Chapter 541

On the highway, when the attack occurred, the driving motorcade stopped quickly.

People got out of the cars one after another.

When Li Fei arrived in front of Zeke Ryan and Wei Yan, all hundred-plus people of the delegation had gotten out of the cars.

Everyone's gaze looked at this figure in golden robes.

"Greetings, Marquis of Jing'an!"

Wei Yan saluted Li Fei for the first time.

Li Fei nodded, looked at the hundred-plus people of this Western delegation, and cupped his hands:

"I am Li Fei, responsible for receiving the Western delegation by the order of the Son of Heaven of the Great Lan Dynasty. Today, assassins launched an attack, disturbing everyone; I hope you will forgive me."

After he finished saying these words, the delegation fell silent, and then six people stepped forward, emerging from the crowd.

Among these six people were men and women, with different auras.

But without exception, they were all top experts.

These were the other six Dukes in the delegation!

"You are Li Fei?"

A woman wearing scarlet leather and a tight-fitting robe looked at Li Fei with the eyes of looking at prey.

She had a head of red-copper curly hair, pupils like molten gold, a thorn-shaped red-copper nose stud on her nose bridge, and full lips dyed deep purple; her proud figure was about to burst out under the restraint of the tight-fitting clothes.

She revealed an evil and charming smile, looking at Li Fei:

"This time on a mission, we sent a total of seven Grand Dukes, but your country only sent a mere Marquis to receive us. As a dignified great Eastern nation, is it too ignorant of etiquette?"

These words changed the atmosphere of the scene; the other Dukes, including Zeke Ryan, did not speak, looking at Li Fei with intriguing eyes, waiting for his response.

Li Fei's expression remained unchanged as he glanced at this female Grand Duke who jumped out to provoke first.

He turned to ask Wei Yan: "Who is this?"

Wei Yan's forehead was already sweating, and he hurriedly said:

"She is Grand Duke Van Buren of the Kalan Grand Duchy."

Li Fei nodded and continued to ask:

"May I ask, how many people are in the Kalan Grand Duchy?"

Wei Yan was startled, but fortunately, he had done his homework:

"The Kalan Grand Duchy has about thirty million people."

Li Fei asked again: "May I ask, how large is the Kalan Grand Duchy?"

Wei Yan cupped his hands: "The Kalan Grand Duchy spans about seven hundred kilometers from east to west and about three hundred kilometers from north to south."

Li Fei nodded and continued to ask:

"May I ask, which is the largest province of my Great Lan Dynasty? How many people does it have? How large is it?"

Wei Yan almost subconsciously raised his voice:

"The largest province of our country is Bai Sha Province, with thirty-seven million people, spanning about five hundred kilometers from east to west and about one thousand kilometers from north to south!"

After listening, Li Fei looked at the female Grand Duke of the Kalan Grand Duchy, Saina Van Buren:

"In that case, a mere small country is not even as good as one province of my Great Lan Dynasty. How dare you Dukes of small countries look down on this Marquis?"

Saina Van Buren's Central Plains language was average, and she had a headache listening to all the 'classical particles'.

But the rhythm of the conversation between Li Fei and Wei Yan was intentionally slowed down, so this female Grand Duke roughly understood the meaning.

This made her furious!

"Presumptuous—"

She stepped forward, her aura erupting, and the whole person was like a blooming flame.

Light shone in those golden eyes, and an invisible mental power like an angry sea wave collided with Li Fei!

Saina, the female Grand Duke of the Kalan Grand Duchy, nicknamed 'Abyss of Desire', was a top expert in manipulating people's hearts.

Although the supernaturals of the Western Continent did not distinguish between martial arts and Dao arts, their bloodline powers were like exotic beasts, also divided into two types.

The Van Buren family to which Saina belonged inherited supernatural bloodlines of the magic type, so this female Grand Duke was equivalent to a top-level True Person of the Eastern Continent.

At this moment, she seemed to have no movement, but in reality, her powerful mental power had invaded Li Fei's consciousness—

On the calm lake surface, a blood mist appeared.

In the blood mist, there were carriages, the shafts of which were entwined with thorny rose vines.

Beautiful women covered in thin gauze walked out of the carriages, wine pulp seeping from their skin, and their panting made the lake surface ripple.

Seven-Layer Prison · Lust!

A bright moon hung high, and the cold moonlight sprinkled on the lake surface, making those beautiful women turn into phantoms one after another.

Divine Ability—【Eternal Stability】!

