"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"...
The intermittent sounds of impacts still echoed within Wushan Town. In just a short while, no more gravel remained in the sky; the green-clad middle-aged man had shattered them all completely. But the people of Wushan Town had no energy left to pay attention to the battle in the sky.
"Lord Hillman, the situation in Wushan Town is very bad. Just now... Lord Hillman? What's wrong with you?" Hillman rushed into the mansion and started to report, but seeing Hogg's dazed, vacant expression, he couldn't help but speak up.
Hogg's body trembled, and his mind only then returned to clarity. "Lin Lei!" Hogg instantly dashed towards the direction of the storeroom, his speed terrifyingly fast. Hillman saw this and immediately guessed something, chasing after him.
Before Hogg even reached it, the pile of rubble trapping Steward Xili, Lin Lei, Wotton, and the others was blasted apart.
Steward Xili straightened up from within it.
"Uncle Xili, how is it?" Hogg's voice trembled slightly. At the same time, he looked towards the figure lying prone, and the first thing he saw was a large patch of blood on Lin Lei's head. The bloodstain was so glaring that Hogg felt a momentary dizziness and his whole body swayed involuntarily.
At this moment, Lin Lei was still propping himself up with his hands on the ground, preventing himself from crushing Wotton beneath him.
"Father." A young, tender voice came from the very bottom.
Wotton slowly crawled out from under Lin Lei. The boy was small and had been completely protected by Lin Lei, so he was completely unharmed.
"Brother, brother, what's wrong?" Wotton nudged Lin Lei's body.
"Lin Lei, Lin Lei." Hogg's voice was also a little unsteady.
Steward Xili spoke up from the side: "I was still too slow. Although I managed to deflect one piece of rubble a bit, it still struck Young Master Lin Lei's head. However, the impact shouldn't have been too severe."
"I... I'm okay." A low, hoarse voice sounded. Lin Lei struggled to lift his head and looked at his father beside him, forcing his mouth into a weak smile.
In that instant, seeing his son's smile, Hogg's tears flowed straight down.
Lin Lei pushed himself up into a sitting position. His clothes were stained with a large patch of blood, and his face and neck were also streaked with it. The stone had hit his head, and Lin Lei had bled quite a bit. At this moment, he felt a bit dizzy, but he kept looking at his father, his voice somewhat weak: "Father, you're crying."
"I'm... it's nothing." A trembling, emotional smile appeared on Hogg's face.
"Wotton? Why were you at the storeroom entrance just now?" Lin Lei rubbed his little brother's head, his tone slightly reproachful.
Wotton knew he had made a mistake and lowered his small head: "Brother, I'm sorry."
Steward Xili said from the side: "It's my fault. This disaster came too suddenly. I had just brought Wotton to the storeroom when I saw Young Master Lin Lei in danger, so I immediately went to rescue him. I didn't expect that in that brief moment, a huge rock would crash onto the storeroom. It's all my fault."
"Boom!"
Suddenly, another violent tremor shook everything.
Everyone's expression changed as they looked towards the eastern sky. There, a giant hovered in mid-air, nearly ten meters tall, with bulging muscles, a cold expression, and a body entirely of earth-yellow. This earth-yellow giant was locked in constant battle with the green-clad middle-aged man, and the booming sounds of their clashes were like thunder.
From the sound of their impacts alone, one could imagine the terrifying power of the earth-yellow giant. Every strike of the giant far exceeded the force of those ten-thousand-jin boulders.
Lin Lei gazed at the scene in the sky with envy. "That earth-yellow giant... it was probably summoned using magic by that gray-robed man, wasn't it?" Lin Lei could guess. After all, that gray-robed man was a powerful Saint-level mage.