Outside the Imperial City, there was a patch of woods!
Within the woods stood a courtyard!
A carriage stopped in front of the courtyard.
Su Xiaotang jumped down, lifted the carriage curtain with her sword hilt, and said, "Brother-in-law, come down!"
Ye Tian jumped out of the carriage, glanced around, and looked at the small courtyard.
"Xiaotang, did you bring your brother-in-law to a place like this to have fun?"
Su Xiaotang curled her lip. "Brother-in-law, don't you remember this place? This is your own hunting ground!"
"You bought three thousand acres of woods just for hunting!"
"Not only that, I remember you also bought hundreds of female slaves and made them run around here naked."
"While you chased after them with your hound!"
As she spoke, murderous intent flashed in Su Xiaotang's eyes!
Ye Tian gradually felt a chill all over his body!
Is this really me?
How come I have no memory of this?
It must be a fabrication by someone else! Those who want to harm me will stop at nothing!
"Xiaotang, listen to me!"
"Enough! Do you know the origin of your title 'King of Beast Tamers'? Actually, everyone calls you 'Beast in Human Skin'!"
Holy crap!
I only just found out the real origin of the nickname "King of Beast Tamers"!
It wasn't flattery about my skill in capturing wild beasts at all, but rather a pun on "beast"!
"Come out! We've brought you the person you wanted!"
With those words, four figures in black emerged.
All four of them were masked, their faces obscured!
As the four stepped out of the courtyard, terrifying auras surged into the sky, and the courtyard behind them was blasted to pieces!
Su Xiaotang's expression changed, and she stepped back a few paces!
"Foundation Establishment Realm!"
"You are all in the Foundation Establishment Realm?"
"No, you aren't members of the Fengming Sect? Who on earth are you?"
The lead man in black said coldly, "Second Miss Su, when did we ever say we were from the Fengming Sect?"
Su Xiaotang's expression changed once again. "You're men?"
Ye Tian looked at the four of them.
Indeed, although all four were masked, their builds clearly revealed that they were men!
And the Fengming Sect!
It had been established specifically to exact revenge on Ye Tian!
From the Sect Master down to the lowest member, everyone in it was a woman!
Fengming! *Feng* represented woman; *ming* represented voice!
To put it bluntly, it was a group of resentful women looking to get justice for themselves!
"Brother-in-law, I'll hold them off, you get out of here!"
Su Xiaotang zipped forward and shielded Ye Tian behind her.
Ye Tian asked in a low voice beside her ear, "Did you intend to hand me over to the Fengming Sect?"
Su Xiaotang hurriedly said, "Don't overthink it. I promised Black Widow of the Fengming Sect that I'd bring you here just so they could vent their anger a little. I told them beforehand that my sister cannot live without you!"
"It seems they overheard me when I was negotiating with Black Widow!"
Ye Tian looked at the four masked men. "You want to kill me?!"
"Hurry up and run! As much as I wish you were dead, I can't disobey my sister's orders!"
With that, Su Xiaotang grabbed Ye Tian's sash and shoved him onto the carriage!
Then she smacked the horse's backside with her sword hilt.
Ye Tian chuckled inwardly. Treating me like a newbie, are we? Fine, I'll find another place to kill these wretches so I don't scare my sister-in-law and ruin the fun.
The warhorse let out a long, piercing neigh, dug its hooves into the ground, and bolted into the dense forest!
The lead masked man waved a hand. "I'll hold off Su Xiaotang. You guys go after him. Remember, he must be taken alive!"
Three of the men in black leaped toward the carriage!
In the blink of an eye, the three of them landed right in front of the carriage!
"Kid, get out of the carriage!"
"Don't resist, or we can't guarantee you'll escape a beating!"
"Get down and kneel before your betters!"
Ye Tian jumped down and let out a sigh. "Look at that, even an honest, law-abiding guy like me gets bullied by you lot?"
"Can you at least tell me who is behind you?"
If he hadn't wanted to find out who was plotting against him in the shadows, Ye Tian would have thrown punches long ago!
One of the men in black sneered, "Kid, you won't be finding that out. Once your usefulness is up, your head rolls!"
"Though, we really envy you. You're not even that old, yet you've lived such a dissolute and extravagant life!"
"That's right, this old man has only tasted three women in my entire life! You, motherfucker, must have had three thousand!"
Damn it, do you take me for an emperor?!
