While Yu Hongyan was still wavering between shock and doubt, the four men from the True Nine Sect had already barged in.
Li Da looked Yu Hongyan up and down with sinister eyes, his greed plain to see. "Demoness, let's see where you can run now!"
As he spoke, the four surrounded Yu Hongyan and Lin Yu.
After noticing that Lin Yu had no spiritual power whatsoever, the four ignored him outright. After all, they could deal with a mortal like him at any time.
"Big Brother, there's no need to waste words on this demoness. I reckon the drug inside her has pretty much taken full effect. Let's take her down, and then... hehehe..." Li Er let out a series of lewd, sinister chuckles.
Though Yu Hongyan had a bad reputation, she was exceptionally beautiful. Few women in the entire Eastern Wasteland could compare to her.
"Second Brother is right. This demoness has committed all manner of evil. We can't let her escape!"
"..."
Li San and Li Si both nodded.
Though their words sounded righteous and noble, a barely perceptible flicker of depravity passed through all four men's eyes.
And given Yu Hongyan's strength, if she escaped today, the four of them would certainly meet a miserable end in the future.
How could they let such a fine opportunity slip away?
"Hmph, what bullshit righteous sect! Resorting to such filthy tricks-you're utterly shameless!" Yu Hongyan spat through gritted teeth.
She was gravely injured now. Unless a miracle truly occurred, there was no escaping this calamity today!
The four brothers paid no attention to what she said. They prepared to activate their arts, determined to blast Yu Hongyan and Lin Yu to death in a single strike.
"I say... you four really have no manners. Not only did you barge into my residence without permission, but you even want to kill my guest. Is this how your mothers taught you to behave?"
Lin Yu's languid, utterly unconcerned voice made the four brothers stop.
Li Da cast Lin Yu a contemptuous glance. "An ant like you has no right to speak here. Just be good and wait to die."
"Hmph, a mere ant dares insult us? I'll destroy you first!" Li Er said coldly, forming the hand seals for the Azure Light Sword Art and launching it at Lin Yu.
Once a mortal like him was struck by the Azure Light Sword Art, his only fate was to turn to dust.
But several seconds passed, and nothing changed. Lin Yu still rocked leisurely in his reclining chair, while the sword light Li Er had unleashed simply vanished into thin air.
Li Er's pupils contracted, and his expression instantly turned uglier than shit. "How is this possible? My cultivation has been sealed! I can't summon any spiritual power at all!!"
"What? That can't be!" The other three brothers turned pale with shock at his words.
"This... my power has been sealed too!!!"
At first, they did not believe it, but after a brief attempt, they all discovered that the spiritual power inside them had vanished in an instant.
Seeing Lin Yu's leisurely manner earlier, they had assumed he was merely putting on a show. Now it seemed this young man was most likely an old monster who rarely ventured into the world.
At that thought, all four brothers retreated several steps before stopping.
Off to the side, Yu Hongyan sensed the changes inside her in shock.
Just like those four, her cultivation had been sealed too.
"No wonder I couldn't sense his spiritual power..."
Yu Hongyan sucked in a breath. Only now did she finally understand how terrifying Lin Yu was. To actually seal the cultivation of four Middle Spirit Condensation Realm cultivators and one Peak Spirit Condensation cultivator without them noticing, the person before her had to be a supreme powerhouse of at least the Sainthood realm!
At that thought, she immediately put away her disdain, cupped her fists respectfully, and bowed. "Yu Hongyan of the Night Moon Palace pays her respects, Senior!"
The four Li brothers exchanged brief glances, then dropped to their knees and kowtowed together. "Li Da, Li Er, Li San, and Li Si of the True Nine Sect pay our respects, Senior! Please forgive our offense!"
"We had eyes but failed to see! Please forgive us, Senior!"
The four knelt on the ground, shaking like chaff in a sieve.
After all, even their True Nine Sect's most badass great-great-great elder was only at Peak Radiant Body and had not so much as touched the threshold of Sainthood. How terrifying was the cultivation of the person before them?
Lin Yu was so formidable precisely because of the Hongmeng System. The system had told him that, as long as he was within the Primordial Hall's grounds, even if a Supreme or an Emperor came, he could snuff them out in an instant.
Sweeping his gaze over the four kneeling men, Lin Yu smiled faintly, stood, and stretched. "Who was it just now who told me to wait to die?"
Though his tone was perfectly gentle and mild, it frightened the four Li brothers so badly that they nearly passed out.
"Spare our lives, Senior!!"
"We had eyes but failed to see! Please spare our lives, Senior!"
In the blink of an eye, the four brothers were wailing to heaven and earth for mercy like beaten dogs, looking as ridiculous as could be.
Lin Yu shook his head and lightly pointed his index finger at Li Da. Li Da's body began to disappear like scattered particles, gradually vanishing from head to toe until nothing remained.
"Ah!!"
The other three brothers' faces instantly filled with horror at the sight.
They desperately begged for mercy, pleading for the powerhouse before them to show compassion and let them off.
But Lin Yu was no saintly white lotus. He would show no mercy to anyone who wanted his life.
In the end, with a wave of Lin Yu's hand, the remaining three turned to ash as well.
Off to the side, Yu Hongyan was so frightened that she dared not move. She feared Lin Yu would harm her too. After all, such a way of dying was far too terrifying.
Lin Yu turned and waved a hand at her, signaling for her to relax. "Yu Hongyan, you want to find the Ten-Thousand-Year Snow Flesh Ganoderma, right?"
"This... how did you know?" Yu Hongyan was inwardly startled and looked at Lin Yu in confusion.
Even her master did not know that she had come out to search for the Ten-Thousand-Year Snow Flesh Ganoderma.
How did this expert before her know?
Lin Yu sat back down in his reclining chair and smiled leisurely. "No need to be surprised. I can divine any secret of all things in this world."
"Ah! You know divination too?"
Yu Hongyan looked at Lin Yu doubtfully. Though diviners existed in the Eastern Wasteland, that path was exceptionally difficult and obscure. Not only was it hard to learn, but revealing heaven's secrets also carried the danger of suffering a backlash.
Thus, diviners' cultivation was never very high. Even those at the very pinnacle were only at Early Radiant Body.
Moreover, divination required implements and time. Only top diviners could dispense with implements and learn another person's secrets at a glance.
Without a doubt, the person before her was just such an existence.
And the most outrageous thing was that this senior had actually pushed both his cultivation and his divination arts to their pinnacles.
Just what sort of existence have I encountered?
Lin Yu was not surprised in the slightest by Yu Hongyan's reaction.
The system had told him that it could calculate the past and every aspect of the future fate of any living being that entered Hongmeng Mountain's bounds.
As long as Lin Yu wanted to know, every detail about them would instantly be dug up and stored in the system's database.
[Name: Yu Hongyan Height: 175 Measurements: 84, 62, 86 Affiliation: Night Moon Palace Master: Yu Mingxian, current palace master of the Night Moon Palace Cultivation arts: Night Moon Art, Blood Shadow Secret Record Skills: Divine Movement Ten Thousand Li, Dark Shadow Kill, Blood Shadow Slash... Current condition: gravely injured, potential mildly overdrawn, cultivation realm could drop at any moment. Urgent wish: find the Ten-Thousand-Year Blood Flesh Ganoderma to heal and break through to the Spirit Light realm... System note: cultivation realms are divided into Body Tempering, Qi Gathering, Qi Sea, Spirit Condensation, Spirit Light, Radiance, Radiant Body, and Sainthood.]