The terrifying Void Dao realm aura that Lin Yun released instantly swept across almost the entire central plaza of the Divine Relic Ancient City.
Every cultivator on the plaza suddenly sensed this horrifying pressure. Without exception, their faces turned deathly pale.
“What a terrifying aura, a Void Dao realm expert!”
“There is a Void Dao realm powerhouse over there!”
Amid waves of shocked cries, every single cultivator on the plaza dropped to their knees.
Such was the overwhelming suppression of a Void Dao realm expert.
In the centre of the scene.
“Esteemed Void Dao realm senior, please spare my life!”
Zhou Gao, kneeling on the ground, immediately began kowtowing frantically to Lin Yun. His forehead struck the stone with loud thuds, like a chicken pecking at rice.
No matter how hard Zhou Gao racked his brains, he could not comprehend why Gong Zhan, of all people, was accompanied by an actual Void Dao realm expert.
A cultivator of that level could casually found a great power that dominated entire regions. Even if they joined one of the top human factions, they would immediately become part of the upper echelons.
“You harmed my friend. I already gave you a chance.”
Lin Yun looked at Zhou Gao coldly.
Feeling the killing intent in Lin Yun’s gaze, Zhou Gao trembled all over. Those words made him feel as though he had plunged into a bottomless abyss.
What shocked him even more was that this Void Dao realm expert had just called Gong Zhan his friend.
What right did Gong Zhan have to be friends with a Void Dao realm powerhouse?
Even Gong Zhan himself, standing behind, was stunned. Lin Yun actually considered him a friend? With his meagre strength, how could he possibly qualify to befriend someone at the Void Dao realm?
After speaking, Lin Yun gently raised his hand.
A terrifying surge of inner force erupted, crashing toward Zhou Gao like a towering wave.
Boom!
Zhou Gao was instantly reduced to dust. Not even ash remained. Only a storage ring fell to the ground.
If it had been a minor conflict, Lin Yun might have let him live. But Gong Zhan had mentioned earlier that this man had openly tried to abduct respectable young women in the city. Anyone capable of such deeds could not be anything good. With his long record of vile acts, he had now run straight into Lin Yun’s path. There was only one outcome: death.
The fact that Zhou Gao had been obliterated without trace utterly terrified the remaining fifty-plus members of the Heavenly Astral Gang.
“Esteemed Void Dao realm senior, spare us! This has nothing to do with us!”
They all kowtowed repeatedly to Lin Yun.
Lin Yun’s divine sense instantly poured from his sea of consciousness, enveloping the fifty-odd people.
His divine sense was far too powerful. The soul-protecting pendants they wore were of low grade and offered no defence.
As his divine sense swept through them, they froze in place.
In a single moment, Lin Yun easily read every one of their memories.
“A bunch of scum with blood on their hands,” Lin Yun shook his head.
With those words, his divine sense twisted into strands of killing force and annihilated their souls.
More than fifty people collapsed to the ground in an instant, lifeless.
What Lin Yun had seen in their memories was rape, pillage, and murder.
He knew that in the vast Ancestral Land, cultivators like these were countless, and he could not kill them all.
But since they had crossed his path, he would not let them live.
“Void Dao realm… so… so strong…”
Everyone from the Gong family swallowed hard, their hearts pounding with shock.
They had not even seen Lin Yun move, yet more than fifty people were simply gone?
The cultivators kneeling across the plaza were equally shaken by the sight.
No matter how they thought about it, they could not understand why a genuine Void Dao realm expert had suddenly appeared in the Divine Relic Ancient City.
Logically, a place like this should hold no attraction for someone of that level.
A Void Dao realm powerhouse coming here was like a max-level expert strolling into a novice village.
After dealing with the matter, Lin Yun withdrew all of his aura and turned back to Gong Zhan and the others.
At that moment, he once again appeared as he had before: restrained, steady, even approachable. Nothing about him suggested he was a true Void Dao realm expert.
“Quick, pay your respects!”
“Lord… Lord Beichen!”
The white-haired elder immediately knelt and bowed to Lin Yun.
Gong Zhan and Gong Jiangxue followed without hesitation, offering formal salutes.
To meet a figure of this calibre was something they had never dared dream of.
The white-haired elder even felt a lingering fear. When Lin Yun had first blocked their path to ask questions, he had actually shouted at him. Now he realised that if he had angered this Void Dao realm senior, their entire group would probably have been wiped out without a trace.
As for Gong Jiangxue, a storm of emotions surged within her: shock, fear, regret… all manner of feelings churned together.
