After the group left the Immortal Food Mansion, five motherships suddenly appeared overhead as they passed through a valley. Countless experts in mecha poured out and surrounded them, packed densely together-probably a hundred or so in all.
"Ye Fan, you killed my brother! I'll flay your skin and tear out your tendons as a memorial offering to him!"
"Ye Fan, you killed a genius of our Xuan Family. Today, you'll pay with your life!"
"You outsiders impersonated people of Eternal Star. You're wanted criminals now!"
Cao Lin was Cao Qing's older sister. She stared at Ye Fan with bloodshot eyes, hatred burning all the fiercer at the sight of her enemy. Several elders from the Xuan Family wore the same expressions.
Seeing hundreds of experts in mecha surrounding Jun Moxiao's group, Qi Meng turned pale with alarm and stepped straight in front of them.
"You're not allowed to hurt my friends!"
Although she knew the Cao and Xuan Families would uncover the truth sooner or later, she had never imagined they would mobilize such a massive force, even deploying five Sacred Artifact Motherships.
"Hehehe...! Friends? Miss Qi Meng, associating with outsiders makes you a collaborator. Leave at once and await punishment. Otherwise, your actions will implicate the entire Qi clan. The consequences will be severe."
"Come to think of it, we ought to thank you, Miss Qi Meng. Without your close relationship with them, we wouldn't have tracked them down so quickly."
The experts from the Cao and Xuan Families had used auxiliary divine minerals for the Fourth- and Fifth-Tier Strongest Evolution Liquids to tempt greedy members of the Qi Family into betraying Qi Meng. Keeping Qi Kun and the others in the dark, Qi Yun and several greedy clansmen had personally joined the operation. Even his son, Qi Can,