Ning Xuan turned to face the two n and asked, "Are you talking to ?"
The young man opposite him snarled, gritting his teeth. "That’s right, you! I didn’t expect we’d et again so soon!"
"Who are you? Do we know each other?" Ning Xuan blinked, a look of utter confusion on his face.
"My na is Sun Yuhu! Back in the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range, you bastard actually dared to lie to !" The mory of his recent ordeal made Sun Yuhu grind his molars in fury.
Ning Xuan shook his head, then turned to Qian Duoduo beside him. "Sun Yuhu? Never heard of him. Fatty, is he a friend of yours?"
"Don’t know him, but his surna is Sun. One of the Ten Great Families has the Sun surna. Maybe he’s from the Sun Family?" Qian Duoduo shook his head repeatedly, his chubby cheeks trembling.
Sun Yuhu froze.
This Qianling City is Qian Family territory! To be more precise, it’s Qian Wanyi’s turf. There’s a big difference between the two. As one of the Ten Great Families, the Qian Family still cares about its reputation and can be reasoned with. But Qian Wanyi is a different breed—narrow-minded and vindictive! The only reason he left the Qian Family to build his own city here was all thanks to his father. If my identity gets exposed here, the consequences will be unimaginable!
"I have nothing to do with the Qian Family!" Sun Yuhu denied vehently, then continued his tirade against Ning Xuan. "You scoundrel! You clearly killed Kong Qiu, yet you lied and said you only tricked him out of his Bloodwing Bird! What’s even worse, you son of a bitch, you actually transferred the Soul Lure onto !"
The more Sun Yuhu spoke, the angrier he beca, wishing he could tear Ning Xuan to shreds. However, it was all talk and no action; he didn’t make a move.
It’s not that I don’t want to. I’m just rational enough to recognize whose turf this is. If anyone’s going to make a move, it should be Kong Fusheng! After all, Kong Qiu wasn’t my son.
Kong Fusheng was just as clever, observing everything with a cold eye.
My mind was muddled earlier. It wasn’t until I entered the city that I suddenly rembered—our Kong Family seems to have a feud with Qian Wanyi, too. There are quite a few hidden experts around. If our identities are exposed, we’re done for.
Ning Xuan, with his superhuman perception, took in their reactions and imdiately knew where he stood.
"I don’t know what you’re talking about," he said. "How about this? You say you know , so why don’t you tell us my na?"
Sun Yuhu was struck dumb. He hadn’t even managed to learn the nas of the two fairies; why would he have cared what this asshole’s na was?
Ning Xuan, pressing his advantage, imdiately looked at Kong Fusheng and said very seriously, "You must be that Kong Qiu’s father, right? I don’t know them at all. You’ve been deceived by this man."
Sun Yuhu flew into a rage. "Aaaargh! You’re still trying to—"
Kong Fusheng cut him off. "Enough! He’s rely in the Human Realm. My son was a genuine Heavenly Realm cultivator, and he had four King Realm experts with him. Do you really take for a fool?!"
"King Realm... right, I know what happened!" Sun Yuhu exclaid. "This guy has accomplices—two won! They must have been the ones who did it. At the last second, this guy jumped in to deal the final blow just to show off!"
Sun Yuhu then gave a vivid description of Wu Pianpian and Yun Wangshu.
"Our Cloud Summit Heavenly Palace has no such peerless, otherworldly maidens. You’re even more delusional than I am," Qian Duoduo said, shaking his head and looking at Sun Yuhu as if he were a fool.
"I..." Sun Yuhu started to argue, but Kong Fusheng reminded him, "Didn’t you say you planted a Heart-Devouring Gu on him? That should be the most compelling proof."
Sun Yuhu’s eyes lit up. He imdiately took out the mother Gu from his Storage Ring, sneering at Ning Xuan. "Little beast, no matter how silver-tongued you are, you’ll show your true colors today! You didn’t expect to plant a Heart-Devouring Gu in your body, did you!"
