"I'm going all in!"
But just as his body began to transform, there was a loud thud as
Though Shen Ming held a relatively high position within the Sacred Family, he was ultimately just an elder responsible for administrative duties. He had no aptitude for combat whatsoever, and his cultivation had barely reached the Silver rank. One punch from Lu Piao was enough to put him flat on the ground.
Before long, everyone on Shen Ming's side was sprawled across the ground in a tangled mess.
The Spirit Puppet fluttered up and landed on
"Nie Li, what should we do with these people?" Lu Piao pressed his foot against Shen Ming's head and looked up at Nie Li, asking.
"Let me go! If you dare kill me, our Sacred Family will absolutely never let you off!" Shen Ming struggled continuously. As an elder overseer of the Sacred Family, when had he ever suffered such humiliation?
However, ever since the Genius Tournament, his standing in the Sacred Family had long since fallen from what it once was.
"You vicious old man, I've heard all about your Sacred Family's dark reputation. You think threatening us scares us? Keep shouting and we'll bury you right here!" Lu Piao snorted twice. He had long despised the people of the Sacred Family, and stepping on them beneath his feet today brought him immense satisfaction.
Hearing Lu Piao's words, Shen Ming immediately fell silent.
"That old geezer is pretty afraid of death, huh!" Lu Piao said with a chuckle.
"Take Shen Ming and that one with us. Let the rest go!" Nie Li pointed toward Overseer Yunhua in the distance.
"Why let these people go?" Lu Piao furrowed his brows, thoroughly frustrated. It had taken so much effort to knock them all unconscious—releasing them seemed like such a waste.
"I have my own plan!" Nie Li said with a mysterious smile. "Those three Gold rank fighters were injured by the Spirit Puppet. Without several years—or even a decade or two—they won't be able to recover their cultivation! As for these Silver rank ones, they pose no threat to us whatsoever. Letting them go is fine!"
"So we caught the two bosses—that's not bad at all! Where should we go now? The
"Even if we hand them both over to the City Lord, it wouldn't do much good. The Sacred Family would probably just come and take them back. Let's bring them to the Alchemist Association!" Nie Li thought for a moment and said. He'd hand them over to
Shen Ming and Overseer Yunhua—one was a trusted confidant of the Sacred Family's patriarch
"Let's go!"
The four of them departed together, hauling the tightly bound Shen Ming and Overseer Yunhua as they sped toward the Alchemist Association.
Once they arrived at the Alchemist Association, Nie Li and the others handed Shen Ming and Overseer Yunhua over to Yang Xin to be held and interrogated at leisure.
The Sacred Family.
"You useless bunch! So many of you, and you couldn't even catch a few children!" Shen Hong sat upon his towering seat and slammed the armrest into splinters with a loud crack, his fury unmistakable.
"Patriarch, spare us! We never expected that those few children already had Silver rank cultivation. The strongest among them had even reached Gold rank—Overseer Yunhua fell at his hands too! On top of that, they had some kind of strange bird, and even three Gold rank fighters couldn't match it!" Several people kowtowed to Shen Hong in succession.
Shen Hong's face darkened. This situation was genuinely beyond even his expectations. Who could have imagined that four Gold rank and twenty-three Silver rank fighters would fail to capture a group of teenagers? He had sent so many people, and they still failed—the opponents were clearly more capable than anticipated!
What enraged Shen Hong the most, however, was that Nie Li and the others had actually taken Shen Ming and Yunhua captive.
Capturing those two was like suddenly seizing Shen Hong by his vital weak point!
Shen Ming had served the Sacred Family for many years and knew far too many things he shouldn't. And as for Yunhua, he knew about the Sacred Family's secret dealings with the Dark Guild. Shen Hong would have preferred it if Nie Li and the others had simply killed them both—that would have been fine. The loss of a few Silver and Gold rank fighters meant nothing to him, but Nie Li had taken them alive!
It seemed that kid must have learned something. Shen Hong's narrowed eyes brimmed with malice. A thorn like Nie Li had to be eliminated—you couldn't leave such a threat alive!
"You're pushing me to kill you. Do you really think that hiding inside the City Lord's Mansion means I can't touch you? You underestimate the power of my Sacred Family far too much!" A frigid gleam radiated from Shen Hong's eyes. Until Nie Li was dead, the hatred in his heart could never be quelled.
"Find out where Shen Ming and Yunhua are being held. And investigate everyone who has had any contact with Nie Li—find out their backgrounds and origins! And the Tian Hen Family—don't think that the Alchemist Association's protection means you can ignore our Sacred Family. Send word to the Dark Guild: the moment anyone from the Tian Hen Family leaves their territory, kill them without mercy!" Deep, cold killing intent blazed within Shen Hong's piercing eyes.