Li Zhen pushed this gentle force of heaven and earth into Tang Yu's body.
The little girl's martial arts bottleneck was broken almost instantly.
She soared straight into the Tier 4 realm in one go.
Tier 4 Early Stage!
Mid Stage!
Her aura was still rising rapidly.
Tang Yu's eyes nearly popped out of her head.
What was going on?
What had happened?
Where was she?
Who was she?
The little girl wore a face full of question marks.
She desperately wanted to control the rise of her cultivation level, because such an inexplicable breakthrough left her feeling utterly unsettled.
Yet that mysterious power was completely beyond her control.
"Crack!"
Amidst Tang Yu's shock, the Tier 5 bottleneck was effortlessly smashed through.
And still her cultivation continued to climb.
It was not until she broke through to the Tier 5 Mid Stage that this force of heaven and earth was finally exhausted.
Tang Yu no longer had the bandwidth to care about her sworn oath to spank Li Zhen's backside.
At this moment, she desperately needed to stabilize her cultivation realm.
Seeing Tang Yu sitting cross-legged in meditation, Li Zhen smiled and went downstairs to buy groceries.
Arriving downstairs, Li Zhen called Zhou Ze.
Zhou Ze, much like Hang Zhensheng, was a child he had rescued from the claws of a Demon several years ago.
He was also the only person in Yangcheng who knew the true extent of Li Zhen's strength.
The boy possessed immense talent and immense work ethic, taking five years to grow from a nobody into a Tier 8 Mid Stage Great Grandmaster.
Zhou Ze's exploits had alarmed the Zhenjiang Special Affairs Bureau, resulting in his transfer there to serve as a team captain.
"Brother Zhen, you're married!"
There was a hint of complaint mixed into Zhou Ze's voice.
He was complaining that Li Zhen hadn't told him about such a major event.
"Yeah, it was pretty rushed, and pretty dramatic too!"
Li Zhen explained with a smile.
"Was that the girl who answered the phone?"
There was a playful tone in Zhou Ze's voice.
"That's my wife's younger sister!"
"I'm coming over to your place tonight!"
"Alright!"
It seemed he needed to buy a bit more food.
Just as he reached the entrance of the residential compound, two strands of spiritual awareness suddenly landed on him.
Li Zhen frowned and swept his divine sense outward.
When he saw the owners of these two strands of spiritual awareness, he couldn't help but pause.
He had completely forgotten about those two clowns from the Tang Family.
Because he was in such a hurry to pick up Tang Yu, he had pushed certain matters to the back of his mind.
Aside from these two, there were also those so-called top families who had been coercing old Hang.
When he had some free time, he would go wipe these people out.
Then he would investigate who exactly had leaked the news about Tang Yun's bloodline.
Whoever that person was, regardless of who they might be, they were marked for death!
Top priority!!
...
Cheng Qian and Lin Lun were hiding on the roof of a building.
Having barely escaped with their lives after the incident at the Demon Hunting Plain, the two of them no longer possessed their previous arrogance.
"Is this the address Miss Fang sent?"
"It's here, there's no mistake!"
"Old Lin, let's grab Tang Yun and get back quickly. This place is way too creepy."
"My heart has been pounding non-stop, I have a bad feeling something huge is about to happen in Yangcheng!"
Even though they were already in Yangcheng, the lingering tremor in their hearts had not faded.
"What other orders did Miss Fang give you?"
Suddenly, a voice came from behind them.
Every hair on their bodies stood on end, giving them a massive fright.
They turned their heads in a daze, and the moment they saw Li Zhen, they froze completely.
Because they hadn't sensed his approach by even the slightest margin.
"Who are you? When did you get here?"
They couldn't read Li Zhen's cultivation level, but they knew that anyone capable of appearing behind them without a sound possessed strength that must at least be at the Grandmaster level.
"I'm the one asking the questions, and you only get one chance to answer!"
Li Zhen said indifferently.
Cheng Qian and Lin Lun exchanged glances. Sure that there was only one person around, they stared coldly at Li Zhen.
"Kid, we don't know what you're talking about, and we don't know any Miss Fang!"
"Kid, we are honored retainers of the Tang Family, not someone you can afford to provoke!"
The two men glared fiercely at Li Zhen, having already decided to join forces and take him out.
Li Zhen sighed.
