Assassination Star Attacks

Over the following days, Xiao Fan tempered himself alongside Lin Xianhuo, telling Li Kai above to blast the tempering pool with elemental power to alert them if anything unusual happened!

Li Kai was truly shocked, because the big shot also seemed to be tempering himself in the deepest magma layer!

This was no joke. People could die!

The big shot had no divine-grade fire talent, and in that respect, the eldest Miss Lin was definitely stronger than him!

And Li Kai was right!

In the magma layer, although the two faced each other naked, they had no mind for embraces or intimacy. Both were struggling desperately against the terrifying heat.

Several times, Lin Xianhuo was on the verge of giving up, but when she saw Xiao Fan's body nearly melting and him still gritting his teeth and holding on, she instantly found strength again!

Finally, after who knew how long, the fire seed's power within Xiao Fan suddenly erupted, advancing from five stars to six!

Before coming down, he had also taken the Flying Sand Fire. Now he had two six-star flames, just one short of being able to fuse a seven-star flame!

For the six-star Heavenly Soaring Fire, advancing to seven stars through tempering again was almost impossible.

By rights, Xiao Fan could have left, but he stayed down there with Lin Xianhuo!

Lin Xianhuo was in agony from head to toe and nearly at her breaking point, yet her heart was full of happiness!

A man had stayed by her side without leaving or abandoning her, sharing her pain when she was suffering most. His actions shattered Lin Xianhuo's heart, and she wanted nothing more than to give Xiao Fan everything she had right then and there.

"Be good. Have you gained insight into the second stage?"

"Almost. Another half day at most."

"Then I'll go up and stand guard for you."

"Go on. I can definitely hold out for the last half day!"

"Of course. Xianhuo is the best."

With that, Xiao Fan leaped out of the tempering pool. When Li Kai saw the terrifying burn scars on his body, his teeth began to chatter in fright.

"Big shot, you're out?"

"How many days has it been?" Xiao Fan asked calmly.

"Six days, sir. No foreign races have come here yet."

Xiao Fan breathed a sigh of relief and nodded. "That's good."

He took out two pieces of ready-to-eat refined meat and began replenishing his energy. At the Peak Martial Artist realm, going without food or water for ten days to half a month was actually no big deal, but it was still bad for the body.

Just then, five small black dots appeared in the distant sky. Xiao Fan turned to look, his brows furrowing.

It was the third squad.

And the third squad's captain was Wang Qingtian!

Xiao Fan had learned a little about him. He came from the Wang Family of the imperial capital, a family even more powerful than the Lin Family because of its longer history.

But Lin Lianshen had told him, "Wang Qingtian is a good-for-nothing, weak as hell."

"His cultivation realm is propped up entirely by resources, and then he got insanely lucky and his talent reverted to his ancestor's."

Hearing the words "reverted to his ancestor's," Xiao Fan was somewhat surprised and suddenly thought of someone else.

"The Overlord Martial Emperor?"

Lin Lianshen sighed. "Yes. Wang Qingtian's Wang Family is the Overlord Martial Emperor's Wang Family."

At that, Xiao Fan suddenly became excited, a kind of morbid excitement.

At present, his strength as a Martial Artist was indisputably the second greatest in history!

The previous second-place record had been a maximum force of around 4,300 kg.

Xiao Fan had exceeded it by 1,500 kg, yet he was still only second in history!

Because the first was the Overlord Martial Emperor in his youth!

And on the rankings for maximum strength, it wasn't just the Martial Artist realm: from Lesser Grandmaster and Greater Grandmaster all the way to Martial Saint, the strongest had always been the Overlord Martial Emperor!

At the subsequent Martial God and Martial Emperor realms, it wasn't that anyone had surpassed him; there simply weren't any rankings for those realms!

Otherwise, the Overlord Martial Emperor would absolutely still have been the king of strength, leaving everyone else in the dust!

All of this was thanks to his mythic-grade talent: Hegemon-King of Western Chu!

The talent's effects were simple and brutal.

First: it granted the highest base strength value.

Second: once the talent was activated, his strength doubled!

For a normal mythic-grade talent, the base force at the Martial Artist realm was around 1,500 kg.

But the Hegemon-King of Western Chu talent reached 2,000!

