You useless fool! All you ever did was ruin things!!!
Duan Hong was sick with regret!
He wanted nothing more than to dig his dead son out of the dirt and hack him apart ten million times to vent his hatred!
"...I already killed his son."
Standing off to one side, Ye Li withdrew his gaze and added calmly:
"Afterward, this man sent people to investigate me."
"If he'd confirmed that I was an unaffiliated cultivator with no one to back me... I doubt he'd have let me off easily."
"Never!"
Duan Hong was scared out of his wits and hurriedly protested:
"I never harbored the slightest ill intent toward you! That investigation was entirely my servants' doing!"
"Lies."
Ye Li chuckled.
Before his words had even faded!
Almost at that very instant.
Duan Hong's pleading demeanor abruptly changed.
Clearly, words alone could no longer win him a chance at survival.
He could only rely on his Divine Ability!
He suddenly sprang from where he stood, Source Energy erupting around him as he tried to seize that fleeting opening and escape!
But he was clearly deluding himself.
Not even a hall full of Wang Family cultivators had managed it. How could he possibly succeed alone?
Duan Hong had barely taken a step.
Ye Li had already appeared before him!
He clamped a hand over Duan Hong's head, broke through his protective radiance, and slammed him into the ground!
"Spare...!"
Duan Hong was terrified beyond measure. He had barely begun to beg for mercy when his head was smashed to pieces!
He was about to speak through his true spirit when a stabbing pain struck from above, chilling him to the bone.
The next instant!
A savage golden storm erupted from Ye Li's palm!
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