The First Summoner - Chapter 67

The crowd stared in shock.

Shen Yan wanted to challenge Shen Xue?

Had she lost her mind?

Only three or four months had passed since she regained her senses and began cultivating. However gifted she might be, she could not defeat Shen Xue!

Someone called, “Are you ill, Shen Yan? Have you started raving in broad daylight?”

“Exactly! Shen Xue is the strongest woman of Nanxiao Kingdom’s younger generation. Two days ago, she reached the ninth level of the Yellow-rank realm. With the Shen ancestor’s help, she even became a Summoner! One attack would defeat you. You’re rushing to your death!”

Shen Yan sneered inwardly.

The Shen family was utterly shameless.

Without her blood, how could that adopted daughter have become a Summoner? Yet they used their ancestor as a pretext and deceived everyone.

“Don’t discourage her. If Shen Yan wants a death match with Shen Xue, we can enjoy the show! Hahaha!”

“True. I support Shen Xue!”

“Some pieces of trash possess no self-awareness.”

“Even Crown Prince Nangong Jin can’t defeat the Shen family’s eldest young lady. What makes you think you can? A few months of cultivation? Excessive confidence is stupidity!”

Voices clamored from every direction.

Shen Yan did not grow angry. She wanted as much attention as possible. Only then would a family obsessed with appearances hesitate to kill her openly.

“If you want to watch, claim the best places outside the Shen estate. You’ll regret missing this.”

People exchanged glances.

Shen Yan headed toward the estate.

The crowd hurried after her.

Who didn’t enjoy a good spectacle?

Besides, they wanted to see arrogant Shen Yan beaten. Arrogance without strength was merely foolishness.

“Let’s go!”

Most people in the street joined the procession.

Someone asked as they walked, “What is your cultivation now, Shen Yan?”

“Want to know? You’ll find out when I fight Shen Xue.”

Their curiosity intensified.

The procession grew to at least two hundred people by the time it reached the Shen family’s main gate.

The guards saw the enormous group and immediately became vigilant.

Then they spotted Shen Yan at its head.

“Shen Yan?!”

Why had she come?

Did she want to return and bring so many people to plead for her?

After inventing the story themselves, the guards looked at her with contempt. Without the Shen family’s protection, hadn’t she come crawling back?

Then Shen Yan amplified her voice with spiritual power.

“The shameless Shen family took advantage of my absence to injure and abduct my maids, Hongri and Yinyue. Return them unharmed today, or don’t blame me for unleashing a massacre!”

“And—”

“Shen Xue, get out here!”

Her icy voice rang with unyielding force.

The crowd was dumbfounded.

They had thought Shen Yan arrogant, but never imagined she could be this arrogant!

She openly threatened a massacre!

Had she become a fool again?

Before anyone could mock her, she continued.

“I’ll count to three. If the Shen family doesn’t respond, I’ll cut down your signboard first.”

The crowd’s pupils contracted. “!!!”

She was insane!

Afraid her arrogance would implicate them, everyone retreated and left her standing alone.

Her voice was loud enough for the entire estate to hear.

Inside, the Shen family reacted with both shock and ridicule.

Had a donkey kicked Shen Yan in the head?

Her steady voice rang out.

“Three!”

“Two!”

Outside the estate, the young woman in purple raised one hand. The Spirit Phoenix Divine Sword materialized in her grasp, its keen light reflecting the cold killing intent in her black eyes.

Her red lips parted to speak the final number.

Figures appeared at the main gate: the Shen family head and several elders.

Shen Xue arrived moments later. She looked at Shen Yan in apparent surprise.

“Sister Yan’er…”

The family head’s face darkened when he saw the crowd. He glared at the sword-bearing young woman.

“Shen Yan, what trouble are you causing now?!”

She laughed coldly. “I should be asking what the Shen family is doing—and how you manage to be shameless, despicable, and vile again and again.”

“Return Hongri and Yinyue to me unharmed, or I’ll turn my sword on your entire family!”

“Insolent!”

The pressure of the first level of the Earth-rank realm crashed toward her.

Unflinching, Shen Yan swung her sword.

Clang—

Sword wind surged forth and pierced straight through the pressure.

The family head’s expression changed. Disbelief filled his clouded eyes.

She had broken his suppression with a single sword!

Impossible!

The elders were equally shocked.

Shen Yan spoke concisely. “I came for two reasons. First, to take Hongri and Yinyue. Second, to fight Shen Xue to the death and end our grudge.”

She swept her gaze over the crowd.

“Everyone present will serve as the judges.”

They stared at her. “???”

They had only come to watch!

Before they could explain, Shen Yan looked at the woman in white.

“Shen Xue, do you dare accept?”

“Sister Yan’er, you—”

Shen Yan cut her off. “Do you dare or not?!”

The Grand Elder flew into a rage.

“Why wouldn’t Xue’er dare? Teach this ungrateful piece of trash a lesson! If necessary, cripple her again so she stops behaving with such arrogance and contempt!”

The other elders agreed.

Shen Yan had no respect for seniority and had created a scene at their very gates. If Shen Xue refused, wouldn’t everyone believe the Shen family feared her?

Besides, Shen Tianhao was no longer in Nanxiao Kingdom. This was the perfect opportunity to teach Shen Yan a lesson.

Shen Xue hesitated, then looked at the family head.

“What do you think, Grandfather?”

He trusted her strength.

“Show no mercy.”