Max Level Return—I'll Protect That Fragile One

One stick is enough to beat you.

Translated, it means: to beat a dog like you, one dog-beating stick is sufficient.

Huo Wen’an knew how to mock people.

The criminals hiding in the dense forest around the Demon Palace were all silenced by Huo Wen’an’s words.

White Eyebrow Old Zhang, sitting on a tree branch, swung his legs and clicked his tongue, sighing, ”This man is quite arrogant. I just wonder if his strength matches his personality.”

Xiao Qiao stared intently at Huo Wen’an standing at the entrance of the Demon Palace, holding a stick, and confidently said, ”He will kill the Old Palace Master Yan Wusheng.” He knew 099, and this time 099 clearly had the intent to kill Yan Wusheng.

Xiao Qiao didn’t know how much progress Huo Wen’an had made over the years, subconsciously thinking of Huo Wen’an as an ordinary person, unlikely to be a match for someone as top-tier as Yan Wusheng.

Yet secretly he hoped Huo Wen’an would win.

Reform the Divine Martial Realm, starting with Bai Ze Island.

The plan to ’reform the Divine Martial Realm’ sounds crazy and absurd, but Xiao Qiao sincerely hoped a savior would appear in the Divine Martial Realm, leading the suffering civilians to live carefree lives.

Everyone knew the Divine Martial Realm was ill, nearing a point of no return.

If no one stepped forward to heal the critically ill Divine Martial Realm, then this world was doomed.

”I heard the child lived in the Toy Pool for years; you two seem to have a good relationship.” White Eyebrow Old Zhang raised his eyebrows at Xiao Qiao and asked seriously, ”Do you truly believe he can kill that old pervert Yan Wusheng, or do you hope he can kill the old pervert?”

Sincerely believing and sincerely hoping are entirely different things.

Xiao Qiao remained silent.

White Eyebrow Old Zhang understood, ”Kid, many things in life don’t go as you wish. There’s plenty of times when things are beyond your control.”

Xiao Qiao’s gaze flickered, still staring at Huo Wen’an, but lowly murmured, ”But I am willing to believe in him.”

”Ha, then let’s wait and see.”

*

High above, Yan Wusheng was so angered by Huo Wen’an’s words that he burst out laughing, ”Hahaha, what a brazen character. You think just because you have a stick, you can beat dogs? You must see clearly—standing before you is either a dog or a wolf!”

With that, Yan Wusheng suddenly leapt down from several hundred meters above.

Seeing this, Huo Wen’an didn’t hesitate for a moment, turning and running.

Running?

Xiao Qiao was momentarily stunned.

White Eyebrow Old Zhang was also taken aback, ”Your friend is quite unreadable.” He almost said outright that Xiao Qiao’s friend was a coward.

As soon as Yan Wusheng landed, he saw Huo Wen’an quickly and eerily escaping towards the Bai Ze Mountain Range west of Fallen Demon Street; he couldn’t help but be taken aback.

The one who talked tough about beating dogs was him, yet the one who turned tail and ran was also him.

So 099 was a mouthy coward?

”Flee?” Yan Wusheng stood up, gazing at Huo Wen’an’s fleeing figure, sneered, ”Bai Ze Island is only so big; I’d like to see where you can run to!”

Yan Wusheng, like a hurricane, rushed in pursuit toward the direction Huo Wen’an fled.

Seeing this, the convicts all took off after him.

White Eyebrow Old Zhang also grabbed Xiao Qiao’s arm, leading him through the jungle branches, heading west towards the Bai Ze Mountain Range.

The west of Bai Ze Mountain Range is desolate mountains and wilderness, bordered by the Black Sea; this maritime region is termed the ’Black Triangle.’ Black Triangle is a region of fault-line dissolution and falling sea, with a coastline that appears safe and pleasant, yet nestled within are three or four trenches measuring thousands of meters deep.

The trenches are deep and narrow, closely contiguous, forming an ideal spot for murder and body disposal. Many convicts on Bai Ze Island who disappeared without reason almost all ended up buried in these trenches.

From the sky, the seawater here appears jet black. Ships find themselves overturned by the undercurrent of the trenches.

Thus, Black Triangle is recognized as one of the most dangerous maritime regions in the Black Sea.

Seeing Huo Wen’an fleeing towards Black Triangle, Yan Wusheng sneered, ”You’ve picked a good place to die!” Unsure initially how to kill this brat, the brat himself chose his death.

’Escape to’ the shores of the Black Triangle, Huo Wen’an suddenly stopped, then turned, his gaze calm as water, staring at the endless dense forest behind him.

Approximately two or three seconds later, a middle-aged man with a red leather coat and a golden-brown wolf-tail braid emerged from the thicket.

He appeared to be in his forties, with deep-set gray-blue eyes holding a wolf-like ferocity.

He was Yan Jingchen’s and others’ adoptive father, the true Palace Master of Hell Palace, Yan Wusheng.

”Why aren’t you running anymore?” Yan Wusheng stood at the edge of the dense forest, looking down at Huo Wen’an standing on the sloping coast.

The sea water lapped at Huo Wen’an’s trouser legs, soaking his combat boots. He only needed to walk forward another three to four meters along the sloping coast to step into the sea trench domain.