Throwing out the Tang Family again!
He reached out both hands.
Cheng Qian and Lin Lun were just about to strike when they suddenly felt all the strength in their bodies vanish entirely.
"You..."
They discovered with terror that Li Zhen had grabbed them by the throat at some unknown moment.
An extremely terrifying force surged within his grip, capable of killing them at any second.
The opponent's strength was simply too terrifying!
Every hair on their bodies stood on end, chilled to the bone.
Their entire beings were enveloped by boundless fear.
Working together, the two of them could put up a fight even against a Mid Stage Grandmaster opponent.
Yet this time, they hadn't even perceived the trace of their opponent making a move.
"Senior, spare our lives! Miss Fang's name is Tang Fang, she's the one who forced us to come here and capture Tang Yun!"
Cheng Qian immediately spilled the beans.
Lin Lun was not about to fall behind and hurriedly chimed in:
"We didn't want to come, but Tang Fang is a member of the Tang Family.
As retainers of the Tang Family, we simply couldn't refuse her orders!
None of this has anything to do with us!
We never wanted to target Miss Yun either!"
Clinging to a final shred of desperate hope, they still wanted to resist, but their entire bodies were locked down by an overbearing force, rendering them unable to mobilize even a shred of energy.
How was this possible?
A mysterious and terrifying Lord Li had appeared at the Demon Hunting Plain, so why had another one popped up in Yangcheng?
How could they be this unlucky? How did they manage to run into both of these terrifying powerhouses?
"Tang Fang? What else did she make you do?"
A certain suspicion took root in Li Zhen's mind.
Cheng Qian's eyes rolled as he thought.
"Splat!!"
With a thrust of his hand, Li Zhen plunged straight into Cheng Qian's dantian, ripping out a cyan Inner Core.
Incredulity bloomed in Cheng Qian's eyes.
His gaze quickly dimmed, while Lin Lun beside him shuddered violently as the pungent stench of urine filled the air.
[Ding, killed a Tier 1 Early Stage Martial Artist, Demon God Value +100!]
"Tell me what I want to know!" Li Zhen looked at Lin Lun.
"Senior, please don't kill me! I'll tell you everything I know!"
"Miss Fang told us to secretly capture Miss Yun and bring her back. She wants to exchange bloodlines with Miss Yun!"
"Not only Miss Fang is involved in this, but Liang Jiacheng of the Liang Family is too."
Liang Jiacheng?
Killing intent surged in Li Zhen's eyes.
"Was the news of Tang Yun's bloodline leaked by you?" Li Zhen stared fixedly into Lin Lun's eyes.
"Miss Yun's bloodline news? What news?"
Lin Lun looked utterly blank.
"Who is Liang Jiacheng?" Li Zhen asked indifferently.
So these two didn't leak the news.
Then who on earth was it?
"Someone from the Jiujiang Liang Family, and he's betrothed to Miss Yun."
"The Tang Family brought Miss Yun back from the orphanage precisely to fulfill the betrothal to the Liang Family.
The engagement was originally supposed to be fulfilled between Miss Fang and Liang Jiacheng,
but a while ago the Tang Family found Miss Yun, who had been lost outside, so the primary subject of the betrothal was changed to Miss Yun..."
Lin Lun didn't dare to conceal a single detail, spilling everything like beans pouring from a bamboo tube.
"Senior, I've told you everything I know!
We were purely just carrying out orders in this matter.
We had no choice either!
I beg you, spare me!"
"Snap!"
Li Zhen crushed Lin Lun's neck and extracted his Inner Core.
[Ding, killed a Tier 1 Early Stage Martial Artist, Demon God Value +100!]
Harboring intent to harm Tang Yun, yet expecting him to spare them?
That didn't exist!
If not for his rock-solid strength, it would have been the little girl who suffered.
It was purely for Tang Yun's sake that he had bothered wasting time asking questions.
Going by his usual temperament, he would have just killed them outright.
Li Zhen grabbed the two corpses and hurled them forcefully out into the bustling downtown area.
The people in the bustling area were terrified by the two bodies dropping from the sky.
Personnel from the Special Affairs Bureau received the report and rushed over immediately.
Li Zhen watched coldly.
To kill a chicken to scare the monkeys!
Let it serve as a warning to anyone thinking of harming Tang Yun: get lost back where you came from!