Xiong Fugui recoiled a step in horror, then cast a pleading look toward Ying Yi.
Ying Yi sprang up like a cat with its tail on fire and shrieked, "Eastern Harmony King, don't go too far! Even when beating a dog, you have to consider its master—let alone the fact that this is my fief! The affairs of Sea City are not yours to decide!"
Lin Qi glanced at the hysterical Ying Yi and merely tilted his head. The brothers Day and Night strode forward, seized Xiong Fugui by the shoulders, and forced him to the ground. With Xiong Fugui's frail little body, how could he possibly contend with Day and Night? With a casual press from the brothers, his bones gave a series of cracking sounds, nearly being crushed apart.
The three brothers Xiong Yijin, Xiong Shijin, and Xiong Baijin began shouting furiously. In Sea City, aside from the Sea Stabilizing King's Manor, the Xiong Family was practically the sole dominant power. Other than the families of Ying Yi's other concubines, which had some strength to contend with the Xiong Family, what other force in any walk of life would dare refuse them face? Ever since Xiong Wanjin's elder sister by the same mother had married Ying Yi, the Xiong Family had run rampant through Sea City for years. It had been many years since they had encountered someone like Lin Qi, who gave them no face at all.
Year after year of bullying merchants and tyrannizing markets, year after year of preying on men and women, year after year of breaking the law with impunity—Xiong Yijin and the others had long forgotten their own origins. Many times, they even believed that they themselves were the true Sea Stabilizing Kings!
Seeing Xiong Fugui forced to kneel on the ground