Li Yang, after all, had once been the second-in-command of the Li family. Seeing the situation at a glance, he naturally understood what had happened.
He quickly realized that with his disabled left leg, making him walk with a limp, following others in retreat would only make him a burden.
Therefore, he decided to stay behind and cover the retreat.
“Aaaaaa!”
With a roar of fury, Li Yang, already prepared for death, turned around to face the enemies along the retreat path, aiming to eliminate them, and at the same time, take one last look at his daughter.
Then he froze.
On one side, Li Hantian was indeed swiftly organizing the retreat of the Li family members, but Li Tan was still calmly sitting in a chair holding Li Jiaying, showing no sign of panic.
It was as if they were on vacation.
Li Yang was stunned. Just as he was about to scold, Li Tan spoke first.
“Uncle, you just sit tight, everything will be fine. Leave the rest to me.”
“You young man, don’t get too cocky just because you have some skills. In this world—” Before Li Yang could finish his scolding, he saw Li Tan covering Li Jiaying’s eyes with his left hand, crushing the teacup in his right hand, and without even looking, throwing the shards to his right.
Immediately followed by several screams, and six or seven guards charging at Li Tan all fell to the ground.
“This—” Witnessing the scene, Li Yang’s eyes widened like lanterns, his jaw dropping in shock.
Li Tan stood up, not glancing sideways, muttering, “Time to settle old scores together.”
Li Tan released Jiaying beside Li Yang and his figure vanished like a ghost, then another five or six guards fell down.
“Uncle, you take Jiaying and leave first. It might get a bit bloody soon.”
As he spoke, with a slight lift of his hand, a guard’s throat was instantly crushed.
“U-understood!” Li Yang quickly picked up the bewildered Li Jiaying and did his best to flee from the Liu family premises.
Li Tan casually picked up a sword from a dead guard on the ground and threw it forward, impaling a guard approaching Li Yang.
“Li Li Tan—” Hearing the fearful voice, Li Tan turned his head and indifferently said, “What are you hesitating for? Follow quickly, or else if anything happens to Jiaying, you’ll be finished.”
“Are you really Li Tan?”
“Who else could I be?”
Puchi! While speaking, Li Tan, with a reverse move, precisely dodged the weapon of a guard attempting to sneak up from behind, then killed him by cutting his throat.
“Anything else can wait. Got it?”
A flash of golden light flickered in Li Tan’s eyes. Li Hantian, still stunned, felt as if struck by lightning and quickly turned to chase after Li Yang.
“What about me?”
Li Xiu asked blankly.
“Just go with them. Don’t think too much. Today’s matter has nothing to do with you.”
After saying this, Li Tan turned his body and directed his gaze toward the arena.
Then he walked over slowly.
All guards daring to approach along the way were instantly killed without exception.
“You—” The arena fight, which had already erupted, halted abruptly in shock, as everyone’s attention was drawn over.
“Are you a natural?”
The head of the Liu family questioned Li Tan, his gaze filled with killing intent.
“No.”
Step by step, Li Tan leisurely ascended the ruins of the arena.
Others who were fighting also stopped simultaneously, looking at him in astonishment.
The Liu family head scanned Li Tan with murderous intent, seemingly trying to discern something, but saw nothing.
To him, Li Tan appeared no different from an ordinary person.
Yet how could Li Tan possibly be ordinary?
The Liu family head, who had been confident of victory, felt his heart sink, becoming nervous.
However, a sudden thought seemed to ease his tense expression. Turning to the two unfamiliar Xiantian experts, he laughed, “Li Tan, no matter what secrets you hold, with these two masters present, it’s all meaningless!”
“Oh, really?”
Li Tan mockingly looked at the two unfamiliar faces and said, “What happened that you dared to take off that black robe?”
The two innate experts’ mouths twitched, but they remained expressionless.
Perhaps a more accurate description would be that they didn’t want to show any expression.
Li Tan paused and smiled, “If I’m not mistaken, you’ve been discarded, right?”
The two innate experts simultaneously glared at Li Tan.
Clearly, he had guessed correctly.
These black-robed individuals always paid particular attention to hiding their identities, yet now they appeared openly before everyone, which could only mean one thing—they had been discarded. Presumably, speaking would trigger the poison within their bodies.
Hearing this exchange, although the Liu family head didn’t understand the details, he sensed something amiss, realizing that “these two masters seemed to have encountered Li Tan before,” causing him some panic.
Li Zhen and Lin Long stared at Li Tan in shock. Li Tan’s strength had completely surpassed their expectations. Judging from the earlier situation, he undoubtedly possessed innate combat abilities.
And not weak at that.
They couldn’t understand the reason, so they attributed this change to Li Tan’s mysterious master.
“Tan’er, no need for extra words. Today we—” Li Zhen was probably about to say something like fighting side by side, but Li Tan seemed to have no intention of listening. His figure flickered and he ghost-like appeared behind an elder of the Liu family.
Then.
A terrifying surge of Qi suddenly emerged.
With a thunderous boom, the Liu family elder spat blood and crashed to the ground, turning into a pile of mush.
Instantly killing a hậu thiên (post-heaven) practitioner was something everyone present could easily accomplish, but instantly killing a tiên thiên (pre-heaven) practitioner was something they could never achieve.
Therefore, at this moment, the entire training ground fell silent, everyone staring wide-eyed in shock at the newly formed crater on the ground.
The culprit, Li Tan, now stood on the arena platform, looking at the crater before him with a slight frown, murmuring in dissatisfaction: “That really took a lot.” That previous strike with the Coiling Dragon Fist had consumed nearly a third of his Qi. For safety, he could only use it once more. But once was enough. Li Tan wasn’t limited to just this one technique.
He raised his head, slowly sweeping his gaze over everyone.
Most wore the same expression of shock, with Lin Long showing the most intense surprise.
Others might not know, but Lin Long absolutely recognized the Coiling Dragon Fist technique Li Tan had used.
The actual power of Li Tan’s punch wasn’t that great; Lin Long himself could easily replicate it.
What he couldn’t achieve, however, was the precision with which Li Tan seized his opponent’s weakness, delivering the punch with such terrifying effectiveness.
To put it simply, what astonished these tiên thiên experts wasn’t the punch’s power, but rather Li Tan’s ability to kill his opponent without the opponent even realizing what had happened.
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