Ye Tian frowned. "Sigh, since you won't talk, I suppose I have no choice but to give you a chance to be reborn!"
With that, Ye Tian suddenly clenched both fists!
With a booming sound, an overwhelmingly tyrannical surge of energy burst forth.
It swept outward directly!
Three figures flew backward, exploding into bits of blood and bone mid-air!
Ye Tian withdrew his fists.
He hadn't even struck yet—just releasing his aura was this terrifying?
He looked around. Within a radius of thirty zhang, all the trees had been flattened into a scorched plain!
Thank goodness his vital energy had protected the carriage, otherwise...
And this was only a tiny fraction of a billionth of his true power!
Ye Tian found it utterly dull!
Damn it, he forgot to use his battle armor's strength!
"System, can you trace their identities?"
[Master, let me try... Based on the residual aura left behind by these three masked men, they are from the Shadow Sect!]
"The Shadow Sect? Mark their coordinates for me. I'm going to wipe out the Shadow Sect!"
Ye Tian could not allow any faction plotting against him to continue existing!
Besides, the Shadow Sect had always been a thorn in Su Chanjuan's side!
If he made his wife happy, she might even be willing to hold him a little longer!
Coordinates instantly appeared in his mind!
Ye Tian clenched his fists, violently stomped his foot into the ground, and shot straight up into the sky like a rocket!
Boom!
The ground collapsed into a deep pit over a dozen zhang wide!
A figure wreathed in flames shot up into the clouds!
Like a missile piercing through the skies!
...
Northern Prefecture! In a certain valley stood a grand palace!
At this moment, an old man in a black robe sat high upon a throne inside the grand hall!
The old man wore a mask, and his entire body was wreathed in a terrifying aura!
Below the throne, a full three thousand men in black robes stood in neat rows, listening to the old man's lecture!
"This time, our dark forces are stepping out from the shadows into the light, taking a calculated risk!"
"But with our meticulous planning, we will surely capture that trashy Young Prince!"
"When the time comes, our master will help us lift the curse of life and death!"
Right at that moment, a calm voice drifted in. "What a pity—you won't live to see that day."
"Who's there?"
The old-robed elder frowned, his eyes suddenly flashing with murderous intent as he looked toward the entrance of the hall!
In the open space outside the hall, Ye Tian stood casually with his hands clasped behind his back.
A dozen zhang away from him outside the hall, a layer of ripples shimmered in the air!
He knew this was a defensive barrier!
"Ye Tian? I never expected that trashy Young Prince would actually manage to track us down here!"
Following the voice, the black-robed elder led his three thousand subordinates pouring out in a steady stream!
They stopped on the other side of the barrier formation, facing Ye Tian!
"It seems I'm quite famous!"
"We intend to take you hostage, so naturally we had to research you. Portraits of you are hung everywhere inside our sect!"
"You must be the Sect Master of the Shadow Sect? Tell me, why did you send people to kidnap me?"
Ye Tian's expression remained calm!
His spiritual sense swept outward, enveloping everyone inside.
He was confident that the moment he struck, he could pummel all of these people to death with his fists!
And he didn't want to let a single one escape!
Spare the tiger cub, and court future disaster!
"Ye Tian, how dare you! Why aren't you kneeling to speak with the Sect Master?"
"Ye Tian, you good-for-nothing sex fiend, utterly uneducated and unskilled—who gave you the audacity to question the Sect Master?"
"Ye Tian, kneel!"
"Kneel..."
Members of the Shadow Sect shouted fiercely one after another!
In their eyes, Ye Tian was nothing more than an uneducated piece of trash and a sex fiend!
How could they possibly think anything of him?
Ye Tian cupped his fists lightly and said in an indifferent tone, "I'll ask one more time: why did you try to kidnap me?"
"Ha, haha!"
The black-robed elder looked at him with disdain. "Kid, didn't you hear them? As long as you kneel and bark like a dog a few times, I'll tell you the answer!"
"Very well, I am inherently kind-hearted, but you insist on courting death! Then I shall grant you all a chance to be reborn!"
Ye Tian violently clenched both fists!
A terrifying wave of power swept outward!
Suddenly, the expression of the black-robed elder changed drastically, and he shrieked, "Fall back!"
However, it was already too late!
Like a raging flood, boundless waves of energy surged a thousand zhang into the air, connecting heaven and earth, and swallowed the entire grand hall in an instant!