The Sacred Lord Leng Yan was thinking about how his son Leng Xi had been together with Zhuge Qingfeng, previously inside Zhuge Qingfeng's Mysterious Artifact Space.
Earlier, Zhuge Qingfeng had actually come in together with that Nine Nether Demon Lord, personally bringing the Nine Nether Demon Lord into this Heavenly Desolation Divine Hall.
And right now, Leng Yan suddenly noticed that his son Leng Xi looked exactly like he'd done something guilty, his gaze dodging, not daring to look at him.
No one knows a son better than his father. Leng Yan suddenly thought of something: "Don't tell me! Don't tell me! Don't tell me! Don't tell me this little bastard didn't have his eyes open and actually offended…"
As that thought flashed by, Leng Yan's expression instantly changed, his face turning rather unpleasant.
The more Leng Yan looked at Leng Xi, the worse it felt in his heart. He immediately turned to Zhuge Qingfeng and said, "Qingfeng, hurry up and tell me, how did you end up together with this little bastard!"
Zhuge Qingfeng didn't speak aloud, but instead sent a strand of intent straight into Leng Yan's mind. In the next moment, everything that had happened in Misha City surfaced in Leng Yan's consciousness.
After receiving all the information Zhuge Qingfeng had transmitted, Leng Yan's eyes bulged, and he kept muttering, "As expected! As expected! As expected! Whatever you fear the most is exactly what comes!"
Immediately after, they just heard Sacred Lord Leng Yan turn and roar at his son Leng Xi: "You little brat, you almost got our Heavenly Desolation Sacred Land's eternal foundation wiped out in one stroke!"
As he shouted in fury, Leng Yan stepped forward and swung his palm viciously.
Leng Yan, after all, was a Supreme Expert of the Nine-star Demigod Realm. That slap was something Leng Xi could never dodge. With a crisp "smack," it landed squarely on Leng Xi's face, a solid, merciless blow that sent Leng Xi's entire body flying.
With a heavy "thud," Leng Xi crashed hard onto the solid ice ground.
After hitting Leng Xi, Leng Yan pointed at him and bellowed again, "You troublemaking little beast! This Sacred Lord will废你 right now!"
As Leng Yan spat out those words, a frigid, overwhelmingly powerful force had already gathered in his right palm. From the look of it, he was about to strike at the Saint Heir Leng Xi again.
"Sacred Lord, calm your anger!"
"What on earth happened? Sacred Lord, please calm down!"
"What exactly is going on?"
...
The experts nearby had already sensed the power gathered in Leng Yan's right palm. If that palm landed fully on Leng Xi, it would absolutely cripple half his life.
At that moment, several people acted at once and grabbed hold of Leng Yan.
"What actually happened? If something's wrong, talk it out. How can you strike your child so viciously!" One Supreme Elder of Heavenly Desolation Sacred Land said to Leng Yan.
"Qingfeng, what exactly happened?" Someone else turned toward Zhuge Qingfeng and asked.
"Yes, Qingfeng, what's going on?"
Since Leng Xi had come out from Zhuge Qingfeng's Mysterious Artifact Space, then he must know the reason.
Zhuge Qingfeng did not answer the others. Instead he looked at Leng Yan and said, "Sacred Lord, at the time I had the same worry as you, but judging from how things stand now, this matter should already be resolved."
And just as Zhuge Qingfeng was saying this to Leng Yan, Leng Yan spoke, pointing at Leng Xi who was still lying on the ice and hadn't gotten up: "This little beast actually offended the Nine Nether Demon Lord! That Nine Nether Demon Lord!"
"What!"
"What!"
"What! He offended the Nine Nether Demon Lord!"
...
Once they heard Leng Yan's words, every face instantly changed drastically, and cries of shock erupted from the mouths of the Heavenly Desolation Sacred Land's experts.
Offended the Nine Nether Demon Lord!
That Gue Mountain Saintess Gu Yan, that piece-of-trash grandson Hanl Wei of the Hanl Family, the three Inheritors of the Three Gods Sect, Wang Li of the Wang Family—weren't all of them destroyed utterly because they offended that one? Completely wiped out!
