Lin Fan smiled and cracked his neck as he pushed Mimi Fan back as he looked over at his girls in the Fan Sect Workshop and signaled for them to activate the defensive system.
They pressed a button and dozens of miniature barriers appeared around all the buildings in the Fan Sect. Even the soldiers who were new and just setup in the small barracks were protected by the barriers.
The extremely tall white haired man smiled and looked at Lin Fan as he cracked his neck. He gave off a look that could kill, but also looked like he was staring at a younger brother.
"Pox Ran is interested in training you especially since you took a liking to his grand nieces... Get in my way or bring me to Han Zhou... You choose your life or death..."
"I like living, but don't think I'm just going to role over..." Lin Fan stepped back on his foot, activated the [eternal heart clock] and also began activated his myriad of laws. "You... you seem hesitant about my answer... However, I'm going to surprise you I promise..."
"Young people like you don't understand what it's like to suffer... I'll kick your ass and help you find out what it's like to be born in hell..."
"I'm sorry I'm not thousands of years old like you and Han Zhou... However, I do work hard... If you don't mind... After I kick your ass, tell your friends to come at me one at a time..."
Lin Fan smiled and waved to the four other assassins from the Sacred Ring of Assassins as the white haired man in front of him smiled. He had a square jaw with an intense stare from his red eyes that made him look extremely menacing, frightening and above all in control.
He smiled and pushed off his back foot and instantly appeared in front of Lin Fan.
He paused for a brief moment to smile and turn towards his colleagues, with a confident grin on his face, as he activated a skill of the law of time called [Link Eternity Bell]. A small bell appeared in front of him as he turned his eyes to the side and saw a fire starting to gather in Lin Fan's hands.
He instantly started to sweat before he jumped back and deactivated the law of time. He flipped around and dodged the large burst of fire as Lin Fan sighed and pointed down at the floor.
A large root had coiled around the assassin's leg as Lin Fan burst off his back foot.
His arm instantly shone golden before he turned and slammed a right hook into the hulky man's face. The attack was so hard that the root holding his foot almost broke. The man wasn't much better off, and slumped towards the ground as Lin Fan shook off his fist.
"You... you're not that tough... How are you in the Sacred Ring of Assassins..."
"What... How are you so fast? There is no way you improved so much... I watched your fight against Chen Long from a few weeks ago.... How the hell did you improve so much?"
"I improved because I didn't want one of my friends dying... I improved because I have a harem full of girls waiting for me in my bedroom to take off their clothes every night, and make them scream until they fall asleep..."
"I have a little girl that could've been made a slave again after she spent years trying to escape her fate... That's how I improved..."
"You... you piece of shit... I'm just a rookie in the Sacred Ring of Assassins... Those four will kill you..."
Lin Fan looked up and sighed and shook his head as the four men crossed their arms in the sky. With his elementalization, he could sense that all of them were near the mortal shedding realm in the demi-god stage, but had yet to cross that bridge.
Lin Fan's body was in the demi-god stage, but his external energy was still in the mortal realm. When a person's body was in the demi-god stage, and had completed a hundred bone augmentations, he lost certain limits that held him to the mortal world. However, in the demi-god stage, the gods could utilize powerful external domains, manipulate heaven's grade energy, and also somewhat connect to the void to learn and harness divine abilities.
Lin Fan wasn't in the demi-god stage, and still hadn't technically entered into the Apotheosis Stage. He was completely at a disadvantage, which was also why he held back against the white haired man Jex Wan...
The other four landed around him in the blink of the eye as Lin Fan subtly activated the law of light. He used the law of light to surround both of his arms and got into a fighting pose as the four slowly began to circle around him.
"You... you could be nice and fight me one at a time..."
"We are assassins--"
"We aren't here to kill you, but to kill your friend..."
"However, you get in our way, we must test your strength and report it back to Pox Ran...."
"All your cards must be on the table..." The four assassins completed each other's sentences as Lin Fan turned his foot slightly and flexed his arms. He sent all his energy into his back foot and activated [Light Scout] before he teleported in front of a red haired assassin.
He spun his hand forward and attacked with all his might before he looked at the man's eyes dilate and a smile crack on his face. He gently raised his hand and pushed Lin Fan away with a tap before he looked down at a bomb and kicked it into the air.
Lin Fan sighed and turned around and looked at the explosion in the sky...
"Great... You're a lot faster than I expected..." Lin Fan cracked his neck and activated the law of lightning, the law of space, and the law of fire as he held out his hands... "How about I crank up the speed a little bit, and if I crack one of your skulls.... you get off my lawn..."
"You don't stand a chance... With your current speed... You're barely enough to earn 5 percent of Pox Ran's strength..." The assassin named Can Wan said as he shook his head at Lin Fan.... "If you really want to protect your friend, though, you should be by his side..."
"He's fine... He's as strong as an ox..." Lin Fan pushed off his foot and activated [Lightning Blitz] and then [Fire Incineration Tempest] as he pushed off the floor. This time, he didn't hold anything back and activated all the energy stored in the bones in his body.
His bone augmentation caused him to get some sort of strange golden liquid in the center of his bones that when he moved really fast would partially increase his strength. He figured that this was some sort of divine, primordial energy that somewhat helped him in battle.
However, if the assassins knew he had that golden fluid in his body they'd probably consider fighting him at this moment. That golden fluid was known as [god origin sap] and was only in one out of every billion demi-gods. It increased strength of a body by as much as five thousand percent when it was utilized for a temporary amount of time, increased speed, and also acted like a type of nourishment pill that never stopped increasing the strength of someone's bones.
Lin Fan had no idea he had this, and just thought it was a gold juice. He slightly focused his attention on it and once again turned golden before he instantly appaeared in front of the red haired assassin.
His right hand burst forward as light once again surrrounded his body as he activated one of his new skills [Assailing Light Seal]. The technique slightly increased the density of the light around him and increased the force and speed of his punch.
Can Wan was so surprised that he could barely turn before Lin Fan's upper cut hit him right in the jaw. He instantly flew up into the air as Lin Fan turned to the side and looked at the other three assassins.
"Retreat..." One of the assassins' said with a long beard... "This changes everything... Han Zhou should already be dead... Let's go..."