Was 500 kg not much? What about doubled?

Without any amplification martial arts, that was 4,000 kg of force right off the bat!

And as his realm rose, the snowball would grow larger and larger, until he became the strongest person under heaven, breaking ten thousand techniques with a single display of force!

And back then, the Overlord Martial Emperor had trained extremely hard. As a Martial Artist, his force had reached 7,800 kg!

A full 2,000 kg higher than Xiao Fan, who had learned dozens of amplification martial arts!

After activating All-Round Walker, his imaginary opponent had changed from the second in history to the first, the Overlord Martial Emperor.

Now that he'd heard there was someone nearby with the Hegemon-King of Western Chu talent, how could he not be excited?

Unfortunately, Xiao Fan's force was definitely lower than Wang Qingtian's at present. After all, the latter had already broken through to Lesser Grandmaster. Just how far he had progressed, nobody knew!

But no matter what, Xiao Fan believed that sooner or later, he would surpass him!

After all, his talent still had room to grow, and it would rise by two grades in one leap, skipping Quasi-Saint and reaching the saint-grade All-Round Great Sage. His strength would increase by a huge margin!

But that was only as far as force went.

If they really fought, Xiao Fan was ninety percent confident he could defeat Wang Qingtian, who had now broken through to Lesser Grandmaster!

Because Lin Lianshen had told him that this fellow spent his days doing nothing and loafing around. He never trained at all, and his talent's potential had never been activated. He was living entirely off what he already had!

At that moment, Wang Qingtian arrived with four underlings and walked over, his face full of mockery.

"What are you doing here?"

"Oh... protecting Xianhuo?"

"But are you strong enough?"

"If a fourth-tier noble-blooded one showed up, would you drop to your knees and beg for mercy?"

Xiao Fan remained calm and said coolly, "You said before that if Lin Lianshen wasn't around, you wouldn't let me walk out of this place, right?"

"So what if I did?" Wang Qingtian's gaze turned cold.

Xiao Fan stood up, spread his hands, and jeered, "Then what are you waiting for? Come on, make your move!"

"You!" Wang Qingtian's face darkened, a little irritated.

If no one else had been around, he might have made a move.

But Li Kai's squad was there too, and Lin Xianhuo was right below them. In the Federation, especially while on a mission like this, killing one's own was among the gravest crimes!

Even Wang Qingtian, a descendant of the Wang Family and inheritor of Hegemon-King of Western Chu, didn't dare do such a thing!

Wang Qingtian glared at Xiao Fan. "You're just relying on Federation law to protect you, aren't you? What are you so smug about? There's plenty of time ahead. Sooner or later, you'll leave this world without a sound!"

With that, he looked viciously at Li Kai and the others, as if blaming them for being there!

Li Kai and his companions were mere nobodies at that moment, sitting to the side and trembling, wanting to cry but having no tears.

You two big shots are arguing. Why are you looking at me?

Whether it was Xiao Fan or Wang Qingtian, never mind their backgrounds-even in terms of combat strength alone, he definitely couldn't withstand a single move from either of them!

But just then, Xiao Fan sat down beside Li Kai and asked calmly, "Still no news of Lin Lianshen?"

Li Kai shook his head. "Big shot, there's been no news of Young Master Lin at all, but I'm guessing he's gone to find a way to master the Undying Fire."

Xiao Fan's expression remained calm.

That was understandable. The process of mastering the Undying Fire could be very dangerous. If there were a mole and word got out, having all his efforts come to nothing would be the least of it. If things got worse, he might even lose his life, so he hadn't told anyone where he was going!

Suddenly, Xiao Fan's pupils quivered, and an extremely ominous premonition rose in his heart!

Danger!

His Slaughter Instinct told him there was danger nearby-very, very great danger!

He even had the Divine Ape Golden Body, yet he could still feel such a fierce sense of danger. That meant... the enemy was extremely powerful!

Xiao Fan gave nothing away, afraid of alerting the enemy. Keeping his head lowered, he swept his surroundings with the corner of his eye.

P.S. The renovations have kept me from resting well these past two days, and I've been writing a lot too. I overworked myself into a migraine. I've written one chapter, and I'm going downstairs to buy painkillers. Three more chapters tonight!