"Listen! Listen! Liang Shanzhu, do you hear him? How arrogant and presumptuous this brat is!"
"If we don't kill such a person, should we let the tiger return to the mountains?"
"Liang Shanzhu, this child must die."
The strong cultivators of Jiangnan City were provoked by Ling Fan's words and shouted in unison.
Hearing them, Lan Tianxiong and Master Wang were so enraged their heads felt like they would explode.
They never imagined that the various forces and families of Jiangnan City would be so malicious.
Not only did they not help, but they also kicked them while they were down.
"Good for you all! I thought that after decades of living in the same city, seeing each other often, we would have some friendship and camaraderie. But who knew you were all hypocritical, two-faced, shameless scoundrels!"
Lan Tianxiong spat out a mouthful of blood with disdain.
Tan Hui sneered, "Old Xiong, don't speak so harshly. What friendship or camaraderie is there between families? There is only strength and interest. If your Lan family were as strong as the City Lord's Mansion, we would naturally be respectful and submissive, not daring to offend or betray you. It's a pity your Lan family lacks that strength, and it's a pity that from now on, the Lan family will completely disappear from Jiangnan City."
Master Wang cursed, "Damn it, shut your bird mouth, don't dirty my ears!"
Tan Hui snorted coldly, his expression somewhat unpleasant, but he said no more.
After all, arguing with a group of people about to die was meaningless.
"Alas, as you say, you are indeed an arrogant person. It is almost impossible to subdue someone with such high aspirations. I cannot let you live."
Liang Hugu looked at Ling Fan, shook his head with some regret, and then stood up from his grand chair.
"Liang Shanzhu, you see clearly!"
"Liang Shanzhu, you are wise!"
The strong cultivators of Jiangnan City quickly flattered him.
"Please be careful, Liang Shanzhu. Although your strength is unparalleled, this Ling Fan is very strange. He is clearly only at the peak of the Meridian Opening realm, but his combat power far exceeds his apparent realm, and he has many methods that we have never seen or heard of before. Previously, at the Jiangnan City Martial Arts Competition, he used an incredibly powerful martial skill to defeat the young City Lord Li Qingxuan, who had just entered the Profound Gang realm!"
Tan Tianyang reminded him, revealing almost all of Ling Fan's intelligence.
The Lan family members, especially Lan Junjie, glared at him fiercely!
This brat was too insidious.
Liang Hugu nodded thoughtfully.
Being able to kill the Sky Dog, he was certainly no ordinary person.
However, he was not too worried.
He had absolute confidence in his own strength.
With a wave of his hand, the desk in front of him instantly turned to dust under an incredibly powerful force.
*Clack*
As his footsteps fell, everyone clearly felt the entire hall tremble, as if a peerless ferocious tiger had barged in.
Too terrifying.
When Liang Hugu truly displayed his late Profound Gang realm strength, everyone was terrified and their hearts pounded.
In front of Liang Hugu, they felt like a small boat in a raging storm, liable to be shattered by the terrifying fluctuations of power at any moment.
This was a peak figure standing at the apex of the five cities.
At this moment, even the elders of the various families and forces in the Profound Gang realm were silenced, awed by Liang Hugu's true strength.
"Ling Fan, don't say I'm bullying the young. Show me whatever skills you have."
Liang Hugu was enveloped in terrifying gang wind, his head held high, hands behind his back, his demeanor stern.
Ling Fan smiled.
A mere late Profound Gang realm cultivator from the lower realm, acting so high and mighty in front of him!
In his previous life, he could have killed countless ants like him with a gentle puff of air.
Even ten thousand or a million Liang Hugus combined would not be a fraction of the power he possessed in his past life.
He said contemptuously, "Liang Hugu, you think you are a peerless fierce tiger, but in my eyes, you are just a slightly larger ant. If I truly intended to kill you, I have myriad methods to defeat you in an instant. Do you believe me?"
"Damn, how dare he!"
"Arrogant!"
"Is he tired of living, daring to speak such wild words to Liang Shanzhu? Does he really think he's invincible?"
The guests from Jiangnan City were stunned by Ling Fan's words, almost disbelieving their ears.
Only Lan Xueyi, as if recalling something, had a flicker of brilliance in her beautiful eyes.
"Utterly arrogant!"
Liang Hugu was enraged and laughed.
He had roamed the Mogan Mountain for over a decade, defeating no less than fifty to a hundred Profound Gang realm cultivators. When had he ever suffered such contempt!
*Boom*
He moved, his powerful and unmatched martial gang qi surging out like a raging sea. Instantly, a gang qi fierce tiger, over ten meters in size, condensed above his head.
Yellow-grade high-rank martial skill, Tiger's Rend Sunset!
