Heroes Return

"Hmph!" The horned man snorted coldly, but this time he didn't refute anything. After all, his exchange with Lin Jie had given him a thorough understanding of Lin Jie's strength.

Although he used the power of spacetime to heal his physical injuries from Lin Jie's sword strike, it had indeed caused him considerable mental damage. Therefore, while he was unhappy with these guys' decision to fight him outnumbered, he had to accept this fact.

In fact, after witnessing the battle between Lin Jie and the man in red, everyone present couldn't help but feel secretly shocked. None of them had expected that such a powerful figure would appear in the outside world so soon after they had only been imprisoned by the Guanggun Temple for a short time.

However, if everyone present joined forces, they were quite confident that they could fight Lin Jie.

"It's settled then. Since you want my help, I'll take the Immortal-Slaying Sword afterward," the shadowy monster suddenly said to the group.

"Hmph! Who do you think you are?" the horned man said coldly to the man shrouded in black smoke.

"There's only one sword, so we'll each have to rely on our own abilities," said the old man holding the summoning banner. "Our most urgent task right now is to deal with this swordsman."

Lin Jie stood quietly in the sky, listening to the four people surrounding him chatting amongst themselves, a feeling of annoyance welling up inside him. "Damn idiots! You people have completely ignored our greatest enemy and started chatting!"

What annoyed Lin Jie the most was their tone; the fight hadn't even started yet, and they acted as if they were already certain of victory. They began discussing the distribution of the spoils! This infuriated Lin Jie, because this kind of thing had always been part of his research projects.

Because he was annoyed, Lin Jie decided not to hold back this time.

A terrifying will to annihilate all things erupted from Lin Jie at this moment.

The four people around him were immediately speechless!

The powerful red light of "Three Styles - Immortal Slaughter" suddenly erupted from Lin Jie's center.

At this moment, the four people around Lin Jie also made their moves simultaneously. In fact, while they were talking, they were all secretly preparing their ultimate moves.

The moment the horned man saw Lin Jie, the longsword in his hand suddenly burst forth with dazzling light. A massive blade pierced the sky and slashed directly down into Lin Jie's red light.

But this time, the blade's light vanished as if melting ice the instant it entered the red light, and at the same moment, the blade in the horned man's hand transformed from a powerful divine weapon into an ordinary one, completely losing its spiritual essence.

"That's impossible!" The horned man looked at Lin Jie seriously.

But the next moment, a terrifying figure appeared before him. The man was finally face to face with Lin Jie. But what he saw in the dark room was a pair of eyes emitting a red glow, staring straight at him.

Those around Lin Jie who witnessed this scene were shocked and simultaneously unleashed their prepared attacks.

The old man holding the soul-summoning banner shook it incessantly, and a massive, seemingly endless, terrifying evil spirit formed a gigantic malevolent force that swept towards Lin Jie. Along its path, it was accompanied by a great deal of malevolent energy and terrifying Netherworld winds.

At this moment, the shadowy monster also shot a beam of terrifying black energy at Lin Jie. The black energy felt like dirty water, but it contained a terrifying power of lightning.

Two powerful attacks simultaneously struck Lin Jie.

However, both attacks dissipated into the air upon contact with the red light.

Within the crimson light, the handsome man stared in terror at the black mist emanating two beams of red light before him. He felt as if his very soul was being gripped tightly by this being.

However, he did not give up resisting, and his fist, imbued with the power of time and space decay, attacked Lin Jie. But then, another fist struck his face even faster.

It was Lin Jie's "Friendship Breaking Fist".

At this moment, Lin Jie began to beat the cool, handsome guy's face with all his might, and he completely ignored the attacks from the other three people around him.

However, after fighting for a while, Lin Jie had to stop. He suddenly saw that the sky had changed. The dark curtain that had covered the sky had suddenly opened up in the middle, and sunlight was streaming down again, forming a curtain of light.

Immediately afterwards, a colossal entity that almost made Lin Jie scream slowly descended from the sky.

In the midst of this fierce battle, something comical suddenly descended from the sky! Yes, a gigantic comic descended with the sunlight! Everyone was stunned as the enormous, uniquely shaped yellow sphere descended from the heavens. Even Lin Jie was not surprised.

The only exception was the man Lin Jie had beaten, because by then his life was already nearing its end under the ravages of Lin Jie's terrifying red light. After Lin Jie released him, he plummeted straight down towards the Bachelor Temple below. And what did he see in his final moments, as his life was about to end?

The most unforgettable moment of his last life was when he saw a huge, comical object falling from the sky.

The enormous expression seemed to mock his weakness and arrogance as it plummeted down into the Bachelor Temple below.

