CHAPTER 345: CHAPTER 42: CHAOS IN THE CITY

After entering Martial Emperor City, the two began to inquire about Ling Yue Sword Immortal, Feng Ning, both intentionally and unintentionally.

After the other party entered the city, whether they stayed here or returned to the Ancient Country, they would definitely leave traces.

And the result... did not disappoint the two of them either.

Very soon they heard that the disciple of the Heaven-Sundering Sword Ancestor had entered the Feng Family.

But it seemed they were not there to acknowledge ancestors or return to the clan, so the purpose was unknown.

"Let’s go, to the Feng Family."

Lin Jing and Gao Sheng exchanged a glance and headed straight for the Feng Family.

At the same time, at the Lei Clan, one of the eight major families of Martial Emperor City.

A powerful aura soared into the sky, accompanied by an angry shout, but was quickly suppressed by several other auras.

"Lei Qianren, what are you trying to do?"

Several elders restrained the middle-aged man with hair flying and electric arcs, issuing a stern warning.

"Lin Jing, the one who killed my son, has entered Martial Emperor City!!"

"The one who killed Lei Zhen was clearly a young man called Fire Dragon Alchemist, not the Demon Court Saint Child!" several clan elders sternly said.

The disheveled middle-aged man looked at them coldly: "Now the other party doesn’t even bother to hide his identity, are you still deceiving yourselves? That Fire Dragon Alchemist is the Demon Court Saint Child, Lin Jing!"

"I know you don’t want to offend the Demon Court because of this."

"As a member of the Lei Clan, I should also prioritize the big picture. Therefore, whether that Demon Court Saint Child was in Qingzhou or the Western Desert, I didn’t go looking for trouble, but now that he ignores this grudge and comes right under my nose, do you still want me to endure it?"

"Hmph, you’re just a Divinity Transformation, what can you do if you can’t endure it, the Demon Court Saint Child’s Guardian is the ancestor of the Thunder Dragon Race, do you think you can harm him in the slightest??? You’re courting death and want to implicate the family!"

"That is my son, and also the Lei Race’s prodigy!!!" Lei Qianren exclaimed: "Ever since the Demon Court Saint Child appeared in the Western Desert, I have always monitored the surroundings of Martial Emperor City. I can sense through thunder that the Thunder Dragon Race’s ancestor is not present, and moreover, the Artifact Spirit of Martial Emperor City would not permit a Void Profound Demon Ancestor to enter the city!"

"So this is my only chance."

He erupted with mana, repelling the crowd.

"From today, I, Lei Qianren, cut ties with the Lei Clan, I leave the clan, and what I do next has nothing to do with the clan."

After saying this, he got up and left, his true name disappearing from the family register. Upon seeing this, the expressions of several clan elders changed, but just as they were about to stop him, a voice suddenly came to their ears.

"Let him go."

"Ancestor!!" Several clan elders looked incredulously in one direction, not understanding why their own Void Profound Ancestor would allow Lei Qianren to indulge in such foolish behavior.

"This is fate." The ancestor of the Lei Race sighed in retreat, perhaps some cultivators, when facing a great threat, would decisively abandon everything to save their own life, including kinship, but there were exceptions, the weight of Lei Qianren’s son in his heart clearly surpassed everything else.

Even if avenging this matter was inherently unreasonable for Lei Qianren...

In the struggle of the Grotto Heaven, life and death are up to fate, but this understanding is just from the perspective of outsiders, it doesn’t apply to the relatives of the deceased.

"Since he has severed ties with the clan, we need not concern ourselves with him, no matter the outcome... if the Demon Court wants revenge, then let them come. Our Lei Clan may not be the opponent of the Demon Court, but the alliance still stands; the City Lord’s Mansion and the other seven families will not stand idly by."

Back then, the City Lord’s Mansion of Martial Emperor City and the eight families signed an alliance, sharing glory and loss, and if one ally suffered catastrophe, everyone must assist with full force, otherwise, their own fortune would suffer backlash, and their bloodline inheritance would be irrevocably doomed.

It is for this reason that the eight families of Martial Emperor City, though they occasionally decline, will never perish.

......

Martial Emperor City, Feng Family.

