "Isn't it just that your own marketplace was smashed to pieces by the Xiao Clan, and you can't swallow the humiliation? Why stand here barking like a dog?"

Everyone could see clearly how the powers of each clan were rising and falling. Galeo and the Ba Family had been suppressed until only scraps of business were left for them to do, and their rooms full of goods had nowhere to go.

Their marketplace had collapsed even more completely.

The customers in Wutan City were basically mercenaries. Whichever clan had the better medicine, they went there. In less than half a year, the customer flow of the two marketplaces would be about scattered clean.

"You..."

Galeo Bi's expression turned somewhat savage, but in less than half a second, it was replaced by a cold smile. Only his clenched teeth kept leaking a hissing chill.

So what if his businesses collapsed? With That Lord's protection, why would his Gale Family worry about not rising? A Fourth Grade Alchemist on top of the Dou Ling realm—even the high-level Dou Ling of the Blood Battle Mercenary Group would have to receive him carefully. Even that four-star Dou Wang of the Hao Clan would have to be polite.

In just a few brief moments, Galeo Bi had even finished imagining his own clan's glorious future.

"You little brat of the Xiao Clan~ A sharp tongue won't save you from anything! You're trash now, and you'll be trash in the future. You'll be tied to the word trash for the rest of your life!"

Galeo Bi believed he had seized Xiao Yan's sore spot. "I think you'll only be able to linger around Dou Qi for your whole life... No wonder that fiancée of yours came to your door, threw her face at you, kicked you aside, and went into someone else's arms! You—"

Xiao Yan: ...? "Wait a moment."

Xiao Yan raised his hand thoughtfully.

"Hmph, hmph~ What? Did I hit a sore spot? Don't want others mentioning this again?" Galeo Bi was still sneering.

Idiot.

Xiao Yan, whose heart was utterly undisturbed, was momentarily speechless. He even set aside the motion of picking his ear for the time being, his gaze sweeping over Galeo Bi strangely.

"Let's confirm this. Were you just spreading rumors about the Young Sect Master of the Misty Cloud Sect?"

Even in an overwhelmingly favorable situation, he could still dig a pit for himself and jump into it. Xiao Yan seriously doubted how Galeo Bi had become the patriarch in the first place.

Or perhaps...

This was already choosing a general from among dwarfs?

"No, that's not... I..." Before Xiao Yan's voice had even fallen, Galeo Bi's smile froze on his face.

"Then you have reliable, confirmed information?"

Xiao Yan nodded deeply. "The Young Sect Master of the Misty Cloud Sect came to annul the marriage for love. Sounds pretty explosive?"

It sounded fine enough to him, anyway. He just did not know what Nalan herself and Sect Master Yun Yun would think.

Maybe one day, a streak of Sword Qi would come down from the sky...

"You little brat, shut your mouth right now!"

Galeo Bi shouted urgently, his expression inevitably carrying panic.

With a curl of his fingers and palm, wind-attributed Dou Qi gathered rapidly in his hand. Perhaps because too much Dou Qi had been fused into it, his entire palm glowed with a cyan light, giving off a dense aura of danger.

Almost at the same time, the floor beneath his feet instantly shattered into a ring of dust. His body, covered in a torrent of Dou Qi, blasted toward Xiao Yan like a cannonball.

"Hiss—"

The air along the way seemed too slow to move aside. It was squeezed into a thin milky-white cover, then torn apart by Galeo Bi by force, leaving several trails of air imprinted in midair.

"Die—"

The howling wind arrived first, and the cyan light almost reflected on Xiao Yan's face.

As for him, he was still standing there as if in a daze, as if he had not reacted at all.

"Galeo, you old dog!!"

The Guard Captain let out an angry roar, the attack he had been brewing for a long time charging straight toward Galeo Bi's face. If there had been enough time at this moment, perhaps he would even have added half a line of "Do not harm my lord."

As Galeo Bi erupted into motion, the Dou Shi standing on both sides attacked at the same time, drawn in by his aura.

For a moment, colors mingled chaotically.

Flames, flowing water, Wind Blades, and lightning—multiple attacks came sweeping in together with weapons, sealing off every direction in front of Galeo Bi.

"Something's wrong!"

The attacks had clearly already blocked Xiao Yan's path, yet the Guard Captain's expression suddenly changed.

"Haha... petty tricks. Nothing but a circus act!"

Galeo Bi snorted with laughter, his eyes brimming with dense killing intent. "Xiao Clan brat, you're dead today!"

A mass of Dou Qi that had long been coiled inside his body surfaced, condensing into armor over his body in an instant.

Dou Qi Armor...

Only shock and fury had time to flash through the Guard Captain's eyes before the attacks they had unleashed bloomed with light.

Boom!

A dull, thunderous blast erupted. A ring-shaped shockwave had only just appeared when it was shattered by an even louder explosion.

A cyan wave of air swept out, directly sending everyone nearby flying.

"Third Young Master!"

The Guard Captain had only just touched the ground when he sprang up with a bang, about to charge into the center of the surging air.

But in the next instant, a figure flew backward out from the depths of the dust and light, scraping along the ground and plowing a long distance before barely coming to a stop. Even the cyan airflow around him had turned ragged and intermittent.

It was Galeo Bi!

Everyone who saw his identity clearly burst into an uproar.

To crush the momentum of a Da Dou Shi and blunt his edge in an instant—this was probably...

A cane stretched out from within the smoke and dust, planted on the ground, and paused. In the next instant, a vast wind pressure erupted, clearing out everything around it.

A hale and hearty old man appeared in the field.

"First Elder?!"

The captain and the guards hurriedly saluted.

Xiao Yan, who had already gripped the ruler's handle, was left in an awkward position. Helplessly, he shot the First Elder a sidelong glance.

If he had come half a step later, the Xuan Heavy Ruler would have landed on that old bastard's head.

Who would've thought? The first time he wanted to make a move, someone had stopped him right on the timing.

"The Young Clan Leader shouldn't be making a move right now, should he?" the First Elder said with a chuckle, stroking his beard.

"Dou Ling!"

Galeo Bi's hand trembled slightly. No matter what, he never would have imagined that the Xiao Clan had secretly hidden away a Dou Ling.

Judging by this Dou Qi, he didn't look like someone who had just broken through, either...

Since they had this kind of expert, why hadn't they revealed him earlier and dominated Wutan City?

Tsk. After thinking it over carefully, I'll arrange for a supporting character to crush them for the protagonist next chapter.

Always hesitating and refusing to act like this really isn't very interesting.