358: First encounter

Litian City Lord's Mansion.

Ye Litian asked with a gloomy face, "Have you clearly investigated what exactly happened on the west side of our Litian City?"

Du Shankui, a burly man, lowered his head and said shamefully, "Your subordinate is incompetent and failed to investigate the reason for the disappearance of the personnel."

"Useless," Ye Litian said coldly, "It's been half a month, and not a single piece of information has been found."

Du Shankui hesitated and said, "During this time, we have already sent hundreds of people to investigate, but all of them have gone and not returned. Moreover, the strange area there is getting closer and closer to our Litian City."

Ye Litian frowned, deciding to take the risk and personally go to investigate.

Just then, a guard walked in, "Reporting to the City Lord, Qin An King is here to visit."

"Qin An King?"

Ye Litian's expression was somewhat uncertain, "Did he say what he came for?"

The guard truthfully replied, "He was brought to the entrance of our City Lord's Mansion by a passerby and directly stated that he wanted to see you, City Lord. As for what he came for, your subordinate did not dare to ask further."

Du Shankui speculated, "City Lord, could it be that Qin An King is here to seize our Litian City?"

"Very likely." A sharp glint flashed in Ye Litian's eyes.

Du Shankui said indignantly, "Qin An King must be afraid that you, City Lord, are growing too fast, and is disregarding your agreed challenge time to make a move on you early."

After a pause, he hesitated and asked, "City Lord, facing Qin An King now, how confident are you?"

Ye Litian glanced at his subordinate and said lightly, "Less than fifty percent."

But he thought to himself, "From the many circulating videos, it is known that Qin An King's strength is unfathomable. If we fight now, the chance of victory is probably less than thirty percent."

Du Shankui stammered, "City Lord, why don't you temporarily avoid him? And then challenge him when you are fully confident. When he comes in later, we'll just say you went out to cultivate."

A look of hesitation appeared on Ye Litian's face.

Ye Jincheng, who was nearby, spoke up against it, "No, if the other party truly intends to annex our Litian City, whether you are in the city or not, they will probably make a move, and then you will probably have no choice but to appear."

Ye Litian thought so too, glared at his subordinate, and said proudly, "So what if he's the number one person on Blue Star? Let me, Ye Litian, break his myth."

He looked up and instructed the guard, "Let him in."

Soon, Qin Shi Lei followed the guard in.

Upon entering the hall, he saw a handsome young man sitting in the main seat in the center.

The other party neither rose to greet him nor invited him to sit down upon seeing him enter, which immediately displeased Qin Shi Lei.

He thought to himself, "Although I'm not particular about formalities and don't expect people to rush out to greet me, this guy in front of me is too impolite, isn't he?"

The two sides stared at each other for three seconds, and Ye Litian asked lightly, "Qin An King, you've graced us with your presence, are you perhaps planning to move the challenge forward?"

"Challenge? What challenge?" Qin Shi Lei asked, confused.

"The challenge between you and me." Ye Litian felt as if he had misunderstood something.

"When did you and I agree on a challenge?"

Qin Shi Lei was a bit bewildered and blurted out, "Who are you?"

"Ye Litian!" Ye Litian suppressed his anger, saying each word distinctly.

"Ye Litian?"

Qin Shi Lei frowned and thought for a while, then shook his head, "I don't remember any challenge agreement between us."

Ye Litian's face instantly turned so dark it looked like it could drip water.

The other party's expression, as if he didn't know him at all, made him feel greatly mocked.

He had just been thinking of temporarily avoiding the other party.

Unexpectedly, it seemed the other party hadn't even heard his name.

Thinking that he, a magnificent Golden Realm master, was being so utterly ignored by the other party,

Ye Litian felt the anger in his heart about to explode.

He said in a deep voice, "I, Ye Litian, hereby challenge you again!"

Qin Shi Lei glanced at the other party, frowned, and said, "Here or outside? Do we need to bet on something?"

Because of the other party's rude attitude, he also wanted to teach him a lesson, to make him understand that one should have proper etiquette when meeting Qin An King.

"Uh?"

Ye Litian's face immediately became awkward.

He thought to himself, "I must have been so angered by the other party that I got confused. That's why I forgot to set a time when I proposed the challenge just now."

At this moment, he was in a difficult position; saying he would challenge in two months again would weaken his momentum, but if he didn't say it, he wasn't very confident right now.

What should he do?

Fortunately, his father helped him out, "My son left a message in your live stream a month ago saying he would challenge you in three months. Calculating it, it should be two more months until the time comes."

Qin Shi Lei said with a half-smile, "Are you sure you want to challenge in two months?"

"What?" Ye Litian immediately became tough again, "Are you scared or something?"

"Heh heh."

Qin Shi Lei chuckled, "If I were you, I'd propose the challenge immediately and get beaten up by me.

Otherwise, I'm afraid in two months, you won't even have the courage to make a move."

Ye Litian's face instantly became very ugly again.

He had indeed proposed three months later, hoping to give himself more time to catch up with the other party.

However, according to the leaderboard, the other party had already advanced another level in one month.

While he himself was still a little short of advancing.

The other party was simply a cheat; his own strength improvement simply couldn't compare to the other party's.

Ye Litian said with a cold face, "Don't think you've got me cornered. Higher cultivation doesn't necessarily mean stronger actual combat ability."

Qin Shi Lei's face darkened, and he said coldly, "I've got you cornered, so what?"

As his voice fell, a powerful aura burst forth from Qin Shi Lei's body.

Ye Jincheng and Du Shankui felt as if they had suddenly arrived in a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, their faces instantly turning pale.

They were so frightened that they collapsed to the ground, still muttering in low voices, "No, don't come over."

Ye Litian also felt a powerful killing intent pressing down on him, making it hard to breathe.

His body was also trembling slightly, and a chill ran from his back straight to the back of his head.

At this moment, Qin Shi Lei had not cast any illusion; he was merely fully releasing his own killing intent.

From the apocalypse until now, the number of mutated beasts and zombies he had killed was countless, and even the humans who died by his hand were innumerable.

The killing intent accumulated on his body was so dense it was almost congealing into a physical form.

When it was fully released at this moment, Ye Jincheng and those who hadn't reached the Golden Realm naturally couldn't withstand it.

Immediately after, Qin Shi Lei teleported in front of Ye Litian and slapped him with the flat side of his sword.

Bang!

Ye Litian crashed through the hall wall like a cannonball and fell outside.

As soon as he sprang to his feet, a sword blade as wide as a door panel slapped him away again.

Being slapped away twice in a row, Ye Litian was practically going insane with rage.

His figure suddenly turned into a black shadow, and at the same time, the surrounding light seemed to be absorbed by this black shadow, and the area within a hundred meters instantly became incredibly dim.

Suddenly, tens of thousands of thunderbolts descended from the sky, instantly dispelling the surrounding darkness.

Ye Litian, who had silently approached Qin Shi Lei from behind, was also forced to reveal his figure by the dazzling lightning.

Bang!

It was another sword slap, sending him flying again.

This time, before he could get up again, an incredibly sharp giant sword was already resting on his neck.