A black mecha over ten meters tall, towering like a building, descended from the sky and landed before Li Zha and the other four.
Its landing smashed two huge craters into the ground. The wind it stirred up swept through the snack street like a wave, blowing away every awning, table, chair, and stool.
Only Li Zha's table remained utterly still, like a reef amid the wind and waves.
"Guang Long!"
The black mecha's cockpit opened, and a man in a combat uniform who bore a striking resemblance to Guang Long jumped out.
He was Guang Long's older brother, a Six-Ring Soul Emperor and the captain of Eastsea City's Mecha Team.
Guang Biao rushed over to Guang Long. At the sight of his charred corpse, still kneeling on one knee, his fury soared to the heavens.
Guang Long's hands trembled as he turned toward Li Zha's group of five and the owner of the Stewed Beef Restaurant.
"Which one of you did this? Get the hell out here!"
Six soul rings appeared beneath Guang Biao's feet-yellow, yellow, purple, purple, purple, purple. Veins bulged and throbbed at his temples. He was on the verge of going berserk.
Across from him,
Xie Xie wanted to stand, but his calves kept going weak. He claimed he wasn't afraid of the strong, but in truth, he still was.
The Golden Dragon Claw appeared on Tang Wulin's hand. He was just about to rise when Li Zha, still chewing his beef, spoke without a care. "I did it. So what?"
"You?!"
Guang Biao strode forward and looked down at Li Zha. "You're the one who killed my brother Guang Long and burned him into a charred corpse?!"
Grief wracked Guang Biao's heart.
The state of Guang Long's corpse made it obvious that he had suffered terribly before dying. Guang Biao realized that his brother hadn't merely been killed-he had been tortured to death, execution-style!
"That's right. I did it."
Li Zha finished his beef and wiped his mouth.
Guang Biao was so furious he laughed. "Do you have any idea that Guang Long was my own brother? He was the only brother I had, and you dared kill him?"
"I knew. What of it?"
Na'er burst out laughing.
She really admired her senior brother, still cracking memes at a time like this.
"What of it?!"
Guang Biao's gaze instantly turned icy. "Call the adults in your family out here. Today, you and your whole family are paying with your lives!"
Tang Wulin stepped forward.
"Your brother brought his death on himself! You did nothing while Guang Long was running around committing crimes, but now that he provoked our brother Li Zha and got killed, you show up? Where the hell were you before?"
Guang Biao looked at Tang Wulin. "Fine, fine, fine! So you were involved too?!"
Na'er swung her legs with a smile. "Not quite. Trash like your brother Guang Long only took my senior brother two moves to kill. They were just watching."
At those words, Guang Biao's face flushed scarlet.
"Fine, fine, fine! You killed Guang Long, and you little brats still dare act this arrogant! I don't give a damn which of you was involved anymore. You're all going to die!"
Guang Biao manifested his Ironclad Dragon martial soul. It was the same martial soul as Guang Long's, but at his Soul Emperor level, the difference between them was like heaven and earth.
The phantom of an Ironclad Dragon appeared, radiating a terrifying aura.
An earthen-yellow spear condensed into being. Guang Biao seized it, ready to impale all five of them with a single thrust.
"Boss!"
Just then,
behind Guang Biao,
a Violet Extreme Mecha landed. A Soul King rushed out and grabbed Guang Biao's hand.
"Boss! Calm down! Please, calm down!"
Guang Biao turned back and stared at his subordinate in disbelief. "My brother is dead, and you expect me to calm down?"
"Get out of my way!" Guang Biao sent his subordinate flying with a punch. "Those five have to die today! Anyone who stops me dies with them!"
"Boss!"
The subordinate he had punched away shouted urgently, "These five children are so young, yet they managed to kill Guang Long, a Soul Grandmaster! Their backgrounds definitely aren't simple!"