Rumor had it that within those Six Great Forces, all of their Nine-star Demigod Level experts were already dead to the last!
Just now, some people had felt that, after all, Leng Xi was the Saint Heir, the future Heavenly Desolation Sacred Lord, and that Leng Yan treating him this way in public was not quite appropriate.
But at this very moment, many were secretly thinking that that slap had been well deserved!
These spoiled rich kids really were pits waiting to swallow everyone!
That Nine Nether Demon Lord was the kind of savage who had even defeated True God Experts and almost ripped out their Souls to torment them.
...
In an instant, all the words trying to dissuade Leng Yan vanished.
"I… I… I didn't even know he was the Nine Nether Demon Lord back then! And at the time, he was the one who picked a fight with me first!" Having been slapped hard in front of so many people by his own father, Leng Xi was furious in his heart and retorted at Leng Yan.
"You! You still dare talk back!" Seeing that Leng Xi had committed such a colossal mistake and was still talking back, Leng Yan barked again, then said:
"All of you, don't you dare stop me. Today I'm definitely废掉 this little beast, so that he won't go around stirring up trouble everywhere in the future and destroy the ancestral foundation in one stroke!"
As he spoke, Leng Yan's peerless palm was already on the verge of blasting out.
Just then, Zhuge Qingfeng's white figure moved again, stepping in front of Leng Yan to block him, and urged:
"Sacred Lord, curb your anger. This matter shouldn't be that bad! That one already knew at the time that Leng Xi was our Heavenly Desolation Sacred Land's Saint Heir, and even so, earlier he still made a move for our Heavenly Desolation Sacred Land and annihilated that powerful Alien Race.
That proves he no longer cares about what happened back then."
Hearing Zhuge Qingfeng's words, many faces shifted again, and they asked him to confirm: "He really knew that Leng Xi is our Sacred Son of Heavenly Desolation Sacred Land?"
"He already knew at the time." Zhuge Qingfeng nodded and replied.
Then he added, "The Nine Nether Demon Lord even personally told me that he was sparing the Saint Heir's life, that I was to bring him back to our Heavenly Desolation Sacred Land and have the Sacred Lord properly discipline him from now on, so he doesn't keep running wild."
"Oh! The Nine Nether Demon Lord really said that?" someone asked.
"He really said it." Zhuge Qingfeng nodded again in reply.
"If that's truly the case, then I can be at ease." Said the expert who'd spoken earlier.
"Mm!" At this time, many people nodded one after another. If things were just as Zhuge Qingfeng described, then it showed that that Supreme Evil Demon had already decided not to hold Leng Xi's little grudge against him.
"No." Just as everyone was finally relaxing, they heard Heavenly Desolation Sacred Lord Leng Yan speak again, his voice cold, full of steely resolve.
Then they heard him continue:
"Leng Xi, as the Heavenly Desolation Sacred Son, almost plunged Heavenly Desolation Sacred Land into a calamity beyond redemption. He is utterly unworthy of being my Heavenly Desolation Sacred Land's Saint Heir! I hereby declare his Saint Heir status abolished!"
"What!"
"What!"
"What!"
"This… Sacred Lord!"
When Leng Yan's resolute words rang out again, cries of astonishment burst continuously from the mouths of the gathered experts, and their expressions changed yet again.
Leng Yan had actually personally abolished the Saint Heir position of this monstrous son of his—a son who had once been his greatest pride.
But Leng Xi truly was utterly in the wrong this time, going so far as to offend that Supreme Evil Demon!
He wasn't just courting death himself; he very nearly got all of them killed along with him.
In this matter he was indeed far too stupid. Of all the people in the world to provoke, he just had to provoke that one!
As far as everyone else was concerned, they didn't care whether Leng Xi had known that one's true identity beforehand. They didn't care who picked the fight first. What mattered was that Leng Xi had undeniably offended him.
Besides, if you, Leng Xi, had just behaved yourself and kept a low profile, would anyone have bothered to come out of nowhere and cause you trouble?