One person: Go talk to my Rumble-Rumble Fruit!

Wang Ye asked, "I could tell you were from the Zhuge family at a glance from your Wuhou Qimen Dunjia. What are your names?"

"Zhuge Guan"

"Zhuge Sheng".

"Zhuge Meng".

Zhuge Guan (the mask of Tang Sanzang) is curled up on the ground, clutching his bleeding nose. Tears mixed with blood have covered the cracks in the mask, and he is whimpering in pain.

Zhuge Sheng (masked with Sun Wukong) lay on the cold ground, his body charred black and emitting white steam, convulsing uncontrollably, each breath accompanied by a burning pain.

Zhuge Meng (wearing a Pigsy mask) had half of his cheek swollen like a steamed bun, blood seeping from the corner of his mouth. He lay in a pile of rubble with a vacant look in his eyes, emitting unconscious groans.

Wang Ye stood amidst the three gruesome figures, the enormous Feng Hou Qi Men chart beneath his feet slowly fading in light until it disappeared without a trace.

He patted non-existent dust off his Taoist robe, looked at the Zhuge family's "elite" soldiers lying on the ground in a state of utter despair, his lips twitched a few times, and finally turned into a long sigh filled with helplessness and disgust:

"Tsk... Zhuge Guan, Zhuge Sheng, and..." He glanced at Zhuge Meng, who was lying in the rubble, her mind hazy. "Zhuge Meng... I'm asking you three, did you practice your martial arts until you went crazy?"

"Just to see Feng Hou Qi Men?"

Wang Ye raised his voice slightly, conveying a sense of absurdity, as if to say, "You guys are simply unreasonable."

"Why all this fuss? A sneak attack and three against one? Just to get beaten up?!"

He simply couldn't understand this logic, and felt even more exhausted than dealing with the company's board of directors.

Zhuge Guan struggled to lift his head, his eyes brimming with tears as he looked at Wang Ye, blood still dripping from his nose: "Waaah... Daoist Wang Ye... we... we just... we just can't accept it... Brother Qing... he's the strongest of the younger generation in our Zhuge family... losing to you... we... we want to see just how big the gap really is..."

His voice sounded aggrieved and muffled, with a heavy nasal tone.

Zhuge Sheng struggled to sit up, his charred face filled with resentment and defeat: "Cough cough...who knew...the gap...was so big..." Every word he spoke was accompanied by a burning pain in his lungs, making him grimace in agony.

Wang Ye rolled his eyes and rubbed his temples: "The gap? Now you see it clearly? If you see it clearly, hurry back and heal your injuries, don't embarrass yourself here..." The rest of his sentence suddenly got stuck in his throat.

A chilling coldness suddenly appeared on his spine without warning!

The helplessness and disdain on Wang Ye's face froze instantly, replaced by an extremely rare look of horror mixed with astonishment and disbelief!

That combined attack—Zhuge Guan's Firefly Stream, Zhuge Sheng's Earth Chariot, and Zhuge Meng's Ionization—was indeed quite powerful, and the coordination was exquisite, but...

They were simply not enough to create that fatal sense of threat that made him feel as if he had instantly fallen into an ice cave, as if he were being locked onto by the giant eyes of a demon from the deepest abyss!

That cold, viscous, malicious gaze, imbued with pure decay and death! That terrifying killing intent that could penetrate space, ignore defenses, and strike right into the depths of the soul!

That's not something those three members of the Zhuge family could produce! Absolutely not!

Wang Ye suddenly looked up, his gaze like two sharp swords tempered with ice, instantly piercing into the depths of the dark ruins behind the collapsed window, a place he and Lin Shen had both been wary of before, a place as thick as a substance!

Almost at the same instant his gaze fell upon them—

Crack... Crack...

A faint sound, like gravel being slowly crushed, came from that absolute darkness.

A figure emerged, as if slowly peeling away from solidified ink, step by step.

He wasn't particularly tall, and was even rather lean and wiry. He wore plain, faded work clothes covered in dust and grease, and was quite unremarkable.

He wore a similarly drab gray baseball cap, the brim pulled low, completely obscuring the upper half of his face. Only the cold, hard lines of his lower face, and... a hideous scar, were visible!

The scar, like an ugly centipede, climbed diagonally upwards from the left corner of his mouth, disappearing into the shadows of his hat brim, slightly pulling his mouth upwards to form a cruel, ambiguous smile.

Even with only the lower half of his face visible, he exuded a chilling ferocity and indifference, as if life were nothing but dust in his eyes.

There was no powerful burst of Qi, nor any intimidating spread of pressure.

He walked out unremarkably, his footsteps making a monotonous "rustling" sound on the gravel.

However, the moment he appeared, the air in the entire ruins seemed to freeze!

A cold, deathly stillness, heavier, more oppressive, and purer than the previous malicious arrow, instantly engulfed this space like an invisible tide!

The groans and sobs of Zhuge Guan and the other two stopped abruptly, as if their throats had been choked, leaving only their pupils dilated with fear and their heavy breathing.

