Amid Ceylang's sneer, his dragon-claw hand tore through the air with a sharp shriek, slashing directly toward Di Longxuan's neck!
Everyone stared in sheer disbelief, thinking how profoundly unlucky Di Longxuan was to be killed, carved up for meat, and drained of his blood the very moment he returned.
True, Di Longxuan had just beaten two bodyguards to death, but how could he possibly stand against Ceylang and his crew?
"Save his face! I want to use my Dobermans to chew his face to shreds piece by piece before swallowing it!" Yan Lingfei shrieked in furious hatred.
Di Longxuan had bitten a chunk of flesh right off her right cheek and cruelly swallowed it, so Yan Lingfei was bent on exacting a hundredfold revenge!
Yet before her voice even faded, five dazzling blooms of bloody mist exploded in mid-air!
Terrifying! Horrifying!
Di Longxuan stood amidst the thick, crimson mist, grasping Ceylang's neck in one hand and hoisting him high into the air!
Ceylang, who had been howling ferociously just a moment before, was now a mangled, bloody mess from head to toe, shrieking in desperate, miserable pleas for mercy! "Young Master Di! Spare my life! I'm nothing more than a beast, please let me keep this worthless life to serve you!"
"I still remember that freezing night five years ago. You were the one who broke my spine and even licked the marrow off the exposed bone, weren't you?"
As soon as Di Longxuan finished speaking, Ceylang's eyes bulged so wide they looked ready to pop out of his head!
Immediately after, *pop, pop, pop!* The flesh on his upper body actually shattered and rained down in wet chunks!
Only his bare spine remained intact, gripped tightly in Di Longxuan's hand, dripping with fresh blood! It was a sickening and terrifying sight!
Everyone present turned pale with fright; some shrieked, while others fled in sheer panic!
A few were so terrified they straight-up passed out, wetting themselves on the spot!
"You—you're no human! You're a devil! Godfather Chou, hurry up and make your move! I want him to suffer a fate worse than death!" Yan Lingfei stammered, pulled backward by Zhang Tailai as she shrieked.
Across the crowded floor, one person remained seated in a chair, legs crossed, puffing on a cigar.
He was dressed in a black Tang suit, looked to be around fifty years old, with tiger-like eyes, a square jaw, thick lips, and an imposing, towering physique.
He was Yan Lingfei's godfather, Chou Qianzhang!
A notorious underground heavyweight in Zhangtai City, a martial arts expert reportedly at the Martial Master Level!
Upper-class circles had long whispered about an illicit affair between the two, though no one had proof. Now, hearing Yan Lingfei's shrill cry, Chou Qianzhang finally rose slowly to his feet.
A fierce, oppressive aura akin to a pack of wolves closing in for the kill instantly emanated from his body!
The surrounding guests panicked and scrambled backward, clearing a wide path for him.
"I've seen plenty of ruthless characters in my time, but none quite as bold as you. Di Longxuan, you must have been practicing some sort of wicked sorcery. Today, I'll rid the world of this evil!" Chou Qianzhang said coldly.
Instantly, fierce internal energy surged over his entire body, causing his bones to crackle and pop!
"Third Brother, go fetch the Dobermans, quick! I want Di Longxuan's disgusting face chewed to bits and devoured by the dogs!" Yan Lingfei ordered coldly.
Zhang Tailai also clenched his teeth. "And bring a drum of gasoline! I'm going to roast Di Longxuan's carcass until it's well-done!"
The man in black, known as Third Brother, nodded and spun around to go fetch the dogs!
Suddenly, a blood-curdling scream echoed from behind him!
Thinking Di Longxuan had already been beaten to a pulp, Third Brother hurriedly turned his head to look.
To his utter horror, a single glance made his hair stand on end!
In his line of sight, the mighty Chou Qianzhang had somehow...
Di Longxuan had closed the distance like a ghost! With a single flash of his hand!! He had slammed his palm down right onto Chou Qianzhang's crown!!
Chou Qianzhang's head was instantly smashed straight down into his chest!! Leaving him a headless torso standing rigidly upright—a sight of peerless horror!!
"Him? Too weak." Di Longxuan said coldly.
With that, he began to walk slowly toward Yan Lingfei!
A tsunami-like wave of murderous intent descended with a crash, completely engulfing Yan Lingfei!
The once cold, arrogant, and haughty Yan Lingfei was so terrified her legs turned to jelly, and she nearly collapsed to the floor. She had assumed that Di Longxuan's return would simply make him another soft persimmon for them to easily knead as they pleased.
