"I've got to say, you guys are really something," Lin Fei said, looking at the thugs sprawled on the ground, groaning nonstop. He spread his hands helplessly.
"With skills this bad, you still dare to come out and act like gangsters? That's honestly embarrassing."
To be fair, he had deliberately held back.
He wanted to test out the combat techniques he'd inherited through the fusion.
Otherwise, he could've just slightly released his abnormal energy and blown all of them away in one go.
"You… what are you? A human or a ghost?!" Liu Kai stared at him as if he'd seen a nightmare.
He had never encountered someone this strong before.
Fear had already begun to creep into his heart.
Lin Fei raised an eyebrow and glanced at him calmly.
"If I'm not human, what else could I be?"
"Looks like you're not just deaf—your eyesight's pretty bad too."
"I'm a perfectly legitimate—100% authentic—Blue Star human!"
Lin Fei crossed his arms, the Illusory Scale Anomalous Energy Bracelet—which had appeared after the inheritance—gleaming faintly on his left wrist.
He then sized up Liu Kai's bulky frame.
"Didn't you say you were going to tear my mouth apart?
Didn't you say you were going to kill me?"
"So why aren't you moving now?" he mocked.
"Don't tell me you're scared?"
"Honestly, being afraid of me is understandable."
"After all, I'm this handsome."
Lin Fei tilted his head narcissistically, left arm folded across his chest, right arm propped against it, casually flicking his bangs aside.
"..."
Liu Kai didn't respond.
But his chest heaved violently.
Rage was boiling over.
Just looking at this bastard made his blood pressure skyrocket.
He wanted nothing more than to rip that infuriating mouth apart and shut him up for good.
"Oh? What's wrong?" Lin Fei continued cheerfully.
"Short of breath? Trouble breathing? Or is your heart condition acting up?"
"Don't drag me into it—if you collapse, I'm not paying your medical bills."
"SHUT THE F*CK UP!"
Liu Kai panted heavily, any trace of fear completely erased—replaced by blazing fury.
He lunged forward like a maddened beast.
"Hm?" Lin Fei raised an eyebrow.
Something was off.
This time, Liu Kai was much faster.
His power surged explosively, and cracks spread across the ground beneath his feet.
Still—
Lin Fei simply sidestepped.
Like a bullfighter teasing an enraged bull, he easily evaded the charge.
In the instant he twisted aside, his right foot extended slightly, toes flicking upward—
Perfectly hooking Liu Kai's leg.
Liu Kai's center of gravity instantly destabilized.
The burly man flew several meters through the air before smashing face-first into the ground with a loud bang.
"Oof—careful there," Lin Fei said lazily, arms crossed as he turned around.
"Falling like that can hurt."
His tone dripped with mock sympathy.
Su Xiaoli couldn't help but laugh under her breath.
Watching Liu Kai sprawled on the ground filled her with immense satisfaction.
This human trash had harassed her, surrounded her—
And even dared to label it romance.
Utterly shameless.
Now that he'd run into someone even more ruthless and far stronger—
This was karma.
Bad people deserved to be dealt with by worse ones.
…No, that wasn't right.
Lin Fei wasn't a bad person.
He just had a very lethal mouth.
And against trash like Liu Kai, that was exactly what was needed.
The gloom that had weighed on her moments earlier had completely vanished.
All that remained was relief and ease.
Still—
As she recalled what had just happened, Su Xiaoli frowned slightly.
Something felt off.
Liu Kai's speed just now had been way too fast.
And after being tripped, he'd flown nearly ten meters—
That was not normal.
"Haah—!"
"Damn it… that trash already pissed me off enough, and now someone's yapping in my ear too!"
Liu Kai pushed himself up from the ground, swaying as he stood.
"I don't give a damn about war gods or glory or any of that crap!"
He turned around.
His leopard-print shirt and face were smeared with dirt, riddled with tears and scuffs.
He looked far more miserable than before.
But—
The aura around him was completely different.
Every movement carried a terrifying sense of power.
"So…" Lin Fei's eyes narrowed slightly.
"Your gene finally awakened."
"I'm actually kind of curious," he said calmly.
"How strong is the Nuo Star God of War, really?"
Watching in anime and experiencing it firsthand were two entirely different things.
And what really caught Lin Fei's attention—
Was the word God of War.
It reminded him of another existence:
Among the seven parallel universes, beneath the Star Cloud Body—
The strongest warrior of all: War God Feng Yao.
During the template fusion, Lin Fei had seen Huo Linfei get kicked around by Feng Yao more than once.
At that time, Feng Yao's abnormal energy had already reached one white hole—equivalent to 1.5 black holes.
And he only grew stronger the more he fought, every battle amplifying his power.
A complete monster.
Of course, in terms of talent, Feng Yao still wasn't as strong as Huo Linfei.
If not for the restriction of the Seven-Day Eternal Cycle, Huo Linfei would've surpassed him.
Lin Fei drifted off briefly—
But to Liu Kai, this relaxed, absent-minded posture was pure provocation.
His anger flared even higher.
He scanned his surroundings, looking for a weapon.
Nothing intact remained.
Only broken batons littered the ground.
Then his gaze locked onto the glowing streetlight nearby.
He strode over, grabbed the lamp post with both hands—
And ripped it straight out of the ground.
Zzzzt—!
The lights flickered wildly.
Sparks burst from the torn wires before everything went dark.
"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!"
Liu Kai roared, swinging the ten-meter-long streetlight down like a massive battle axe.
The wind pressure alone was terrifying.
To the surrounding bystanders, it was like watching a scene straight out of a movie.
"What the hell is Liu Kai trying to do?!"
On the rooftop of a nearby building, a tall, athletic figure stood watching—
Rose.
After receiving Lian Feng's message, she'd arrived via micro-wormhole transport.
But instead of intervening immediately, she chose to observe first.
She had already noticed Liu Kai's gene awakening.
But she hadn't expected him to be so reckless—
Attacking with a streetlight while civilians were nearby.
Her already-poor impression of him sank even lower.
She was just about to step in—
When she noticed something.
Below, Lin Fei stood with his arms crossed.
And at that moment—
A faint, confident curve lifted at the corner of his lips.