Chapter 20

Let's go back to when Lin Jie had just turned zero. At that time, Xiao Zhan was hiding in his temporary dormitory.

"This...this..." A terrifying sensation erupted within his body, and Xiao Zhan was unable to utter a single word. In fact, it wasn't just Xiao Zhan; all the creatures around him felt the same way.

Suddenly, a beautiful woman appeared in the room, clutching a long sword. She trembled as she watched Zero hurtle towards the blood-red cloud, unable to utter a single word. Only after Zero plunged into the blood-red cloud did the terrifying feeling dissipate from Xiao Zhan's body.

As if his soul had returned to his body, Xiao Zhan plopped down on the ground, letting out a breath. The beautiful woman, in the same manner, also exhaled.

Then the two of them stared at each other, wide-eyed.

"Why are you holding that sword you use to prop up the table legs?" Xiao Zhan asked the beautiful woman in surprise.

"Oh no! We've been discovered!" The beautiful woman realized what was happening, and instantly a pink fragrance emanated from her body, surrounding Xiao Zhan.

"What is this? It smells so good!" Xiao Zhan couldn't help but take a sniff.

"Hmph! You've fallen for my charm spell. Now you can enjoy your sweet dreams!" The beautiful woman said, looking at Xiao Zhan. So far, everyone who has inhaled the pink aura has been affected by it and has a hallucination of boundless spring.

The beautiful woman looked at Xiao Zhan, who was standing there, and immediately took out her pistol, preparing to shoot him in the head again. However, she never expected that Xiao Zhan would suddenly move and grab the woman's pistol.

"Although I don't know what you're up to, I'm certain you're not a good person." Xiao Zhan said, preparing to twist the woman's wrist.

However, the beautiful woman in front of him kicked Xiao Zhan in the stomach and then jumped out of Xiao Zhan's control.

"That's impossible! Why aren't you being charmed?" The beautiful woman looked at Xiao Zhan in surprise. "At this moment, you should be having the illusion that you're with a group of beautiful women!"

"Stop joking!" Hearing the beautiful woman's words, Xiao Zhan immediately burst into tears: "You know what? You've reminded me all over again of my recent impotence!!!"

"Are you impotent?"

"No! I just experienced an erectile dysfunction a few days ago!!!" Xiao Zhan said with tears in his eyes, "I did hallucinate about beautiful women! But I didn't react at all!"

"No wonder it didn't work on you! I didn't expect you to be impotent!" the beautiful woman said, looking at Xiao Zhan.

"I've already told you, I'm not impotent! I'm just experiencing impotence lately!" Xiao Zhan said, tears welling in his eyes. In truth, no man would be happy to admit to being impotent in front of a beautiful woman!

At this point, Xiao Zhan couldn't care less about anything else and rushed straight towards the beautiful woman.

Xiao Zhan has become quite proficient in boxing techniques, and he practices sparring diligently every day. Therefore, his close-quarters combat ability is quite outstanding.

However, the beautiful woman opposite her was surprisingly agile, and the two of them were unable to determine a winner for a while in the same room.

After about two minutes of fighting, the beautiful woman finally seized a fatal opening in Xiao Zhan's body and kicked him between the legs.

Then, Xiao Zhan calmly launched an attack on the beautiful woman without any reaction.

"Wait! Why is this happening! Even if someone is impotent, there shouldn't be no reaction if they're kicked there." The beautiful woman said to Xiao Zhan in surprise.

"I already told you, I've been shocked by an electric current that makes me unable to get an erection, so I can't feel anything there at all right now. And your groin kick is completely substandard!" Xiao Zhan said, kicking the woman between her legs with a groin kick.

"You shameless!" the beautiful woman said angrily, but at this moment she had nowhere to hide, so she could only use her hands to block the kick that Xiao Zhan was kicking at her.

But even after blocking Xiao Zhan's kick, the beautiful woman still knelt on the ground, clutching her body. Tears welled up in her eyes from the pain.

"I never imagined that Master Boredom's groin kick combined with his 'hitting a cow from across the mountain' technique would be so amazing! It works on both men and women! And there's simply no way to defend against it." Xiao Zhan said smugly, looking at the person in front of him.

"You...you bastard!" The beautiful woman in front of her trembled as she spoke to Xiao Zhan. As a beautiful woman, this was the first time in her life she had been treated with such shameless tactics.

At this point, Xiao Zhan couldn't care less about anything else and immediately took out a pair of handcuffs from his body.

But at that moment, the sound of an energy gun suddenly rang out. A beam of energy pierced through the window and grazed Xiao Zhan's forehead.

"Holy crap! What?!" Xiao Zhan was so startled that he took a step back. Taking advantage of Xiao Zhan's retreat, the beautiful woman in front of him stood up trembling and jumped out of the window.

