Chapter 7 has two reasons!

"I am Ye Haocheng of the Zhenbei Princes Mansion of the Great Chu Dynasty!"

His voice was not loud, yet it reached everyone's ears with extraordinary clarity.

"Friends from the Great Chu Dynasty, you've been waiting in the shadows for me to appear for a full month now, haven't you?"

A playful, mocking smile touched his face.

"What's the matter? Now that I've come out, have you all turned into shrinking turtles, afraid to show your faces?"

"Or is it... that the people of the Great Chu Dynasty are all just cowardly rats who hide their heads and tails?!"

Boom!

As soon as these words were spoken, it was like a giant boulder crashing into a calm lake, instantly stirring up a thousand-layer wave!

The entire street fell into a deathly silence in an instant.

Everyone's movements froze at this moment.

Immediately after, countless shocked, stunned, and disbelieving gazes focused simultaneously on the calm youth standing in the middle of the street!

"Great Chu Dynasty... Ye Haocheng?!"

"The sole survivor of the Zhenbei Princes Mansion? Wasn't he missing after being hunted down? How could he appear in Guxiang City of our Great Xuan Dynasty?"

"Did I hear that right? Was he... actively provoking the pursuers from the Great Chu Dynasty just now?"

After a brief silence, the crowd completely exploded into a frenzy!

Discussions and exclamations rose and fell one after another!

The earth-shattering case of the mansion's destruction in the Great Chu Dynasty a month ago had already spread throughout the Eastern Continent.

The Prince of Zhenbei, Ye Qingtian, had been loyal and brave all his life, yet he ended up with his entire family executed, causing countless people to sigh in sorrow.

And this sole survivor of the Ye Mansion, Ye Haocheng, was rumored to be a profligate son with zero cultivation talent who only knew how to eat, drink, and have fun.

Everyone thought that even if he luckily escaped, he would surely choose to change his name and live a humble life in hiding.

But who would have thought!

He would actually use such an earth-shattering method to publicly reveal his identity in a foreign land and actively provoke the assassins who wanted his life!

Has he gone mad?!

"Is this kid tired of living?"

"Surviving was already a great fortune, why be so flashy? Isn't this just seeking death?"

The crowd was filled with incomprehension and doubt.

And those pursuers hidden in the shadows were even more dazed by Ye Haocheng's sudden move.

They looked at each other, seeing shock and anger in each other's eyes.

Humiliation!

This was naked humiliation!

As elites of the Great Chu Dynasty, they were actually called "cowardly rats" by a powerless profligate in front of the cultivators of the entire city!

If this can be endured, what cannot!

Not long after Ye Haocheng's voice fell.

"Swish! Swish! Swish!"

Dozens of sounds of breaking air suddenly rang out!

One figure after another, radiating powerful auras, shot out like ghosts from the surrounding roofs, pavilions, and shadows, instantly surrounding Ye Haocheng and Leng Yi in the middle of the street!

A murderous aura instantly permeated the air!

The originally noisy street became silent in an instant.

The watching cultivators and commoners all showed terrified expressions, retreating like a tide for fear of being caught in the impending bloody slaughter.

These people who suddenly appeared were all dressed in black tight-fitting clothes, their faces cold, and their eyes filled with undisguised killing intent.

Not a single one of the spiritual power fluctuations they emitted was lower than the Martial Marquis Realm!

Leading them was a middle-aged man with a cold face and eyes as sharp as knives.

His killing intent, almost tangible, was locked tightly onto Ye Haocheng, as if he wanted to slice him into a thousand pieces.

"Little brat of the Ye Mansion, you really don't know the meaning of death!"

The middle-aged man spoke, his voice hoarse and cold, filled with thick mockery.

He walked toward Ye Haocheng step by step, each step seemingly treading on everyone's heartbeats.

"The Great Chu Dynasty gave Qingping Academy some face and didn't want to offend them easily; that's the only reason you were allowed to live a few more days."

The corners of his mouth curled into a cruel arc.

"I originally thought you'd hide in the academy like a rat for the rest of your life! I never expected that after only one short month, you couldn't hold back and came out to seek death on your own!"

He looked Ye Haocheng up and down, his eyes filled with the playfulness of a cat catching a mouse.

"What? You don't naively think that Qingping Academy will protect a piece of trash like you forever, do you?"

While the middle-aged man was speaking, many well-informed Great Xuan cultivators in the crowd had already recognized his identity!

"It's him! One of the three commanders of the Great Chu Dynasty's Imperial Palace Guard, Xiao Ce!"

"It's actually Xiao Ce! A powerhouse of the Ninth Heaven of the Martial King Realm! It's said that the blood on his hands is enough to form a river!"

"Heavens! To hunt down a profligate from the Ye Mansion, the Great Chu Imperial Family actually sent out a figure of this level!"

Bursts of gasps erupted from the crowd.

When they looked at the twenty-plus men in black behind Xiao Ce, their eyes were filled with even more shock.

Those people all had steady auras and firm steps; they were clearly battle-hardened elites.

This was clearly a squad of the Great Chu Dynasty's Imperial Guard!

Such a grand display just to kill one Ye Haocheng?

Everyone felt that the Great Chu Imperial Family had gone mad!

Yet, facing this terrifying lineup that would make any Martial King Realm powerhouse turn pale.

Ye Haocheng, the target, remained exceptionally calm.

He didn't even bother to spare Xiao Ce a glance.

Under everyone's stunned gazes, he leisurely turned around and walked to a tea stall by the street where no one dared to sit.

Then, he sat down.

As if he were an outsider, he leisurely lifted the teapot on the table and filled a clean teacup in front of him with clear tea.

The misty steam from the tea blurred his handsome and calm face.

He picked up the teacup, blew on it gently, then shook his head and said softly in a tone as if chatting with an old friend, "You're right."

"I naturally know that Qingping Academy won't protect me forever. It's precisely because I know this that I've come out."

He took a sip of tea, feeling the aroma spread in his mouth, before continuing unhurriedly.

"The reason I came out and proactively exposed my identity in public is twofold."

The atmosphere at the tea stall froze to the breaking point.

Everyone's eyes were focused on the youth leisurely sipping tea.

He was clearly in the middle of a circle of dozens of powerhouses, yet he acted as if he were in his own back garden.

That composure and calmness formed a sharp contrast with the tense, murderous atmosphere around him, appearing out of place yet mysterious.

Xiao Ce's patience was being worn away bit by bit.

The playfulness in his eyes was gradually replaced by cold killing intent. He didn't like this feeling of losing control, especially when facing someone he considered trash.

"Kid, death is at your door, and you're still playing mysteries!"