"Pretty ruthless! People say touching a single hair will cost him dearly, and he actually shaved the person bald!"

"Isn't this straight-up provocation against two Dao Realm experts? Is he really not afraid of dying?"

"I went drinking last night, and the news was already everywhere. There's a heavenly pride from some Ritian Empire named Gu Tianle, Third Grade Spiritual Body, who beat a Sixth Grade Peak Divine Breath genius from Wushuang Empire head-on yesterday and even humiliated a core disciple of the Divine Profound Hall, and in the end, nothing happened to him."

"I know about this. It's said that later on, a core disciple from the Sunset Sect was even drawn in. That senior from the Sunset Sect directly extended an olive branch to him. It shows that this person definitely has extraordinary talent."

"He sure is formidable, and crazy too. Yesterday, that senior from the Sunset Sect was protecting him. Who can he rely on now?"

"That's not necessarily true. With him being so arrogant now, if he didn't have something to fall back on, I definitely wouldn't believe it. Let's wait and see!"

Zhang Menglong's appearance put everyone in a bystander's mode. They wanted to know, a young heavenly pride, what confidence did he have to provoke two local Dao Realm experts from the Hong Yun Empire!

"Grandpa, save us!"

Upon seeing Mu Yifeng, Mu Xiang immediately shouted out like he'd found a life-saving straw.

Mu Yifeng, upon seeing him, showed no joy and even shook his head with a sigh.

Compared to Hong Yang, Mu Xiang's performance was really too poor.

They were facing the same situation now, Mu Xiang had been completely frightened out of his wits, while Hong Yang beside him, despite being a bit pale, obviously had much better mental fortitude.

At times like these, what people care about more is their dignity. Right now Mu Xiang was just embarrassing him.

In fact, he was reluctant to come and save Mu Xiang. Mu Xiang was just an illegitimate child, and his status in the family was like that, not worth his effort. However, his son felt guilty towards Mu Xiang and his mother, and pleaded with him to save them, so he reluctantly showed up.

"A bastard is a bastard, completely disgracing the Mu Family!"

Compared to that, Hong He felt much better.

As if showing off, Hong He directly praised, "Yang'er, you did very well, remaining unruffled in the face of danger. As expected of someone nurtured by our Royal Family. It's okay if you're outmatched now; just catch up later. Your mentality already has the potential to become strong!"

"Hong He, what do you mean by that?" Mu Yifeng, hearing the thinly-veiled insult in his tone, immediately got irritated.

"Nothing much," Hong He laughed, "but Old Mu, your family's younger generation really isn't up to par."

"Hmph, I never acknowledged him as a member of the Mu Family. He's just the result of my son's romantic escapades. Our Mu Family, cultivated and raised by ourselves, is not inferior to your Royal Family."

"Alright, stop bickering and save the people first."

"Okay."

The two exchanged a glance, instantly reaching an agreement in their objective.

"Grandpa, this kid fed us an elixir, it probably has poison," Mu Xiang shouted loudly, "make him hand over the antidote first."

Mu Yifeng and Hong He suddenly had their expressions change.

To be honest, Mu Yifeng didn't actually care about Mu Xiang's life or death, he was more concerned about the Mu Family's face. But it's different for Hong Yang. Among the many scions of the Royal Family, he was considered one of the most outstanding; he is the future hope of the Hong Yun Empire and the Hongmeng Empire.

"Hand over the antidote," Hong He said, "for the sake of the superpower, we can spare your life. But if you're obstinate, then even if we offend the superpower, we will definitely kill you!"

According to the rules of the superpower, no heavenly pride is to be killed. But if it's a Dao Realm expert, the rules can be somewhat relaxed within a limited scope, as privileges are in the hands of a few.

"Did you bring the money?" Zhang Menglong shoved his hands into his pockets and crushed a jade hairpin, "If you compensate for my loss, I'll release the people."

Hong He and the others naturally heard about Zhang Menglong demanding a mind-boggling compensation of 260 trillion, an amount impossible to gather even if they emptied the entire Hong Yun Empire. As for Zhang Menglong's proposal to use teleportation arrays to settle the debt, it was absolutely out of the question.

In other words, today they were here to save people, not to ransom them.

"Young man, to forgive is divine. You aren't hurt now, release the people, and I assure you in the name of the Royal Family, we won't trouble you again."

"You say forgive and just forgive?" Zhang Menglong questioned, "I freaking spent 200 trillion to summon a bunch of puppets to protect me, who's going to compensate for my loss? With just your word, I should release the people? Don't I need face?"

"Kid, the fact that we're still speaking nicely to you is already giving you a lot of face," Mu Yifeng, clearly having a short temper, now wasn't considering whether they were giving Zhang Menglong face, but rather if Zhang Menglong was giving them face.

An individual with a Third Grade Spiritual Body doesn't even have the right to utter a word to Dao Realm experts!

"With this attitude, you might as well go back," Zhang Menglong said, "when you give me the compensation, I'll release the people. Goodbye to you both, I still need to catch up on some sleep, you can do whatever you want!"

After speaking, Zhang Menglong muttered to himself, "Seriously so annoying, not letting people sleep at the crack of dawn, it's driving me to a nervous breakdown."

"Did I say you could leave?"

Under normal circumstances, Mu Yifeng would have killed by now, but due to the poison in Mu Xiang and Hong Yang, he was somewhat apprehensive.

"Do you really think using the poison in them to threaten us will make us hold back?"

"I have a way," Hong He said, "first capture him, I have a way to read the memory in his brain. As long as there's an antidote, there will be a way to get it; if this poison has no antidote, arguing with him here is a waste of time."

"If you had this ability, why didn't you say so sooner?" Mu Yifeng said, "Almost really started negotiating with a kid; how sure are you?"

"It's just a soul search secret technique. A Third Grade Spiritual Body kid, nothing expected to go wrong, but don't kill him. If he dies, then nothing can be done."

"That's good then!"

With Hong He's assurance, Mu Yifeng immediately had no more concerns.

"Just now you really scared me," Mu Yifeng, as a Dao Realm expert, projected his aura towards Zhang Menglong. Even with Mu Xiang and Hong Yang standing next to Zhang Menglong, he could precisely crush only Zhang Menglong's body without harming the other two.

Of course, he didn't dare to kill Zhang Menglong directly, but to restrain him, it was extremely easy!

In an instant, Zhang Menglong felt as if something locked his body; neither his hands nor feet could move.

"Come here!" Hong He called to Hong Yang and Mu Xiang, "Don't worry, no matter what he fed you, I have ways!"

Upon hearing this, the two immediately eased their worries and quickly returned behind their respective grandfathers.

"Hong He, it's up to you now."

"Yes," Hong He nodded, This secret technique is extremely powerful, able to read information from a person's brain, but will turn a person into an idiot.

Whether Zhang Menglong becomes an idiot or not, he doesn't care. As long as he didn't kill anyone, there won't be any conflict with the superpower.

"If you had released them just now, I would have kept my promise not to pursue you," Hong He said, shaking his head at Zhang Menglong, "Such a great talent, but unfortunately not one of the Royal Family, nor can be used by the Royal Family!"

"Shouldn't you reconsider whether you really want to make a move on me?" Even in this situation, Zhang Menglong said unflustered.

Zhang Menglong's confidence suddenly made Hong He pause for a moment.

But then he shook his head, as if mocking himself, since when was he frightened by a young man?

As a powerful soul force emerged, not far away, Mu Xiang and Hong Yang had already shown faces of satisfaction.

Just at that moment, in front of Zhang Menglong, a scruffy and bent figure suddenly appeared.

"Kid, how did you get into trouble after just one night?"