Chapter Six: Building Him a Grave
The grueling footrace had lasted an entire day. Huang Liang was panting heavily, utterly exhausted by the relentless pace. He had reached his limit. In contrast, Lin Hao was spirited and refreshed, showing no sign of fatigue, even seeming to desire more.
“Brother Hao, I’m truly impressed,” Huang Liang said with utmost admiration, feeling as if Lin Hao were no ordinary man.
Green mountains and a clear lake stretched before them.
Huang Liang sat on a large stone by the lake to rest, while Lin Hao stood nearby and calmly asked, “Tell me, who sent you all the way to Tianbao City to eliminate me?”
Huang Liang took a deep breath, his expression unchanged. He had been waiting for Lin Hao to ask, and he had no intention of hiding anything.
Just as Huang Liang was about to speak, three figures appeared, approaching from the other side of the mountain.
In an instant, Huang Liang sprang to his feet without hesitation.
“Brother Hao, the people who came to kill you are here,” Huang Liang warned.
Lin Hao frowned, eyes fixed on the three. They had spotted them and quickened their pace, soon arriving right in front of Lin Hao and Huang Liang.
“Huang Liang, how is the task that Senior Brother Li assigned you progressing?” a young man in a black robe asked.
All three were young, around twenty years old. Two of them were on par with Huang Liang’s cultivation—both at the ninth level of the Meridian Opening Stage. The one who spoke, clad in black, emanated a profound aura, already a formidable Qi Sea Realm practitioner.
“Is that discarded prince of the Hou family dead? Who is he?” another asked, his gaze shifting toward Lin Hao.
“I am the so-called discarded prince of the Hou family you speak of,” Lin Hao said, arms crossed, his expression indifferent as he stared at the three.
Their eyes all turned sharply toward him, Lin Hao clearly sensing the fiery excitement mixed with anticipation in their gaze.
“You’re that lowly waste, Lin Hao,” one sneered.
“Huang Liang, what are you doing? Senior Brother Li sent you to Tianbao City, yet you failed the mission and even traveled with this trash,” another scolded.
“Fortunately, Senior Brother Li prepared backup and sent the three of us to check on things. Since you failed, we’ll take over the mission. Let me make it clear: any great merit from this will have nothing to do with you, Huang Liang.”
Lin Hao finally understood the situation. He was a prized target now—whoever killed him would gain tremendous credit, which could be used to curry favor with Lin Han and his maternal family.
In Tianbao City, he was a carefree young master, living leisurely. Now, just stepping outside his door, these people branded him as a discarded prince, lowly and worthless.
It was unbearably harsh.
Suddenly—
With a flash, Lin Hao moved.
He stepped forward, the impact of his Divine Movement Technique staggering in its force. With a full-powered punch, he struck.
The youth who had insulted him barely had time to react before Lin Hao’s fist smashed his head to pieces.
Blood and brain matter splattered everywhere, even onto the faces of the other two, warm and sticky.
The headless body collapsed, limbs twitching wildly.
The entire scene unfolded in an instant; none present could react in time.
Everything had happened too fast—Lin Hao struck without warning, his power terrifying.
The other two finally reacted, wiping blood from their faces, mechanically turning to look at the corpse as if in disbelief.
“Lin Hao, you—”
“Sky-Overturning Seal!”
With a thunderous roar, a golden seal, about a foot square, appeared above their heads, descending with lightning speed as Lin Hao shouted.
The opponents were Qi Sea Realm practitioners; Lin Hao, at the seventh level of the Meridian Opening Stage, dared not be careless. After killing one with a punch, he unleashed his Sky-Overturning Seal.
Two agonized screams echoed as the seal crashed down, instantly pulverizing two disciples of the Tai Xuan Sect into a bloody pulp. Even the first-level Qi Sea Realm youth had no strength to retaliate.
“This is…”
Lin Hao stared at his palms, momentarily stunned.
Lin Zhen Nan had told him that the Sky-Overturning Seal was a basic combat technique.
Though Lin Hao had not trained other techniques, could such power really come from a basic move?
Moreover, he had only just begun learning it.
His Supreme Divine Meridian was unrivaled, his true Qi far surpassing others at his level by an unknown magnitude. Yet after that strike, his true Qi was nearly drained.
Facing Qi Sea Realm practitioners, Lin Hao had no confidence, so he had gone all out with the Sky-Overturning Seal.
Looking at the two crushed bodies, Lin Hao muttered to himself: are Qi Sea Realm fighters really this weak?
Or am I simply too strong?
Nearby, Huang Liang’s soul seemed to have flown away from shock.
If at first he had only submitted to Lin Hao out of fear of Lin Yang and Lin Shuang, now, standing so close, he felt an invisible aura of kingship emanating from the young man, pressing down on him, suffocating.
Seventh level Meridian Opening Stage, instantly killing two ninth level Meridian Opening Stage disciples and one first-level Qi Sea Realm practitioner.
What an extraordinary prodigy. Could Lin Han, the famed genius young lord of the Hou family, known as the greatest talent in Daxia, do this?
Furthermore, Lin Hao was ruthless in battle, decisive with no mercy. Once he identified friend or foe, he struck without hesitation or words, leaving no chance to respond.
Such a person was truly terrifying.
The discarded prince of the Hou family—a young dragon—once he set foot on the path of cultivation, would surely shake the entire world.
The pungent stench of blood filled the air. The headless corpse and the mangled flesh turned Huang Liang pale and uneasy in his chest, barely restraining himself from vomiting.
Yet Lin Hao stood tall and unshaken, completely unaffected.
A person like him, if not a merciless executioner, must be a born god of slaughter.
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