Chapter 23

Huang Xiaolong looked at Huang Wei and said coldly, "If he doesn’t have the qualifications to sit here, then you have even less!"

"What?! Huang Xiaolong, you!" Hearing this, Huang Wei was filled with rage. He possessed a tenth-level martial soul and was destined to be the future head of the Huang Family Village. How could Huang Xiaolong say he was even less qualified than a servant?!

At this moment, Huang Qide suddenly spoke, "Enough, this is the Li Family Manor! It’s the banquet for Elder Li’s birthday celebration!"

Hearing his grandfather speak, Huang Wei glared at Huang Xiaolong with hatred and did not say another word.

Then, Huang Qide turned to Huang Xiaolong and said, "Xiaolong, is this the new servant you bought? He indeed doesn’t have the qualifications to sit here!"

Huang Xiaolong frowned. His grandfather was still favoring Huang Wei. Ever since the two of them awakened their martial souls, Huang Qide had always favored Huang Wei.

If it weren’t for Li Lu insisting that Huang Xiaolong come, Grandfather Huang Qide would have definitely only brought Huang Wei.

At this moment, Huang Qide continued, "Let your servant leave first and wait back in the courtyard."

Leave?! Huang Xiaolong was filled with anger. His grandfather meant that Fei Hou didn’t even have the qualifications to stand here?!

"Xiaolong, didn’t you hear what your grandfather said? Why don’t you make your servant leave? This is Elder Li’s birthday banquet. Bringing a servant here is embarrassing us!" Huang Ming also spoke, his voice filled with reprimand.

Leave? Huang Xiaolong’s anger surged, and he coldly laughed, "Even if he is my new servant, it’s not your turn to boss me around!"

"You!" Huang Ming didn’t expect Huang Xiaolong to defy him in such a situation, his eyes narrowing.

"Xiaolong," Huang Peng interjected, "listen to your grandfather and let him go back to the courtyard first." Although he felt that his father, Huang Qide, and Huang Ming were being a bit too harsh, Huang Peng also thought it was inappropriate for his son to bring a servant to such an occasion.

Huang Xiaolong was taken aback, suppressing his anger, and finally nodded. He turned to Fei Hou behind him and said, "Fei Hou, go back and wait for me."

Fei Hou remained calm throughout, "Yes, Young Master!" He bowed and turned to leave.

Huang Wei watched Fei Hou leave, feeling smug.

Li Lu, sitting next to Huang Xiaolong, glared at Huang Wei’s smug expression.

At this moment, a hearty laugh echoed from outside the hall. It was Elder Li, Li Mu, and the crowd saw Li Mu and Li Cheng, accompanied by many experts of the Li Family, walking towards the grand hall.

Seeing this, everyone stood up.

But just as Li Mu and the others walked into the hall with smiles on their faces, a sudden urgent cry came, "Elder, something’s wrong, something’s seriously wrong!"

The sudden voice made the hall, which was filled with laughter, fall silent. Li Mu’s expression turned shocked, and he turned to look with everyone else.

A guard of the Li Family ran in from outside the gate, panic-stricken, and came to Li Mu and Li Cheng, panting and pointing outside, "Elder, outside, outside!"

"Outside? What happened?!" Li Mu had a bad feeling and shouted.

Everyone’s hearts tightened.

"Outside, there’s a large coffin!" The guard caught his breath and said shakily.

"What?! A large coffin!"

"What’s going on?!"

In the hall, all the clan leaders and experts who came to celebrate were shocked and began to murmur.

Li Mu’s heart skipped a beat, his expression serious, "Let’s go!" He and his son Li Cheng walked towards the gate of the Li Family Manor, followed by the Li Family’s experts.

"We’ll go out and take a look too," Huang Qide said, then stepped out of the hall, and the five of them, including Huang Xiaolong, left the Li Family Manor. Li Lu followed Huang Xiaolong, though at her age, she didn’t understand what it meant to have a large coffin placed at the entrance during her grandfather’s birthday, but she also looked tense.

Huang Xiaolong followed his grandfather Huang Qide out of the Li Family Manor and saw a large red coffin placed on the street in front of the gate, directly facing the Li Family Manor!

The coffin was stained with human blood, dripping and emitting a strong, pungent smell.

Seeing this bizarre scene, everyone was shocked.

Li Mu walked up to the coffin, his face turning cold, and shouted, "What kind of scoundrel dares to cause trouble at the Li Family Manor? Come out now!" His shout caused waves of energy to surge around him, forming a giant lion in the sky, its roar echoing for a long time.

Everyone was shocked, their faces filled with awe.

Huang Xiaolong’s eyes flickered. His father had told him about the combat technique Li Mu practiced. This must be the Intermediate Rank Mystic Combat Technique, Heavenly Lion Roar?

After a while, the giant lion in the sky disappeared, and everything was quiet.

"Heh heh!" Suddenly, a cold laugh echoed from the air, coming from all directions, making it impossible to pinpoint the source, "Old Li, today is your eightieth birthday. We’ve brought you this grand gift. You should be happy, not so angry. People with a short temper usually don’t live long!"

Everyone scanned the surroundings, trying to find the hiding place of the speaker. After a while, Li Mu and Huang Qide both looked at a manor across the street.

Li Mu leaped up and shouted, striking with a palm. The palm created countless palm prints that rotated, forming a giant storm, with clouds faintly appearing above the storm.

"Wind and Cloud Palm!"

The storm formed by the palm prints instantly hit the manor across the street.

Suddenly, a dark green fist broke through the air, meeting Li Mu’s palm force. The collision caused a loud explosion, and two dark green figures shot up from the manor, standing in the air. Huang Xiaolong and the others saw that these two figures were covered in snake-like scales, with black eyes and green stripes on their faces, and had snake-like tails.

"Soul Transformation!" Huang Xiaolong’s eyes narrowed.

After reaching the seventh rank of Warrior, the martial soul undergoes its second transformation, allowing the body to merge with the martial soul. This ability is called Soul Transformation. After Soul Transformation, one can possess some innate abilities of the martial soul. For example, if someone’s martial soul is a venomous snake, their body’s combat aura will have a certain toxicity after Soul Transformation.

Clearly, the martial souls of these two people were snakes, and they seemed to be venomous snakes.

"Heh heh, old Li, your Wind and Cloud Palm is nothing special!"

"We won’t kill you now, but within three years, we will take your life!"

"Open the coffin and see the birthday gift we’ve given you!"

The two figures appeared, laughed coldly, and flashed away, their bodies enveloped in two dark green lights, moving extremely fast and quickly disappearing from everyone’s sight.

Li Mu clearly didn’t expect them to flee as soon as they appeared. By the time he reacted and tried to chase them, it was too late.

"Father!" After a while, Li Cheng stepped forward, coming behind Li Mu, and looked at the sealed coffin, "Should we open it?"

Li Mu turned around, took a deep breath, and said, "Open it!"