Only now did she realize—the man had changed!
He had transformed into a ruthless force of nature that even she didn't dare provoke.
*Thud!* Chou Qianzhang's headless corpse crashed to the floor, shattering every last shred of Yan Lingfei's will to resist. She dropped heavily to her knees!
"Longxuan, didn't you once say you'd dote on me for the rest of your life? I'm apologizing, I'm begging you!! Please don't kill me, I'm willing to give you everything I have!"
With that, Yan Lingfei ripped open the collar of her wedding dress with a frantic tear, exposing her deep cleavage and snow-white peaks directly to the open air!
Yet Di Longxuan's eyes remained utterly cold!
Seeing this, Yan Lingfei grew even more unhinged and tore apart the hem of her skirt as well! Her pair of straight, slender, flawless legs were also bared to the air!
"Longxuan, as long as you spare me, I'm entirely yours right now! I'll cooperate with you in any position and cater to your every desire! Spare me, please!!"
Yan Lingfei knelt on the ground, begging pitifully.
Everyone around them stared in absolute shock, their eyes nearly popping out of their skulls!
The high-and-mighty, ice-cold goddess who reportedly disinfected hotel doorknobs before touching them and had entire families hunted down just for glancing at her—Yan Lingfei had actually degraded herself to such a shameless degree!
Pleading with Di Longxuan like a dog!
Zhang Tailai was shaking with pure rage. "Yan Lingfei, have you lost your mind?! You're my fiancée!! Today is our wedding day!! Get up right now! Even if you have to act like a bitch, you'll do it for me!"
Before he could finish shouting, he saw Yan Lingfei whip her head around to look at him, frantically blinking and winking!
"Zhang Tailai, shut your damn mouth!! Kneel down right now! Do you want to die?! Beg for your life!!"
Zhang Tailai instantly understood—Yan Lingfei was just stalling for time and playing tricks!
Arrogant as he was, he knew Yan Lingfei was right; otherwise, they probably wouldn't live long enough for reinforcements to arrive. Gritting his teeth against his burning fury, he dropped heavily to his knees with a thud.
"Young Master Di, I was wrong too! I'm willing to give you everything I own, just please spare my life! I don't want to die either!!"
The surrounding guests were even more dumbfounded!
Someone as arrogant and domineering as Zhang Tailai had also been reduced to a spineless coward begging for mercy!
Moments later, Di Longxuan stepped right in front of Yan Lingfei and brought his foot down heavily onto her right hand!
*Crack!* A miserable, blood-curdling shriek pierced the air!!
Yan Lingfei's right hand was crushed... into a bloody pulp of flesh and bone!
"You can try acting to fool me, but don't ever try to disgust me with your filthy body!" Di Longxuan said coldly.
"You—you bastard!! Di Longxuan, you'll regret everything you've done to me today! Now I order you, get down on your knees!!"
Yan Lingfei had originally intended to keep up the act to buy time, but with her right hand crushed into mush, the agonizing pain completely snapped her sanity!
She convulsed and trembled from the excruciating torment!!
"Are you dreaming? Relying on this mob?"
Di Longxuan glanced toward the entrance, where more than a dozen fierce guards were rushing in at the commotion!
He raised a hand and struck out with a single palm strike—his internal energy roaring forth like a collapsing mountain and churning seas! *Snap, crackle, pop!* Before the guards could even reach him, they were blasted away by the tidal wave of energy, coughing up blood as they crashed into tables and chairs, instantly motionless!!
"Relying on the fact that Di Xiaoguo, that little bastard, is still alive! She's right in my hands—do you want her to die?!"
Yan Lingfei roared at the top of her lungs like an enraged, frantic lioness!
"Xiaoguo??!! She... she's still alive?!!"
Di Longxuan felt every hair on his head stand on end from shock!!
He erupted like a furious dragon, his aura bursting forth with such violence that every floor tile beneath his feet shattered into powder!
Xiaoguo was an abandoned infant he had taken in!
Though adopted, he had cherished and protected her as if she were his very own daughter!
Right at that moment, two voices rang out from behind!
"Daddy? Is that Daddy?! Daddy, save me, I'm Xiaoguo!!"
"Di Longxuan, you beast! Take one more step and I'll beat this little bastard to death!!"
Di Longxuan's eyes turned completely bloodshot!
He whipped his head around to look!
The rest of the crowd also turned to gaze toward the entrance!
