"Do you think you can escape?"
Just as Lan Tianchun was about to leap away, Qin Fan’s playful voice echoed behind him. A sudden chill shot through his heart! Before he could take another step, Qin Fan’s outstretched right hand clamped down on the back of his neck. With a casual tug, he was flung back onto the ground.
"Let go, and I’ll consider the matter with Ye Jizu and Zhan Long dropped! I swear I’ll never set foot in Huaxia again!" Feeling the frigid killing intent beneath Qin Fan’s calm exterior, Lan Tianchun panicked. Still, he feigned composure as he pleaded pathetically.
"Do you think that’s possible? In my eyes, letting you go isn’t like releasing a tiger back into the mountains. It’s more like an ant returning to its nest. But I have a habit, you see. I enjoy crushing restless ants. What do you say?" Qin Fan taunted, making no move to restrain Lan Tianchun.
At Qin Fan’s words, Lan Tianchun’s heart sank to the bottom of a ravine. He finally uttered sothing he had never before said in the Martial Arts World. "My father is Lan Xiaosheng!"
"Your brother-in-law said sothing similar, and in the end, he still died. You will be no exception," Qin Fan sneered, shaking his head. "Lan Xiaosheng, Blan Xiaosheng... whatever. You should pray your father doesn’t co seeking revenge, or I guarantee he’ll be joining you down below very soon. Haha!"
Without waiting for a response, Qin Fan continued, "You told to wash my neck and wait for you, didn’t you? Excellent. Then let’s make a statent with your neck!"
With that, Qin Fan stretched out his hands, placing them on either side of Lan Tianchun’s head.
"What are you doing?! What are you doing!" An overwhelming sense of despair and the stench of death washed over Lan Tianchun. He tried to move, but under Qin Fan’s hands, his limbs felt inexplicably weak and powerless, like a fish on a chopping block.
Ignoring Lan Tianchun’s cries, Qin Fan let out a soft, leisurely laugh. Then, the hands on either side of Lan Tianchun’s head twisted!
CRACK!
CRACK!
A sickening crunch echoed through the room. Lan Tianchun’s eyes bulged wide in shock. As his pupils contracted to pinpricks, his head began to spin rapidly, making a full 360-degree rotation on his neck! The bones in his neck shattered completely with the grinding sounds. After several full rotations, his head finally drooped to a stop.
In the now deathly silent Jiulong Tea Room, the sight of Lan Tianchun’s unblinking eyes, wide in death, was horrifying.
At that mont, the three Martial Arts Masters gasped and held their breath. Lan Tianchun, a Dark Energy Peak expert who they couldn’t handle and who had defeated them with a single move, was just toyed with and killed like a cat playing with a mouse? A mighty Dark Energy Peak, dead just like that? If not for the searing pain in their own bodies, they would have dismissed it all as a dream or an illusion. A Dark Energy Peak expert killed by a teenager? And effortlessly at that? Who would believe it if this got out? To be able to kill a Dark Energy Peak so easily... just what level of strength did he possess? The legendary Transformation Realm? A legendary Grandmaster?
As this thought surfaced, the three of them shuddered, snapping back to reality. Their faces pale, they swallowed hard, staring at Qin Fan as if they had seen a ghost.
The three Martial Arts Masters instinctively addressed him with the utmost respect. "Sir...!" But after that single word, they found themselves at a complete loss for what to say.
Qin Fan paid them no mind. He bent down, picked up the Hemp Vine Whip, and stowed it away. Then he turned to Ye Jizu and smiled faintly. "Grandpa Ye! Clean this up. I’m leaving!"
With that, he shoved his hands into his pockets and strolled leisurely down the stairs.
A few monts later, staring at the empty stairwell where Qin Fan had disappeared, the three Martial Arts Masters shivered. They whipped their heads toward Ye Jizu, stamring, "Grandpa Ye, he... he... he is?"
"He is soone we should simply revere as a god. Knowing that is enough," Ye Jizu said, his own shock muted by his prior knowledge of Qin Fan’s power. "Also, I hope the three Masters will not speak of what happened today to anyone!" To Ye Jizu, it seed only natural that a Transformation Realm Grandmaster could so calmly dispose of a Dark Energy Peak expert like Lan Tianchun.
"Grandpa Ye, rest assured. That goes without saying!" Master Fu, a man of moderate disposition, licked his dry, pale lips and spoke in a trembling voice. "Even if you didn’t say a word, we would keep our lips sealed! It is said that Transformation Realm Grandmasters are unpredictable; we wouldn’t dare gossip without permission. You can be at ease."
"Then... is he truly a Grandmaster?" asked Master Guo, his facial muscles twitching uncontrollably. This was the sa man who had maintained an air of arrogance even when facing Lan Tianchun.
"Who but a Grandmaster could kill a Dark Energy Peak so playfully? But in doing so, he has undoubtedly made a life-and-death enemy of Lan Xiaosheng! Does he really have the confidence to face Lan Xiaosheng, who is rumored to have entered the Transformation Realm long ago?" Master Zhou mused in a daze.
"Perhaps Lord Qin only killed Lan Tianchun to force Lan Xiaosheng’s hand," Ye Jizu said suddenly, stunning the three Masters.
"What!" they exclaid in unison, losing their composure.
"While we’re still speculating about his Martial Arts Cultivation, his sights are already set on testing the strength of the entire Martial Arts World! Heh... Anyway, that’s all I can say," Ye Jizu said, skillfully changing the subject. "In any case, thank you, all three of you, for today. Masters, how are your injuries?"
"You’re too kind, Grandpa Ye," said Master Fu. "We’re lucky to have escaped with our lives from a Dark Energy Peak. These wounds are nothing; they’ll just take so ti to heal."
"I, Ye, will rember the kindness you’ve shown today!" Ye Jizu said solemnly, clasping his fist.
The three Martial Arts Masters just smiled and shook their heads. They had co to repay a favor, but they never expected to witness a monster who could instantly kill a Dark Energy Peak expert like Lan Tianchun. This trip, getting to et a Grandmaster, was more than worth it.
Regarding Ye Jizu’s promise of a favor, they might have brushed it off with polite words in the past. But now, they accepted it wholeheartedly. If they could use this connection to Ye Jizu to get closer to *that* person... the three of them couldn’t even begin to imagine how wonderful that would be.
「Back to Qin Fan.」
After leaving the Jiulong Tea Room, he drove his Bentley smoothly past a police checkpoint and headed toward Qi Middle School. Just as he parked the car in a space outside the school and started walking toward the entrance, a familiar face appeared before him—Lai Zhuge!
Hmm? Is he here for ?
Qin Fan frowned in confusion but didn’t break his stride, walking straight toward him.
"Master Qin!" Mindful of their surroundings, Lai Zhuge didn’t shout. He hurried to et Qin Fan and spoke in a low voice.
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