He looked down at the two mangled corpses by his feet, their forms no longer recognizable, and the string called reason in his mind snapped in an instant.
Stellar Rank peak—no time to react, no chance to fight back.
Crushed into pulp.
"You... you killed Huo Lie?"
Huo Lin Tian staggered back two steps, his calf knocking against the edge of the leather sofa, nearly making him sit down outright.
"You've been quite diligent with the bounty."
Chen Yan had already come within ten meters of him, one hand slightly spread.
"One hundred billion Terra Coins, and you wanted to strip away my consciousness? Now that I'm here, have you got the money ready?"
"Don't come any closer!"
Huo Lin Tian roared hysterically, raising both hands as a scarlet jade pendant on his chest suddenly exploded.
An incomparably dense mass of golden flames enveloped his entire body. The surrounding space warped and distorted beneath the extreme heat, while the phantom of a colossal Fire Beast condensed above the manor hall and unleashed a savage roar.
"I'm a direct descendant of the Fire Qilin Clan! My father is at Star Domain Rank peak, and my ancestor is a Cosmic Venerable! If you dare touch even a finger of mine, the entire Fire Qilin Clan will grind your bones to ash!"
As Huo Lin Tian screamed, he rapidly activated the personal terminal on his wrist, preparing to send out the highest-level distress signal.
Chen Yan could not even be bothered to say another word.
He raised his hand and clenched his five fingers directly at the phantom Fire Beast.
The mysteries of spatial laws that had surged under the Enlightenment Sub-tree's feedback now displayed an utterly terrifying destructive force.
The spatial laws throughout the entire manor hall were directly drained away.
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