”You also know you have nowhere left to retreat?” Yan Wusheng stared at the terrifyingly dark sea behind Huo Wen’an, sneering, ”I’ll give you a choice. In the sea area four meters behind you, there’s a trench 1200 meters deep. You can walk in there yourself.”

”In half an hour, if you can climb out on your own, I’ll spare your life. How about it?”

No one can climb out from these trenches, neither the living nor the dead.

Once you fall in, there’s only one path to death.

”I have also prepared two paths for you.” Huo Wen’an raised the index finger of his left hand, speaking in a polite manner, ”First, you can jump into the trench yourself.”

He then raised his middle finger and continued, ”Second, I’ll cripple you and kick you into the trench.”

After speaking, Huo Wen’an shook his ’peace’ sign left hand at Yan Wusheng and politely asked, ”Sir, whichever you choose, I promise you’ll be satisfied.”

Yan Wusheng felt a lump in his throat, neither swallowing nor spitting it out. ”You arrogant beast! You are too conceited!”

Yan Wusheng lost his patience, grinning hideously, ”Then I will make you wish fulfilled, first cripple you, then tie a rope around your waist, and throw you into the trench, letting you suffer the torment of drowning at the hands of the seawater, then pull you up. I’ll slice your flesh off piece by piece to feed the fish in the sea, the beasts in the mountains!”

”I will make sure you are used to your fullest!” Having said that, Yan Wusheng emitted a wolf’s howl towards the sky, and in the next moment, strands of faintly discernible mist emerged from his body.

The mist gathered and formed the shape of a fierce wolf.

Yan Wusheng is a rare animal transformation ability user. Initially, he could only use the sound waves produced by howling to attack his enemies, but as his potential evolved, he now could use his superpower to transform into a wolf shape and control the wolf avatar with his mind to battle Huo Wen’an.

This is the terrifying nature of top-tier Super Power Users.

Seeing Yan Wusheng directly enter the strongest battle state, White Eyebrow Old Zhang raised an eyebrow and said to Xiao Qiao, ”The old pervert directly entered the strongest battle state, your good friend probably won’t last three seconds.”

Xiao Qiao’s expression was solemn, but he held bravado in his words, ”It hasn’t even started yet.”

”Tsk.” White Eyebrow Old Zhang poured cold water on him: ”Yan Wusheng is called the Lone Wolf King, a standout among animal transformation ability users, your friend seems to be just a civilian. In the Toy Pool, he could summon the wind and rain because most of those toy dolls were also just ordinary people, with the occasional superpower user, and even then their abilities were very weak.”

”Your friend can defeat some weak superpower users, it’s somewhat impressive and somewhat lucky. But luck, when facing absolute achievers, doesn’t have much impact.”

”Your friend dared to provoke the old pervert, it’s not just about fearlessness, he lacks sense...”

As he spoke, White Eyebrow Old Zhang was distracted by Huo Wen’an’s movement.

He saw the youth standing by the sea suddenly wave the cane in his right hand casually towards the sky, shouting: ”Divine Concealment!” The black cane automatically split in the air.

The cane split automatically in the middle, and a black bamboo sword shot out from within, flying towards Huo Wen’an’s right hand as if recognizing its master.

The moment Huo Wen’an grasped the bamboo sword, the black seawater behind him roiled uncontrollably, and suddenly a strong wind rose, forming a tornado on the sea that sucked the black seawater into the sky.

The sky was overcast with clouds, thunder and lightning, and the sound of a savage beast’s roar echoed in the hurricane tempest.

White Eyebrow Old Zhang’s eyes widened, grabbing Xiao Qiao and jumping down from the big tree, running towards the open space in shock.

”Dammit, able to control several natural elements at once and cause celestial phenomena changes, your friend is an S-Class superpower user!”

”Why didn’t you tell me sooner!”

An S-Class superpower user is a superpower user that only exists in records.

Such superpower users only appeared in the initial landing of the meteorite with a few earth-shattering individuals.

Later, as the world stabilized, the Super Power Users and uninfected civilians came to the Divine Martial Realm. Although the group of superpower users in the Divine Martial Realm enlarged, S-Class superpower users became fewer and fewer.

By now, S-Class superpower users in the Divine Martial Realm have become countable with fingers.

It is well known that only the Hierarch of the Eastern Alliance, the Hierarch of the Divine Hidden Alliance, and the director of the Divine Concealment Emperor Exhibition Hall are S-Class superpower users.

Xiao Qiao was put down by White Eyebrow Old Zhang on the open prairie, looking up at the terrifying scene over the black seawater, his expression also in a daze. ”I didn’t know he was a superpower user!”

never told him!

”When I met him, he really was just an ordinary civilian!”

White Eyebrow Old Zhang frowned, ”Then that’s strange.”

Simultaneously, the other convicts running into the forest wanting to watch the spectacle hadn’t reached the Black Triangle yet. After noticing the abnormality in the sky, they were also frightened into staying put.

When did Yan Wusheng, that old pervert, become so strong?

Not knowing the truth, they thought the celestial disturbance was caused by Yan Wusheng, that old pervert.

Even given a hundred brains, they couldn’t figure out that all of this was orchestrated by Huo Wen’an.