"No!!!" Lin Tianxiong's eyes nearly burst from their sockets. He desperately clawed at the dissipating blood mist, trying to keep the two ancestors alive, but it was all in vain.

Staring with bloodshot eyes, Lin Tianxiong roared with uncontrollable fury, "Xu Lai, you've destroyed the Lin Family! You're a sinner for all time!!!"

Xu Lai remained expressionless. Destroyed? He thought of the harassing phone calls to Ruan Tang, the incident on Sea Temple Island, and this ambush. It had happened time and time again. Even a man of clay had his limits. Not wiping out the entire Lin Family had been an act of mercy. Facing the utterly unrepentant and ungrateful Lin Tianxiong, he said calmly, "If you say it's destroyed, then let it be destroyed."

Those eight simple words caused the Lin Family, which had been illustrious in Jiangbei for two hundred years, to vanish completely from Hua Country, never to exist again!

"Aargh!" An intense pain seized Lin Tianxiong's chest. He didn't know what had happened to his family, but the agony was so heart-wrenching it was driving him mad.

Lin Tianxiong clawed at the floor with all his might, his fingertips raw and bleeding as he wept bitterly. "Daphne, do something! Quickly, kill Xu Lai! Avenge our ancestors! Avenge the eight clan members who died!"

BOOM!

BOOM!

BOOM!

Three bright beams of light shot down from the sky. The light was incomparably holy, like a lone flame in the dead of winter, completely illuminating the boundless darkness.

Seeing this, Anna collapsed onto her car seat and whispered, "It's over."

The light was so blinding that even Lin Tianxiong, who was lying on the ground wailing in utter despair, instinctively threw an arm over his eyes. After several seconds, the light subsided enough for him to see its source. Three stunningly beautiful women hovered in the air, each with a pair of pure white wings sprouting from her back.

They're... angels!

Lin Tianxiong was sure he wasn't dead, which meant that not only was Xu Lai a Foreign Cultivator, but Daphne wasn't from Earth either.

"Worthless," the angel Dahl said, looking down at Lin Tianxiong with an indifferent gaze, her tone devoid of mercy. "You couldn't even determine Xu Lai's Boundary. Your clan deserved to be wiped out."

"The ancestors may be dead, and the Ninth Grade experts too," Lin Tianxiong cried out, breaking down completely, "but the Lin Family still has its Eighth and Seventh Grade members! We still have a chance to rise again! Our clan members are spread far and wide, four hundred li from here! We can't be exterminated!"

The angel Elis wore a mocking expression. The Divine Sense of a cultivator in the Golden Core Realm could cover a radius of one hundred kilometers, perceiving everything down to the smallest detail. With half of the Jiang-Zhe region under their observation, the demise of the Jiangbei Lin Family was perfectly clear to them.

This was also how they had confirmed Xu Lai's Boundary—early-stage Golden Core Realm, or mid-stage at the absolute most. His Divine Sense attack had been crude and completely unconcealed. In Elis and Dahl's estimation, Xu Lai might have only just stepped into the Golden Core Realm. That was why the three of them had appeared, intending to join forces and kill him.

Although the Spiritual Body would go to Daphne, Elis and Dahl were eagerly anticipating what treasures Xu Lai might possess. The prospect of killing someone for their loot was always the most exciting.

Lin Tianxiong refused to believe the Lin Family had been destroyed. But from the cold look in Daphne's eyes, he knew that he and his clan had been nothing more than insignificant pawns from the very beginning, their lives and deaths utterly irrelevant. But he no longer cared about any of that.

Kneeling on the ground, Lin Tianxiong kowtowed again and again, choking out, "Please, kill Xu Lai! Avenge the Lin Family! Avenge my ancestors!"

Xu Lai must die. As long as Xu Lai dies, the Lin Family will have a chance to return to its peak with the help of Mount Haitang! However, Lin Tianxiong didn't know that the Lin Family was already gone.

"Rest assured," Daphne said, looking down from on high with a detached gaze. "I will fulfill your wish. After all, we are allies."

"Thank you, thank you!" Lin Tianxiong kowtowed frantically, but as he did, he felt the world begin to spin.

The last thing he saw was a headless corpse kneeling on the ground, still kowtowing incessantly as blood spurted from its neck like a fountain.

How absurd. And how pitiful. Lin Tianxiong thought mockingly. And then, there was nothing. His eyes wide open, he departed from this world.

"Alright, the trash has been taken out," Daphne said, bringing her hands together with a graceful smile. "Let me introduce myself. My name is Daphne, of the Angel Clan."

Xu Lai said nothing, merely watching her with perfect calm. She didn't seem to find it awkward and continued, "If you know what's good for you, hand over that Spiritual Body, Ruan Tang, and we can let you leave Earth alive."

Xu Lai sighed. "So you've come for my wife."

"That's right," Daphne nodded earnestly. "I'm about to break through to four wings. All I need to do is eat her."

In Daphne's view, she had been perfectly clear. Offending the Angel Clan—ranked sixth among the races of the Immortal Domain—for a mere human woman was foolish. And to offend an angel who was about to evolve to four wings on top of that? Any intelligent person would know how to choose.

"Daphne, why are you wasting your breath on him? Just kill him," Dahl said, growing impatient.

"Are you sure?" Xu Lai asked casually. "The Lin Family should serve as a recent warning."

Daphne and her two companions were stunned for a moment, then they laughed with scorn. "You destroyed the Lin Family, so what? Do you think you can destroy the entire Angel Clan? Ridiculous! Not even The Supreme Emperor would dare make such a boast!"

"What a coincidence," Xu Lai said, spreading his hands. "He dares."

Daphne's expression grew even more mocking. "Xu Lai, do you even know how to spell 'death'?!"

Xu Lai shook his head. "I don't."

"Then allow me to teach you!"

Daphne's wings flapped, and countless snow-white feathers shot into the air, spinning rapidly as they transformed into a storm of razor-sharp daggers. Meanwhile, Elis and Dahl's eyes flashed as they attacked simultaneously, employing powerful Divine Skills and spells instead of feathers.

Three cultivators at the early stage of the Golden Core Realm unleashed their full power, an attack certainly capable of challenging a mid-stage expert.

A pity. Xu Lai wasn't in the Golden Core Realm.

And neither was Anna.

The Twelve-winged Archangel sitting inside the BMW sensed with her Divine Sense that three idiots from her clan actually dared to attack Xu Lai. She was scared out of her wits. She teleported instantly and roared, "Kneel!"

BANG!

Daphne and her two companions' attacks disintegrated into ash in an instant. Their knees buckled, and they collapsed to the ground. The three angels' faces contorted in horror. As they knelt, their kneecaps had exploded, and the Golden Cores within them had completely shattered. The cultivation realms they had spent hundreds of years building... were gone.

"Who are you?! We're from the Angel Clan!" Dahl glared at Anna, her voice dripping with venom. "How dare you destroy my foundation! My father is a four-winged angel of the Nascent Soul Realm! He will kill you to avenge me!"

Anna, though fuming, ignored her. Instead, she knelt before Xu Lai, her voice trembling as she declared, "Anna, a Twelve-winged Archangel of the Angel Clan, begs for the forgiveness of The Supreme Emperor!"

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