Lin Shen stood like a statue at the edge of the battlefield. The lightning that had been gathered around him suddenly jumped as if stimulated, making a faint "sizzling" sound.

His pupils suddenly contracted to the size of pinpoints, fixed intently on the scarred man.

An unprecedented solemnity and... a faint excitement intertwined deep in his eyes.

Wang Ye's hair stood on end instantly!

Extreme danger!

The aura emanating from this scarred man was more solid, more concrete, and more... deadly than the eyes he had seen in the darkness before!

There were no words spoken, no probing.

The scarred man made a move.

His movements were completely unpretentious, without even any dramatic fluctuations in "qi".

He simply took a step forward with his left foot and leaned slightly forward—in the next instant, he had vanished from his spot!

It's not a high-speed moving afterimage!

It was more like the space itself was being forcibly compressed and folded beneath his feet!

With just one step, he traversed dozens of meters as if by teleportation, appearing directly less than five steps in front of Wang Ye!

The shadow beneath that baseball cap seemed to devour the light like an abyss, and the chilling killing intent, like a tangible blade, pierced straight at Wang Ye's brow!

It's so fast it surpasses the limits of visual capture!

It was so fast that even Feng Hou Qi Men's perception of time and space showed an extremely slight delay!

Wang Ye's heart sank to the bottom the moment the scarred man disappeared!

An unprecedented sense of crisis surged through my entire body like a high-voltage current!

His reaction was also incredibly fast!

Almost at the same instant the scarred man's figure disappeared, Wang Ye's hands had already formed a hand seal in front of his chest with lightning speed!

The hidden Feng Hou Qi Men chart beneath my feet instantly manifested, expanded, and began to spin rapidly!

Blue and white light shot into the sky!

The core of the game instantly locked onto that terrifying figure that stepped in front of him!

"Chaotic Golden Bell—Suppress!"

Wang Ye's voice carried an unprecedented solemnity and explosive power!

He held nothing back!

Push the power of Feng Hou Qi Men to manipulate time and space to the limit of your own control!

There is only one goal—to completely halt and suppress the scarred man in front of him who has brought him the shadow of death!

Om-! ! !

An invisible, terrifying force, powerful enough to freeze and solidify space itself, descended with a roar at Wang Ye's command!

Centered on the scarred man, the space within a few meters instantly became as sticky as glue!

The air stopped moving, the drifting dust solidified in mid-air, and even the light seemed to have its trajectory stretched!

Time was forcibly dragged into a near-still quagmire at this moment!

This is Wang Ye's signature move!

It is the core power of Feng Hou Qi Men that surpasses ordinary Qi Men!

He had used this technique to halt even the strongest experts at the level of the Ten Elders! He believed that, unless one was a legendary immortal, no one could escape unscathed from this power of freezing time and space!

The scarred man's step, seemingly teleported, was merely... within Wang Ye's fully unleashed "Chaotic Golden Clapper" domain.

It was a very brief, almost imperceptible pause that lasted for a fleeting moment!

It was as if a high-speed train had crashed into a thin spider web, only being slowed down for a fraction of a second!

Beneath the brim of the baseball cap, the grotesque scar seemed to twitch slightly upwards, as if... laughing? A laugh filled with cold mockery!

Then, in the reflection of Wang Ye's suddenly contracted pupils, filled with disbelief, the scarred man's body, covered by the "Chaotic Golden Tuo" domain, seemed to defy the laws of physics, and smoothly and effortlessly... took his second step!

This step shattered all of Wang Ye's confidence and pride!

"impossible!!!"

All that remained in Wang Ye's mind was that horrified scream!

Just as Wang Ye's mind trembled violently, his magic was forcibly broken through, and his old power was exhausted while new power had not yet been generated—

The scarred man's right hand, which had been hanging by his side, with its distinct knuckles and calluses, suddenly shot out like a venomous snake that had been lying dormant for a long time!

There was no flash of light, no energy fluctuation, and not even a whistling sound!

That hand, so ordinary yet moving faster than thought, its fingers like knives!

Target—Wang Ye's abdomen!

A dull, heart-stopping sound of flesh colliding rang out!

Wang Ye didn't even have time to make any blocking or dodging movements!

He felt an indescribable, extremely penetrating force, like a high-speed rotating drill bit, slamming into his lower abdomen!

That was not a pure physical impact; it contained a cold, domineering, and eerie power that seemed capable of tearing apart internal organs and freezing meridians!

"Ugh—!"

Wang Ye's eyes bulged out instantly!

His eyes were bloodshot!

All the condensed Qi dissipated instantly under this attack, like a punctured balloon!

The Feng Hou Qi Men chart beneath his feet, which was shining brightly, flickered violently like a candle in the wind, and finally collapsed and disappeared with a "pop"!

An immense pain swept over my entire body like a tsunami!

He felt as if his intestines had been twisted together by that chop to the bone!

My internal organs are churning violently!

An uncontrollable surge of acid mixed with bile rushed up my throat like a volcanic eruption!