The patrol team of the Dragon Scale Society's North City branch cordoned off the area near the city entrance. Above the steel city wall stood Ding Yu, clad in the "Qiongqi" mecha. The mecha's abdomen was painted with distinctive blood-red patterns, signifying its owner's achievements and status.
The blood-red pattern is the symbol of the Red Blood Medal. Ding Yu, like Hua Yuezhi, is a recipient of the Red Blood Medal.
It was nearly five in the morning, and the sky over the northern part of the city was still terribly gloomy, with only the eastern sky faintly showing a grayish-white hue.
Ding Yu descended upon the city wall, injured the guards, and demanded that Chang Le be handed over immediately.
The members of the North City Dragon Scale Society arrived quickly and took control of the area.
Lu, the branch president of the association in Beicheng, was one of the few people who knew that Luo Xuan and Chang Le had come to Beicheng, and he immediately notified them.
Luo Xuan couldn't show himself, but Iris had just arrived, while Chang Le made his appearance in another way.
Hearing footsteps, President Lu looked up and saw the person coming downstairs, and was immediately stunned: "President Lu?"
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At the foot of the city wall.
Chairman Lu walked over with one person. The patrol team members made way for him. When they got closer, Chairman Lu stepped aside, bowed his head respectfully, and said, "Chairman, this is the person."
Ding Yu looked down at the people below with slightly narrowed eyes.
She was a tall, well-proportioned woman dressed in all black. When she looked up, her hood fell back, revealing short, pure silver hair, followed by a sharp, cold face and eerie, deep purple eyes.
The woman stood casually with one hand in her pocket, her gaze towards him calm and undisturbed.
Ding Yu recognized the man.
This is the mysterious Grand Master of the Dragon Scale Society! Ye Buqi!
What's she doing here? She's usually so elusive.
“President Ye, I was ordered to see Chang Le, but she disobeyed and came to Beicheng. I had no choice but to come here in person to find her. I hope President Ye will do me a favor and let Chang Le come out on her own. Otherwise, don’t blame me for taking action.”
Ye Buqi glanced at him coldly: "Private mechs are prohibited from taking off over the North City. Get down."
Ding Yu broke through to the ninth level in his forties, and he was not from a noble family. He always believed that his talent was no less than that of those from noble families, but he lacked the resources that made it take him until this age to break through.
Having risen smoothly to his current position, Ding Yu was quite arrogant. Relying on his cultivation level, he showed little respect for the mysterious but excessively young Chairman Ye, and thus ignored him.
Ye Buqi waited for three seconds, then slightly raised his right hand and snapped his fingers.
"Snap—"
Suddenly, nine silver snakes, winding across the sky, crashed down.
Ding Yu was shocked, but reacted quickly, jumping away to dodge and then turning to look at the culprit behind the lightning.
Iris sneered from the side, "Didn't anyone tell you that standing high makes you more likely to get struck by lightning?"
Ding Yu glanced at Iris with apprehension, his eyes darting around, and shouted, "President Ye is clearly going to oppose our management committee to protect Chang Le?"
His words were somewhat intended to stir up trouble, but Ye Buqi, Yuanwei, and Branch President Lu ignored them, and naturally, the others wouldn't pay any attention to them either.
The Ninth District is not the same as the Sixth District. Behind the absolute order, the largest factor is not interests, but power. While the Sixth District established aristocratic rule based on relative peace, the Ninth District established its iron-fisted rule amidst the chaos of the front lines against the alien race.
Ding Yu's words, spoken with ulterior motives, did not cause the slightest ripple.
Seeing that no one spoke, Ding Yu raised her hand again, feeling a little anxious.
Ye Buqi's cultivation level seemed to be higher than he had thought, and the lightning ability was indeed troublesome. He also had to keep an eye on Chang Le and couldn't afford to get hurt here.
In fact, if Ding Yu had backed down and withdrawn from Beicheng at this point, Ye Buqi would not have bothered with him at all, given his personality. Ding Yu could have quietly re-entered Beicheng to monitor Chang Le's movements.
However, Ding Yu was arrogant and concerned about his reputation, convinced that Ye Buqi's cultivation could never surpass his own, so he stubbornly said, "Ye Buqi! Don't force me to take action!"
Ye Buqi frowned slightly and said in a low voice, "It's so noisy."
She stretched out her right hand and pointed to the sky, her five fingers spreading out and then vaguely gathering at the tips, as if she were taking a handful of lightning from the sky. Above, a mushroom-shaped ball of lightning was grabbed down and condensed into a thick lightning serpent below, raging with violent energy.
The sky above the entire northern city was filled with dark, ominous thunderclouds that threatened the city walls.
Ding Yu was horrified.
Such power! This shows that Ye Buqi's cultivation level is the same as his, at the ninth level!
But Ye Buqi looks to be only in her early twenties! How could that be?
Ye Buqi wouldn't give Ding Yu time to think. With a clench of his five fingers, the thundercloud crashed down, completely engulfing Ding Yu.
Chairman Lu remained calm and activated the city's security mechanism.
The protective shield opened, but coincidentally, Ding Yu, who was flying in the air, was not protected by the shield.
Ye Buqi did not make another move.
The aftershocks of the energy that distorted his vision dissipated. After all, his cultivation level was there, so Ding Yu was of course not dead. However, being in the air and having no support, he had taken a direct hit from the lightning, causing his internal energy and superpowers to become severely disordered. His mecha was also seriously damaged, making his heart bleed.
"Get down." Ye Buqi issued his final ultimatum.
Ding Yu's stubbornness flared up: "Ye Buqi, hand over Chang Le first!"
Ye Buqi's gaze turned icy: "Chang Le is a member of my Dragon Sect. On Dragon Sect territory, she can go wherever she wants. You have no right to decide her fate!"
She snorted coldly, took out her left hand from her pocket, and a string of twisted and leaping silver threads circled around her fingertips.
Then, a terrifying silvery-purple hue began to gather in the sky.
Ding Yu was starting to back down, but she was already in a difficult situation.
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