Jia Lie Ao saw the two ignoring his existence and even starting to get a bit affectionate, and his mouth immediately twitched in a spasm. His fists clenched until they cracked, and his gloomy gaze stared right at the two people before him.
The guards around Jia Lie Ao saw their master's unsightly expression and smartly stepped forward, vaguely surrounding the two of them with ill-intentioned sweeps of their gazes.
There was a considerable flow of people in the market, and upon seeing the commotion here, they all rushed over to join in the excitement. The young masters of these two families were well-known figures in Wutan City.
One was a fallen genius, while the other was a lustful scoundrel. Though neither had a very good reputation, they were certainly famous.
Seeing this, Xiao Yan raised an eyebrow, a teasing expression floating across his face. He turned his head slightly toward a corner of the market and gave a soft whistle.
The guard detachment of the Xiao Family Market rushed over with a fierce momentum. Their leading captain waved a massive hand, and his subordinates fiercely surrounded Jia Lie Ao and his group in reverse, making both sides tense with a hair-trigger atmosphere for a moment.
Xiao Yan smiled gently, looked at the unsightly Jia Lie Ao, and spoke nonchalantly.
"Young Master Jia Lie Ao, this is the territory of my Xiao Clan. Don't tell me you want to make a move here?"
Jia Lie Ao glanced somewhat fearfully at the guard captain, then turned back to sneer at Xiao Yan.
"You trash who only knows how to rely on your clan, if you're a man, then come have a match with me."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Yan merely wore a mocking expression on his face, then sighed, rubbed his forehead with his palm, shrugged, and spoke with a helpless expression.
"You're twenty-one years old this year, and how old am I? Fifteen. You want to duel me, a kid who hasn't even held his Coming-of-Age Ceremony? Don't you think the demand you're making is utterly foolish?"
Xiao Yan's helpless appearance caused Gu Xun'er, who stood beside him, to chuckle softly with pursed lips.
The bystanders, vendors, and mercenaries also burst into sudden laughter, the gazes they cast toward Jia Lie Ao carrying a trace of disdain.
Feeling the gazes of the crowd, Jia Lie Ao felt his face burning hot. His teeth were clenched tight, his fists cracked as he squeezed them, and a raging fire burned within his heart.
Without intending to continue paying attention to Jia Lie Ao, Xiao Yan made to take Gu Xun'er's hand and leave the place.
Seeing this, Hun Changqing not far away wore a sinister smile on his face, his eyes carrying a trace of mockery.
I haven't seen enough of this good show yet. As the protagonist, how can you exit the stage so quickly? Let me add some spice for you; the good show is only just beginning.
With that, a red light flashed in Hun Changqing's eyes, his finger wrapped in a wisp of Dou Qi, and he pointed it directly at Jia Lie Ao.
A thread of Dou Qi, practically invisible to the naked eye and mixed with a wisp of Hun Changqing's soul power, instantly struck into Jia Lie Ao's body.
In an instant, Jia Lie Ao's anger was stimulated by that wisp of soul power to surge violently by several folds, and a terrifying fury instantly overwhelmed his reason.
That strand of Dou Qi came at the cost of destroying Jia Lie Ao's meridians, driving him to frantically amplify his Dou Qi at this moment.
Feeling the surging Dou Qi within his body, Jia Lie Ao, overwhelmed by fury, launched a fierce strike the instant Xiao Yan turned around.
"Gale Fist!"
Terrifying Dou Qi wrapped around Jia Lie Ao's fist. It was a wind-attribute Dou Technique of extremely high speed, and simply no one could react in time.
"Puff."
This punch struck Xiao Yan without a hitch. The unprepared Xiao Yan instantly spat out a mouthful of fresh blood and flew backward.
Along the way back through the air, he smashed through goodness knows how many stalls and shops belonging to small vendors before finally embedding himself viciously into a stone wall.
At this moment, everyone dropped their jaws so wide that an egg could have been stuffed inside, staring in astonishment at the scene before their eyes.
They never would have imagined that Jia Lie Ao would actually dare to make a move within the Xiao Family Market, and that he did so without holding back, striking with lethal intent right from the start!
Gu Xun'er stared blankly at the flying form of Xiao Yan, her entire body trembling. Then she abruptly whipped her head around to glare at Jia Lie Ao, expressionless, her eyes holding only endless iciness.
A trace of golden flame surfaced within those cold and merciless eyes, and chaotic, terrifying Dou Qi swirled around Gu Xun'er's body. A dense killing intent emerged from within her, and her momentum was terrifying beyond compare.
Jia Lie Ao, who had delivered the strike, had also regained his sanity by this time. Seeing Gu Xun'er before him looking like a fiendish deity, he was frightened out of his wits and hurriedly opened his mouth to defend himself.
"W-Wait! Lady Xun'er! N-Not me, just now I don't know what happened to me, I-"
"Emperor Seal Art-Mountain Splitting Seal!"
Six cold and merciless words slipped from Gu Xun'er's lips. Gu Xun'er no longer had the mood to listen to whatever Jia Lie Ao was saying.
Right now, there was only a single thought in her heart, and that was to beat the culprit who had dared to harm her Brother Xiao Yan into dust!
A massive hand gathered and formed in mid-air, burning with golden-yellow flames upon its surface. Moreover, within that giant hand, there was not only Dou Qi, but also a strange energy.
Hun Changqing was no stranger to this energy, for he had also sensed it on Hun Feng. This was... the energy of the Emperor Lineage Bloodline...
The moment the giant hand appeared, it snatched up Jia Lie Ao, who was not far from Gu Xun'er.
"Ah!"
A miserable cry came from Jia Lie Ao within the giant hand.
Disregarding Jia Lie Ao's cries, Gu Xun'er flashed a red light in her eyes, and the giant hand instantly clenched tight.
Jia Lie Ao was instantly squeezed into a mist of blood by the giant hand, transforming into a rain of blood that dripped down upon every corner of the market.
The crowd present looked at that alluring figure with fluttering robes amid the center of the blood rain, yet felt as though she were a fiendish deity deeply engraved into their hearts, all of them unable to help trembling violently.
"Uh..."
Hun Changqing's mouth also gaped slightly at this moment, his eyes wide as he felt this was incredible.
Hun Changqing knew that Gu Xun'er liked Xiao Yan, that much was true, but Hun Changqing never expected that this Gu Xun'er liked him to such a degree.
Just look at what this Gu Xun'er had gone and done moments ago.
Emperor Seal Art? The Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame attached to the Emperor Seal Art? Imperial-grade bloodline?
All of these things used just to crush a Jia Lie Ao who had only just entered the Dou Zhe realm into dust?
Not to mention the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame and the imperial-grade bloodline, the Emperor Seal Art alone was a terrifyingly powerful Dou Technique that the Gu Clan never imparted to outsiders.
Back then, after it was created by a Gu Clan ancestor, the number of powerful experts who died at the hands of this Dou Technique was countless, and yet now it was being cast just to crush a Dou Zhe to death?
If your Gu Clan's ancestors knew that these things were being used like this, would they crawl straight out of their coffins?
Moreover, regardless of which of these three things it was, none of them were things that Gu Xun'er, who was currently only at the Dou Zhe cultivation level, could use. Every time she used one, she would pay a not-small price, and this Gu Xun'er was actually fine-using them all together!
Hun Changqing didn't know what to say at this moment. Could this perhaps be the legendary deep and unshakeable love?
Watching Gu Xun'er support Xiao Yan as they gradually walked away, Hun Changqing narrowed his eyes.
"Do you love him that much? Since that's the case..."
As he spoke, a meaningful smile appeared at the corners of Hun Changqing's mouth.