The moment this gang qi fierce tiger condensed, the entire hall was instantly enveloped by a terrifying pressure. Everyone's faces paled, their hearts pounding, feeling an incomparably terrifying destructive wave from the fierce tiger.
As long as Liang Hugu willed it, this move could completely obliterate everyone present!
"Go!"
Liang Hugu shouted softly, and the gang qi fierce tiger pounced.
The distance of several dozen feet was crossed in an instant, descending upon Ling Fan's head with an invincible, surging ferocity.
At this moment.
Ling Fan slowly raised his head.
His eyes narrowed, and the shape of the ferocious tiger was clearly reflected in his pupils.
Simultaneously, the red lotus mark on his eyeballs flashed, suddenly overlapping with the ferocious tiger.
*Boom!*
Surging flames instantly erupted from the ferocious tiger.
Before the gang qi fierce tiger could suppress him, it was reduced to ashes by the towering flames that shot up into the sky!
Demonic Eye of Heaven.
Red Lotus Eye Fire!
This scene made everyone's hearts tighten, as if grasped by an invisible hand.
Even Liang Hugu was startled, disbelief flashing in his eyes.
However, before he could react, Ling Fan's eyes had already fixed on him.
What kind of terrifying eyes were those?
Deep, boundless, cold, indifferent to everything...
And...
The two red lotus marks that reappeared on his eyeballs.
The moment he saw the red lotus marks on Ling Fan's pupils overlap with his figure, Liang Hugu's heart pounded with alarm, and he thought, "This is bad."
*Boom!*
Incredibly terrifying crimson flames instantly engulfed Liang Hugu.
Everyone only saw a flash of fire, and the dignified late Profound Gang realm Liang Hugu instantly turned into a human torch.
These flames were not the ordinary flames they usually used. Even though Liang Hugu attempted to shield himself with his martial gang qi or extinguish them with gang wind, they had no effect whatsoever.
These terrifying demonic flames were burning his flesh, bones, and even his true qi, intending to incinerate him from the inside out.
"Ah! Spare me!"
Liang Hugu screamed hysterically as he burned, rolling frantically on the ground, completely devoid of the demeanor of a top expert, looking more like a common ruffian throwing a tantrum.
"Stop burning me, please, spare my life!"
Liang Hugu was terrified and desperate to the extreme. Even though he was in the late Profound Gang realm, with strong vitality and surging martial gang qi, he couldn't withstand such burning.
At this moment, everyone was stunned.
A bone-chilling coldness shot from the base of everyone's spine to the crown of their heads.
Especially Liang Hugu's subordinates and the strong cultivators from the various families of Jiangnan City.
They were completely scared stiff, many of them trembling uncontrollably, and some timid ones even collapsed to the ground in fear!
That was the dignified late Profound Gang realm, a peerless powerhouse in Jiangnan City, capable of ranking among the top three or even rivaling the City Lord.
Yet, he was being burned to the point of crying for mercy by Ling Fan through some unknown means!
Ling Fan showed no signs of attacking throughout the entire process. He simply glanced at Liang Hugu, easily broke through Liang Hugu's full-power strike, and then turned Liang Hugu into a ball of flames...
Such methods, in their eyes, were as astonishing and earth-shattering as myths and legends!
At this moment, in their eyes, Ling Fan was no longer a seventeen or eighteen-year-old young man, but more terrifying than the most fearsome devil.
Ling Fan, however, paid no attention to these clowns.
His eyes were indifferent as he looked at Liang Hugu, who had been burned into submission.
"Liang Hugu, I ask you, did your subordinate Sky Dog kill my Lan family elder and attempt to defile my wife? I killed him in the Fire Crystal vein. Do you submit?"
Liang Hugu was already on the verge of death from the burning. Even his fake eye had melted, and flames spewed from his eye socket and mouth.
He quickly prostrated himself, his head touching the ground, "I submit, I submit! It was Sky Dog, that damned fool, who brought his own demise. He deserved to die!"
"Good."
"I ask you again, you seized my Lan family's foundation, injured my father-in-law and my friend Master Wang. I have now burned half your life, making you taste the pain of being consumed by supreme demonic flames. Do you submit?"
"I, I, I, Liang Hugu, had eyes but failed to recognize Mount Tai. Today I have fallen into your hands, and I sincerely submit. From now on, I dare not have any other intentions!"
Liang Hugu's buttocks were raised high, his body prostrated even lower and more humbly.
"Good. You previously said you wanted to subdue my father-in-law as a slave and make me serve you for life. Now I want you to be my servant, and only after serving me for a hundred years will I grant you freedom. Do you submit?"
As soon as Ling Fan said this, everyone was shocked.
Liang Hugu's body trembled violently, his expression struggling immensely.
But the pervasive pain on his body made him dare not hesitate any longer.
He bowed deeply, his body prostrated in full submission.
"Master, Liang Hugu submits! I am willing to serve you diligently!"