"It was your juniors who struck first with killing moves, launching a sneak attack."
"Since they dared to deal deadly blows, they should have been prepared to be killed in return."
"They were inferior in skill; they had no one else to blame."
Faced with this scene of a thousand fingers pointing in accusation.
Lin Jianguo slowly lifted the teacup before him and took a light sip.
Only then did he raise his eyelids and speak slowly in a tone so calm it was almost cold.
"What a fine 'inferior in skill'! What a fine 'life and death are fated'! The Lin Family is utterly unreasonable! Today, I will seek justice for my son!"
Old Master Zhao's eyes nearly split with rage.
How could an answer like that possibly put him at ease?
Boom!
At once, his aura erupted, and he actually prepared to make a move directly!
The atmosphere between both sides instantly became drawn swords and bent bows!
Seeing this, Liu Qingtian and Chen Tianhao exchanged a glance, both curling their lips into cold smiles of a scheme successfully carried out.
They had been worrying over how to find an excuse to make trouble. Hadn't one just delivered itself to their door?
Just Then, at this critical moment where a hair's breadth could decide life and death!
An aged voice containing boundless majesty exploded beside everyone's ears like Nine Heavens Thunder!
"Silence!"
Boom—!!!
An indescribably terrifying pressure descended from the heavens!
The entire Observation Tower shook violently!
Everyone who had been shouting, preparing to attack, or merely watching the spectacle felt as if an invisible mountain had pressed them firmly into the ground!
Even breathing became incomparably difficult!
Everyone present, including Lin Jianguo, revealed horrified expressions!
They abruptly looked toward the source of the voice.
There, at the very top of the Observation Tower, an additional figure had appeared at some unknown time.
It was an Old Man dressed in a simple Tang suit, with a white beard and hair, yet his posture remained as straight as a pine.
He merely stood there quietly with his hands behind his back.
Yet he seemed to be the center of heaven and earth itself!
"It... it is..."
Liu Qingtian's pupils suddenly shrank to the size of needlepoints, his voice trembling with disbelief.
"Old... Old War God! Lin Zhan!"
Lin Zhan!
Those two words seemed to possess some sort of forbidden magic.
When they trembled from Liu Qingtian's lips.
The entire Observation Tower fell completely into dead silence!
Every face bore the same word—horrified!
In Yan Jing City, indeed throughout the entire Dragon Summer Country, who had not heard of Old War God Lin Zhan's great name?
Fifty years ago, he had fought three Beast Emperors alone, forcibly blocking that World Annihilation Beast Tide outside Yan Jing City... the Sea Stabilizing Divine Needle!
He was the Country Suppressing Divine Tablet of the Dragon Summer Country, one of the most powerful Martial Gods on all of Blue Star!
A true, living legend!
But...
Wasn't he stationed at the Northern Territory Defense Line year-round, resisting invasions by the Foreign Race?
How had he appeared here without the slightest warning?!
The color had drained completely from Liu Qingtian and Chen Tianhao's faces.
Their earlier arrogance and calculations seemed so laughable and childish beneath Lin Zhan's calm gaze.
Even Lin Jianguo wore a face full of shock and confusion.
He hurried to the top of the tower and respectfully bowed to Lin Zhan.
"Father, you... why have you returned?"
Lin Zhan did not answer him.
His eyes appeared cloudy, but were actually sharp as an eagle's. They merely swept lightly over the family heads below who had been shouting just moments earlier.
"Where there is hunting, there will be casualties."
His voice was not loud, yet it entered everyone's ears with perfect clarity.
"If you cannot even bear that price, then do not send your children here to make fools of themselves."
"My grandson can sleep when he wants, and kill when he wants."
"Who has an objection?"
As his words fell.
An even more terrifying aura erupted!
Thud! Thud!
Under that pressure, the Li Family Head and the others, who had been so arrogantly overbearing moments ago, found their legs suddenly go weak and dropped uncontrollably to their knees!
Cold sweat poured over their bodies like rain, their teeth chattering, and they did not even dare raise their heads!
An objection?
Who the hell dared to have an objection?!
Trying to reason with a Martial God? Wasn't that an old birthday star hanging himself—thinking his life was too long?!
Only then did Lin Zhan nod in satisfaction and withdraw his aura.
He no longer paid attention to those ants. Instead, he turned his gaze back toward the light screen.
His eyes passed over his grandson, who was leisurely making his way toward Black Wind Valley, before finally settling on a region deep within the Wasteland, shrouded in dense Black Mist.
It was as though he could pierce through all illusion and see the darkness lurking in the deepest depths...
Although no one knew why Lin Zhan had suddenly descended.
His appearance itself represented an attitude.
The Lin Family could not be provoked!
Lin Yuan was even less to be provoked!
Elsewhere.
The Wilderness Hunt had already entered its most intense stage.
As the activity area continually shrank, chance encounters between Prodigies became increasingly frequent.
Within a valley littered with jagged rocks.
"Ha ha ha! Wonderful!"
Wang Family Prodigy Wang Teng, who had shouted so arrogantly in the plaza earlier, cleaved a third-stage early Earth Splitting Demon Bear in half with a single axe strike!
His entire body was bathed in blood, yet his aura only grew stronger, and his eyes brimmed with fervent battle intent.
"This year's top three will definitely include me, Wang Teng!"
He wiped the bloody water from his face and was about to collect the Demon Core of the demon bear.
However, Just Then!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Several pitch-black chains shot from the shadows without warning, coiling around his limbs and body like venomous snakes in an instant!
"What is this?!"
Wang Teng's expression changed drastically. The spiritual power within him erupted as he tried to break free.
Yet an eerie force that devoured spiritual power came from those chains, leaving even his prideful brute strength utterly unusable!
"Heh heh heh..."
Amid chilling laughter, several figures dressed in loose Black Robes slowly emerged from the shadows.
What they radiated was a pure evil aura that inspired fear!
"You... are people from the Divine Court?!"
Fear finally appeared in Wang Teng's eyes!
"Correct. Unfortunately, there is no reward."
The leading Black Robe Figure let out a mocking laugh.
He raised his hand, about to end Wang Teng's life.
Just Then, an indifferent voice sounded from behind them.
"Wait."
"This prey is mine."
The Black Robe Figures froze in unison upon hearing this.
They respectfully turned around and dropped to one knee before the newcomer!
A youth with a sinister face and eyes brimming with resentment and savage delight stepped out of the darkness, one step at a time.
"Ye... Ye Xuan?!"
Wang Teng, bound on the ground, nearly had his eyes pop out from shock when he recognized the newcomer!
"It's you, you lost dog! How are you here?!"
"Lost dog?"
A twisted and cruel smile appeared on Ye Xuan's face.
He walked before Wang Teng and looked down at him, as though he were looking at an Ant he could crush at will.
"Very soon, you will know who the real... dog is!"
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