Taking Action! Are You Satisfied Now?

Zhang Lingyao slowly stepped forward and summoned a spirit sword, ready to fight Li Hao.

"Oh?"

In that case, he would let her try.

"Watch my sword!"

Zhang Lingyao gripped her sword hilt and struck first. The two immediately grappled with each other.

"Hmph! You have some skill after all. How about this, then?"

Li Hao picked up a rock beside him and hurled it at her. A Golden Core cultivator's strength was so great that Zhang Lingyao had to use all her might to cleave the rock apart.

"Watch out!"

Zhang Xu, who was half-reclining on the ground, suddenly shouted.

Zhang Lingyao saw Li Hao suddenly fly toward her and raised her sword in front of her.

Boom!

Li Hao struck the blade with his palm. Zhang Lingyao staggered back dozens of steps and spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Good thing I reacted in time."

Zhang Lingyao glared at Li Hao and continued, "Golden Core? Heh, nothing special!"

"What?! You're at death's door and still talking big! You're courting death!"

Li Hao snatched up a spear from the courtyard and thrust it straight at her.

Zhang Lingyao dodged and moved to the edge of the pool. She released cold Qi, and the water instantly condensed into ice, which formed into needles and hovered in the air.

"Oh? You have tricks like that? What power could Foundation Establishment possibly have?"

Li Hao sneered, then thrust his spear with all his strength.

"Ice cones, go!"

The hard ice cones met Li Hao's spear head-on. They shattered the spear and flew toward his face, leaving him no time to dodge!

"Ah!"

Li Hao cried out in pain. He had failed to dodge in time, and his right eye had been pierced, blood flowing from it without stopping.

"You! You all have to die!"

Li Hao clutched his eye, furious beyond measure.

He then set every weapon in the courtyard in motion, aiming them at the few people still standing.

Zhang Lingyao collapsed in exhaustion. Her spiritual power was depleted, and she could no longer fight.

She had cultivated for only half a year and had reached Foundation Establishment entirely by relying on her talent for absorbing cold Qi. But without a good saber or sword cultivation method, her lack of equipment put her at a disadvantage.

"Cough, cough!"

Zhang Lingyao spat out more blood and struggled to her feet, wanting to make one last stand.

Li Hao swept his gaze over the courtyard and saw that Ye Zichen was still sitting above them, completely motionless.

He laughed mockingly with extreme arrogance. "What's wrong? Scared? Don't dare move? Hahahaha! If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for getting into trouble as big as the heavens!"

Seeing the girl defeated, Ye Zichen finally spoke. "Trouble? An ant is still an ant."

He then stood and walked out, utterly unconcerned.

Seeing this, Zhang Lingyao felt relieved. She dragged her battered body over to her father and helped him up.

Supporting each other, the two limped silently back to the chairs behind them and settled their breathing.

"If you think you can hurt me, then make your move."

Ye Zichen raised an eyebrow, looking playfully at Li Hao as though he were a clown.

"You! What are you being so arrogant for?! You'll die today too!"

Completely enraged, Li Hao summoned all his strength and aimed every weapon in the courtyard at Ye Zichen, sending them flying toward him.

"Die! Hahahahaha!"

Li Hao was exceedingly arrogant, laughing like a madman. He believed Ye Zichen was sure to die under this attack!

But.

No matter how much force he exerted, all the weapons stopped in midair a zhang in front of Ye Zichen and moved no farther.

The next second, cracking sounds rang out from all the weapons. They shattered into fragments and fell to the ground.

"Noisy."

How could anyone's laugh sound so unpleasant?

As soon as Ye Zichen spoke, Li Hao let out a cry of agony.

"Aaaaaah!..."

Li Hao's Golden Core Peak cultivation vanished in an instant. Having lost his cultivation, he was struck by the pill's adverse effects, and a fierce pain arose, assaulting his nerves.

His belly felt as though ten thousand searing blades were stabbing into it, twisting at his heart without cease. The flesh of his face bunched together, his features contorted with pain, and beads of sweat the size of beans fell one by one as he knelt on the ground, wailing in agony.

"I... what's happening to me?! You... what did you do to me?!"

Beside himself with rage, Li Hao roared at Ye Zichen again and again.

"The sect master of the Crimson Yang Sect is already on his way! You'd better let me go, or you'll meet a miserable end! Aaaaaah!"

The pain had not subsided, but Li Hao still found time to spout arrogant threats.

"Is that so? You seem very confident in your backing. Then let's see what it can do for you."

Ye Zichen glanced at Li Hao. His casually spoken words made Li Hao forget his pain, and he suddenly panicked.

"You... what are you going to do?"

Li Hao was panicking now. From the very beginning until this moment, this man had never shown the slightest expression, only a gaze that looked down on all living beings!

Ye Zichen was in no hurry to kill this insect. When dealing with enemies, cutting the grass and pulling out the roots had always been his way. Now,

he would make Li Hao witness with his own eyes how laughable his backer was. He would also make these ants who defied their betters understand that some people were beyond their reach to provoke for their entire lives!

He raised a hand and grasped.

The next second, boom!

A series of earth-shaking sounds erupted in the air!

The sound of tearing came from the void again and again! In the direction of Ye Zichen's raised hand, a patch of nothingness had appeared!

"Th-this... tearing open the void! Just how heaven-defying is this?!"

Shocked by such a feat, Zhang Xu and Zhang Lingyao murmured to themselves. Once again, their understanding of this lord had been overturned!

The being before them might be a true immortal!

"Father, can anyone in the Eastern Continent... do something like this?"

Zhang Lingyao stared blankly, trembling.

"I'm afraid only this lord can."

Zhang Xu was frightened too and did not dare say another word. The two drew back, shifting farther away.

Ye Zichen pulled his hand out of the void. He seemed to be holding something in his palm, but no one in the courtyard knew what it was. They stared in a daze.

"Come out."

Ye Zichen spoke, and two flashes of light flew from his hand. Two figures appeared, standing on either side of Li Hao.

"Wh-where is this? What exactly did that hand in the void just do?"

"Why am I here? Wasn't I on my way to Clear Wind City?"

"Sect Master Feng! And Sect Master Wu!"

Li Hao lay on the ground and looked up at the two men who had appeared beside him. The two bewildered men were Feng Yu and Wu Badao, the sect masters of the Crimson Yang Sect and the Tyrant Saber Sect.

"Household Head Li Hao! What happened to you?!"

Feng Yu, sect master of the Crimson Yang Sect, stumbled down into a crouch, helped support Li Hao, and asked him what had happened.

Feng Yu had received Li Hao's message and learned that his disciple had died in Clear Wind City. Furious that someone had dared provoke the Crimson Yang Sect as it was now, he had set out at once for Clear Wind City to demand an explanation.

"Sect Master Feng, why are you here too?!"

Wu Badao noticed Feng Yu beside him and hurriedly asked what was going on.

"Sect Master Wu, I don't know either! I was just about to ask Household Head Li Hao here."

Feng Yu answered Wu Badao's question.

"Now, are you satisfied?"

Ye Zichen looked at Li Hao and taunted him playfully.