The scene was deathly silent.
Only the patter of the rain could be heard.
Li Chen and the others felt their scalps tingle, their eyes filled with terror.
That was a Heavenly Power Realm expert!
And he was sent flying with a casual slap?
Was this for real?
The other three instantly snapped back to reality.
Wielding steel rods, they charged at Chen Nan, shouting threats.
Chen Nan curled his lips.
Never mind that his cultivation had recovered to the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage.
Even if his cultivation hadn't recovered.
Even if he just stood there.
Even if he handed each of them a knife and told them to stab him.
They probably still wouldn't be able to break his defense.
*Slap!*
*Slap!*
*Slap!*
Accompanied by three crisp slaps.
All three spat blood and flew over Li Chen's head, crashing heavily to the ground with piercing screams.
"Who exactly are you?"
"Why is your strength so immense?" Li Chen swallowed hard.
Chen Nan looked no older than twenty-four or twenty-five.
But who could have imagined he would instantly defeat four Heavenly Power Realm experts with over thirty years of martial arts training?
"Don't come any closer!"
"Don't come any closer!"
Watching Chen Nan approach, Li Chen trembled with fear, screaming desperately.
Chen Nan asked, "Can you spare me a cigarette?"
Li Chen hastily fumbled in his pocket, pulled out a pack of Huazi, took out a cigarette, and tremblingly offered it to Chen Nan. He then produced a lighter.
*Flick, flick, flick!*
Perhaps due to extreme nervousness, it took several tries before it ignited.
He then held it to Chen Nan.
"Hoo!"
Chen Nan took a deep, blissful puff.
After a year in the underworld, he truly missed this feeling!
He then exhaled a thick plume of smoke, a look of contentment on his face, and said to Li Chen, "Be good, and don't bother your ex-wife and son anymore, alright?"
"Yes, yes, yes!"
Li Chen was thoroughly beaten and nodded frantically, like a chicken pecking at rice.
"I hope you keep your word." Chen Nan patted Li Chen's shoulder, then casually took the umbrella from his hand and walked away into the night.
Only after Chen Nan had completely disappeared did Li Chen finally recover from his shock.
"Brother Li, who is that guy? Why is he so strong?" A middle-aged man with a battered face walked over.
Li Chen's eyes were grim, and he gritted his teeth, "He's just a dead man!"
The middle-aged man looked surprised, "Brother Li, are you still going after him?"
*Ptooey!*
Li Chen spat fiercely, "He's involved with my ex-wife and made my son call him Daddy. If I don't tear him limb from limb, my hatred will not be appeased."
"Yes!"
"I don't deny his strength."
"But my brother is the Third Hall Master of the Azure Dragon Society."
"He has many experts under him."
"How difficult can it be to eliminate him?"
All four middle-aged men gasped in disbelief.
They never imagined that Li Chen's brother was the Third Hall Master of the Azure Dragon Society.
The Azure Dragon Society was a mysterious force that had risen in recent years.
No one knew who the leader of the Azure Dragon Society was,
whether they were male or female.
Very few people had ever seen them.
However,
their appearance had, with lightning speed, subjugated the underground forces of the capital,
becoming the undisputed overlord.
Of course,
the leader of the Azure Dragon Society had nine Hall Masters under him,
each of them exceptionally powerful,
possessing the aura of being able to hold off ten thousand enemies single-handedly.
"Let's go back first!" Li Chen pulled open the car door and got in.
Although he had a powerful background,
he didn't intend to let his brother directly intervene.
He wanted to first use legal channels to regain custody of his son.
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"Heavenly Power Realm, what exactly is that?"
Back at the medical clinic,
Chen Nan asked Qing Long.
He had no choice.
After ten years away, he felt like a stranger in this world.
Qing Long said, "That's a martial artist ranking system implemented a few years ago, assessed based on martial arts training years and age."
Chen Nan took a puff of his cigarette, "How is it divided?"
Qing Long replied, "Currently, martial artists are divided into twelve stages and nine realms."
"But the distinctions aren't very clear."
"Even those in the so-called Celestial Pivot Realm are just old guys who've been training for sixty years."
"They're nothing."
Chen Nan understood.
Qing Long asked, "Aren't you going to the immortal realm to see your wife and daughter?"
"They're living happily, they don't need me..." Tears of grievance welled up in Chen Nan's eyes.
Although he spent a year in the underworld,
ten years had passed in the mortal realm.
Furthermore, the time ratio between the mortal realm and the immortal realm was different.
One year in the mortal realm was ten years in the immortal realm.
This meant that
his parents and wife and daughter had been living in the immortal realm for a hundred years!
A hundred years!
What a long time.
He had naively believed that
his parents and wife and daughter must miss him terribly.
But upon returning to the mortal realm, he cruelly discovered...
That they seemed to have forgotten him.
Living carefree lives in the immortal realm,
as happy and content as could be.
Yes.
Although Chen Nan hadn't gone to the immortal realm,
it was an inseparable part of him.
The moment he returned to the mortal realm, he knew the living situation of his relatives and loved ones over the past century.
He was no longer part of their circle.
Why should he force his way in?
He felt so wronged!
And he had already decided.
He would return to the immortal realm to visit them when they finally remembered him.
Yes.
He wanted to see when they would finally recall his existence.
"How much money do I have in my account now?" Chen Nan suddenly asked.
He used to be wealthy.
However, ten years ago, his entire family moved to the immortal realm,
and he had also donated all his assets.
Hearing Chen Nan's question, Qing Long said proudly, "It's not much, just a few hundred billion!"
Chen Nan was shocked, "A few hundred billion? How much ill-gotten money did you make from treating patients?"
Hundreds of billions in ten years.
This was by no means a small sum.
An ordinary person truly wouldn't have this capability.
Although it wasn't much to him,
it was quite surprising that Qing Long had made so much money.
"Who are you looking down on?" Qing Long snorted indignantly, "Let me tell you, Lord Long is quite capable in business."
Chen Nan pouted, "You're calling yourself 'Lord Long' in front of me? Did you forget to call me Brother Nan?"
"Believe it or not, I won't clean up your messes anymore?"
Qing Long immediately conceded, "I was wrong..."
Just then,
Chen Nan's phone rang.
It showed He Shuqin.
Obviously,
Chen Nan hadn't had this name in his phone before.
Now, the only person who could call him on this phone was Li Mu.
Everyone else was someone Qing Long had befriended.
"Who is this now?" Chen Nan sighed inwardly, "Can you tell me how many girls you met in the ten years I was gone?"
Qing Long's voice had a hint of embarrassment, "I did meet many girls, but it was for your sake!"
"Didn't I have to help you find those reincarnated celestial gods?"
Chen Nan's eyes lit up, "You mean, this woman named He Shuqin is also a reincarnated celestial god?"