I Can See Your Combat Power

“Now you know the disparity in strength, don’t you? I don’t even have to lift a finger, and your arms are already broken,” Tang Luo lowered his hand and said dismissively.

“Despicable!” Ji Fu spat out through gritted teeth, anger brimming in his eyes. “If the Boundary Breaking Stone is even slightly damaged, I swear I’ll bury your entire family with it!”

At these words, Tang Luo’s face darkened, his expression turning cold and apathetic, as Ji Fu had touched upon his most vulnerable nerve.

As a lone wanderer, his heart was flooded with countless turbulent emotions. Particularly during the early years of his life, while experiencing all the novelties of the world, his mind was constantly besieged by thoughts of destruction and acts of violence.

It was Xu Shuhui’s motherly love that calmed his restlessness, pacified his heart, and allowed him to face the world with unruffled poise.

Becoming a saint or attaining the pinnacle of power, everything was done to protect this hard-won familial bond. And now, Ji Fu was threatening to destroy it?

“Crack, crack, crack,”

Clenching his right hand with force, cracks began appearing on the surface of the Boundary Breaking Stone, which emitted a milky-white glow. Tang Luo’s action spoke louder than words.

“You dare!” Ji Fu was overwhelmed with fright. He could not believe that Tang Luo would actually consider destroying the Boundary Breaking Stone.

Did he not realize how much wealth lay within the sacred treasury? How could he dare?

In contrast to Ji Fu’s confusion, the expression on Master Xu’s face was grave. He had never felt such intense emotion from Tang Luo before.

In Master Xu’s mind, Tang Luo was a calm and confident young man. Even in the face of Ji Fu’s initial aggressiveness, Tang Luo remained composed. But now, Tang Luo exuded disdain and detachment rooted deep within his soul, treating Ji Fu as nothing more than an ant.

“A pack of stray dogs dares to spout arrogant words. Perhaps another extermination will teach you to understand the situation,” Tang Luo coldly stated, his gaze on Ji Fu. “I wonder how many grandmasters you have left who are willing to die for you.”

Whether it was Ji Fu or Master Xu, they thought Tang Luo’s words about Ji Fu being the weakest among them to be a mere jest, completely unaware of the basis for his claim.

The world does not acknowledge absolutes in power. However, it is certain that a noble family on the brink of extermination, regardless of their strength, can never truly be considered powerful.

“You think the Han Family’s plan to change their name and scatter into the world is extremely cunning, but in reality, you’re courting death. Since you’re so foolish, I’ll help hasten your demise,”

For a noble family descended from a saint to prosper unnoticed for a thousand years, they must have either fled to an unknown realm or hidden in the world.

For the defeated Han Family of a thousand years ago, they had only the latter option. Their method involved letting the core descendants scatter around the world, changing their names, establishing new clans, and uniting when the timing was right. They hoped to come back from the ashes when the time was ripe.

At this time, when powerful clans emerged and martial arts were flourishing, the rising of new clans hardly drew anyone’s attention. As long as the Han Family didn’t foolishly display their martial arts or brag about their abilities, their secret could be maintained.

However, from the moment Master Xu identified Ji Fu, the secret that the Han Family had been concealing became an open book. Ji Fu had not yet realized what an endangerment his appearance would be to his family.

Upon hearing the Han Family’s secret so casually revealed, Ji Fu felt a surge of murderous intent. “Do you really think that knowing about the Ji Clan of Beimang allows you to threaten me? You’re utterly naive!”

The Han Family, which evolved over a thousand years, now included ten powerful branches that formed hundreds of large clans. Even if the Ji Clan of Beimang was discovered, they just need to retreat and retain the core disciples and warriors. There was no need to grieve over the loss of assets locally because the gains from the Spirit Realm treasury dramatically outweighed their losses.

And the members who escaped only need to change their names and join another family. Ji Fu had made a choice and blamed Tang Luo intensely for his despicable actions.

He did not believe Tang Luo could locate the rest of the Han family hiding under different surnames. Even he, the Saint Child of the Han Family, couldn’t recognize everyone, let alone an outsider.

It’s just how the world works, foolishness breeds more self-confidence than wisdom, because stupidity is always full of confidence while wisdom is full of doubts.

Ji Fu was an excellent warrior and might even become a Saintly powerhouse in the future, but he lacked brains!

“Young Master Ji, have you ever experienced despair?” Tang Luo asked with a frosty smile. It’s said that villains have a knack for talking too much but he wanted to lay out his plan of extermination for Ji Fu to hear, especially since he was boasting about exterminating the Tang Clan. He had to let him experience what it felt like to be annihilated.

“Given the barrenness of Beimang, for the Ji Clan to develop to its current scale, a significant amount of supplies must be needed. All we need to do is investigate how many visiting clans’ merchant caravans there have been over the years. By following the threads, we can find the rest of the Han Clans. As long as we are determined to kill even a slight suspicion, then rinse and repeat this process two or three times over, everything the Han Family has hidden for a thousand years will be laid bare.”

“A thousand years ago, the Jin Clan was obliterated by the present-day An Clan of Zhongzhou. Do you think if I bind up the Han Clan, who possess Earth Level lineage, along with this plan, and send it to the An Clan, will that be sufficient evidence? Hmm?”

A deadly silence followed his words, like the calm before a storm.

Ji Fu felt an icy dread crawling through his body as Tang Luo’s words sank in. It was a chill that came from the depths of his heart.

Beimang was desolate and mostly consisted of deserts and wilderness with limited resources and scarce merchants.

To develop such a large scale, they owed much of it to the merchant caravans’ support from other noble families. Besides Han Family’s descendants who’d hidden their identities, many were families that had maintained close relationships for thousands of years.

He had never imagined that someone he had only met once could devise such a deadly plan.

As Tang Luo had mentioned, the Han Family was indeed strong at present, not only had it reestablished the Slaughter Immortal Army, but it also has three kings. Yet, they know better than anyone the strength of the various sects and the An Family who had wiped out their ancestral home a thousand years ago.

Moreover, over the years, they never stopped seeking traces of the Han family. Han Qianhu was the best example. He merely revealed the Undying Battle Body and died in pursuit. That was a peak warrior in the Fierce Realm, who fell in just a couple of months after showing up.

The people who participated in wiping out the ancestral land of the Han Family back then would never allow them to rise again. That’s why the Han Family so desperately needed a saint-class powerhouse.

If Tang Luo were to propose this plan to An Family, imagine how frenzied those families and sects that had developed over thousands of years would be after getting news of the Han Family.

Repeat this process two or three times, with a kill-or-be-killed mentality? They could resort to killing off every trace of the Han Family!

Ji Fu was full of vigor when he initially emerged from Beimang with his caravan of goods. But he never imagined that a common aristocrat, whom he had barely met, could push his family to the brink of extinction.

At this moment, all Ji Fu felt was fear and regret, his arms that had healed, trembled uncontrollably.

However, it wasn’t just Ji Fu who was shocked. Even Master Xu was stunned after hearing Tang Luo’s words.

He had never imagined that the Han Family, which had evolved over a thousand years, would still be so vulnerable. And he couldn’t comprehend how Tang Luo, who only met Ji Fu once, could see through everything.

Especially, when Tang Luo mentioned the An Clan, he spoke as if they weren’t a powerful force in Zhongzhou, which could make anyone go pale. Rather, they just looked like a weapon he picked up casually.

A weapon specifically for eliminating any disrespect the Han Clan showed him..