I Have Infinite Skill Points-Chapter 456 You All Deserve to Die
"Let’s wait a bit longer! If they still haven’t made a move in another hour, then we’ll implement Plan C."
The atmosphere once again quieted down, and the group dispersed, disappearing into the forest.
On the other hand, following a phone call from Princess Yu Ruoyun, the operations of the Yu Family, which had been at a standstill, suddenly started up again.
BEEP. BEEP. BEEP. Suddenly, Colonel Wang Lan’s cell phone rang, displaying an emergency support order from the Tianjian Bureau.
"Xiangwen, Xinyu, I’ll leave this place to you," Wang Lan said, and then his figure flashed and disappeared. Princess Yu Ruoyun also hurriedly followed, the two turning into streaks of light in the sky.
They had just traveled less than five kilometers when suddenly a terrifying killing intent locked onto Wang Lan. He abruptly halted as an attack came hurtling down.
"Colonel Wang Lan, please halt!" Five shadows quietly appeared in front of Wang Lan and Princess Yu Ruoyun. Wang Lan scanned the shadows, a cold smile touching his lips.
"Five Titled Strongmen from the Yu Family blocking my way, aren’t you taking me a bit too seriously?"
"Colonel Wang Lan, you are a master on par with our princess. How could we dare to underestimate you in the slightest?"
"Alright, how many people did you bring?" Princess Yu Ruoyun took a step forward and asked in a calm voice.
"Besides us, the Jiangling Guards from the Zhenjiang King Mansion, the Taisui Guards from the Changshou King Mansion, the Dongming Guards from the Dongyue King Mansion, and the Chiyan Guards from the Xidu King Mansion have also come."
Upon hearing this, Wang Lan’s expression couldn’t help but change. These guard units were all renowned in the Star Martial World. While their reputation might not compare to the Vermilion Bird Squad, any one of them would rank within the top twenty guard units globally.
Four of the world’s top twenty guard units had arrived at once. If this weren’t an exercise, Suzhou City itself might be destroyed.
"If it weren’t for my phone call, what were you planning to do?" Princess Yu Ruoyun asked the five Titled Strongmen before her.
"A blood debt demands a blood repayment. Even if the Yu Family is no longer royal nobility, we cannot tolerate being bullied. In the more than seventy years since the war, not a single direct descendant of the Yu Family has been harmed by others."
"Blood repayment? Are you after me?" Wang Lan’s face grew colder as he asked.
The five opposite him remained silent, tacitly confirming Wang Lan’s guess. Daring, indeed! Wang Lan had originally thought the Yu Family’s disturbance would at most reach the higher-ups, but he had not expected them to be bold enough to plan to kill him.
Setting aside whether they could succeed, just making a move against him would directly ignite a civil war. Wang Lan’s current status and fame were far beyond that of the youth he once was.
If the Yu Family dared to harm even a hair on Wang Lan, the Ministry of Defense would immediately launch a counterattack plan, and the Flame Emperor’s lineage would surely exact relentless retribution. Anyone with a shred of foresight would think twice before acting. Yet the Yu Family completely ignored the situation, daring to attempt a sneak attack from behind enemy lines! At this moment, Wang Lan felt only one word could describe them: mad!
"Was it Third Grandpa’s order?"
"I don’t know. I can only say it was an order from above," the leading Titled Strongman stated truthfully.
"Has the Yu Family become so presumptuous?" Princess Yu Ruoyun’s voice was tinged with melancholy. This was her family, the Yu Family. The once exalted imperial family, the Yu Family, who could once control the fate of the nation with a flip of their hand—had they truly forgotten even this basic art of strategy? "To take away, you must first give; to make someone perish, you must first make them mad." These were tactics the Yu Family had once mastered, yet now they were ensnared by them, oblivious to their own predicament. Imperial family, imperial family... that esteemed title had lulled them into such complacency they couldn’t even see the guillotine hanging over their heads. No matter how powerful a single Yu Family was, even if allied with other Star Martial Art families sharing common interests, could they truly overpower the state? Could they overpower Jade Country with its 1.4 billion people?