Ning Xuan glanced at Qian Duoduo, who had taken a step back, and asked with a puzzled look, "What’s that?"
"Sothing terrifying!" Qian Duoduo muttered, burying his head in his Storage Ring and rummaging for sothing.
"Once I stimulate the mother Gu, you’ll be writhing in agony, wishing for death! I’ll give you one last cha—"
Sun Yuhu hadn’t finished speaking when Ning Xuan cut him off. "Enough with the nonsense. Start your little performance."
"You asked for this!" With a vicious sneer, Sun Yuhu injected a stream of Elent Force into the mother Gu.
A sharp, piercing scream echoed.
Ning Xuan blinked.
So did Sun Yuhu and Kong Fusheng.
Staring at the unresponsive Ning Xuan, the stunned Sun Yuhu snapped out of his daze and tried again.
Ning Xuan remained unaffected.
ROAR!
A world-shaking roar erupted from the direction of the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range. At that mont, nearly every resident in Qianling City looked up in the sa direction.
「In the City Lord Manor.」
A middle-aged man in lavish robes, who looked like an oversized version of Qian Duoduo, climbed out from a pile of won, his expression changing dramatically. "That sounds like the demonic ape’s roar! Could it be..." Before he could finish, he had already rushed off.
Back on the main street of Qianling City, Sun Yuhu stared in disbelief. "Impossible! Absolutely impossible! I clearly planted the Gu worm in you, so how can you be completely fine?!"
"Lunatic," Ning Xuan replied irritably and turned to leave.
Sun Yuhu tried to follow, but Kong Fusheng grabbed him. "Enough! Brat, today we settle the score for the murder of my son and my brother!"
His eyes fell on the fatty up ahead, and an idea ford in his mind.
Just as he was about to make a move, he abruptly turned and sent a telepathic ssage to Sun Yuhu. "I was saving you just now! From now on, don’t say a word. Let’s go!"
"Dad, why are you here?" Qian Duoduo started. "Oh right, this is Ning Xuan, a friend I just made. He’s even older than and still hasn’t reached the Heavenly..."
Qian Duoduo didn’t finish because Qian Wanyi rushed past him in a hurry.
"My dad’s not usually like this," Qian Duoduo explained, feeling a little guilty.
Ning Xuan seized the opportunity to ask Qian Duoduo, "Are the city gates strong?"
"What do you an?"
"Listen."
Qian Duoduo had barely cocked his ear when he felt the ground begin to tremble.
CRASH! RATTLE!
Objects along the street began to jump and clatter about. Then, tiles rained down from the rooftops, creating a cacophony of cracking and banging sounds.
"Is it... an earthquake?" Qian Duoduo muttered, not forgetting to pop so "candies" in his mouth to calm his nerves.
"It’s not an earthquake, it’s a beast tide!" Ning Xuan corrected him. After a look around, he couldn’t help but feel a pang of regret. This city was full of the old, the weak, and the infirm. If the city gates couldn’t hold, the consequences would be unimaginable.
"Quick, close the gates! All who can fight, to the walls!" Qian Wanyi shouted, now near the city entrance.
Ning Xuan was about to head for the city wall when Qian Duoduo grabbed him, whispering mysteriously, "Brother Ning, you’re only in the Human Realm, so you won’t be much help. Let’s go to my dad’s Secret Vault. It’s full of treasures, and if we only take a few, no one will ever notice!"
"You ungrateful brat! If you want to go, go by yourself!" Ning Xuan retorted, wrenching his arm free and sprinting toward the city gate.
The fatty was stunned for a mont, then quickly scrambled after him. Along the way, he didn’t forget to call out to Sun Yuhu and Kong Fusheng.
The two of them naturally made all sorts of excuses to refuse.
The fatty yelled at the top of his lungs, "Dad, there are two deserters over here!"
Sun Yuhu was speechless.
Kong Fusheng was speechless.
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