Faced with an Innate Expert, most people would tremble in fear, but Huang Mao seemed to have no concept of fear. His words were like a thunderclap, leaving everyone stunned.

In truth, Huang Mao wasn't that brave. Everything he said was just repeating Xiao Long's words. Whatever Xiao Long told him to say, he would say.

Liao Huoyun was momentarily stunned by Huang Mao's words, and when he came to his senses, he was furious.

"What did you say?!"

Looking up at Liao Huoyun in mid-air, Huang Mao smirked disdainfully, "Just an early-stage Innate Martial Master dares to act arrogant in front of me. Leave before I change my mind, or die!"

Everyone's mouths twitched at these words. Just an early-stage Innate Martial Master? My heavens! Innate Martial Masters were the top experts in Tianfeng Kingdom, yet he spoke of them so dismissively!

People thought the masked man was insane; only a madman would say such things.

Liao Huoyun was even more enraged. The last person who dared speak to him like that was the Tianfeng Pill King from the Capital. At that time, he had wanted to kill him but held back.

And now, just days later, another person dared to speak to him like this, and it was a mere ant. Liao Huoyun felt unprecedented anger filling his chest, almost exploding.

"I, Liao Huoyun, swear to the heavens, I will break your teeth one by one, pull out your tongue, and make you wish for death!"

With that, he reached out, and the spiritual energy of the world gathered instantly, forming a massive red hand of spiritual energy, pressing down on Huang Mao with terrifying force.

With a mere gesture, he manipulated the spiritual energy of the world, forming a hand.

This was the terror of an Innate Expert!

The power of the spiritual energy hand was countless times stronger than the True Qi hand Xue Wuqing could produce! One was man-made, the other was the force of the world, incomparable.

"Sigh!" Wan Jianfeng sighed, closing his eyes in pain.

Provoking Liao Huoyun like this, even if he was a third-grade alchemist, he couldn't save him. He had planned to activate the Qianlong Formation to hold out for a while, but now it seemed unnecessary.

Having strength and arrogance is called dominance; lacking strength and being arrogant is called seeking death.

Wan Jianfeng planned in his mind to seek forgiveness from the Fire Cloud Sect after Xiao was killed, compensate with a large sum of money, give up some shops, and seek forgiveness. After all, they still needed to make a living in Fire Cloud City.

The crowd at the auction was full of emotion. It was their first time seeing someone so arrogant. His courage was admirable, but unfortunately, he was about to turn to dust, becoming a laughingstock for future idle talk.

Just when everyone thought Huang Mao was about to be crushed into minced meat, the spiritual energy hand suddenly stopped and then dissipated without a trace.

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"What happened!" someone immediately shouted.

"Look at the Fire Cloud Sect Master!"

Everyone's eyes turned to Liao Huoyun in mid-air, only to see him clenching his teeth, his expression pained, as if enduring some kind of torment.

What was happening?

Wan Jianfeng's eyes narrowed. He could feel Liao Huoyun's aura rapidly declining.

"I kindly warned you, since you won't leave, then stay!"

Huang Mao stomped the ground, his body shooting into the air, instantly reaching above Liao Huoyun's head.

In the next moment, under the shocked gazes of everyone, Huang Mao raised a dark stick high and smashed it down on Liao Huoyun's head!

Thud!!!

A dull sound echoed in everyone's ears.

The Innate Expert, Liao Huoyun, without any resistance, was struck on the head, clean and swift, then fell like a meteor, crashing into the auction hall.

Boom!

Liao Huoyun was embedded into the floor, creating a human-shaped hole, lying there like a dead dog.

Silence!

Everyone's minds couldn't process it. An Innate Expert, Liao Huoyun, was struck down by a masked man at the first level of the Qi Condensing Realm???

Was this a dream?

Just minutes ago, Liao Huoyun was imposing, and in the blink of an eye, he was struck down by a Qi Condensing Realm ant he could have crushed. This was too unbelievable, too shocking!

Gu Sha and Vulture were dumbfounded. A figure even their sect master found troublesome was struck down by an unknown nobody?

"Sect Master!" Xue Wuqing finally reacted, rushing to the pit to help Liao Huoyun up.

Liao Huoyun's hair was disheveled, his face pale, a large red gash on his head, staining his hair red. He looked neither human nor ghost, with no trace of an Innate Expert's demeanor.

Ignoring the wound on his head, Liao Huoyun focused his expression, seemingly suppressing something.

Liao Huoyun raised his hand, striking his chest, vomiting a foul-smelling black blood. Only then did Xue Wuqing realize the sect master was poisoned.

"Huang Mao, time to retreat. This ant has some skills; the Bone-Corroding Powder and Ghost Fire Seed didn't kill him, what a pity."

Xiao Long's voice echoed in his mind, and Huang Mao grinned, "Haha! Lucky for him! That strike was too satisfying. When I get back, I must brag to Da Hei and Er Hei that I struck the Fire Cloud Sect Master, and he didn't dare fight back!"

That strike had seized the moment of Liao Huoyun's inner Qi chaos, a fatal blow. Otherwise, with Huang Mao's strength, he couldn't even break Liao Huoyun's protective True Qi, let alone crack his head.

The Soul-Reviving Pill Xiao Long auctioned had been tampered with in various ways, tailored for Liao Huoyun, a perfect tool for killing and showing off.

Liao Qingfeng, that foolish boy, spent millions of spirit stones to buy a poison pill to harm his father. If Liao Huoyun knew the truth, he might be half-dead with rage.

"Sect Master, are you alright?" Xue Wuqing asked worriedly.

"Back off!" Liao Huoyun urged anxiously.

Sensing something wrong, Xue Wuqing quickly retreated. In an instant, Liao Huoyun's body erupted in a large burst of fire, ghostly flames engulfing him from inside out, spontaneously combusting, just like the recently deceased Liao Qingfeng!

Only then did everyone realize that all of this was the work of the masked man!!!

No wonder he was so fearless, no wonder he didn't fear Innate Experts!

Being burned by such strange flames, even an Innate Expert would lose half their life.

"This... this... how is it possible!"

Wan Jianfeng was already speechless. As the branch president of Qianlong Bank, it was the first time he showed such an expression.

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The ridiculous part was, he thought he had saved someone by intervening, but even if he had done nothing, Lord Xiao wouldn't have lost a single hair.