Chapter 450 - Without Looking Back (2/2)

“You look just like your brother, Lin Tatian. Are you here to avenge his death?”

“Lin Tatian betrayed our family so his life or death matters not to us.” Lin Tatian was unfazed in the presence of the living legend. He replied readily and firmly.

“Dear Mr. Chen Beixuan, Please note that I have not harmed your family during my sojourn in Jiang Bei. I have purposely avoided disturbing them out of my respect for you. I hereby make it clear that neither I nor the Lin Family wishes to get involved in your business with the Hong Sect. I have done everything under the directive of the Hong Sect, but not of my own will, neither did I take pleasure in it.”

Lin Tashan quickly threw the Hong Set under the bus.

Jiang Yinyue rounded her eyes in disbelief as she gaped at Lin Tashan. She had never seen anyone more shameless and fickle.

“You are right that you didn’t lift a finger on any of my family members, but you have killed a very good friend of mine.” Chen Fan walked over to the middle-aged man with his hands linked behind his back.

The soldiers of the Dark Moon stood and watched as Chen Fan come closer to them, none of them dare to move a muscle.

“Oh? Which friend?”

Lin Tashan gasped and then asked in confusion and fear.

He was smart enough to refrain from digging his claws into Chen Fan’s family in order to leave a bit of wiggle room for himself in case of Chen Fan’s return. As long as he didn’t harm the people who Chen Fan really cared about, Lin Tashan was confident that Chen Fan would spare his life especially when he had the powerful Lin Family’s support.

“Xu Ao.”

Chen Fan spoke a name.

“Him?”

Lin Tashan was suddenly light-hearted by the revelation. He looked to Chen Fan incredulously and asked: “Master Chen Beixuan, you and I are both Martial arts Grandmasters, the true dragons. People such as Xu Ao and Zhou Tianhao were merely tools under our disposal. Xu Ao had offended me, and so I killed him. Why are you so hung-up on such an insignificant character? The Lin Family could offer you ten if not hundreds of servants as talented as Xu Ao.”

Grandmasters were True Dragons; they were the ones who had officially embarked on the journey of cultivation and had a much higher level of enlightenment than average mortals. Xu Ao was merely a local tyc.o.o.n and his life was as worthless as that of an insect in the eyes of a Grandmaster such as Lin Tashan.

Lin Tashan knew Chen Fan as the living legend, a mighty warrior who was more powerful than an average nation. Therefore, he couldn’t wrap his head around Chen Fan’s fixation on someone as significant as Xu Ao.

“Indeed. Just as you think killing Xu Ao was the same as squas.h.i.+ng an insect, so too my view on killing you.” Chen Fan heaved a sigh and shot Lin Tashan a glance of vast emptiness and divine indifference.

A mortal may choose one over another, but the North Mystic Celestial Lord had no preference.

Lin Tashan’s face darkened as he said in a heavy voice.

“Sir, are you sure you want to offend the Lin family of Southeastern China because of one of your lackeys? Let me remind you that our ancestor is still alive. You have already made many enemies: Russians, the Hong Sect. Are you sure you want the Lin family to raise up against you as well?”

“Lin Family?” Chen Fan cracked a smile and linked his hands behind his back. “Don’t make me laugh.”

His imposing demeanor shocked everyone in the living room.

“Kaboom!”

Suddenly, Lin Tashan backed away a few dozen feet, through the wall, and disappeared in the pouring rain.

The Grandmaster of Lin Family had turned on his heels and abandoned the Hong Sect fighters to their own devices.

Even as Jiang Yinyue opened her mouth to chid her craven ally, she heard Chen Fan’s voice around her ears.

“Do you think you can run away from me?”

Chen Fan tapped the gourd and grunted. “Sword Arise!”

“Clank!”

Before everyone’s incredulous eyes, a golden ray of light shot out from the gourd that was. .h.i.tched about Chen Fan’s waist. Some people could even see a golden sword s.h.i.+mmering inside the energy.

The Sword circled around in the air, its edge barely touched people’s neck before it was through the hole on the wall and disappeared in the rain.

“Flying sword?”

Jiang Yinyue’s lips trembled as she squeezed her last couple of words.

With disbelief and shock written all over her face, her head rolled off of her shoulder.

Hadn’t the art of the Flying sword already gone extinct in China? The only one who might still know the art of Flying sword was still hiding behind the tall walls of the Lin Family, where did Chen Beixuan learn the art?

“I shall sever your head before the dawn break.”

Chen Fan linked his hands behind his back and looked into the distance. He said to himself with an even voice: “This sword had tasted blood in many cities: Jin City, Jiang Zhou City, Tian He, Yun Hai City and now Chu Zhou City. Your blood will be the last sacrifice to complete the ritual of commemorating my friends.h.i.+p with Xu Ao. It will restore justice to the world, and live up to its name as the ‘Sword of Essense Restoring’.”

Even as Chen Fan murmured to himself, he heard a heavy clank in the distance behind the curtain of rain.

He saw a silvery Blade Qi shot up into the sky like a flash of lightning. Lin Tashan must have unsheathed his deadly blade. The ferocious attack would easily make Lin Tashan one of the most powerful Sword Master in the world and earn him a rightful place on the Dark Roll.

“Clank, clank!”

A wave of clanking noises rose in the distance, accompanied by an eruption of sparks. A few seconds later, a golden light lanced up into the sky and the noise suddenly halted.

The sword was broken and the master was dead.

After Chen Fan spoke a nearly inaudible word. The golden sword flew back to him without any trace of blood on it. The Sword Master from the Lin Family was a semi-immortal level Grandmaster, but he had lasted less than two seconds under the attack of the deadly flying sword.

Chen Fan didn’t even care to confirm his kill. He unsheathed the sword, drifted into the heavy rain and disappeared like a phantom.

The series of events happened tonight had huge implications that were yet to be felt.

Once the dawn broke, the Jiang Nan Province would be gripped by shock and fear after seeing the aftermath of the onslaught.