Chapter 145: The Counterattack of the Noble Clans

Three days later, while Lin Feng was instructing the reserve members of the Soaring Dragon Squad on martial arts techniques on the training ground, Gu Feng suddenly rushed over.

"Lin Feng, this is bad! The Wu family has brought the heads of dozens of martial arts families here in person. They are blocking the entrance of the training ground and demanding that you go out and face them right now!"

Lin Feng nodded and smiled faintly.

As expected, he thought, they have come looking for trouble sooner than anticipated. This will be a perfect opportunity to settle everything in one decisive battle.

"That's just as well. It saves us the trouble of hunting them down one by one." Lin Feng picked up the Kunwu treasured sword and turned to leave.

"Lin Feng, you must not act rashly! These people are the powerbrokers of major martial arts families across China. Their status is on a completely different level from Wu Sansi's!"

Gu Feng was unaware of the private agreement and tacit understanding between Lin Feng and Yun Qianshang.

Consequently, his state of mind was extremely complicated.

On one hand, he felt that Lin Feng possessed formidable abilities. After just one month of special training, the results were remarkable, and almost all the reserve members had made significant progress in their strength.

On the other hand, Lin Feng's capacity for stirring up trouble was equally impressive. In just one month, he had driven the Wu family and the military to a complete and irreconcilable rupture.

And now, seeking revenge, more than half of the martial arts clans had united to settle accounts with him.

In total, fewer than a hundred families cooperated with the entire Chinese military.

Today, led by the Wu family, these restless clans had gathered en masse at their doorstep. This was surely more than just a matter of settling a personal vendetta—the likelihood of a coup to pressure the authorities was far greater!

Lin Feng glanced sideways at Gu Feng's worry-wrinkled face and laughed indifferently.

"Rest assured. No matter who comes knocking, whoever dares to lay a hand on my people, I will chop off whichever hand they extend. If they run out of hands, I'll take their lives!"

Exuding an overbearing aura, Lin Feng chased the reserve members away to cultivate in the Spirit Gathering Array in the basement of Building Number One. Then, carrying his sword, he walked alone toward the main entrance of the training ground.

"That's him! The unscrupulous instructor who harmed my son and crippled my brother! He has no regard for military discipline whatsoever! Severe punishment!"

"Severely punish the unscrupulous instructor!"

"Severely punish the unscrupulous instructor!"

As soon as Lin Feng arrived at the entrance of the training ground, he saw dozens of middle-aged men wearing various styles of Tang suits shouting slogans against him, led by a man with a square face.

Lin Feng frowned slightly. It was obvious that the leader was Wu Sansichun's—no, Wu Sansi's father, Wu Sixun.

Known as the head of the Wu family, the premier clan of Jiujiang, the boss of the underworld around Jiujiang, and the most prestigious figure among these noble families.

"I am the unscrupulous instructor you speak of, Lin Feng. I wonder what advice you have for me?" Lin Feng crossed his arms and said calmly.

"You are Lin Feng? What advice, you ask? You condoned your subordinates in beating my son, and then you brazenly made a move to seriously wound my third brother. According to state law and military regulations, you should resign in disgrace and restore a clear and righteous atmosphere to the Soaring Dragon Squad! Am I right, everyone?"

"Right! Restore a clear and righteous atmosphere to the Soaring Dragon Squad!"

Wu Sixun waved his hand, and all the family heads present echoed him loudly, filled with righteous indignation.

The posture they struck was enough to tear Lin Feng apart alive!

Just this?

This is how they came to settle scores?

If this was all they had, Lin Feng was actually somewhat disappointed. These accusations were nowhere near serious enough!

"Wu Sixun, we are all intelligent people. Why bother playing such low-level games of intimidation? If nobody were standing behind me, do you really think I would care to deal with the messy affairs of the Soaring Dragon Squad? Why must we put on a show here? Let's just lay our cards on the table and have a massive fight!"

"I, Lin Feng, will accompany you at any time! But if this is nothing more than these cheap tricks, you'd better leave sooner rather than later, because it's completely harmless."

Lin Feng's nonchalant attitude only managed to infuriate Wu Sixun further.

