"I'll explain later. Let me deal with these people first." Seeing the confusion filling Han Xue's eyes as she hesitated to speak, Xu Ran reassured her.
"May I ask which faction you come from? Has our Hong Family offended you?" an elder of the Hong Family asked, trembling with fear. Both elders had been scared out of their wits by Xu Ran, their entire bodies shaking.
Their strength fell short even of Xia Mang, a Magical Beast. If Xu Ran struck to kill, they feared they would be unable to resist him.
Though their combined strength was not weak, they had lived long enough to possess some basic discernment. Since he could kill Xia Mang so easily, the two of them could, at most, pose some threat to Xu Ran.
"The Hong Family? Such a tiny faction-I'd never even heard of it before." Xu Ran truly had never paid any attention to factions at this level. It was a minor faction on the level of a nameless extra. Without its few brief mentions in the original story, he would never have known this little family existed.
They were all cannon fodder anyway.
"Then why are you making things difficult for us?" Neither elder dared voice his anger. Hong Chen was even more furious. His family was a small family? Though it was not renowned in the Central Plains, it was hardly unknown in the Northern Domain.
"Then have you heard of the Wind and Thunder Pavilion?" Hong Chen snorted. The Wind and Thunder Pavilion was one of the Central Plains' Four Pavilions. Its pavilion master, Venerable Lei, was at the peak of three-star Dou Zun, while Fei Tian, master of the North Pavilion, was an eight-star Dou Zong. On the Central Plains Continent, any faction with a Dou Zun could