Crying Injustice

Inside the Zhang Family ancestral hall.

A group of Charm Clan members stared at the white paper before them in silent speechlessness.

At last, their helpless gazes all turned toward their own Protector.

An Innate Ninth Level expert had been killed in an instant without anyone noticing.

And there was that sentence their Protector had blurted out.

"You are a Half-step Invincible King of the Lin Family."

The implications it contained were too terrifying.

Faced with such an existence.

They truly did not dare stick their heads out.

They could only let the tallest one bear the burden.

Clearly.

The black-robed Protector was the tallest one.

Black-robed Protector: "..."

He did not know what to do now either, all right?!

Why were they all looking at him?

The pressure was enormous!

"Senior, our Charm Clan has experts as numerous as clouds. Someone like me is insignificant within the clan. Half-step Invincible Kings are as common as cattle hair, and we even have true King Old Ancestors presiding over us. This time, we had no intention of offending you and have caused much offense. We will leave now and swear never to set foot in Xia Clan territory again. How about it?"

The black-robed Protector's thoughts raced, and in the end, he gritted his teeth and spoke.

He had thought it through clearly.

Given what they had done, if this person truly was the Lin Family's Hidden Ancestor, he would absolutely not let them off.

Thus, their only chance of survival now might be to flex their muscles.

Showing them off might not save them, but not showing them off would definitely mean death!

"A King? Your strength is not bad."

Chu He's expression remained impassive.

"However, I told you to write. I did not tell you to speak!"

His voice suddenly turned cold as he abruptly struck.

He swung a slap.

Smack!

The black-robed Protector spun in place more than a dozen times, vomiting blood as he turned.

Yet compared to the pain on his face, the terror in his heart was even greater.

He had no power to resist.

He had been slapped without the slightest ability to resist!

Forget making a counterattack—even an instinctive defense had failed to form.

Even now, he could not stop his spinning body.

With that one slap, he felt his entire body go numb!

He had become unable to control himself.

He kept spinning until his momentum finally ran out.

Then, like an ordinary person dizzy from being spun around, his body swayed twice before he staggered and fell flat on his backside.

It was confirmed!

This was the Lin Family's Hidden Ancestor.

He was even more terrifying than the rumors claimed.

A Half-step King was not even worth a chicken before him.

He could crush them if he wished, kill them if he wished—their lives and deaths rested entirely on a single thought from him.

This is absolutely not a Half-step Invincible King!

The black-robed Protector roared inwardly.

The rumors had indeed been wrong—not exaggerated, but understated!

The clan elders at the Half-step Invincible King level had never given him such a feeling or such pressure.

This was the difference between an ant and heaven and earth.

"Y-you are a King!"

Blood leaked from the black-robed Protector's mouth. Shaking his head, he spoke unclearly, his voice filled with suffocating despair.

If a King had personally arrived, then they were truly finished this time!

Not even the faintest sliver of life remained.

How could the Xia Clan still have a King presiding over it?

Even if they did, instead of guarding the border, why would he hole up in this seemingly unimportant Lin Commandery?

It made no sense at all!

The other Charm Clan members in the hall, as well as the Zhang Family members, were all dumbfounded!

Such a powerful Protector had been dazed by a casual slap!

It was inconceivable.

This was not a dream, was it?

And.

What had Lord Protector just said?

A King?

This man was a King?

With a swish, the Charm Clan members' figures remained concealed beneath their black robes, revealing no obvious change. In contrast, the Zhang Family members standing in the corner turned deathly pale at once.

They realized the problem had become enormous.

A Xia Clan King had come in person.

They had colluded with an alien race—how could they possibly be forgiven?

They were doomed!

They trembled like sieves.

Suddenly!

Thud! Someone dropped to his knees, smashing his forehead against the ground and slapping the floor with both palms as he burst into tears and choked out.

"Senior, please uphold justice for our Zhang Family!"

"Those dressed in black robes are not human—they are alien races in disguise."

"They suddenly appeared in our Zhang Family territory and forced us to serve them as slaves and servants. We were too weak. Our clansmen had wanted to fight to the death, but this humble one stopped them!"

"It was not that this humble one feared death, but that I knew there was something more important we needed to do."

"These alien races are no good. Since they came into Xia Clan territory, they must have some scheme, yet the outside world knows nothing of this matter."

"So this humble one believed that if we died in vain, although we could preserve our own purity, it would serve no purpose at all."

"To live!"

"To send this news out was what mattered most!"

"But these alien races were powerful and extremely vigilant. We never found an opportunity. Some clansmen who tried to take the risk of escaping were discovered by them and tortured to death while still alive!"

"My heart bled, yet I kept enduring, even forcing smiles."

"I kept telling the clansmen who could no longer bear it: for the greater cause of the Xia Clan, what did the humiliation of our mere Zhang Family amount to?"

"We had to endure!"

"Fortunately, our waiting was not in vain."

"We waited for the light, waited for you, Senior!"

Zhang Tai, the Zhang Family patriarch, wept bitter tears as his voice turned hoarse with emotion.

The more he spoke, the more agitated he became. His expression was grief-stricken, and his choked voice carried heartfelt sincerity.

Within the great hall, only Zhang Tai's sobbing voice remained.

Forget the Charm Clan—even the Zhang Family members were stunned!

Holy shit!

Those were the only two huge words in their minds.

What was called twisting black into white?

What was called lying through one's teeth?

Today, they had seen it!

Never mind the Zhang Family—if the Charm Clan had not been certain that, after tampering with the Zhang Family members, they had never imprisoned them.

This speech alone would have made them wonder whether the Zhang Family had truly been enduring humiliation and bearing heavy burdens.

It sounded too sincere.

Too earnest.

Filled with genuine emotion!

Thud!

Some quick-witted Zhang Family members reacted.

Imitating Zhang Tai, they smashed their foreheads against the ground and raised their hands as they shouted.

"Senior, please uphold justice for us!"

He was crying too, though he was crying from fright!

The emotion was wrong.

He lacked Zhang Tai's vivid performance.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

The Zhang Family members were not fools. Since someone had taken the lead, they naturally knew what to do.

One after another, their knees buckled as they knelt to the ground.

They raised both hands.

And shouted in unison.

"Senior, please uphold justice for us!"

Inside the ancestral hall, the whole atmosphere abruptly changed!