28: Chapter 28 Taking Action

However.

"Tsk tsk tsk, this public display of affection... I'm almost stuffed."

A very mood-killing voice suddenly rang out from behind.

Su Yu and Xu Lele were startled and quickly separated.

Turning around, they saw Su Wu standing under a streetlamp at some unknown point.

He had his hands in his pockets, with Xiao Bai perched on his shoulder gnawing on a chicken leg, watching the two with a knowing smile.

"This girl isn't bad, wide hips are good for childbearing... er, I mean, she has an extraordinary skeletal structure." Before Su Wu could speak, Xiao Bai on his shoulder spoke up first, critiquing like a world-weary elder.

"She's alright, but is one female human enough? I see those powerful experts on TV all having three wives and four concubines." Xiao Bai licked the grease off its paw, tilted its head, and sized up Su Yu with its agile eyes.

Su Yu's Face turned beet red from the duo's antics, wishing he could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

Xu Lele was even more embarrassed, covering her Face and running away after saying "Hello, Uncle."

"Dad! Xiao Bai! Can you two be serious for once!" Su Yu looked helplessly at these two jokers.

"I am being serious." Su Wu walked over slowly, watching Xu Lele's departing figure with a slight curl of his lip. "Just friends? Fine, Dad believes you. However, young people should exercise restraint. For a martial arts body, before the Primordial Yang is leaked..."

"Stop, stop, stop!" Su Yu hastily interrupted his father's suggestive words. "There's really nothing between us! Right now, I only want to become stronger!"

Su Wu smiled, the teasing in his eyes gradually fading, replaced by an unprecedented solemnity.

He looked up at the dark sky at the end of the street.

There, the originally brilliant starlight suddenly dimmed.

An invisible but terrifying pressure, like dark clouds pressing down, instantly enveloped the entire street.

The streetlamps began to flicker. Passersby seemed to sense some great horror and instinctively fled in all directions; the bustling street became empty within seconds.

"He's here," Su Wu said faintly.

In mid-air, an elderly figure slowly emerged.

He didn't use any flying equipment, simply standing there with his hands behind his back, treading on the Void Realm.

His grey robes snapped in the night wind, and a suffocating wave of blood-qi surged around him.

Uncle Li.

At this moment, he was no longer that hunched-over butler, but a Martial Saint holding the power over life and death!

He looked down at the Su father and son, his gaze sharp as a hawk's, his voice as cold as ten-thousand-year-old ice:

"Originally, this old man didn't want to bully the young. But alas... some people don't know the heights of the heavens or the depths of the earth and have offended someone they shouldn't have."

Su Wu shielded Su Yu behind him, his expression calm, as if he weren't facing a Martial Saint but a regular old neighbor.

"Could it be that the dignified Young Master of the Li Family loses his character along with the match?" Su Wu spoke with a hint of mockery in his tone. "The small one gets beaten, so the old one comes out. Is this all your Mars Li Family is worth?"

"Presumptuous!"

Uncle Li's Face darkened as he let out a cold shout.

Boom!

A terrifying pressure belonging to the Martial Saint Realm poured down like a tide.

The surrounding building windows shattered simultaneously, and the asphalt road was instantly covered in spiderweb-like cracks.

"Whether we can afford to lose or not isn't for you to decide. Today, I am simply handling business for the Young Master."

Killing intent was laid bare in Uncle Li's eyes.

Su Yu only felt it difficult to breathe; his whole body felt as if it were being crushed by a mountain, making it hard to even move a finger.

Is this a Martial Saint? Just the pressure alone left him, a Grandmaster, without any power to resist!

Su Wu smiled.

He took a step forward.

Boom!

An equally terrifying, even more overbearing Aura erupted from within Su Wu's body and soared into the sky!

Purple-gold blood-qi surged like a Dragon, instantly tearing through Uncle Li's pressure-lock.

Two Martial Saint-level fields collided in the air, producing a dull rumble of thunder.

"On my turf, you want to touch my son?"

Su Wu looked up, his gaze like lightning, staring directly at Uncle Li in the air.

"Old man, who gave you the courage?"

Uncle Li's pupils shrank suddenly.

"You... you really are a Martial Saint as well!"

Although he had guessed it beforehand, Uncle Li's heart still surged with stormy waves when he truly felt Su Wu's bottomless Aura.

This remote base really hid a Dragon!

But the arrow was on the string and had to be fired.

"Hmph! Since you are also a Martial Saint, then this old man shall experience Your Excellency's high-level moves!"

Uncle Li knew that if he didn't complete the task today, he wouldn't be able to give an account to the Family upon his return.

Moreover, he prided himself on coming from a prestigious background and practicing a top-tier Cultivation Technique; he didn't believe he could lose to a self-taught rogue.

"Su Wu, I advise you not to mind other people's business, lest you waste this lifetime of cultivation because of your son! I, the Li Family, want to kill someone, and no one has ever survived!"

Seeing the battle about to break out, Su Wu didn't make a move immediately. Instead, he tilted his head slightly and whispered to Xiao Bai on his shoulder:

"Xiao Bai, take Su Yu away."

"I'm not leaving! Dad!" Su Yu grew anxious and wanted to step forward.

"Go!"

Su Wu's voice brooked no argument. "A battle of this level—the aftershocks alone could shake you to death. Your presence here will only distract me."

Although Xiao Bai was usually unreliable, it was very loyal at critical moments.

Knowing the gravity of the situation, it immediately jumped down from Su Wu's shoulder, its body instantly growing a size larger as it bit onto Su Yu's clothes.

"Kid, don't cause trouble! Compared to your old man, you're just a squishy chicken! Let's go!"

Xiao Bai turned into a streak of white light, forcibly dragging Su Yu away into the distance.

Seeing this, Uncle Li actually condensed a flame from Origin Qi and struck toward Su Yu. "Thinking of running? Stay here!"

"Your opponent is me!"

Su Wu snorted coldly and flicked his finger.

Bang!

A purple-gold finger force instantly shattered the flame.

"Old man, your opponent is me. Tonight, I'll let you know what it means to... have no return!"

Su Wu slowly rose into the air, facing Uncle Li from a distance.

The battle was on the verge of breaking out!

...

Meanwhile, on the city wall several kilometers away.

Three figures stood quietly in the night, gazing at the two terrifying Auras soaring into the sky from the city center.

The three Inspectors of the Federation.

"A battle of Martial Saints..." Zhang Ye looked at the distorted sky and shook his head slightly, his eyes full of wariness and helplessness. "Rumor has it that the Mars Li Family is overbearing on their homeworld, and I see it's true. For a dispute between juniors, they actually dispatched a Martial Saint to act in a downtown area."

"To be so arrogant on our Earth's territory, are we just going to watch?" The hot-tempered Inspector Li next to him crossed his arms and snorted coldly, his fists cracking.

"What else can we do?"

The usually silent Inspector Du sighed, a deep sense of powerlessness showing in his gaze.

"That's a Martial Saint! Although the three of us are Martial Emperors, going up there would just be like delivering ourselves on a platter."

"And... that's the Li Family. The Li Family, to whom even the Federation's top brass must give some Face."

Inspector Du looked at the two figures in the distance who had already collided and shook his head:

"Our duty as Inspectors is to maintain the order of the assessment, but facing a private duel of this level, we are simply powerless to intervene."

"That Su Wu... although he is also a Martial Saint, I'm afraid things don't look good for him."

"It's a pity for that Su Yu, a talent of the heavens, who I fear will perish along with his father tonight."