On the blood-stained floor lay several burly men, their breathing faint. They were clearly on their last gasp.

"Xu Ke, you're a fucking bastard," Li Lang bellowed, his eyes practically splitting with fury.

These men on the ground were from his Li Family! First, he'd been berated by Xu Yi. Now, Xu Ke had crashed in and killed several of his subordinates. Li Lang was so enraged he nearly choked. It was too much to bear!

Nearby, Kang Dehui's eyes widened when he heard the name. Xu Ke actually showed up? And he had the audacity to crash through the villa's gate so brazenly? Is this how a loser is supposed to act?!

With a cold expression, Xu Ke walked out from the smoke. His eyes immediately sought out Xu Yi's figure, and he sighed in relief upon confirming she was unharmed.

He then turned to Li Lang. "Bastard? You actually have the nerve to say something like that?"

Li Lang gritted his teeth. "You fucking killed my men! Why the hell can't I say that?"

"Heh," Xu Ke responded with disdain. "Your men tried to stop me. How else was I supposed to get in?"

Xu Ke's reason for crashing in was simple. They couldn't enter normally, as that would be too much trouble and might even alert the enemy. To save himself the hassle, it was better to just smash the bulletproof car through the gate. He wasn't worried about hitting Xu Yi; from fifty meters away, he had already confirmed her location through the villa's floor-to-ceiling windows. So, he had simply told Tang Yingchang to floor it.

Hearing this, Li Lang erupted. "You motherfucker! For this, I'll definitely tell Elder Lin! Elder Lin won't let you off!"

"Watch Xu Yi!" he ordered his subordinates before immediately taking out his phone to call Lin Zhongtian.

Several men immediately surrounded Xu Yi, and one of them put a knife to her neck.

Li Lang was furious, but he hadn't lost his senses. It's obvious Xu Ke came for a violent rescue! The more brazen he is, the less we can afford to give him any opening to save Xu Yi. Otherwise, given his current arrogance, we'll all surely die!

But Xu Ke didn't give him much chance to talk. "Telling Lin Laogou not to let me off?" he scoffed. "Go ahead and try. Let's see if he's in any position to come after me."

What does he mean? Li Lang frowned, but his call went through.

RING, RING, RING...

Suddenly, another phone began ringing inside the villa.

Li Lang was startled. Why is a phone ringing now? He traced the sound to its source and saw Xu Ke holding a phone. Xu Ke slowly answered the call. "Hear that?"

Li Lang's eyes bulged when he heard Xu Ke's voice on the line—the very call Lin Zhongtian should have been answering. "Wh-what?!"

Lin Zhongtian's phone is in Xu Ke's hands?! Kang Dehui was equally stunned. What is happening?

Just then, Tang Yingchang's voice boomed, "Come out!"

He dragged Chang Yi and Sun Luo into the room, throwing the two once high-and-mighty Innate Experts to the ground like chickens.

THUMP!

The loud sound sent a cold shiver down Li Lang's spine. Xu Ke... he actually went to the Martial Alliance and kidnapped these two? And he even got Lin Zhongtian's phone? Doesn't that mean something has already happened to Lin Zhongtian?!

Xu Ke fixed his gaze on Li Lang. "Understand now?"

Seeing this, all the bodyguards, along with Li Lang and Kang Dehui, didn't even dare to breathe. They knew perfectly well how formidable experts like Sun Luo and Chang Yi were. But seeing them now, trussed up so tightly and treated worse than pigs or dogs, who would dare to speak up? They were scared pissless!

"You... you... you're challenging the Long Capital Grand Alliance..." Li Lang stuttered. "You're asking to die!"

Xu Ke didn't seem to care at all, sneering, "Heh, you don't need to worry about me. I'll give you thirty seconds. Release her, or die."

Li Lang's expression turned grim.

But just then, Kang Dehui, who had been silent, suddenly jolted as if he'd seen a ghost and shouted, "We can't let her go! If we do, we're dead for sure!"

This man dares to kidnap people from the Martial Alliance and attack a Martial Alliance Elder! He's a lawless lunatic! Wouldn't a man like that kill us without a second thought? Suddenly, Kang Dehui's mind cleared. The choice Xu Ke had given them wasn't "release her or die." It was "don't release her and maybe live" or "release her and die for certain."

Hearing this, Xu Ke's gaze hardened slightly.

Li Lang immediately nodded and said eagerly, "Right. Xu Ke, let us leave, and I'll return Xu Yi to you." Now, they only wanted to save their own skins. Revenge against Xu Ke could wait; the most important thing was to get out of this villa.

Xu Ke chuckled coldly. "Do you think I'd agree to that?"

"You won't? Then I'll kill Xu Yi!" Li Lang threatened. The henchman holding Xu Yi tightened his grip on the knife.

Meanwhile, Li Lang cursed inwardly. The Li Family has limited access to firearms. I placed all our gunmen outside for defense, but I never expected Xu Ke to just ram through with a bulletproof car and kill them all! I have a gun on me for self-defense, but there's no way I could hit Xu Ke or Tang Yingchang. Using Xu Yi as a hostage is my only choice. And trying to fight Xu Ke and Tang Yingchang with these thugs? That would be a joke!

Xu Ke's expression darkened at the threat. I told Wang Wu to come on my way here, but it's a long way, and I don't know when he'll arrive. If he and the Wang Family's gunmen were here, this problem wouldn't be so tricky!

Seeing the stalemate, Xu Yi scoffed. "Heh, go on, kill me. My one life in exchange for all of yours? That's a bargain for me. So go on, do it! Kill me!"

Li Lang gritted his teeth but didn't dare to make a move.

Xu Ke then fixed his gaze on Li Lang. "Alright, then. Let's make an exchange. I'll give you Chang Yi and Sun Luo. You give me back my sister."

The eyes of Chang Yi and Sun Luo, who were lying on the floor, suddenly lit up. There's a chance to live?

"How can I be sure you won't attack after you get your sister back?" Li Lang shouted. He still wasn't planning on releasing her.

Sun Luo grew impatient. "Just do as he says and release her! With us here, do you think he can just kill people whenever he wants? Do you really think he's invincible?"

Li Lang and Kang Dehui sneered but said nothing. If he weren't invincible, how did he manage to capture an old bastard like you?

"Alright then!" Xu Ke suddenly proposed. "I'll have Elder Tang wait outside. I'll stay here alone to make the trade with you. As I untie Chang Yi and Sun Luo, you push Xu Yi over to me. This way, even if I wanted to make a move, Chang Yi and Sun Luo could stop me. You'd be safe, right? What's more, you'd be completing Lin Zhongtian's mission."

As soon as he finished, Li Lang looked tempted. He had to admit, the offer was very appealing.

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