The next second, long tables rose on the lake surface, various delicacies were placed on the tables, the sweet and greasy smell of food permeated the lake surface, and ghosts appeared beside the dining tables, starting to eat frantically.

Seven-Layer Prison · Gluttony!

Next was the Prison of Greed woven with gold and gems, the Prison of Anger transformed from blood and battlefields...

Lust, Gluttony, Anger, Greed, Sloth, Envy, Pride!

This was the unique skill of Van Buren, and also seven different mental divine abilities!

However, Saina had not awakened all seven types of bloodline divine abilities; she had only awakened five of them.

At this moment, the five divine abilities cooperated with each other, evolving layers of purgatory in Li Fei's mental world, continuously plucking his heartstrings, intending to split Li Fei's mind and make him lose himself in the abyss of desire!

Saina had of course heard of Li Fei's name, but in her view, Li Fei was undoubtedly a powerful warrior, but not necessarily good at mental confrontations.

Now she was an ambassador, and Li Fei could not openly make a move against her, which made the battle enter the field she was best at!

She had not thought about truly crushing Li Fei's mind; she only needed to make Li Fei make a fool of himself in front of the delegation.

In the mental world, Saina's offensive was like a tide, and even if Li Fei had a mental defense divine ability like 【Eternal Stability】, facing the combined offensive of five mental divine abilities, he appeared to be struggling alone.

But what made Saina feel incomprehensible was that, clearly she had already broken through Li Fei's 'defense line', making the bright moon in the sky dim, turning from a full moon to a crescent moon.

But Li Fei's mind still had no fluctuations.

His consciousness world did not seem to be a lake, but an unfathomable boundless ocean!

Saina had never encountered such a situation.

Just as she intended to further strengthen the offensive and erupt with stronger mental power, the boiling lake surface suddenly opened.

A terrifying sword intent that pierced the sky and slaughtered the earth was transmitted from within, making Saina's mind fluctuate!

"This is..."

A huge blood sword rose from beneath the lake surface.

Above the firmament, the bright moon was dim, and the seven stars were inverted.

The starlight shone on the blood sword, and all kinds of phenomena emerged.

Golden spears and iron horses, mountains of corpses and seas of blood, called the First Kill!

Mountains and rivers broken, royal power changing, called the Second Kill!

Plants withering and flourishing, all things dying, called the Third Kill!

Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill!

This was the Sword of Seven Kills, carrying extreme destruction and slaughter!

After the flying sword body was strengthened again, Li Fei's sword momentum and sword intent were elevated by a level.

Experiencing the insights brought by the heavenly tribulation, plus the guidance of the 'Sword Immortal' Ning Qingman, Li Fei made improvements to his self-created 【Blood Might God】.

This move was finally no longer simply and crudely mixing the power of techniques and mental power together and throwing it out to hit people.

Sword State · Blood Might Seven Kills!

This was the first killing move combining law and martial arts that Li Fei had created after breaking through to become a Grandmaster and top-level True Person, a pure mental killing move.

Saina, this female Grand Duke who specialized in mental power, took the initiative to provoke, which just happened to give Li Fei a chance to 'test the sword'!

The blood sword flew out from the lake, breaking through the layers of purgatory with irresistible force.

The phenomena of the Seven Kills broke the Seven-Layer Purgatory!

Finally, the blood sword followed the mental power that Saina had attacked with, and conversely killed into the opponent's mental world!

The confrontation at the mental level only happened in an instant.

Everyone only saw Grand Duke Saina step forward, her aura erupting, and powerful mental power attacking Li Fei.

The next second, her aura fell, she groaned, and two nosebleeds flowed out.

This scene made the other six Dukes reveal looks of surprise.

'Abyss of Desire' Saina, just in terms of mental confrontation, was the strongest among the seven Dukes.

Yet she was injured by Li Fei in one encounter?

In the intelligence obtained beforehand, it was not mentioned that this Marquis of Jing'an had such powerful mental cultivation!

The group of Grand Dukes looked at Li Fei with a few more points of dread.

"It seems that Grand Duke Saina is unwell; hurry and help her back to the car to rest."

Li Fei withdrew his gaze looking at Saina and said indifferently.

"..."

Saina had suffered a secret loss and stared at Li Fei with venomous eyes.

In the end, she said nothing and turned to walk toward the car.

The envoys of the Kalan Grand Duchy saw this and hurriedly followed their own Grand Duke to leave.

"Marquis of Jing'an, we traveled across the ocean and came from ten thousand miles away to visit your country, but encountered an attack; how should this be explained? Can your country really guarantee our safety?"

As soon as Saina left, another Grand Duke spoke, speaking fluent Central Plains language.