"Princess, it’s not that we’ve become arrogant; it’s that they’ve gone too far. The noble Yu Family, facing exclusion and discrimination at every turn. Don’t they ever consider who the land of Jade Country truly belongs to? If our ancestors knew, they would certainly resent us, their descendants, for not being assertive enough."
"You..." In an instant, Princess Yu Ruoyun’s figure flashed. She grabbed his throat and slammed him against the wall. "Shut your mouth."
Watching this scene, Wang Lan’s eyes showed a trace of confusion. Princess Yu Ruoyun’s reaction seemed a bit excessive. Did that sentence hold another meaning?
"Jade Country belongs to all its people, to every citizen of Jade Country, not to any single individual. This is the ancestral teaching of the Great Ancestor Emperor. You still have the audacity to claim the ancestors would know? If the ancestors knew about you treacherous and ungrateful scoundrels, they might very well decide to cleanse the family line.
Forget it; none of us can convince the other. But tonight, you had better hide your personal agendas well. Whoever dares to disregard the greater good and plunge the family into unrighteousness, prepare to take your own lives."
"Yes!"
Wang Lan had heard whispers of the friction between the Yu Family and Jade Country before. However, due to his relationship with Princess Yu Ruoyun, he had always refrained from imagining the worst. Yet, what he saw today revealed a situation that had deteriorated to an irreconcilable point.
The Yu Family, ever nostalgic for their past pride, could not forget their former royal status. The state, wary of them, restrained their influence at every turn, keeping them outside the centers of power. The more the Yu Family was denied, the more fixated they became on power. For seventy years, generation after generation was indoctrinated, and the Yu Family’s resentment and grievances toward Jade Country grew increasingly uncontrollable.
"Damn, it’s like the Uchiha clan," Wang Lan sighed with a bitter smile.
"What Uchiha clan?" Princess Yu Ruoyun asked, her curiosity piqued upon hearing Wang Lan’s voice.
"Nothing much, just a casual remark," he replied.
「Meanwhile」
In various places across Suzhou City—the airport, train stations, bus stations, and more—confrontations began between the Tianjian Bureau and members of the Yu Family who had rushed in from all directions. Although no one had received orders and no one made the first move, an atmosphere of tense confrontation, thick with killing intent, instantly spread over the city.
At that very moment, Xu Xiangwen, who was on watch in Wang Qi’s hospital room, suddenly opened his Heavenly Eye. He hurriedly pulled out his phone and dialed Wang Lan’s number.
"Hello? Xiangwen!"
"Wang Lan, the fish has taken the bait! Dozens of people are on their way, closing in on us rapidly. They’ve already clashed with our brothers on the outer perimeter... Damn it, they’re too tough; the brothers outside were killed in an instant. I didn’t even have time to issue a warning..."
"I’ll be there immediately." As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Lan grabbed Princess Yu Ruoyun’s hand, and they both vanished into thin air.
Watching Wang Lan disappear, the five Titled Strongmen from the Yu Family were slightly taken aback. From start to finish, they hadn’t perceived how Wang Lan had vanished.
"That guy... what just happened?" one of them couldn’t help but ask.
"It must be a Space Attribute Star Martial Skill. Other than a Space Attribute skill, I can’t think of any other means by which he could have slipped away right under our noses. It seems that even if we were to get serious today, we wouldn’t be able to keep Wang Lan here."
「Elsewhere」
A ripple seemed to pass through the air in Wang Qi’s hospital room, and Wang Lan and Princess Yu Ruoyun materialized inside. Wang Qi had already been awakened. Jiang Xinyu and Xie Sisi stood on high alert, warily watching the spot where Wang Lan had appeared. Their expressions softened slightly only when they confirmed it was Wang Lan and his companion.
"Xinyu, Sisi, in a moment, you only need to ensure my aunt’s safety. Leave them to us." As soon as he spoke, Wang Lan’s figure instantly transformed, performing the Lurking Butterfly Dance.
