The Wang Family courtyard reeked of blood. Corpses lay everywhere.
Zhao Gongnian landed with several Yellow Martial Sect elders. His face darkened as he surveyed the devastation.
"Li Fenghua! What are you doing? Why are you slaughtering people here?!"
Zhao Gongnian's voice was stern, his aura surging. He was clearly furious.
Li Yun sheathed his blade and stood with his hands behind his back, his expression calm.
"Sect Master, you finally decided to show yourself?"
"You call this a slaughter?"
"I've killed at least eighty thousand Weird Beasts and Demon People in the Beast-Grazing Land, if not a hundred thousand. That was a real slaughter!"
Zhao Gongnian's expression changed at once.
Li Yun ignored him. He glanced at Wang Tiangang, who was kneeling on the ground, and continued, "Wang Lifeng conspired with Meng Qingshan to ambush Qiao Meng. If I hadn't happened to return, she would be dead. Why shouldn't I kill them in turn?"
Zhao Gongnian froze.
When he learned that Li Yun had returned and visited both the Meng Family and the Wang Family, he had known why.
Even when Qiao Meng was injured, he had sensed that Li Yun would not let the matter rest once he returned.
Why else would Zhao Gongnian have personally saved Qiao Meng's life and told Qiao Tai to be patient?
He had wanted to wait until Qiao Meng woke and recovered, then talk to Li Yun and make this as small a matter as possible.
He had not expected Li Yun to return so suddenly.
Still less had he expected Li Yun to be so fierce: he had gone straight after the Four Great Families and begun killing.
Everything had exceeded Zhao Gongnian's expectations.
What shocked him most, though, was Li Yun's strength.
His progress had been astonishingly fast.
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