Seeing the beautiful woman jump out, Xiao Zhan followed suit. The next second, he saw a man carrying the woman on his back and running away. The woman was holding the sword she had used to prop up the table leg.

"Don't let that guy get away!" The bespectacled guy suddenly chased after Xiao Zhan and shouted, "I just saw that guy sneaking off to the back of the mountain and releasing everything inside!"

"What!" Upon hearing the bespectacled man's words, Xiao Zhan immediately rushed towards the two of them.

Immediately afterwards, the guy with glasses saw Xiao Zhan chase into a corner and then run back towards him.

"Why did you stop chasing?" the bespectacled man asked, puzzled.

"Something fierce is coming from over there! Holy crap!" Xiao Zhan shouted to the guy with glasses, "Run!"

"I've already said it, once I come out, not a single person in the Bachelor Temple will survive." A disheveled old man suddenly appeared beside the bespectacled man, who was completely unaware that such an old man had appeared beside him.

"You're just someone living in a dream," a man suddenly walked into the courtyard. "You're just living in my dream, so why bother? This will only make you disappear from my dream sooner!"

"Old Wu, you've come too? Your words are still so enigmatic." The old man clasped his hands in a fist and said to the man called Old Wu, "In the entire courtyard, only you are unfathomable. That's why I respect you so much! But this Guanggun Temple has a great grudge against me! So today I must kill everyone in Guanggun Temple."

As he spoke, the old man slapped the man with glasses.

Immediately afterward, the old man shattered a pair of glasses into powder mid-air with a single palm strike. The man with the glasses then used his ability to swap eyes to vanish from his original spot. The next second, he reappeared in the dormitory room where he had been standing.

At this moment, Xiao Zhan also returned to the courtyard.

"You said you planned to kill all the bachelors?" Xiao Zhan asked the old man with a hostile expression. In fact, he had just seen a group of people lying on the ground next to the old man in the alley, each of them looking quite miserable.

But what Xiao Zhan didn't expect was that the person disappeared the next second, and then suddenly appeared next to the guy with glasses.

"Who are you! Why do you insist on killing everyone here!" Xiao Zhan asked the old man.

"Hmph! Listen up, you ignorant brat! I am the once-renowned Fire..." Before the old man could finish speaking, Xiao Zhan interrupted him.

"Forget it, it doesn't matter who you are! I know you're very strong! And as a professional hero, even if I can't beat you, I will definitely stop you!" Xiao Zhan said to the old man with righteous indignation.

"You've got guts, young man! In that case, I'd like to see how you're going to defeat me!" The old man said, preparing to attack Xiao Zhan.

"Hmph!" Xiao Zhan suddenly sneered, his laughter extremely lewd.

"What are you laughing at!" The old man was made very uncomfortable by Xiao Zhan's sudden cold laugh. He couldn't help but look at Xiao Zhan again. This young man had obviously practiced martial arts, but in the old man's eyes, he was nothing special. But what the old man couldn't understand was what gave Xiao Zhan such confidence, allowing him to face him in such a sleazy manner.

"Aren't you curious about what gave me the confidence and courage to face you directly?" Xiao Zhan looked at the old man and said, "Although I am weak, my research institute has cultivated divine beasts containing immense power. It's time for you to witness the power of the strongest creature under my command!"

As he spoke, Xiao Zhan pulled out a funny ball and threw it directly at the old man: "Go, funny ball!"

The comical creature then flew through the air in a perfect parabola towards the old man.

Even though the old man had lived for a very long time, this was the first time he had ever seen such a strange spherical creature, and he involuntarily took a step back.

Then the comical creature landed on the ground and rolled and rolled until it reached the old man's feet.

Ten minutes later, nothing happened. The old man angrily stomped on the comical object. Then, with a snap, the comical object on the ground vanished.

"Get lost! I was actually fooled by this useless thing! Bastard!" The old man immediately realized that he had been fooled by the person in front of him.

Before his eyes, the bespectacled man had appeared beside Xiao Zhan at some point.

The old man appeared beside the two a second later and threw a punch at Xiao Zhan. However, this time his punch only hit the man with glasses. Xiao Zhan and the man with glasses had already reappeared on the rooftop.

"Does this thing you're researching have any special abilities?" the bespectacled man shouted at Xiao Zhan. "If this continues, we're all doomed!"

"Who said it didn't work!" Xiao Zhan said, pointing directly at the old man below, "Look for yourself! Hasn't his face already turned into a comical expression?"

"What the hell is the point of turning the enemy's face into a funny expression?!"

"At least his terrifying aura has disappeared! He doesn't seem angry at all now..."