This person had a head of silver-gray long hair, and his pupils presented the different colors of mercury and amber blended together.

His face carried the compassion of a saint, but his whole aura faintly had a fierce and evil air, as if a fierce beast was hidden under his elegant skin.

"This is Duke Miller of the Sefuren Kingdom."

Wei Yan introduced to Li Fei at the right time.

Sefuren Kingdom, one of the three great powers of the Western Continent.

The weight of this Duke Miller was undoubtedly heavier than that of Duke Saina.

Li Fei looked at the other party: "Just a little accident, nothing more than a bit of wind and frost. You all traveled across the ocean and have seen bigger waves; why care about this little thing?"

After saying that, he pointed to the towering city not far away:

"As for safety, Lanling City is right in front of us; please get back in the car and continue forward. As long as you enter the city, I guarantee that you will not encounter any more accidents. Or is it—

Do you want to stop here and reminisce about the battlefield of that year?"

These words made many people in the delegation change color, and many people's gazes toward Li Fei carried killing intent!

Almost every person in the delegation had elders and relatives who sacrificed their lives in that battle back then.

So Li Fei's words truly hit the sore spot of these people!

"Hahahahaha."

Duke Zeke suddenly laughed loudly.

When Li Fei appeared, his upper body was no longer bare, but draped in a robe woven from flames.

He was a Glory Duke-level supernatural, his strength was the strongest among the seven Grand Dukes, and the national power of the Deni Kingdom was also faintly ranked first among the seven countries.

So when Zeke spoke, everyone looked over.

"I have heard of the Marquis of Jing'an's name even from far away in the West, and seeing him today, he is indeed a hero!"

Zeke looked at Li Fei and said word by word:

"I hope there will be an opportunity to meet you and discuss martial arts in the future."

Li Fei nodded calmly: "This Marquis is ready to accompany you at any time."

So Zeke turned and returned to his car.

Seeing that he had left, Duke Miller of the Sefuren Kingdom smiled and bowed to Li Fei, looking very polite, and also turned and got into the car.

Three of the seven Grand Dukes had already left, and the remaining four did not speak anymore, turning and getting into the cars one after another.

Soon, everyone in the delegation returned to the cars, and the motorcade continued to drive.

Seeing this, Wei Yan breathed a sigh of relief, discovering that his back had long been soaked with sweat.

He looked at Li Fei with admiration.

In today's situation, besides the 'Military God' Wen Ren Zheng, he felt that only Li Fei could steadily suppress the scene.

If it were any other Grandmaster or top-level True Person, it would be very difficult to make these ill-intentioned Western envoys obediently get into the cars.

"Let's go, let's enter the city too."

Li Fei said to Wei Yan and Shao Chenfeng.

No more accidents occurred next, and Li Fei and the others accompanied this motorcade to successfully enter Lanling City.

Officials from the Rites Department of the Central Secretariat had long been waiting at the city gate, and all kinds of etiquette and arrangements did not need Li Fei to worry about.

It was just that an attack had just occurred, so Li Fei accompanied this motorcade until it entered the Imperial City before leaving.

He took the assassin he had captured to the headquarters of the Stop-Fighting Pavilion and handed the assassin over to the Stop-Fighting Pavilion for processing.

In fact, the assassin's identity was very obvious, because this was an old monk.

After Li Fei captured this old monk in the True Person realm, the other party looked calm, with an appearance of disregarding life and death.

Only a little over an hour later, the Stop-Fighting Pavilion gave a result, which was sent to Li Fei's desk for the first time:

"The assassin is Fashan, the abbot of Huayan Temple."

Huayan Temple was a famous temple in Yue Province and also a first-class sect in the Jianghu.

The main power of the Daoist sect was concentrated in the three Daoist sects.

Besides that, there were Daoist disciples in the Justice Academies, the Justice General Academy, and the Justice Department in various places.

So part of the Daoist power was in the imperial court, coexisting with the nation.

And the Buddhist sect, besides Pudu Temple, also had part of its power in temples in various places.

So after the new emperor ascended the throne, the first order he issued was to seal all temples in the country and arrest all monks with cultivation!

Huayan Temple naturally could not escape the disaster and had already become a ruin.

Most of the Buddhist disciples with cultivation in the temple were killed or injured.

Abbot Fashan, who possessed True Person cultivation, was specifically targeted, but he still managed to escape.

After Fashan escaped, he did not choose to run to rely on Pudu Temple, but had been lurking outside Lanling City, waiting for a suitable opportunity to strike.