"Boss! I know you can't listen to anything right now, but I still have to say this. It won't be too late to kill them after we investigate. If we offend someone we can't afford to offend, anything we say afterward will be too late!"
Guang Biao froze for a moment.
The attack in his hand hung suspended in midair. In the end, he didn't bring it down.
That was right.
His subordinate's warning had restored a sliver of his reason.
His brother Guang Long had been a rank-27 Soul Grandmaster, while the oldest of these children looked no more than ten.
Normally, children that age would be in the teens at the absolute most. Even if all five attacked together, they shouldn't have been able to defeat Guang Long.
But...
Guang Biao looked at Li Zha. He remembered the silver-haired girl saying that his brother Guang Long had been killed single-handedly-even in an instant-by this brat before him.
Didn't that mean...
This brat named Li Zha possessed the strength of at least a rank-30 Soul Grandmaster... no, perhaps even a Soul Ancestor!
At that thought, cold sweat broke out on Guang Biao's forehead.
Ten years old, with the combat strength of a Soul Grandmaster or even a Soul Ancestor!
What that meant went without saying.
Even thinking with his toes, Guang Biao could tell that Li Zha had to be a genius from some major power.
"Not fighting anymore?"
Seeing Guang Biao freeze, Xie Xie breathed a sigh of relief.
He had already urgently contacted his family after the incident. He reckoned they would arrive any moment, so all he needed to do now was stall for time.
Guang Biao lowered the attack in his hand and asked Li Zha coldly, "You lot-especially you. Whose children are you?"
Xie Xie immediately prepared to announce his family name to intimidate him, but Li Zha spoke first. "What, scared?"
"Do you fucking want to die that badly?!"
Clenching his teeth, Guang Biao slammed his palm onto the table, shattering it to pieces.
Xie Xie froze, then hurriedly tugged at Li Zha.
"Bro, I'm fucking begging you. Don't act so arrogant! I know you're not afraid, Brother Li Zha, but even a mighty dragon can't overpower a snake on its home turf..."
Big bro, aren't you being way too fucking reckless? Xie Xie thought.
This was a Soul Emperor! If they really enraged him and he killed all five of them, killing Guang Biao afterward wouldn't bring them back to life.
Li Zha looked back. "I know provoking the strong might get me killed. But if fear stops me from bullying and picking on the strong, how is that any different from being dead?"
"Huh?"
Xie Xie stared at Li Zha, completely bewildered.
Tang Wulin was even more stunned.
Gu Yue's eyes widened too.
Those words only enraged Guang Biao further. "Brat, you killed my brother, and now you're provoking me like this? Do you really think I'm afraid of whoever's backing you?!"
"If I kill you today, even the King of Heaven himself can't bring you back!"
Guang Biao truly felt close to fainting with rage.
Yet the more Li Zha behaved this way, the more wary Guang Biao became.
Li Zha slipped one hand into his pocket. "Then do it!"
Guang Biao clenched his fists until his nails drew blood from his palms, but he merely stared fixedly at Li Zha.
Li Zha scoffed. "Looks like you really are scared. You brothers have been gangsters for so long, yet all you know how to do is bully the weak, huh?!"
Li Zha's voice rang out loudly.
The neighbors who had hidden themselves began poking their heads out to watch.
"This kid might be reckless, but he's right. Haven't those two brothers, Guang Long and Guang Biao, only been bullying us because we're ordinary people?"
"Exactly! Now he's kicked an iron plate. His brother's dead, and he doesn't dare do a thing. Pah!"
The neighbors looked at Guang Biao with scorn.
Li Zha loosely curled his right hand around empty air and smiled at Guang Biao. "That's not how you bully people. The true will of a tyrant means only ever bullying people stronger than yourself."
"If you won't make a move, I will!"
The Fire-Tipped Spear instantly appeared in Li Zha's right hand. Then, under the shocked gazes of Xie Xie and the others, Li Zha launched an attack on Guang Biao, the Six-Ring Soul Emperor.
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