Wu Sixun raised his right hand, silencing the noisy crowd behind him. His eyes grew cold as he said with utter disdain:

"Lin Feng, a native of Jinling City, young master of the Lin family. Driven out of Jinling for provoking the Liang family of Jinling, he then married into the third-tier Yao family of Binhai City to save his life. Recently, he suddenly rose against the odds, swept through the underworld forces of Binhai City, and even emerged victorious at the Five-Provinces Martial Arts Tournament, becoming the overlord of the underworld across the coastal five provinces."

"I must admit, your background is indeed quite dazzling, especially since your current strength remains a mystery. However, do you really think that by yourself, you can withstand fifty-three martial arts families? When all is said and done, you are merely the leader of a mob of nobodies who cannot show their faces in polite society. You'd better think carefully about what you are doing!"

Wu Sixun finally displayed the imposing manner befitting the head of the Wu family. Even though he had learned that Lin Feng had won the championship at the Five-Provinces Martial Arts Tournament, he still refused to believe that Lin Feng's influence could withstand the pressure of China's top fifty-three martial arts families.

After all, the power represented by just a single martial arts family was enough to annihilate all the underworld forces across the coastal five provinces.

Anyone who has not entered the realm of martial arts is nothing more than an ant, and those forces in the underworld were merely a mob of rabble.

And Lin Feng was simply the leader of this rabble—how strong could he possibly be?

However, they were entirely mistaken!

Standing before them was not only an absolute powerhouse capable of defeating Grandmasters, but also a Nine Heavens Immortal Venerable who had traveled across the boundless chaotic cosmos!

"Clap, clap, clap—"

Wu Sixun clapped his hands, and immediately more than a hundred martial artists dressed in black training uniforms and armed with various weapons sprang out from the surrounding area.

Their auras varied in strength; the strongest had reached the mid-stage of the Transformation Realm, while the weakest were at the early stage.

Combined with Wu Sixun's peak Transformation Realm battle power, the entire training ground was suddenly overflowing with Transformation Realm experts.

Any single one of them, plucked out individually, would be the strongest fighter in an entire city. It was a veritable gathering of powerhouses.

Lin Feng swept his gaze across the nearly one hundred and fifty Transformation Realm experts gathered at the entrance of the training ground. Instead of feeling intimidated, he felt as though he were standing on the ground, counting ants.

Ants—no matter how many of them gathered together—remain mere ants.

Lin Feng shrugged and said indifferently, "Is this it? Parading out a bunch of ant-like trash as your ultimate trump card? Wu Sixun, you truly disappoint me!"

"Hmph, you're still putting up a stiff front, Lin Feng! Even if half of these forces are depleted, it would still be more than enough to sweep across your coastal five provinces. What qualifications do you have to be so arrogant here? Do you dare believe that if I kill you right here and right now, no one can do a thing to us?"

Wu Sixun's words made sense; there was safety in numbers, as the saying goes.

Furthermore, he had arrived under the guise of holding someone accountable. As long as they killed Lin Feng and stubbornly insisted that Lin Feng had flown into a rage out of humiliation and launched a savage attack first, and that they were merely acting in self-defense—

Even if Lin Feng died, there would be no living witnesses to contradict them.

And a lack of living witnesses was precisely what they wanted; they wanted to completely eradicate Lin Feng as a destabilizing factor.

When the time came to pressure Yun Qianshang afterward, the Soaring Dragon Squad would inevitably fall back into the grasp of the Wu family!

"Whether I am being arrogant or not is something you must ask my sword first!"

Lin Feng shook his head, straightened his posture, and pressed his right hand against the hilt of his sword.

"Hmph, you're still making a futile resistance even at this stage? Let me tell you, Lin Feng, today even if this training ground is turned upside down, no one will come to save you. You're a dead man!"

Wu Sixun had arranged everything in advance; the noble families' infiltration of the military had indeed yielded some results.

However, the moment Lin Feng placed his right hand on the hilt of his sword, a dozen flashes of silver light streaked through the air in an instant, and Wu Sixun suddenly felt a wave of warmth across his face.

He reached out to touch it, only to find it was covered in fresh blood!