At the entrance of the Imperial Hotel, the Zhao family surrounded Li Xiaotian and his group, their faces filled with anger.
Li Xiaotian glanced at the Zhao family patriarch and then said calmly, "Are you being presumptuous, or am I? I am here to attend a banquet, what does that have to do with your Zhao family?"
"You're here to attend the banquet? By what right? Are you even worthy?" Zhao Lu interjected, glaring at Li Xiaotian.
"Li Xiaotian, if you know what's good for you, break your own legs and then all of you kneel down and confess your sins to our Zhao family. Otherwise, when the War God arrives, you will die even more miserably!" Zhao Tianlong declared, his eyes filled with malice.
Upon hearing this, Fang Yuan's expression changed slightly, but he said nothing. He had already given up on Zhao Tianlong and the Zhao family.
Li Xiaotian narrowed his eyes, looking coldly at the Zhao family members, and then said indifferently.
"It seems breaking one of your hands was too lenient. What? Does your Zhao family want to kneel before me in public tonight and have me completely crush you under my heel before you stop biting like rabid dogs?"
As soon as Li Xiaotian finished speaking, Long Yi grinned at the Zhao family, clasped his hands together, and his knuckles cracked.
Seeing this, the Zhao family members all retreated a few steps in fear. After all, they had seen Long Yi in action before.
"Li Xiaotian! Don't be arrogant. You're on the verge of death, yet you're still so audacious!" The Zhao patriarch stumbled back a few steps, his face filled with rage.
"The War Department is hosting a War God banquet, and all disturbances are forbidden! Ladies and gentlemen, what are you doing gathered here?" A voice suddenly came from a distance, and a middle-aged man in a suit walked over. He looked at Li Xiaotian and his group with a cold expression.
"The Great Qin War Department is hosting a War God banquet at our Imperial Hotel tonight. I don't care who you are; you will behave yourselves tonight, or you will get out!"
After the middle-aged man arrived, the Zhao family members became much more restrained. However, upon hearing the middle-aged man's words, Zhao Lu's eyes suddenly lit up, and she quickly said to the middle-aged man.
"Hello, you're the person in charge of the Imperial Hotel, right? It's like this, these people in front of you are enemies that the War God specifically wants to deal with. Their presence here makes me suspect their intentions are impure, and they want to disrupt the War God banquet."
After Zhao Lu finished speaking, she looked at Li Xiaotian triumphantly.
The middle-aged man's expression immediately turned grim. He stared at Li Xiaotian and his group and said, "Is what this lady said true? Who are you people? How dare you try to disrupt the War God banquet, you have some nerve!"
"We are not here to disrupt anything. Don't listen to her nonsense; we have an invitation," Fang Yuan quickly said upon seeing this, and then urged Li Xiaotian.
"Xiaotian, hurry up and show the invitation."
"Invitation? Hmph, how is that possible? Would the War God issue you an invitation?" Zhao Lu scoffed upon hearing this.
"Could it be that you stole it? Li Xiaotian is so powerful, maybe he snatched someone else's invitation," Zhao Tianlong said sarcastically.
Li Xiaotian cast a cold glance at Zhao Lu and the others, ignoring them. He took out the invitation and handed it to the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man was startled at first upon seeing the invitation, but then his face turned furious, and he directly tore the invitation to shreds!
"How dare you! You dare to use a fake invitation to fool me?" The middle-aged man was enraged. He knew all about the invitations to the War God banquet, and there was no such invitation for Li Xiaotian. At first, seeing the black and gold border of the invitation, he thought they were distinguished guests for the War God banquet, but after seeing the contents, he became furious.
"Commander-in-Chief Li Shanhai of the Great Qin Empire War Department, specially invites Mr. Li Xiaotian to attend the War God banquet and welcome you!"
The invitation contained these words. The middle-aged man felt insulted. Even if they were to forge an invitation, they should at least make it resemble the real one. It was true that the War God banquet was proposed by Lord Li Shanhai, but the content of the invitation was nothing like this. It only invited someone to attend the War God banquet and contained no other details.
How could a figure as important as Lord Li Shanhai personally write an invitation? And to address the recipient as 'Mr.'? This was simply ridiculous.
"Heh, so it's a fake invitation. It seems you really are here to cause trouble. Li Xiaotian, your IQ is too low. You know the War God is looking for you, yet you dare to court death by coming here to attend the banquet? Without an invitation, you actually made a fake one yourself. You're too bold!" Zhao Lu mocked, her face filled with smug satisfaction. The other Zhao family members also reprimanded him.
"Li Xiaotian, why don't you kneel down and confess quickly? Making a fake invitation, you don't even respect the War Department!" Zhao Tianlong gritted his teeth and said.
On Li Xiaotian's side, Fang Yuan's face suddenly turned pale, and his heart sank in panic. So the invitation was fake. He was so foolish to believe Li Xiaotian's words. How could someone from Jiangnan possibly receive an invitation to the War God banquet?
"Qingmei, we should leave quickly. If War God Long Batian arrives, we won't be able to leave," Fang Yuan whispered to Ye Qingmei.
Ye Qingmei shook her head and then said, "I believe in Xiaotian. He wouldn't use a fake invitation to fool people. He disdains doing such things."
Li Xiaotian, however, with a cold gaze, looked at the middle-aged man and said calmly, "Aren't you going to ask your boss? And then judge this invitation to be fake yourself? And tear it up? Haven't you considered the consequences if this invitation were real?"
"Consequences? Haha, ridiculous!" The middle-aged man sneered, then waved his hand to signal the hotel security, pointing at Li Xiaotian and his group.
"Arrest all of them! How dare they impersonate distinguished guests to attend the banquet, they are too bold! Don't let them escape. Since they are enemies of the War God, we'll escort them to him when he arrives later!"
The hotel security guards quickly moved to surround Li Xiaotian and his group. The Zhao family members on the side watched this scene with schadenfreude, their words filled with mockery.
"Be careful of those two men. After you catch them, break their legs, don't let them run!" Zhao Tianlong shouted.
"Heh, Li Xiaotian, I never thought you'd end up like this, delivering yourself to death. Tonight, I will make you pay back a hundredfold for the punishment you inflicted on my Zhao family!" Zhao Lu sneered, her face filled with glee.
"Hmph! In my opinion, they should break the legs of all of them, regardless of gender, and then wait for the War God to deal with them!" The Zhao patriarch sneered.
Li Xiaotian's expression remained cold, and he made no move. Long Yi stepped forward to meet the security guards.
At the hotel entrance, many guests were watching. Li Xiaotian dared to cause trouble at the War God banquet; he was truly too bold.
Several security guards lunged at Long Yi, but they were no match for him. With just a few casual swings of his hands, all the security guards fell to the ground.
The scene immediately became deathly silent.