Shock

"Kid, don't overestimate yourself. Do you think you can meet our Chief Yue whenever you want?"

"Don't think that having a bit of strength means you can join our Blood Wolf Gang. We don't want little brats who haven't even seen blood."

"Haha, maybe this kid wants to take the chief as his master..."

Seeing Lin Chen, a mere greenhorn, arrive alone and demand by name to see Yue Shan, several guards on the high platform before the Blood Wolf Gang headquarters gate began mocking him one after another.

In Flame City, Yue Shan, the Blood Wolf Gang's chief, stood at the very peak. Alongside Xia Wanjin, president of the Wan Jin Merchant Guild, Flame City's lord Shi Haotian, and Yan Xuan, president of the Flame City Symbol Master Association, he was counted among Flame City's four top experts.

Although the four of them possessed only Great Perfection Core Formation Realm strength, they were already among the foremost experts in Flame City and Tiandu Commandery. For ordinary people, even meeting them once and exchanging a few words with them was no easy matter.

Although Lin Chen, standing below the platform, had revealed the fairly formidable strength of the initial Heavenly Origin Realm, in the eyes of the guards at the Blood Wolf Gang headquarters, it amounted to nothing.

In Flame City, the Blood Wolf Gang truly had the capital to be arrogant.

As one of the few Great Perfection Core Formation Realm experts in Flame City, Yue Shan's Blood Wolf Gang was renowned for its savagery and cruelty. Many clans and factions that had competed with it for profit had suffered bloody massacres, leaving not even bones behind.

Though it was called a gang, it was not much different from bandits. Thus, under the Blood Wolf Gang's fearsome reputation, few in Flame City dared provoke it. Even the Wan Jin Merchant Guild, which had always been at odds with it, exercised considerable restraint and did not dare truly come to blows with it.

"Looks like I'm destined to make a move today..."

Faced with the mockery from those above, Lin Chen merely smiled faintly and shook his head, not taking their words to heart.

After living two lives and personally experiencing life and death, then returning from death, Lin Chen's state of mind was far beyond that of an ordinary person.

Nothing was more terrifying than death. Perhaps Lin Chen had not truly died, merely crossed into another world, but he had genuinely experienced certain excruciating sensations.

Whether it was the pain of parting through life and death, or the breaking and re-forming of flesh and bones...

Lin Chen did not waste words on the people before him. With a cold snort, a powerful surge of Spiritual Power rushed out from his Mud Pill Palace, instantly forming hundreds of invisible bee needles in the air before him.

"Go!"

The next moment, under their horrified and terrified gazes, Lin Chen shouted low. Countless invisible bee needles streaked through the sky and surged toward the platform where they stood.

"Watch out..."

Seeing this, the guards refused to wait for death. They hurriedly raised their blades and channeled Origin Energy to block, but against the sheer force of Lin Chen's Spiritual Power attack, let alone a few Heavenly Origin Realm cultivators, even the Pure Origin Astral Qi of ordinary Small Perfection Core Formation Realm cultivators could not withstand it.

Thus, in mere moments, they fell one after another, grievously injured and unable to rise, their life or death unknown.

The dense bloody marks across their faces silently proclaimed the terror of that Spiritual Power attack.

Lin Chen felt no unfamiliarity whatsoever in his control and application of Spiritual Power. Compared with improving his Origin Energy cultivation, cultivating Spiritual Power only required him to continually comprehend and condense it.

His soul differed from that of ordinary people. It could even be said that he was someone born with an Innate Primordial Spirit in this world. His Primordial Spirit, or soul, existed independently. Though he could not wield even a trace of Primordial Spirit power, this made his Spiritual Power far stronger than that of ordinary people.

After obtaining a method of Spiritual Power cultivation from Lin Mu, the strength of his Spiritual Power had continuously increased. Moreover, unlike Origin Energy, Spiritual Power could not be directly replenished from heaven and earth. Although his cultivation speed in Spiritual Power could not truly compare to that of Origin Energy, it was still exceedingly fast.

More than that, with his Innate Primordial Spirit, his Mud Pill Palace had long since formed a world of its own. It was only because his Spiritual Power was still weak that he could not yet develop it.

However, with this innate advantage, he could now easily condense his own Spiritual Entity. Although this Spiritual Entity was not particularly powerful and somewhat hollow, even ordinary Heavenly Symbol Masters found it difficult to materialize one as solidly as he could.

For him, as long as he steadily continued condensing his Spiritual Power and increasing its strength, reaching the level of a Heavenly Symbol Master was merely a matter of time.

At present, the amount of Spiritual Power he could use within his Mud Pill Palace was nearly negligible compared to the vast world within it, but it was more than enough to deal with the situation before him.

Boom!

After the guards fell and could not rise, the hundreds of invisible bee needles containing formidable Spiritual Power attacks were not recalled by Lin Chen. Instead, they densely struck the Blood Wolf Gang's gate behind them.

How to quickly meet Yue Shan was clearly not a problem for Lin Chen.

In that flash of lightning, the battle at the Blood Wolf Gang's entrance did not escape the notice of some within the gang. Yet before they could react, a tremendous roar rang out, and the gate of the Blood Wolf Gang headquarters, which had stood in Flame City for many years, came crashing down.

In an instant, the entire Blood Wolf Gang descended into chaos. Startled cries and clamorous voices rose everywhere, and all of Flame City was shaken by it.

Clearly, such a disturbance could not escape the perception of some of Flame City's more capable people.

In the next instant, nearly every person of some strength in Flame City rushed toward the area around the Blood Wolf Gang headquarters, where a powerful Spiritual Power fluctuation had erupted.

"Who might you be, sir? Isn't forcibly breaking into my Blood Wolf Gang rather presumptuous?"

Lin Chen did not wait long. In no more than a brief moment, a calm voice came from within the Blood Wolf Gang.

Lin Chen raised his head slightly and looked past the high platform. At the head of a group of men radiating killing intent stood a burly, bare-chested middle-aged man with a blood wolf tattoo exposed on his upper body. As he walked toward Lin Chen, his gaze fixed on him with the viciousness of a venomous snake.

No particularly intense Origin Energy fluctuations emanated from the man's body, yet as he stood there, Lin Chen did not dare underestimate him in the slightest.

Great Perfection Core Formation Realm—such strength was in no way inferior to his own. One careless move, and he might suffer for it.

Still, despite that, Lin Chen did not take Yue Shan to heart. Before coming here, he had made thorough preparations. Even if the Blood Wolf Gang gathered all the strength in Flame City, it would be unable to harm him.

Lin Lie's presence was enough to ensure his safety on this trip.

Behind Yue Shan stood two middle-aged men side by side. Judging by the faint Origin Energy fluctuations surging from their bodies, they were clearly two Small Perfection Core Formation Realm experts.

As one of Flame City's three top factions on the surface, the Blood Wolf Gang naturally did not have Yue Shan as its only commander.