Seeing that their own people had arrived at the doorway, Yan Lingfei and Zhang Tailai scrambled frantically toward the exit.
"It really is Xiaoguo! You're actually alive! Xiaoguo, don't be afraid, Daddy will save you!!"
Di Longxuan would never forget the moment he found Xiaoguo in the woods.
The child had been wrapped in a newspaper, frozen purple all over, and as skinny as a rat! His heart had ached so fiercely that he immediately took the child in as his own.
Over the years, Di Longxuan had poured boundless effort into raising Xiaoguo, treating her just like his own flesh and blood.
But right now!
The once porcelain-doll-like, exquisite little Xiaoguo was covered in grime, wearing no clothes at all!! Her skin was caked in grease and stained with all kinds of filthy garbage!!
Around her neck was a rusted, iron dog collar!
On top of that, her face and body were covered in scars! Knife wounds, whip marks, burns from fire, scalds from boiling water, alongside the prints of slaps and kicks!!
Even a massive patch on her back... was completely devoid of skin!!
Because her broken hands and legs had never received medical treatment, they were now visibly deformed and twisted out of shape!!
"Daddy!! I'm so happy to see you, but don't try to save me! They're all monsters, Daddy, run away!! Hurry up and run!! Xiaoguo doesn't want Daddy to become a dog because of me!"
Di Xiaoguo was hoisted into the air by the dog collar choking her neck!
Her little face was pale and turning purple from asphyxiation!
Tears streamed down her face like a broken dam!
Abandoned infant though she was, and despite enduring five years of endless torture, she would rather be killed than drag her father down with her.
"Today!! Every single person from the Yan family and the Zhang family!! Must die!!!!!!!!"
Every ounce of hidden hatred buried deep within Di Longxuan's heart!!
Erupted in a mad frenzy at this very moment, sweeping across the entire banquet hall like a tidal wave. The temperature in the entire hall plummeted instantly, as if the dead of winter had descended.
A thick layer of frost crept across the floor!!
His killing intent condensed into something almost physical, making everyone feel as though a hand was clamped around their throat, cutting off their breath.
"Di Longxuan, get on your knees! Or I'll kill this little bastard right this second!!"
Yan Lingfei roared with a ferocious snarl, pressing the tip of a dagger directly against Di Xiaoguo's chest!
"Didn't you claim over and over again that she was just like your own daughter? Why aren't you kneeling yet, Di Longxuan? Are you nothing more than a hypocritical fraud?!"
Zhang Tailai sneered!
Behind them stood over a hundred elite fighters from the Yan and Zhang families, seething with murderous intent.
And leading them were the heads of the two houses: Zhang Baoxin of the Zhang family!
And Yan Zhenheng of the Yan family!
The two patriarchs had been resting in a back tea house, waiting for the wedding ceremony to officially begin before making their entrance, never expecting that Di Longxuan would actually show up here.
And slaughter so many people!
If Di Longxuan succeeded, the Zhang and Yan families would have no future left.
After all, both families had taken part in the conspiracy to destroy the Di Family.
"Di Longxuan, if you kneel right now and cripple your own martial arts, I can spare your life. After all, your father once lent a hand to elevate my status back in the day."
Yan Zhenheng gritted his teeth, his voice chillingly cold.
"Di Longxuan, do you really think a few cheap tricks mean you can turn the tables? You're wrong—you're nothing more than a stray dog!"
Zhang Baoxin's face was so cold it looked ready to drip water!
On his son's wedding day, someone had come to humiliate them and smash the venue! If he couldn't exact a brutal revenge on Di Longxuan, how could the Zhang family ever show their faces again?
A hundred thugs surged forward, surrounding Di Longxuan three layers deep! Every single one of them gripped sharp chopping blades!
On the outer perimeter, ten men stood holding custom double-barreled hunting rifles!!
And standing right before the two patriarchs were four elderly men whose auras were immensely profound, marking them out at a glance as true martial arts powerhouses.
In this battle, Di Longxuan was bound to lose!!
All the guests consciously retreated, huddling in the corners to watch the show.
Yet facing all of this, Di Longxuan didn't show a shred of fear. "You think you're qualified to teach me how to behave? You're wrong!! From the moment I stepped back into this world, the only thing left for you all is the chance to die!"
As his voice fell!
His entire body turned blood-red!! The power of the Vermilion Bird Divine Blood erupted! At the same time, his skin hardened until it was as unyielding as rock! The Black Tortoise Physical Body erupted!