At the same time, dozens of individuals bearing the Yu Family emblem, having dealt with the Tianjian Bureau warriors on the perimeter, charged toward Wang Qi’s hospital room like cannonballs. Suddenly, a Nether Butterfly appeared before them.
Wang Lan’s figure materialized instantly, his ten-meter-long Zanpakuto swinging in an arc of light. Three figures, too slow to evade, were split in two mid-air. The rest flickered and reappeared in the hospital’s open courtyard.
"Wang Lan? Weren’t they five kilometers away? How could he be here? The intelligence was wrong!"
BOOM—
Suddenly, a figure burst from the ground, striking the speaker in the chest with a punch. Princess Yu Ruoyun’s fist instantly obliterated the man, splattering green viscous fluid everywhere.
"You still dare to wear the Yu Family emblem? You’re seeking death."
"Wang Lan and Princess Yu Ruoyun are both here! The mission has failed—"
"No, the mission cannot fail! Charge!"
As the words fell, the dozens of figures before them tore off their human disguises, revealing their Demon Clan forms. Moreover, the power emanating from each of them was incredibly oppressive, surpassing all the high-ranking Demon Clan spies Wang Lan had previously encountered.
Demon Clan spies in the human world were suppressed by the natural Laws, their power drastically reduced regardless of their strength in other realms. Wang Lan had previously apprehended many elite Demon Clan spies, the strongest of whom were merely at the Galaxy Stage. This had led Wang Lan to believe that the strength of Demon Clan spies was capped at the Galaxy Stage. However, now, all forty-plus spies before him possessed a Cultivation Level of the Star Sea Stage.
If these spies had appeared a year ago, Suzhou City would not have safely weathered its several crises. Had the Demon Clan been holding back their strength? Or had something changed recently, causing their power to surge?
But right now, Wang Lan had no time to ponder this question.
BOOM— Three high-ranking Demon Clan spies suddenly launched three beams of energy at the hospital building behind them, each beam powerful enough to destroy an entire building.
Even if Auntie is protected by Jiang Xinyu and the others, the collapse of the building would still pose a threat to her.
Wang Lan flashed instantly, crossing the space to appear before the building. He pressed down into the void. "Hades Bone Card."
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Gateways towering over twenty meters high, the Gates of The Underworld, rose from the ground, not only shielding the small, detached building but also enclosing the entire garden area.
The commotion was like a bolt from the blue, startling everyone in the inpatient department awake. The previously quiet department was instantly thrown into a flurry of activity. Many on-duty doctors and nurses ran out from the main building. Upon seeing the immense Ghost Gates erected before them, they collapsed to the ground, overwhelmed. Even if the hospital serves as a passage between the worlds of Yin and Yang, is there really a need for the actual Ghost Gate to appear?
BOOM—
The three energy beams struck three of the massive gates. But even with their enhanced strength, the Demon Clan spies were leagues below Wang Lan, who had firmly reached the power level of a Titled Strongman.
Having accomplished this, a slight smile touched the corners of Wang Lan’s mouth. In a flash, he vanished.
The combat prowess of the Demon Clan was undeniably formidable. They were natural warriors, excelling in both close combat and Elemental Attacks; a Demon Clan member of the same level held a significant advantage over a human. However, such advantages were minuscule before talents like Wang Lan and Princess Yu Ruoyun, whose strengths had long surpassed their contemporaries.
The toughest bone armor could not withstand a light slash from the Zanpakuto imbued with Sword Light, nor could the most powerful Star Martial Skills block a gentle punch from Princess Yu Ruoyun when it was filled with her fury.
"It was you! You stirred up trouble and nearly caused a war to the death between the Yu Family and Wang Lan! More importantly, you undermined Wang Lan’s trust in me! For that, you all deserve to die!"
Fueled by this resentment, Princess Yu Ruoyun’s attacks became even more ferocious.
