Zhao Shuning, dead?
Silence, deathly silence.
Time was slowly passing by, and no one dared to break the quietness with a sound.
Li Yan sat down and continued to drink the wine in his hand, as if what he had just said was just an ordinary sentence.
Old Master Zhao's face had turned ashen.
"Lord Li, this joke isn't funny."
"Smack!"
Li Yan slammed the teacup down on the stone table. Under the powerful force, the cup immediately shattered into pieces. Looking at Li Yan's expression, there was not the slightest bit of fluctuation.
"Old Master Zhao, do you think I, Li Yan, look like someone who likes to joke?"
There was intense hostility in their conversation.
Zhao Huai's breathing suddenly became disordered.
His eyes were fixed tightly on Li Yan, trying to find traces of lying on his face.
"What do you mean?"
The young man's voice was pleasant and tender, filled with anger. The tone of interrogation was self - evident. His words quickly attracted everyone's attention.
"Old Master Zhao, your family education is really good. When the elders are talking, the juniors dare to interrupt casually?"
"I'm asking you one more time. Is what you just said true?"
The young man was dressed in a white long gown. On his gentle and jade - like face, there was now a chilling expression. His eyes were like those of a wild beast. Due to anger, bloodshot eyes were faintly showing. It seemed that if Li Yan said a single wrong word, he was ready to pounce on him.
"Huai'er, calm down."
"Huai'er, things aren't at their worst yet. Don't be impulsive."
Zhao Zheng and Lin Miner quickly grabbed Zhao Huai. When Zhao Zheng's hand touched his arm, Zhao Huai, whose eyes were almost turning red, finally came to his senses.
Looking at the so - out - of - control Zhao Huai, Lin Miner felt extremely heart - ache.
Since childhood, Huai'er had been in poor health. His personality was just like his physical condition. He never spoke loudly when talking to others. Huai'er was picked up by them from the wild mountains. He was taciturn before the age of six. It was not until Shuning was born that his personality changed a little.
When getting along with Shuning, Huai'er became more smiling and talkative.
Everyone in the Zhao family knew that the usually elegant Zhao Huai would lose control only when it came to matters related to Zhao Shuning.
Li Yan glanced at Zhao Huai from the corner of his eye.
"A sickly young man in his teens dares to talk to me. Old Master Zhao, if your Zhao family can't discipline this child, you might as well hand him over to me. Otherwise, I'm afraid it will delay the Zhao family's progress in earning spirit stones in the business world in the future."
It was such an obvious threat.
However, everyone present was angry but dared not speak out.
Old Master Zhao's hands and feet were trembling at this moment. Zhao Xue behind him was supporting his father's body.
"Lord Li, you mentioned Ning'er. What happened to her?"
"Dead."
Dead?
Just these two simple words.
"You're lying!"
In an instant, the young man, who had just calmed down, had his pupils suddenly turn red. The white clothes on his body fluttered up from the ground. At that moment, the young man's ten fingers became even more slender.
A layer of ice formed over Zhao Huai's gentle eyes.
"You're lying!"
The weak young man, in a complete change from his usual self, became crazy and violent. Besides Li Yan, all the villagers in Qinghui Town were shocked.
"This is - this is what kind of monster -"
Li Yan sneered mockingly. Then, with a wave of his big hand, hundreds of figures hidden in the night suddenly emerged.
"Lord Li, what are you going to do?"
"What am I going to do? Isn't it time to tear off the mask now? I really didn't expect that the monsters cultivated by your Zhao family are not just Zhao Shuning."
Old Master Zhao stood up. He clenched his fists tightly, and the powerful aura of his spiritual weapon immediately burst out.
The Zhao family disciples behind him also immediately showed their spiritual power aura.
"What? A small Zhao family still wants to fight back desperately before dying? It's too late! You're not worthy!"
Li Yan let out a long howl to the sky. Then, he spread out his hands, and his body actually slowly rose without any external force.
"Break!"
With a roar, the fighting strength released by Li Yan actually broke the spiritual power of several spiritual pharmacists on the stage one by one. On the entire stage, only Old Master Zhao and his several children were still holding their ground on the battlefield.
"Puff!"
Several spiritual pharmacist disciples cultivated by the Zhao family all vomited blood and fell to the ground under Li Yan's powerful aura.
"Li Yan, you never intended to leave a way out for my Zhao family from the very beginning."
"Leave a way out for you? If it weren't for your Zhao Shuning seriously injuring my son during the trial, he wouldn't have been diagnosed by the alchemist as having no hope of rising in spiritual power in the future. This is all thanks to Zhao Shuning. What she owes my Can'er can't be compensated even if she's dead. So, I want your entire Zhao family to pay for my son's spiritual power."
After Li Yan finished speaking, he lifted up his hands filled with thick spiritual power.
The spiritual power was very abundant. In Li Yan's hands, it was like a living thing, flowing regularly. Then, the spiritual power gathered into a huge precious sword. Li Yan's eyes became sinister, and then he showed half of his yellowish teeth, as if he was enjoying the pleasure of killing.
"Kill!"
As soon as the words were spoken, the huge precious sword slashed down fiercely from the high platform.
Old Master Zhao quickly used his own spiritual power and fought against it together with other members of the Zhao family. However, their abilities were far inferior to those of the Li family. So the protective shield formed by Old Master Zhao and his group started to show cracks in less than a moment. Then, Li Yan in mid - air flew forward and injected new spiritual power into the flying precious sword. Along with his body pressing down, the huge precious sword took the opportunity to break through the protective shield of the Zhao family.
"Bang!"
A heavy sound echoed in everyone's ears.
The protective shield formed by the gathered spiritual power of everyone was simply broken by Li Yan alone.
He must have already reached the level of a fourth - stage spiritual pharmacist. It was just a matter of time before he made a breakthrough.
When the protective shield was broken, the first one to be injured was Old Master Zhao.
Old Master Zhao's body was like a floating leaf. At the moment when the protective shield shattered, the impact force directly made his body soar into the air, and then he fell heavily on the high platform.
Without the protective armor, Old Master Zhao's body couldn't bear such torture. After landing, he felt a tightness in his chest and a fishy sweetness in his mouth. Then, a mouthful of turbid fresh blood slowly flowed down from the corner of his mouth.
Seeing this, Li Yan slowly landed from mid - air.
He walked slowly in the direction of the Zhao family.