83: Are you qualified to mess with me?

Tonight, Xiong Manor was exceptionally lively, with countless figures moving back and forth inside, and various sounds so noisy they could disturb residents several kilometers away.

However, those people could not possibly know what was happening at Xiong Manor at this moment!

Because a thick, dark mist had completely enveloped Xiong Manor... Inside Xiong Manor, the Gold-level powerhouses of the Xiong Family had their eyes wide open, like copper bells.

Normally, a Gold-level professional, with the advantage of equipment, could easily fight two same-level monsters at once.

But at this moment, the monsters before them broke all conventions!

Even though their equipment was uniformly Gold-level, and even top-tier Gold-level equipment, when they engaged these monsters, it often took two or three people working together to barely tie down one Alien!

And there was always the risk of being counter-killed!

And there were nearly a hundred such Gold-level Aliens before them!

They were like a pack of hungry wolves rushing into a sheepfold, stirring up an even more violent bloodbath in the Xiong Family's core area!

Magnificent pavilions and towers collapsed in the fierce fighting, exquisite rock gardens were torn apart by violent energy, and raging fires burned everywhere, reflecting countless desperate, twisted faces.

Lin Feng, amidst this chaos and destruction, trod a path paved with blood and fire, finally arriving before the secluded small building, guarded by layers of courtyards.

Around the small building, there was an eerie silence, as if it were cut off from the hellish scene outside.

The small courtyard in front of the building was clean and tidy, spotless.

However, as Lin Feng's figure appeared at the entrance of the small courtyard, a terrifying pressure, like ten thousand years of profound ice, suddenly erupted from within the building!

The intensity of this pressure instantly dispersed the pervasive scent of blood and chaos nearby, making the air seem to solidify!

Creak... The seemingly ordinary wooden door of the small building silently opened inwards.

A figure appeared in the doorway.

He wore a grey cloth robe, somewhat faded from washing, his stature was not tall, even a bit stooped, his hair was white, and his face was covered with deep wrinkles, making him look like an ordinary old man on his last legs.

But those eyes!

As they opened and closed, a sharp glint burst forth, like two peerless divine weapons unsheathed, instantly locking onto Lin Feng!

The vicissitudes, majesty, and a hint of utterly enraged, violent killing intent contained within that gaze were enough to make any Gold-level powerhouse's mind collapse!

His gaze first fell on Lin Feng, carrying scrutiny and towering rage.

But when his gaze swept over the Alien Queen beside Lin Feng, his stooped body trembled violently!

For the first time, an unconcealable, extremely shocked expression appeared on his wrinkled face!

"Pseudo... Pseudo-Transcendent-level?!"

His voice was dry and hoarse, like sandpaper rubbing, filled with unbelievable horror.

He stared intently at the Alien Queen's perfect yet ferocious body, feeling the undisguised terrifying pressure from her, which was on par with his own, or even subtly superior, and a tumultuous storm raged in his heart!

He finally understood where that faint sense of being spied upon, which had made him uneasy, had come from!

It was actually such a terrifying monster!

His gaze abruptly turned back to Lin Feng, and a bone-chilling cold light erupted from his cloudy old eyes, like a tangible sharp sword, piercing directly at Lin Feng.

He stretched out a withered, bony finger, trembling as he pointed at Lin Feng, then at the Xiong Family mansion, which was ablaze with fire and filled with endless screams outside.

The rage, suppressed to its extreme, finally erupted like a volcano, turning into a deafening roar that echoed throughout the small courtyard.

"Brat! Who are you?! What grudge do my Xiong Family and I have with you?! How dare you command such a monster, invade my residence, and slaughter my clan members?! If I don't tear you into ten thousand pieces and grind your bones to dust today, I swear I am not human!"

The rage of the Pseudo-Transcendent-level powerhouse was like a tangible shockwave, cracking the flagstones in the courtyard inch by inch!

The air around him twisted, emitting a humming sound under unbearable pressure!

Facing this terrifying pressure and towering accusation, which could change the color of heaven and earth, Lin Feng merely raised his head slightly.

There was no expression on his face, his eyes were as calm as two bottomless cold springs, reflecting the other party's furious, twisted face and the blazing fires outside.

Beneath that calm was a bone-chilling killing intent, colder than ten thousand years of profound ice.

Meeting the other party's man-eating gaze, Lin Feng finally spoke.

His voice was not loud, even carrying a hint of the clear and resonant quality unique to a young man, but every word was crystal clear, like a cold iron awl, fiercely chiseling into the old man's eardrums, and into this bloody night sky.

"What grudge?"

Lin Feng's lips curled, and an extremely cold, extremely mocking smile appeared on his face. There was no anger in that smile, only a kind of condescending indifference, as if looking down at ants.

His voice suddenly rose, carrying a resolute, undeniable will of destruction, like the thunder of judgment, exploding with a roar.

"Are you... qualified to ask me?"

"Is your Xiong Family... qualified to provoke me?!"

Lin Feng looked at the old man indifferently, once again uttering astonishing words!

"Xiong Family, tonight you shall be annihilated!"

The moment his words fell, the Alien Queen's mental force field around her body suddenly boiled, and a ghostly purple light rose like tangible flames, clashing fiercely and without weakness against the terrifying pressure of the Pseudo-Transcendent-level old man opposite!

Boom!!!

An invisible mental storm erupted in the center of the small courtyard!

That was not a simple energy collision, but a direct confrontation of will and mental power between two Pseudo-Transcendent-level existences!

Space, like a lake into which a giant stone had been thrown, instantly twisted and rippled!

The air was compressed and torn, emitting a piercing shriek!

The meticulously laid bluestone slabs in the small courtyard shattered inch by inch, as if struck by an invisible giant hammer, turning into dust that was swept into the air by the violent airflow!

The seemingly sturdy carved beams and painted pillars, and the strange rocks of the rock garden around the small courtyard, were as fragile as paper in the face of this extraordinary power!

Several side rooms closest to the center of the storm collapsed with a crash amidst a grating sound that made one's teeth ache, without even a chance to groan, their bricks, tiles, and wooden beams crushed into fragments by an invisible force, and smoke and dust surged skyward!

"Pfft!"

A stifled groan, which could not be held back, came from the grey-robed old man's mouth.

His stooped figure swayed violently, an abnormal flush rising to his wrinkled face, his eyes flashing with sharp light, yet unable to conceal a hint of shock.

He had never expected that the mental power of this Pseudo-Transcendent-level monster opposite him would be so overbearing and condensed; upon first contact, it had actually caused him a minor setback!

On the Alien Queen's perfect yet ferocious body, the ghostly purple light suddenly intensified!

Her deep compound eyes locked onto the grey-robed old man, and an even stronger, purer mental power, like a breached flood, pressed down on the old man with overwhelming force!

This was no longer a test, but a true, full-force suppression!

"Roar!"

The old man in the Tang suit was the first generation patriarch of the Xiong Family, the true stabilizing force of the Xiong Family!

For three hundred years, under his leadership, the Xiong Family had risen step by step from obscurity to become one of the top families in Weiyang City; his existence was indispensable in this process!

Although he was now over 300 years old, and his vitality was no longer as powerful as it was in his prime! He had, after all, touched a hint of the Transcendent-level threshold a few months ago!

His withered body suddenly straightened, and a similarly vast and boundless aura surged skyward!

Greyish-white light erupted from his body, forming a tough light shield that firmly resisted the Alien Queen's mental torrent.

The two Pseudo-Transcendent-level powers collided, compressed, and tore at each other without reservation!

This time, it was no longer an invisible storm, but a visible annihilation of energy...