His bones tightened within him like steel cables, humming with raw power! The Azure Dragon Root Bone erupted!
His eyes grew redder and redder!! His heart thumped with a frantic, accelerating rhythm!
The White Tiger Murderous Heart was completely unleashed by Di Longxuan, as if a peerless primordial beast had broken free from its cage!!
Before the hundred-plus thugs could even react, Di Longxuan roared, his internal energy condensing into sharp sword qi across his hands as he charged straight into their ranks!
Slices of men! Cut directly across the waist and abdomen! Intestines and viscera spilled out onto the floor as blood and shredded flesh splattered everywhere!!
One after another, men were chopped down horizontally like wooden posts!!
They didn't even have time to let out a single scream.
Over a hundred men—more than forty were slaughtered in a mere three seconds, and the death toll continued to climb at a dizzying rate of dozens per second!
"He's a monster! This is too terrifying!!"
"Run! It's a demon!!"
Cries of sheer panic echoed out as the remaining dozen thugs dropped their cleavers and fled for their lives like madmen.
The guests witnessing the floor littered with corpses, shredded flesh, and a hellish scene of carnage couldn't help but retch, shriek, or pass out cold on the spot!!
Zhang Tailai and Yan Lingfei watched as Di Longxuan trampled over patches of bloody gore to advance toward them, trembling in absolute terror!
Was this even human??!
Di Xiaoguo had never seen such a terrifying side of Di Longxuan either, and the sheer shock caused her to pass out cold!
"Elder Sun, he must have been practicing wicked sorcery! Go kill him right now, and I'll offer a reward of five million!"
Zhang Baoxin shouted immediately.
Sun Longxiang was one of the four elders, as well as a senior retainer of the Zhang family.
Having studied under an old Daoist master on Mount Longhu, he possessed true Daoist martial arts techniques and esoteric incantations!
Yet Yan Zhenheng still felt uneasy and hurriedly called out, "Elder Zhao, Elder Qian, Elder Zhou, join forces and attack together! Kill him today, or capture him alive and subdue him, and I'll give five million to each of you as a reward!"
Hearing this, the remaining three elders stepped forward with cold, confident smirks!
To the three of them, this was essentially free money.
After all, all four were at the Martial Master Level, far stronger than mere martial disciples like Chou Qianzhang, and each possessed lethal martial arts signature moves!
Sun Longxiang looked somewhat displeased. "Just a worthless piece of trash—using a butcher's cleaver to slaughter a chicken. Di Longxuan, why haven't you knelt down and surrendered yet!!"
With that, all four men moved in unison to intercept Di Longxuan.
Yan Lingfei and Zhang Tailai finally regained a sense of security, their eyes burning with fanatical anticipation as they waited to watch Di Longxuan die.
"Surrender?"
Di Longxuan stood right before the four men, his expression a twisted, chilling sneer!
"I'm sorry, but if killing is a bad habit, I really can't seem to break it—in fact, I'm starting to enjoy it!!"
As his voice trailed off, he raised his palm and lashed it toward Sun Longxiang!
Sun Longxiang shouted in fury, "Courting death!" A peach-wood sword materialized in his hand as he instantly stepped out the Heavenly Gang strides, forming hand seals and chanting incantations. Faintly, a chilling gust of ghostly wind began to shriek through the air!
Truly a master of the Dao! The Zhang and Yan family members broke out in joyous cheers!
Yet the very next instant—*splat!* Sun Longxiang was slapped straight into a cloud of bloody mist by Di Longxuan's single palm strike!!
The Vermilion Bird blood was the ultimate embodiment of supreme yang energy; any magic or sorcery was nothing more than a toddler before it!!
"This brat is too strong! Unleash your ultimate moves immediately!! Rampant Python Binding Strike!!"
"Ultimate move: Dragon Hunter!!"
"Twelve Paths of Wind Blade Slaughter!!"
Three furious roars shook the banquet hall to its foundations!
Yet immediately afterward! *Pop, pop, pop...* The three of them turned into three separate clouds of blood mist right in front of Di Longxuan, bursting and spreading across the room...!
"Is, is he a Martial Venerable!!"
Zhang Baoxin's eyes bulged as if they were about to split open!
"Don't come over here! Stay away from me!!"
Terrified, Yan Zhenheng turned to flee, but he had barely taken two steps before he tumbled heavily to the ground!
Looking down in sheer horror at his lower body, he discovered that both of his legs had been cleanly severed!! Fresh blood was gushing out in thick torrents!!
