Lin Chuan's Mangekyō Sharingan emerged as he stared at the figure before him. For a moment, he felt as though he had glimpsed another version of himself in a daze—so real, so fitting.
He had never imagined that he would meet Lin An under such circumstances. This person looked so much like him. He was Lin Chuan's older brother, and also his enemy—the person he had wanted to defeat from the very beginning.
No one spoke. They knew it was best not to disturb Lin Chuan at this moment. If possible, they should not even have been beside him in such a situation; it would have been better to let him be alone. But since they had already entered, leaving now would seem rather deliberate. They could only brace themselves and keep watching.
Lin Chuan did not pay much attention to what Lin An said. The general meaning was that these people had taken something belonging to Lin An and killed his subordinates, so Lin An had come to seek revenge. Neither side went into detail about the exact events, but that was roughly the situation.
Then the battle began. More than a dozen Void Refinement cultivators surrounded and attacked Lin An. Although most of them were only at the early Void Refinement stage, with just one at the late stage, the dozen or so cultivators were at a disadvantage in their fight against Lin An. They had no way of dealing with him at all.
Lin An's response was simple. He did not use any especially powerful spells; he merely evaded with his movement technique while counterattacking. Yet his attacks were exceptionally precise. Every strike found his opponents' weaknesses and targeted their openings, steadily magnifying his own advantage.
The battle did not appear especially intense, but it was still