Lin Jing and Gao Sheng stood outside Patriarch Feng’s Mansion waiting.

Earlier, they revealed their identities to the guards. Although Gao Sheng’s identity wasn’t much, Lin Jing’s identity made the guard tremble and quickly rush inside.

"Speaking of which, the famous Demon Court Saint Child didn’t draw attention til he revealed his identity, remarkably, no one noticed you along the way!!" Gao Sheng was surprised.

"You forgot, Illusion Technique." Lin Jing smiled slightly, this avatar of his was conserving power, though the illusion power wasn’t strong, it was enough to easily prevent some lower-level cultivators from bothering him.

"I see..." Gao Sheng was about to say something when Lin Jing suddenly squinted his eyes. His squirrel avatar, which was nodding off on his shoulder like an ornament without a presence, suddenly opened its eyes, jumped towards the bewildered Gao Sheng, and instantly utilized space transmission to carry Gao Sheng away through space jump.

At the same time, a thunderclap streaked across the sky outside the Feng Family, followed by a thunderous voice falling in the city.

"Demon Court Saint Child, blood feud for killing my son, regardless of the reason, irreconcilable—today, I, Lei Qianren, represent myself alone to take your life!!!!"

Boom!!!

A thunder blade, incorporating the entirety of a Divinity Transformation powerhouse’s abilities, intentions, and mind, descended from the dark clouds, crushing down on Lin Jing, the furious lightning instantly locked Lin Jing inside an electric prison. Gao Sheng, knocked away by the squirrel, widened his eyes, stretching out his hand in mid-air from afar... reaching towards the thunder-enshrouded Lin Jing.

Previously, when entering the city, Lin Jing mentioned he had an enemy in Martial Emperor City, which didn’t concern Gao Sheng at the time, but now, Gao Sheng couldn’t believe that this person truly had the audacity to directly attack the Demon Court Saint Child!!

It should be known that, to maintain the dignity of the Demon Court Saint Child, the Demon Court Demon Emperor had personally destroyed a sect guarded by a sage, and yet as a Divinity Transformation from the Thunder Race, how dare you!!!

"Don’t mind me, save him!!!" Gao Sheng couldn’t understand why, at this crucial moment, the squirrel didn’t escape with Lin Jing and why it bothered with him.

"Squeak..." The ever-resting squirrel avatar clicked its tongue, being inconsequential, just an avatar, dying was no big deal, though living avatars were useful, dead ones also had value; at that time, there could be a good opportunity to extort the Lei Clan.

Moreover... in this instant...

Even though the one facing "life and death crisis" was himself, Lin Jing gazed at the thunder blade descending from the sky, and still somewhat admired the holder of the thunder blade above the clouds, not thinking the other’s actions wrong.

However, appreciation aside, Lin Jing, later on, did not intend to let the other off.

By the Immortal Burial Volcano, the powerful aura on Lin Jing’s original body surged, startling the Thunder Dragon Ancestor guarding there, but the next moment, Lin Jing’s original aura quietly extinguished.

Outside the Feng Family, as the thunder blade was about to crush Lin Jing’s illusion avatar to pieces, within the Feng Family, a terrifying power of the Void Profound surged, seemingly to protect Lin Jing from this strike.

It wasn’t the Feng Family’s Void Profound Ancestor, but a Ghostly power that awed countless cultivators in the city.

"Courting death." They saw a Red-dressed Ghost Bride appear in the sky, annihilating the mighty thunder blade instantly. Above the clouds, Lei Qianren rejoiced that the Thunder Dragon Ancestor was indeed absent, but the next moment, a ghostly hand pierced through his chest, leaving him bewildered, gazing in disbelief at the frightening aura of the red-clad female ghost.

"Void Profound Ghost."

"No way, how could there be a Void Profound Ghost inside Martial Emperor City..."

In an instant, the successive changes in Martial Emperor City rendered many cultivators astonished... a Void Profound Ghost, such a thing appearing in Martial Emperor City, many cultivators realized that the Artifact Spirit of Martial Emperor City was probably having issues, otherwise, it would never allow a Void Profound Ghost to enter the city.

"Wait, it’s not it, why are you here? Seeking trouble, don’t cause havoc."