"Take one more step, and I'll pierce straight through her heart!"
Seeing her father's legs chopped off, Yan Lingfei shook uncontrollably, gripping her dagger tightly and pressing it harder against Di Xiaoguo's chest!
"You can try. Let's see if I'm faster, or if your dagger is faster."
Di Longxuan said coldly.
He walked step by step to Yan Zhenheng's side, looking down at him from on high. "You still had the face to claim my father once helped you. Then why did you choose betrayal? Did you think the Di family deserved to die?"
"I—I was forced into it! If I hadn't betrayed him, I would have died too!"
Yan Zhenheng shook violently, his hands clawing desperately at the ground as he tried to crawl away!
"Then did you ever think that betrayal would bring death all the same?"
With those words, Di Longxuan lashed out with a kick!
A muffled explosion rang out!
Yan Zhenheng was reduced to a mist of blood!
"Ah!!! He's a madman! He's not human, he must have crawled straight up from hell!!"
Zhang Baoxin's emotional composure completely shattered!
Yet the moment the words left his mouth, a single slap from Di Longxuan blew him apart into a torrential shower of blood and rain!!
Yan Lingfei and Zhang Tailai, standing at close range, were completely drenched in the bloody mist and gore. They trembled like pathetic ants caught in a violent storm.
Neither of them would ever have dreamed in a million years that the Di Longxuan they had tortured and abused would one day return as such a terrifying entity.
"Seeing as you didn't kill Xiaoguo, I won't kill you either."
Di Longxuan reached out and scooped Di Longxuan's adopted daughter into his arms.
Yan Lingfei shook frantically, never daring to make a lethal move! Because her terror of Di Longxuan had reached its absolute peak!
"Thank you, Longxuan. I know you still love me, right? I'm willing to offer you everything I have, I'm willing to be your beast of burden for the rest of my life!!"
Yan Lingfei collapsed onto her knees, throwing away every last shred of dignity as she stripped off the remainder of her wedding dress!
Her voluptuous body lay completely exposed right before Di Longxuan.
Right now, she only wanted to stay alive, even if it meant sacrificing every ounce of self-respect!
Once she survived this catastrophe, she would return to exact a thousandfold revenge on Di Longxuan!
"Di Longxuan, I surrender too! I won't fight you for this woman anymore! I'm willing to give you everything I own, just don't kill me!"
Zhang Tailai completely broke down and dropped to his knees as well!
"Relax, I said I wouldn't kill you. But while capital punishment can be waived, old debts must still be settled!"
With that, Di Longxuan struck Zhang Tailai squarely in the chest with a palm!
*Boom!* Internal energy surged into his heart like millions of microscopic needles! Every single blood vessel instantly fractured with cracks, and his heart was left riddled with wounds like a sieve!
Zhang Tailai let out a miserable, blood-curdling shriek. Though he wouldn't die immediately, he was forced to slowly endure the agony of his blood vessels tearing apart bit by bit, feeling as though his entire body was being constantly pierced by countless fine needles every second!
Next, Di Longxuan delivered a palm strike to Yan Lingfei!
A massive surge of internal force poured directly into her skin. Yan Lingfei's entire body puffed up like an overinflated balloon, swelling instantly to several times her size in a grotesque, bloated horror!
"Ah!! What are you doing? You bastard!!"
Yan Lingfei screamed in sheer terror!
*Boom!* Her outer skin blew apart entirely! Stripped of every inch of skin, she was left a writhing mass of raw flesh and muscle!!
Her bones, too, shattered inch by inch under the tremendous shock of internal force!!
"I'm leaving your worthless lives intact. Go hurry up and find the mastermind who plotted against the Di family and send them to kill me—I'll be waiting."
Cradling Di Longxuo in his arms, Di Longxuan turned and prepared to leave.
Yet the very next moment, his hand brushed against a terrifying, stitched-up surgical scar on Di Xiaoguo's lower back!
A terrible premonition instantly surged through him!!
He hurriedly felt along Di Xiaoguo's lower back, and the flames of fury on his face flared into a raging, uncontrollable inferno once more!
"Xiaoguo's left kidney... who took it?!"
"...It—it was Li Tianyi! He had it cut out and transplanted into his own body! This has nothing to do with me!"
Before Zhang Tailai could finish, Di Longxuan grabbed him by the throat and hoisted him into the air!
"Speak! Where is Li Tianyi!!"