After hearing this, Lin Yun understood the whole story.
“Gong Zhan, what is the highest realm in the Heavenly Astral Gang?” Lin Yun asked.
“The gang leader is a Sacred-realm expert, but he certainly would not bother himself with someone like Zhou Gao. It is Zhou Gao’s elder brother who holds the position of protector in the gang. The Heavenly Astral Gang is simply too powerful. Even offending a protector brings enormous trouble,” Gong Zhan explained.
Back then, when that protector had personally come to the Gong family, Gong Zhan’s father had needed to exhaust every connection, pay a large sum, and offer humble apologies before the matter was finally settled.
“A mere protector is no great matter. Even if the leader of the Heavenly Astral Gang appeared in person, there would be nothing to fear,” Lin Yun said calmly.
“You really can boast,” Gong Jiangxue sneered with contempt.
She turned to the white-haired elder. “Second Grandfather, the Heavenly Astral Gang has always loved burning, killing, and looting. Now that we have run into them, I am afraid they intend to target us.”
While she spoke, the other group had already approached and blocked the Gong family’s path.
The white-haired elder stepped forward. “Friend Zhou Gao, it is true there was once some friction between our young master and you, but that matter has already been resolved. May I ask why you block our way this time?”
“Last time was last time. This time is this time. Our Heavenly Astral Gang has come to the Divine Relic Ancient City to plunder resources, and your Gong family is a wealthy household, naturally a juicy piece of meat in our eyes,” Zhou Gao said with a grin.
At those words, the faces of everyone in the Gong family changed drastically.
The Heavenly Astral Gang was already formidable. Moreover, anyone daring to rob in this place had to possess considerable strength, and there were more than fifty of them.
“If you know what is good for you, hand over every one of your storage rings. As long as you cooperate, I promise we will not take your lives,” Zhou Gao declared, arms folded, still smiling.
“Zhou Gao, you… are you not going too far! Our Gong family is not some soft persimmon to be pinched at will!” Gong Zhan’s face flushed red with anger.
Zhou Gao’s expression instantly darkened. “Hmph, Gong Zhan, I gave you a chance and you refuse to appreciate it. Today I will definitely teach you a proper lesson!”
Last time Gong Zhan had ruined his fun, Zhou Gao had carried that grudge ever since. Although the Gong family had later compensated and apologised, he still despised Gong Zhan.
“Want to run wild here? Have you asked me first!”
Just as the white-haired elder was about to step forward to offer gifts and mediate, a cold voice suddenly rang out.
Everyone turned and saw that the speaker was none other than Lin Yun.
The entire Gong family was startled.
“Boy, what are you doing?” The white-haired elder immediately barked at Lin Yun.
He knew better than anyone that the Gong family could not afford to offend the Heavenly Astral Gang. They could only yield and spend money to buy peace.
“Do not bring trouble upon our Gong family!” Gong Jiangxue also glared fiercely at Lin Yun.
“I am not stirring up trouble. I said earlier that if the Gong family ran into difficulty, I could lend a hand,” Lin Yun replied, a faint smile on his face.
“You… do you really think you are that powerful? Do you think you are an Eternal Life expert? Do you think you are a Sacred-realm powerhouse?” Gong Jiangxue ground her teeth in fury.
“Sacred realm?”
Lin Yun shook his head with a smile, then turned to Gong Zhan.
“Gong Zhan, it is fine. Leave this to me,” he said, patting Gong Zhan’s shoulder with the same easy smile.
With those words, Lin Yun walked straight to the front of the Gong group and faced their opponents.
“Brat, where did you spring from? You dare shout at me? Are you tired of living?” Zhou Gao snarled, his face vicious.
“I will give you one chance. Disappear from my sight within three seconds, and you may yet live,” Lin Yun said evenly.
“Courting death! I will cleave you in two!” Zhou Gao roared. He brandished a great sabre and prepared to strike.
Boom!
The instant he raised his weapon, a terrifying Void Dao realm aura erupted from Lin Yun’s body. Like a vast ocean, it surged forward and engulfed the area ahead.
The dreadful pressure descended like a mountain range crushing down upon Zhou Gao and his men.
In the blink of an eye, Zhou Gao and the more than fifty people behind him were forced to their knees with a heavy thud. Their knees smashed into the stone pavement, blood pouring from the wounds, the slabs beneath them shattering from the impact.
“V… Void Dao realm?”
Kneeling on the ground, sensing that horrifying aura, Zhou Gao and his group stared in abject terror, their faces drained of colour. They felt as though they had fallen into an endless abyss, overwhelmed by boundless fear. Even the blood in their veins seemed to freeze.
This had to be a joke!
A Void Dao realm expert was a top-tier powerhouse even across the entire Ancestral Land.
To people like them, forget a Void Dao expert; even a single Sacred-realm cultivator was a heavenly figure.
The strongest person in the Heavenly Astral Gang, their leader, was merely at the Sacred realm.
And between the Sacred realm and the Void Dao realm lay an enormous chasm.
“V… Void Dao realm?”
“Friend Beichen is a Void Dao realm expert?”
Gong Zhan, Gong Jiangxue, and everyone from the Gong family felt that terrifying realm aura. Their eyes widened in stunned disbelief.
Never in their wildest dreams had they imagined that the man who had travelled with them all this way was actually a genuine Void Dao realm powerhouse.
