The boisterous laughter in the hall was abruptly strangled as if seized by an invisible hand, plunging the room into a deathly silence.
Xu Fan indifferently pulled a chair, sitting across from the group of influential figures with the composure of an army general, and coldly waved the invitation in his hand.
"You... you are not one of us from the Blood Clan! Who are you?"
"Daring to intrude upon the Dark Council's estate! Are you tired of living?"
The influential figures snapped back to their senses from the sudden turn of events, regarding Xu Fan as if facing a formidable enemy and shouted in rage.
Yet Xu Fan didn't even spare them a glance, instead, he waved the burning invitation in his hand and said coldly, "You have twenty-three bats in total. I only need one bat to take the invitation and invite Marquis Nash here. Which ans, among you, twenty-two bats must die!"
The indifferent and icy voice, like a piercing cold wind, swept across the entire courtyard, freezing the very air.
"Rude! Who knows who you are? Or where that Nash fellow is? Human! Do you even know what you're doing?"
"Today is the Blood Banquet of the Dark Council, open to those above the rank of Earl, with council mbers and even the Speaker in attendance. We are rely invited guests, having no personal grudge against you."
So of the influential figures were furious yet cowardly inside, while others were trembling in fear.
Undoubtedly, the powerful aura Xu Fan displayed had already instilled a genuine sense of dread among these influential figures. Especially when Xu Fan had just trampled an Earl— a mighty Vajra Realm peak expert— to death like an ant! In front of such overwhelming power, even influential figures felt a deep-rooted fear.
No personal grudge?
The relationship between humans and the Blood Clan is that of two species, like cats and mice. How can a hunt involve grievances?
Facing the scolding and argunts from the influential figures, Xu Fan sat upright on his chair, expressionless, "You have one minute. In one minute, I want to see the corpses of twenty-two bats. Otherwise, every bat present will die!"
Just by his words, although he could instill fear among the influential figures, it wasn't enough to make them turn against each other.
Hearing Xu Fan's statent, the influential figures exchanged glances and spread out, surrounding Xu Fan as if facing an enemy.
"Kid! Do you think a re human can challenge the authority of the entire Dark Council? Here's a word for you: you're seeking your death!"
"I already said, all council mbers of the Dark Council are here today, even the Speaker will co personally! If you don't leave now, you will never leave!"
Although Xu Fan's power was imnse, thinking of setting the entire estate ablaze seed ludicrous. How many years has the Dark Council existed? Could a re human overthrow it? Not even accounting for the terrifying power of the Speaker and the rarely seen council mbers, even the Marquises present couldn't be easily defeated.
The group of influential figures surrounded Xu Fan, constantly shouting in rage, while Xu Fan sat calmly, indifferent to everything around him.
Why waste words with a group of bats, soon to be dead?
Whether this scene was a trap or not, ever since Xu Fan saw the bloody heart, the fate of these influential figures had been sealed.
A minute passed in the blink of an eye.
Xu Fan stood, his cold gaze sweeping across the faces of the twenty-three influential figures, each of them feeling a slight chill at their neck, as if Xu Fan's gaze was a sharp blade slicing through, piercing their skin painfully.
"Don't be intimidated by this kid! Humans are naturally weak! And this kid is rely a young human! He doesn't even look twenty!"
"Exactly! What's there to fear from a beardless kid? Let's all attack together!"
Perhaps driven to desperation, or perhaps regaining their senses from fear, realizing Xu Fan's youth, the group of influential figures summoned their courage to jointly attack and eliminate Xu Fan.
"Filthy fools!" Xu Fan shook his head, no longer bothering to glance at the bats. Activating the Dragon Divine Art, surging spiritual power burst forth, transforming into golden giant hands covering the entire courtyard.
The golden giant hands were countless, hundreds and thousands! Absolutely despairing! Simultaneously, blades ford from golden spiritual power whirled and converged!
"Is this... the Buddhist Law from the East?"
"Damn it! My blood energy is suppressed! We absolutely can't resist!"
"Even if we can't, we have to! This kid is just putting on an act! Everyone resist together!"
In the next mont, under the horrified gazes of the influential figures, the golden giant hands crashed down like teors! Hundreds of blades spun and ravaged!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Under the indiscriminate coverage attack, everything was annihilated into dust.
The dominance of the Dragon Divine Art, combined with the Earth Rank combat skill, Thousand Hands Hundred Blades of the Buddhist Sect, reduced dozens of Earls and Marquises in the Vajra Realm and Zhiwei Realm to ashes like ants.
The ground seed like it had been bombarded by a nuclear explosion, full of craters, except for the area within a ter radius where Xu Fan sat, which was perfectly intact.
Outside the courtyard, maids holding trays stood dumbfounded, faces filled with terror, not knowing where to serve their jade trays. Seeing Xu Fan's cold gaze sweep over, a group of maids hurriedly knelt and pleaded for rcy.
Xu Fan frowned, but the killing intent flashed by and disappeared.
"Scram!"
The group of maids, as if receiving a pardon, quickly scattered and fled.
"Bats deserve to die, but blood slaves are ultimately human. Should they be killed or spared?"
Each maid was around seventeen or eighteen, faces pale, evidently bred as blood slaves by the bats. Once a blood slave, they essentially cut ties with humanity, unaccepted by humans, and worse, seen as re servants or food by the Blood Clan.
Originally, Xu Fan intended to kill them all, perhaps as a form of release for them.
But Xu Fan couldn't bring himself to do it. Becoming a blood slave wasn't their choice. Especially as he thought of the man Jiang Wu, who died for him, and the promise he made at Jiang Wu's grave, Xu Fan found it even harder to act.
Jiang Wu had a younger brother seemingly fallen into the hands of the Blood Clan, whereabouts unknown. Among humans mixed in with the Blood Clan, aside from blood slaves, there wasn't another possibility.
Xu Fan placed the burning invitation on the ruins at the courtyard entrance, sitting in the center of the chaos on a chair, and sighed.
The blood feud between humans and the Blood Clan is irreconcilable, but blood slaves are innocent. After all, blood slaves being controlled by the Blood Clan is just a matter of thod; once reaching a certain cultivation level, it can naturally be resolved.
For the sake of that promise, becoming the strongest in the Mortal World is the only path!
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