Originally, he intended to find an opportunity to kill a few high-ranking officials of the imperial court, but after learning the news that the Western delegation was coming to the capital, he changed his mind.

He knew that he definitely couldn't hurt the people in the delegation, but what he wanted was to let everyone in the world know—

The Great Lan Dynasty's state was unstable!

Early the next morning.

Inside the Imperial City, the seven Grand Dukes of the Western delegation each brought an envoy and walked into a great hall.

A long table was placed in the great hall, and there were seats on both sides of the long table.

The envoys of the seven countries and a group of officials of the Great Lan Dynasty sat opposite each other.

After all fourteen people of the Western delegation were seated, someone walked into the entrance of the great hall.

The leader had graying temples and natural double pupils; it was the Chief Secretary Ye Zean.

Behind the Chief Secretary, Li Fei, in golden robes, walked into the great hall calmly.

In addition, there were a group of officials from the Central Secretariat.

Ye Zean sat in the center seat, Li Fei sat on his left, and the other officials took their seats in order.

This was Li Fei's first time participating in this kind of negotiation between nations.

Before coming, he had specifically asked Ye Zean what he needed to do.

"Negotiations between two countries are just everyone sitting down and reasoning."

This was the first sentence Ye Zean said to Li Fei.

"If the reasoning of us civil officials doesn't work, then you will need to reason with them."

This was the second sentence Ye Zean said to Li Fei.

So after everyone was seated, the gazes of the seven Dukes were all focused on Li Fei, while Li Fei directly closed his eyes to rest.

He separated a part of his mind to construct an illusion, continuing to try to upgrade the flying sword body in the illusion.

From a ground-level flying sword to a heavenly-level flying sword, he had to find a path himself.

"You all traveled from afar..."

In the great hall, the negotiation officially began.

After some pleasantries, Zeke, who was sitting in the center seat, glanced at Li Fei, who was still closing his eyes to rest, and turned to give a look to his subordinate beside him.

The other party immediately picked up a long, black box from under his feet and placed it on the table.

"This time on a mission, we prepared a gift for your country."

Zeke said with a smile.

His subordinate opened the box in front of Ye Zean and the others—

Inside was a gun!

This gun was black all over, and its shape was similar to a rifle.

Ye Zean's expression remained unchanged as he looked at the gun in the box:

"Is this a new type of firearm from the West?"

Zeke nodded: "Not bad, this gun is the newest assault rifle of my Deni Kingdom—Black Fire!"

After speaking, he signaled his subordinate to take this gun out of the box.

This action did not make the group of civil officials opposite feel any unease.

After all, there was still a Marquis of Jing'an sitting in the great hall.

"May we demonstrate this weapon for your country?"

Zeke asked.

Ye Zean: "How to demonstrate?"

Zeke smiled: "Find a target to shoot, preferably a martial artist of your country to personally experience it."

"Can."

Ye Zean agreed directly.

He didn't need to give orders; a soldier of the Imperial Guard who was guarding outside the great hall had already been called in.

The envoy of the Deni Kingdom took the gun and walked to the side, with the called Imperial Guard soldier standing ten meters away.

"Are you ready?"

The envoy of the Deni Kingdom aimed the muzzle at the Imperial Guard soldier.

This called Imperial Guard soldier was a martial artist in the Dao-Foundation stage, already considered a martial arts expert.

He did not dare to be careless, fully stimulating his protective force.

Dark gray force covered his whole body, making him look like a mountain.

This was the high-level force 'Covering Earth Rock Mountain Force', which was a type of force good at defense.

"Open fire."

The Imperial Guard soldier said.

Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang—

The intense sound of gunfire resounded through the great hall!

A flash of gunfire sprayed from the muzzle, and bullets tore through the air, continuously colliding with the wall of dark gray force.

The Imperial Guard soldier, who was continuously bombarded by the bullets, didn't even have time to react before a hole was torn in the force on his chest, and several bullets 'took advantage of the weakness' and hit his chest armor!

Three seconds later, the gunfire stopped, and the muzzle was smoking.

In the great hall, the group of civil officials changed color one after another, looking at the black assault rifle in the person's hand with horror, as if looking at some flood dragon or wild beast!

Zeke smiled:

"This is the Black Fire assault rifle, a brand new automatic mode, capable of firing thirty bullets in three seconds, with an effective range of 400 meters. It can complete a magazine change in one second, and theoretically can fire six hundred bullets per minute—an epoch-making weapon!"

"We give it—to your country."

Double monthly tickets at the end of the month, seeking monthly tickets.

(End of chapter)