"A god? Hahaha, you must be here for a laugh! If you're a god, then I'm the Heavenly Principles!"
"Brothers, there aren't many people around. Get them now!"
At Feihu's command, his lackeys swarmed forward.
Lin Yi stood quietly where he was. The people from the Feiyun Commerce Guild were dead set on picking a fight with them!
Just as Keqing and Xiangling moved to help, Lin Yi raised a hand to stop them.
"What are you doing?"
"You don't need to lift a finger. Leave these small fry to me."
Lin Yi had yet to break through, and his personal level was only ten, yet he was confident he could handle more than a hundred opponents. His courage was certainly admirable!
"You... forget it. Stay behind us and use that weapon of yours that kills in one shot. Just keep yourself safe."
Keqing still had little faith in Lin Yi's strength.
"This is an order from the Geo Archon. Are you going to obey or not?"
Lin Yi wasted no more words and simply pulled rank.
Sure enough, Keqing could hardly say anything more.
She looked to Xiangling and Yun Jin for support, only to find that neither dared act rashly either. Defying a god's decree was a grave taboo, after all.
The three women could only keep a close eye on the situation. They would intervene if Lin Yi fell into danger.
Lin Yi watched the opponents swarming toward him.
He snorted inwardly.
He had intended to let his subordinates send them to their deaths, but seeing how arrogantly they strutted about, he naturally had to make them taste the price of showing off before him and refusing to know their place!
This is also a good chance to test the results of my training. Even if things get dangerous, I still have the Geo-Forged Pistol!
Having planned his escape route in advance, Lin Yi could fight with confidence.
"Boss, do you think this scrawny monkey has a death wish? Instead of putting those women with Visions to work, he actually wants to challenge our whole crew. He really doesn't know his limits!"
"Heh, who can he blame if he's asking to die? I don't like the look of him anyway. Once we kill him, we'll take those bitches' Visions. Come to think of it, those three women are pretty good-looking too."
Were they blind? These men belonged to the Feiyun Commerce Guild, one of Liyue's largest merchant guilds, yet they failed to recognize several of Liyue's prominent figures standing right before them.
They not only robbed people but even bullied men and preyed on women.
Even after Lin Yi and the others identified themselves, the men showed no restraint. Instead, they grew even more brazen.
Naturally, what awaited them would be far more than a simple lesson.
"I'll tear you apart, you little punk!"
A middle-aged man charged at the front. Unarmed, he swung a fist the size of a sandbag.
Lin Yi snorted.
Unable to control elemental power, this middle-aged man's strength was limited. Level twenty was as far as he would ever get.
Along with Divine Authority's effects of dominion and suppression, there was another benefit.
These men's stat panels appeared in Lin Yi's mind.
Old or young, not one of them amounted to anything. They recognized no one except the boss who paid them and respected no one else.
Pitifully weak, yet forever telling others what to do-that described them perfectly!
It looks like my level-ten stats alone are enough to crush these guys?
Lin Yi neither dodged nor flinched from the incoming punch, and the man thought his attack would land successfully.
But a moment later, he distinctly felt as though his fist had struck steel. The impact left his arm numb.
"Wh-what's going on?!"
He looked up in shock, only to find Lin Yi's terrifyingly cold gaze enveloping him, making him feel as though he had plunged into an ice cellar.
"I let you hit me, and you actually did it. Now you're guilty of attempted deicide. That's enough to get you shot ten thousand times!"
Hearing Lin Yi call himself a god again, the man grew dazed, unsure whether he believed him or not.
But things had already reached this point. There seemed to be no turning back.
He could only swing his other fist.
"Too slow. Go back to your mother's womb and start a new character!"
Lin Yi easily read the trajectory of the man's second attack.
After dodging, he gathered fifty percent of his strength into his fist and drove it hard into the middle-aged man's lower abdomen.
Even without any elemental power behind it, the blow sent the man flying backward, knocking down a cluster of his companions. He curled up on the ground, every part of his body wracked with agonizing, gut-wrenching pain.
It took considerable strength to put a grown man out of action with a single punch.
Even Keqing was a little surprised. Although Lin Yi's level and strength were still in the lowest tier, his stats were outstanding among those at the same stage.
"Master Lin Yi is amazing! I just don't know if he can handle all hundred-plus of them."
Xiangling was a little worried.
The men might have acted unafraid of Vision wielders.
But now, not a single one approached Keqing or the other two women. Clearly, they did have reservations and merely thought Lin Yi would be the easiest target.
On the contrary, of their group of four, Lin Yi was the most unfathomable man, one who even held the power to decide whether they lived or died.
They watched Lin Yi weave effortlessly through the hundred-odd men, his eyes brimming with fighting spirit.
Who could have imagined that he had previously been an astute politician, a genius chef, and a master of opera...
"Come on, keep coming! You think you can mouth off to me with this little strength?"
Caught up in the heat of battle, Lin Yi paid none of them any mind.
Geo's innate advantages gave him ample vitality and defensive strength, while his attacks carried the vast might of mountains.
In a short time, more than thirty opponents lay on the ground. Lin Yi, meanwhile, had suffered only a few minor injuries.
His largest wound was a scratch left by the fingernails of some unknown effeminate fellow.
"Hmph, a bunch of useless idiots! You can't even handle one scrawny monkey. Looks like I'll have to do it myself!"
Feihu was neither a native of Liyue nor a longtime employee of the Feiyun Commerce Guild.
His skin was rather dark, clearly weathered by prolonged exposure to the sun and wind.
On closer inspection, faint white marks could even be seen around his wrists and ankles, evidently left by something he had once worn.
Could this guy be a criminal who escaped from some other nation?
Lin Yi's guess was certainly not without reason.
As he pondered this, Feihu entered the fray, an aura surging around him. He was actually a wielder of impure Cryo power, putting his talent several notches above that of his lackeys.
His lackeys seized the opportunity to work together and move the Soldier Remains.
The moment Lin Yi noticed, he ordered Keqing and the others to keep the Soldier Remains there at all costs. If necessary, they could kill the opposing men outright!
Harsh lands bred vicious people. The best way to deal with incorrigible brutes was to send them off to reincarnate and start a new character!
"You've been spoiled rotten. Do you really think I don't have a temper?"
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