"Carry him! To the Sun Family!"
With decisive swiftness, Luo Changqing gave the order to Qingyan behind her. Qingyan nodded, and a stocky man stepped out from behind her, hoisted Sun Shaowei up by the collar, and followed closely behind Luo Changqing.
The group rushed once again toward the Sun Family estate just across the street!
A moment later, the gates of the Sun Family residence were kicked open with a crash, startling everyone out of their sleep!
Several powerful auras surged into the sky, and a few figures appeared before Luo Changqing and his group in the blink of an eye.
"Spirit King Realm experts!"
Feeling the overwhelming auras of the newcomers, Qingyan's expression tightened! She had only just managed to break through to the Spirit King Realm herself!
Yet this tiny family in Cangyang actually had a staggering three Spirit King Realm experts holding down the fort.
"Pavilion Master, what should we do?" Qingyan stepped closer to Luo Changqing and asked in a low voice.
Luo Changqing glanced at her sideways. "If we can't even handle mere Spirit King Realm weaklings, we might as well disband right here on the spot!"
"Such arrogant nonsense! This punk truly has no respect for the Spirit King Realm whatsoever!" The leading elder let out a cold huff.
Luo Changqing smiled with utter disdain. "Seventy or eighty years old and only just reaching the Spirit King Realm, and you have the nerve to show off? If I were you, I'd go find a brick of tofu and smash my head against it!"
"Luo Changqing! It really is you! Let my son go this instant!" Sun Zimao arrived belatedly. Seeing his son being dragged across the ground like a dead dog, his fate entirely unknown, he flew into a raging fury.
"Let him go? If you've got the guts, come fetch him yourself!" Luo Changqing sneered, his gaze shifting to the three elders.
"Elder Xue! Elder Xie! Elder Jin! I leave Shaowei entirely in your three sets of capable hands! Wipe out this rabble before us, and the Sun Family will undoubtedly prepare a generous gift to express our utmost gratitude!"
Hearing the words "generous gift," the eyes of the three men lit up instantly, and their faces broke into wide grins. The Sun Family's generous gifts were never meager—they would certainly be enough for them to brag about for quite a while!
"Rest assured, Patriarch Sun! With our friendship, there's no need to talk about gifts or no gifts. Being able to assist Patriarch Sun is our good fortune!" The leading Elder Xue stroked his goatee and laughed.
"Brat! I'll give you one chance! Release Young Master Sun, drop to your knees, and kowtow to beg for forgiveness, and the few of us might go a bit easier on you and spare you from being beaten to death. How about it?"
As Elder Xue spoke, he strolled forward step by step, leaving deep footprints in the ground with every stride.
"Are you out of your mind with nothing better to do? Stomping your feet like a little kid for no reason? Even a child has more sense than you!" Luo Changqing glared in annoyance at Elder Xue's theatrical display.
If he hadn't wanted to extract more information about his father and elder brother from these people's mouths, he wouldn't have bothered wasting his breath on a bunch of idiots.
"Let's all go together! Don't waste my time!" Luo Changqing waved his hand impatiently.
"Since you're courting death, we won't stand on ceremony with you!" With those words, Elder Xue turned directly to the other two elders.
"Old friends, since this brat is asking for death himself, we might as well grant his wish! Let's finish this quickly!" Elder Xie and Elder Jin exchanged glances and leaped into the air, all three of them charging straight toward Luo Changqing.
Sun Shaowei's eyes filled with exhilaration. Let's see how arrogant Luo Changqing could be now!
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
White radiance collided with golden light, momentarily blinding everyone present.
When the light finally dispersed, the crowd hurriedly looked toward the center of the courtyard, only to see Luo Changqing standing firmly in his original spot without a single strand of hair out of place, wearing a casual, unconcerned smile.
Meanwhile, the main gates of the Sun Family estate had been completely pulverized! And Elder Xue and the other two lay neatly sprawled out in the courtyard, coughing up mouthfuls of blood!
"What just happened?"
An uproar swept through the crowd as everyone stared in absolute disbelief at the calm and composed young man.
Three Spirit King Realm experts attacking simultaneously had been defeated in a single instant!
Even the people from Chaotian Pavilion and Red Beauty Tower widened their eyes, looking at their master with unadulterated adoration.
Qingyan and Hua Zuiyun stood respectively behind Luo Changqing, their beautiful eyes gleaming with intense admiration as they looked at him.
This was simply too overpowered! The Pavilion Master's strength was truly terrifying to this degree!
While everyone was still in shock, Luo Changqing slowly walked toward Sun Zimao. Sun Zimao's face turned pale, and he forced himself to resist the urge to drop to his knees, instead roaring at the many guards behind him.
"What are you all standing around for? Attack together! Capture this brat, and there will be heavy rewards!"
Hearing Sun Zimao's command, however, every single guard behind him took several steps back, putting even more distance between themselves and Luo Changqing. Not a single person dared to step forward.
Sun Zimao collapsed onto the ground in despair, staring at the three unconscious men in the courtyard, his heart hollow and desolate.
"Trash! You're all a bunch of useless trash!"
Luo Changqing slowly stepped right in front of him, raised his foot, and pressed it down onto Sun Zimao's chest. Throughout the entire process, Sun Zimao didn't even dare to put up a fight.
"What do you want to do? Don't forget, you used to call me Uncle Sun! If your father were still alive, he certainly wouldn't approve of you treating me this way!"
Panic-stricken, Sun Zimao had long since lost track of what he was saying.
"My father? You actually have the gall to bring up my father!" Luo Changqing sneered, a dark glint flashing across his eyes.
"If you don't want to die, cut the crap! All you need to answer me is this: what on earth were you people searching for back then?"
Hearing Luo Changqing's question, Sun Zimao looked toward his own son, knowing full well that his own flesh and blood must have betrayed him.
After a moment of hesitation, he gritted his teeth and said, "I only know it was your Luo Family heirloom. What specific item it is, I have no idea!"
"After the tragedy befell the Luo Family, people from the Lingyang Sect went to investigate, but before they even arrived, someone else had already reached the place ahead of them!"
Luo Changqing abruptly raised his head. Sure enough, there was far more behind this than just the Lingyang Sect!
"What kind of people were they?" Luo Changqing frowned.
"Unclear. They were all unfamiliar faces we had never seen before, but every single one of them possessed unfathomable strength, which is why we didn't dare get close!"
Sun Zimao spoke in great detail, and Luo Chuan could tell that he was not lying.
Luo Changqing took a deep breath, feeling only that the truth was becoming increasingly convoluted and mysterious, dragging more and more people into its web.
Right now, he wanted to make a trip home and properly ask his grandmother if she knew anything about these matters!
Since it involved the Luo Family heirloom, the old lady surely must know a thing or two about the inner story.
In the end, Luo Changqing spared Sun Zimao and Sun Shaowei, merely leaving people behind to keep watch and see if they would make contact with anyone else.
Taking their lives would be easy, but if he could use them to draw out clues from behind the scenes, it would certainly be worth it.
Luo Changqing let out a breath and looked at Qingyan. "Leave people to keep watch. If they make any rash moves, kill them outright, and report their movements to me at any time. I want to see just what kind of entities I can fish out with this!"
"Understood!"
Qingyan acknowledged the order, but when she turned back around, Luo Changqing's figure had already vanished.
Her heart skipped a beat. The Pavilion Master had been standing right in front of her, yet he had managed to slip away completely without a sound right under the nose of a top-tier assassin—he truly moved like a ghost!
The Pavilion Master's martial prowess was probably on par with the very founder of the Chaoyang Sect!