Instant Kill

"Who?"

"Insolence!"

A group of black-robed Charm Clan members raised their heads and turned toward the direction of the gate, fully unleashing their auras as they roared in fury!

Yin energy churned throughout the great hall, condensing into tangible form amid wails like ghosts crying and wolves howling. In an instant, it seemed to have become a demonic domain.

The black-robed Protector and the Holy Son also looked toward the direction of the gate, but they were not agitated. They remained calm, seated cross-legged, with no disturbance in their auras.

They had great confidence in their own strength.

As masters and important figures, they could maintain their bearing and face anything with calm composure.

It was merely someone coming to provoke them. Nothing worth making a fuss over.

Naturally, their subordinates would handle it.

All they needed to do was cast a downward glance.

Before the gates of the Zhang Family ancestral grounds, the air twisted, and a figure flickered into view.

Chu He stopped, his heart stirring. Ripples flowed through his eyes as every scene within the Zhang Family ancestral grounds flashed past in rapid succession, like a galloping horse viewing flowers—and even the sounds came through.

Those patrolling in the open, those keeping watch in the shadows, those flirting in broad daylight, those laboring—everything played before him as though a film were being fast-forwarded.

A moment later, a faint smile appeared on Chu He's face. He saw the imprisoned Zhao Yuling.

She looked somewhat disheveled.

But she appeared unharmed.

"It's good that you're alright!"

Chu He nodded.

After confirming Zhao Yuling's location, Chu He did not hurry over. The ripples in his eyes spun faster, like a mouse dragging to a specific point. Crossing the river of time, he looked toward a great hall that had made him feel uncomfortable even from far away.

Just in time to hear a group of foreign races talking.

Chu He gave a cold snort.

His figure flashed, and he entered the Zhang Family. After several more flashes, he quickly arrived before the great hall. Without pausing, hands clasped behind his back, he strode straight inside.

"Who are you?"

A sharp cry rang out.

A Charm Clan expert rose to his feet.

Rolling yin energy transformed into vicious ghosts and lunged at Chu He.

Although the intruder's figure was blurred and his face could not be seen, giving him an imposing and arrogant air.

This Charm Clan expert considered this their territory, with the Protector holding the line, so he did not fear him.

Their clan's Protector was a Half-step King. Within Xia Clan territory, they might need to be cautious upon encountering a large force without knowing the situation, but if it was just one person—

Heh!

There was absolutely nothing to fear.

Over the years, they had already investigated thoroughly. The Xia Clan's strongest experts were merely three Half-step Invincible Kings, all stationed at the borderlands.

The strongest expert active within the territory was only a Half-step King.

With such strength, the Charm Clan's forces here could easily deal with them. If a Xia Clan Half-step King truly dared to come alone, they might even be slain here.

Yet now, someone actually dared to barge in alone. He truly did not know whether he was dead or alive.

Chu He did not even spare him a glance. His palm moved behind his back, drawing a piece of gravel in from outside the gate. With a flick of his finger, the stone shot through the air.

In an instant, a dull sound rang out. The Charm Clan expert who had just risen had not even realized what was happening before he was directly blasted apart by the stone that crossed space.

A rain of blood scattered.

A Charm Clan expert at the Innate Ninth Level died just like that.

None of the Charm Clan members reacted.

They did not even have a chance to lend aid.

Watching the rain of blood scatter.

Shock filled their eyes.

The Protector and Holy Son on the raised platform were no longer calm. Their expressions turned grave as they abruptly rose to their feet.

An Innate Ninth Level expert had exploded right before their eyes.

They did not even know how it had happened.

That alone showed the severity of the matter.

"Are you the Lin Family's hidden Half-step Invincible King?"

The black-robed Protector's thoughts raced. A flash of insight struck him, as though he had thought of something, and his voice suddenly changed.

They had heard of the Lin Family possessing a hidden Half-step Invincible King.

But that being's background and origins were unknown, as though he had appeared out of nowhere.

Not only the Zhang Family—even the Lin Family members they had captured could not explain what was going on.

His only appearance had been decades ago, when the Lin Family faced the calamity of extermination.

And even then, he had attacked from afar without ever showing his face.

He had instantly killed five Half-step Kings with a single move.

It sounded like nothing more than an exaggerated legend.

Although there was a great gap between Half-step Kings and Half-step Invincible Kings.

As a black-robed Protector with the strength of a Half-step King, he did not believe that someone could kill five Half-step Kings in one move from afar!

Half-step Kings were not that weak.

Nor were Half-step Invincible Kings that strong.

After gathering information from many sources, they ultimately reached a conclusion.

That Lin Family Ancestor was pure fabrication! He had been invented through hype!

The so-called deaths of five Half-step Kings.

Had surely been an ambush laid by the Xia Clan, who had long discovered their foreign-race identities. They had lured them out and slaughtered them in one stroke.

Then, seeing the Lin Family's weakness, they came up with this method.

And since the situation at the Annan borderlands was unstable.

The Xia Clan's other forces had gone with the current, cooperating with the Lin Family to fabricate a nonexistent Half-step Invincible King to intimidate the borderlands.

The black-robed Protector believed he had long since seen through everything.

But!

Now!

What exactly was this being whose figure he could not see clearly?

Could he truly be the Lin Family's hidden Half-step Invincible King ancestor?

Could he have been wrong?

That being had not been fabricated by the Lin Family! He truly existed?

The more the black-robed Protector thought about it, the heavier his heart became.

Upon hearing the black-robed Protector's shocked question, the Peerless Holy Son beside him shuddered inwardly and quietly retreated step by step.

Whether this was truly a Half-step Invincible King or not, it could never be wrong to stand a little farther back.

It was being responsible for his own life.

"Half-step Invincible King?"

Chu He shook his head with a laugh.

But he had no intention of explaining.

There was no need.

In his eyes, these people were already corpses!

The reason he had not attacked immediately was merely because he had something to ask.

"From what you're saying, many of your clan have entered Xia Clan territory this time. I want to know their exact locations, as well as their strength. The more detailed, the better!"

Chu He moved his palm and took out a stack of blank paper from the system space. He had used it to write novels in his spare time.

The force in his hand stirred, and the papers flew everywhere. They looked chaotic, yet each had a clear target, every sheet going to its own recipient.

After only one breath, a sheet of blank paper floated before every Charm Clan member.

All the chaos returned to stillness.

"Be good and cooperate!"

Hands clasped behind his back, Chu He walked among the Charm Clan members.

Like a teacher invigilating an examination.

And the cross-legged Charm Clan members were the students.

"Stop staring! Draw blood and write!"

Chu He only had one brush in his system space, so he did not take it out. The Charm Clan members could only suffer a little and solve the brush problem with their own blood.

In any case, they would soon leave neither corpse nor bones behind, and their blood would go to waste. It would be better to let it give off one final glow.

P.S. Thanks to boss DK98 for another grand reward of one thousand.

Thanks to boss Zui Po Chen Xiang for a reward of three hundred.

Thanks to boss 20171003034038154 for a reward of one hundred.

Thanks to boss Tai Huang Shi Jie for another reward of one hundred.