"Lu Yang, I didn't expect you to actually come to the peak of Mount Yan for a woman like this. I still underestimated you!"
The speaker was an old man standing on the second floor of the villa. Lu Yang recognized him – it was Guo Shouren of the Guo family, the one who had tried to kill him on the training grounds.
"Mr. Guo, I didn't think a woman like this would trouble you to make such a big fuss. I really look down on your Guo family!" Lu Yang sneered.
"Look down on us? You dare to look down on our Guo family with your status? Who do you think you are?"
"In our Guo family's eyes, you are no different from an ant. If you hadn't killed our Guo family members, I wouldn't have paid you any attention, let alone designed a plan to kill you, because you simply weren't worth it!"
"But you just refused to die and actually killed my Guo family member. Therefore, today, this is where you will be buried!"
"Black Bear, kill him for me!" Guo Shouren directly shouted at the two-meter-tall big man. Black Bear's eyes suddenly lit up upon hearing Guo Shouren's command, and he lunged towards Lu Yang.
His strength was immense, as if a small truck was crashing into them. The entire Mount Yan seemed to tremble with every step Black Bear took.
"Hmph, you're just a puppet refined through some secret art. You think you can stop me?" Lu Yang sneered and also sprinted towards Black Bear. His physical body had been tempered to be extremely strong, and Lu Yang was ready to test whose physical body was stronger, his or this puppet's.
"Bang!"
With a deafening sound, Lu Yang and Black Bear collided. Both were pushed back. Lu Yang only retreated two or three steps, while Black Bear was pushed back five or six steps. However, Black Bear seemed unfazed and charged at Lu Yang again.
Lu Yang didn't pause either and collided with Black Bear once more.
This time, Lu Yang's strength had increased significantly, doubling its previous power. He directly sent Black Bear flying backward, crashing heavily onto the ground.
"Hmm, this brat's strength is actually so powerful that even Black Bear is no match?" Seeing this, Guo Shouren's expression instantly turned cold. He casually threw a bone sword to Black Bear.
Lu Yang recognized this bone sword; it was the same one Hu Biao had held before. How did it end up in Black Bear's hands?
"Could it be that Hu Biao defied Guo Shouren's orders back then and was killed by Guo Shouren?" With this thought, Lu Yang frowned helplessly. It seemed the Guo family's methods were too ruthless. Even the people they cultivated, as long as they disobeyed management, had only one outcome: death. Even though Hu Biao had become a lieutenant general, he couldn't escape the Guo family's killing.
"Your Guo family truly has remarkable methods, not even sparing those you cultivated yourselves!" Lu Yang sneered at Guo Shouren.
"You are not qualified to comment on our Guo family, because you will soon be a dead man!"
"Black Bear, kill him!" Guo Shouren roared again.
Black Bear, wielding the bone sword, lunged directly at Lu Yang. The bone sword possessed immense power, as if its strike was sucking in all the surrounding air, rapidly forming a sword shadow that lunged at Lu Yang.
This sword shadow's power was enormous, like a dragon opening its bloody maw and biting at Lu Yang.
Lu Yang's lips curved slightly. He calmly threw a punch, sending it towards the sword shadow.
"Bang!" With a bang, the sword shadow and Lu Yang's fist collided, instantly shattering into pieces. At this moment, Black Bear had already lunged at Lu Yang with the bone sword. The bone sword's power was no less than the sword shadow, and it was about to pierce Lu Yang's body. At that critical moment, Lu Yang's body miraculously vanished from his spot.
When Lu Yang reappeared, he had already delivered a fierce kick to Black Bear's chest. The power of that kick sent Black Bear flying backward, smashing into the villa's main door and creating a large hole in it. Black Bear fell to the ground, unable to stand up.
Lu Yang walked forward, took the bone sword, and examined it closely for a few seconds. He smiled slightly, "Indeed, a good item!"
"Kid, you actually defeated the mountain-guarding Black Bear. It seems I truly underestimated you. When you killed Guo Guangyi back then, that must have been your true ability!" Guo Shouren, seeing his guardian general Black Bear incapacitated, immediately looked at Lu Yang and said coldly.
"Naturally!"
"I can give you a way out. Release her, and I won't kill you!" Lu Yang said to Guo Shouren coldly.
"With you? Spouting such arrogant words in front of me? Do you even know how to write the word 'death'?" Hearing this, Guo Shouren burst into laughter.
"Kid, you are the most arrogant person I have ever met. Do you know that I started practicing martial arts at the age of three, achieved internal energy at ten, reached the Grandmaster realm at thirty, and the peak of the Grandmaster realm at fifty? Now, I am only one step away from the Semi-Divine realm. My martial arts, my techniques, are not something a fledgling like you can comprehend!"
"Kid, I admit you are a martial arts prodigy. At such a young age, you are already at the Great Grandmaster cultivation. However, you have offended the Guo family and are destined for an early demise. Because no matter how good your potential or how high your skill, in front of our Guo family, you are merely a paper tiger!"
"Kid, take your life!" Guo Shouren roared, and instantly, the air in the sky condensed, forming a large palm that slowly pressed down on Lu Yang.
"What terrifying methods!" Lu Yang saw this palm, which was more terrifying than any threat he had faced before. This was because the killing intent contained within this palm was extremely powerful. Even though Lu Yang was now at the Semi-Divine realm, he had to treat it seriously.
Lu Yang planted his feet into a horse stance, then drew a Tai Chi symbol with his hands in front of his chest and suddenly thrust them upwards towards the sky.
"Boom!" With a loud sound, the Tai Chi in Lu Yang's hands transformed into Yin-Yang fish and collided with Guo Shouren's palm.
The sound was immense, as if it were about to blow the entire Mount Yan into flat ground. The surrounding houses and buildings shook violently.
"What's going on? An earthquake?"
"It seems to be coming from the peak of Mount Yan. There was just a sky-high blaze over there, like a bomb explosion, very terrifying!"
"Could someone be setting off fireworks over there?"
"..." Countless people cast their gazes towards the peak of Mount Yan, not knowing what was happening.
However, some highly skilled martial artists exclaimed in shock, "This is bad, two martial arts masters are fighting! They are too strong, creating such a massive commotion!"
"Who could it be?" Countless martial artists were filled with doubt. This was Yanjing, right under the Emperor's nose, and someone dared to make a move here?
King Lingque sat in his villa and also heard the tremendous commotion. As he looked towards the peak of Mount Yan, he shook his head helplessly.
"He went after all!"
"I just don't know if he can leave there alive with his current cultivation!" King Lingque naturally knew that one of the combatants was Lu Yang. However, this time Lu Yang had encountered the Guo family, a martial arts family with a history of hundreds of years, a martial arts family rumored to have beings in the Divine realm.