"Heh heh heh heh..." As the three parties were locked in a standoff, Yang Kai suddenly let out a strange laugh.
Zi Long furrowed his brow and turned his gaze over, asking with some displeasure, "Boy, what are you laughing at?"
Yang Kai merely cast him a cold look and said nothing.
Zi Long narrowed his eyes, a cold gleam flashing through them.
A mere Return to Void cultivator actually dared to ignore him — the boy clearly didn't know how high the heavens were or how deep the earth ran.
Though anger churned within him, Zi Long could still restrain himself. The same could not be said for Zi Donglai beside him, who yelled at Yang Kai in a low, irate voice: "Boy, didn't you hear my father ask you a question? Are you deaf?"
Yang Kai glanced at him, made a show of digging at his ear, then flicked in their direction as though flicking away nonexistent earwax. He sneered, "He asks, and I have to answer? Who does he think he is? And who do you think you are?"
Yang Kai figured he had no grudge against Zi Long or Zi Donglai, yet moments ago Zi Long had struck directly at him. If not for his own considerable strength, he would likely have met an untimely end. The other party was a two-layer Void King cultivator — attacking him was already bullying the weak, and what's more, it had been a sneak attack!
This had already stoked Yang Kai's fury, and Zi Donglai's domineering arrogance only made him look even more contemptible.
So Yang Kai showed the father and son no courtesy whatsoever.
Hearing such insolent words, the killing intent in Zi Long's eyes grew even stronger. Zi Donglai, pushed to his limit, laughed back in rage: "Good, you've got guts! It's been a long time since this Young Master encountered someone with this much nerve. You just wait — in half an hour, this Young Master will personally take your life!"
"Zi Donglai, is it?" Yang Kai glanced sideways at him with a look of pure contempt. "I wonder if you've ever heard a certain saying."
"What?" Zi Donglai sneered as he looked at Yang Kai.
"A dog that bites... doesn't bark. The ones who yap like you usually can't bite at all!" Yang Kai let out a heh-heh laugh.
"You're calling me a dog?!" Zi Donglai's face turned ice-cold, his voice dropping to a sinister growl.
"So what if I am?" Yang Kai erupted in laughter, looking half-mad as he made faces and gesticulated wildly, egging him on further. "Come hit me! Come on, hit me! If you've got the guts, come kill me, you idiot!"
Zi Donglai was about to explode with rage.
Consider his position — he was the Young Master of Zi Star, high in status and standing, and his cultivation was nothing to scoff at. Wherever he went, people fawned over him like stars surrounding the moon. One word from him and anyone who displeased him would never live to see the next sunrise.
When had he ever been provoked like this without being able to do a thing about it?
Any other time, he would have already rushed over to teach Yang Kai a lesson. But in this godforsaken place — within the herb valley shrouded by the Seven Luminances Sacred Light — no matter how badly he wanted to humiliate Yang Kai, no matter how fiercely he wanted to vent his frustration, it remained nothing more than a wish.
He simply couldn't penetrate the Seven Luminances Sacred Light to reach Yang Kai.
Never before had he encountered something so infuriating. He felt his chest constrict with pent-up frustration, wishing he could really charge over and pummel Yang Kai into the ground.
Zi Donglai stared at Yang Kai with venomous eyes, hatred blazing like fire.
"Idiot!" Yang Kai snorted coldly, spat in their direction, and looked at them with undisguised disdain.
"You just wait. In half an hour, I'll make you understand the consequences of provoking this Young Master," Zi Donglai snarled viciously.
"Is that all you can do — talk?" Yang Kai looked at him with contempt.
Zi Donglai's expression darkened further, clearly about to say more, but Zi Long shot him a glare and said calmly, "Why waste your breath on him? In half an hour, he'll be a dead man. What's the point of saying so much to a corpse?"
Zi Donglai's heart skipped a beat. Realizing his father was somewhat displeased with his behavior, he quickly composed himself and nodded respectfully. Though he stopped wasting words on Yang Kai, his gaze only grew more sinister — clearly he was already calculating how he would deal with Yang Kai in half an hour's time, to wash away this humiliation.
"Ha ha ha ha!" From the side, Xu Wei burst into hearty laughter, clapping as he laughed. "Amusing, amusing — truly quite amusing, boy. You're a real character, I have to say. I find myself suddenly quite interested in you."
He had been standing not far away all along, watching coldly as Yang Kai brazenly offended Zi Long and Zi Donglai without a shred of fear. He was secretly delighted, though he also thought Yang Kai's mind might be a little off.
Did the boy not realize that once the Seven Luminances Sacred Light receded, he would be as good as dead? And judging by the insults and provocations just now, Zi Long would certainly not simply kill him and be done with it — he would surely drag it out and make the boy suffer.