"We need to save the CEO!" Zou Xiaolian who managed to escape along with the other executives shouted with worry shown on her face.
Just moments ago she was obsessing about her new look when all of a sudden the building shook and a explosion happened, bringing everything into chaos.
Luckily for her and the executives they were already at the first floor when the meeting finished. Due to them having other business to attend to allowing them to avoid the aftermath.
"We can't save him." Liao Chen gazed at the burning building with a terror written in his eyes. The thought that he could still be on the 20th floor when the explosion happened sent shivers down his spine.
"We can't even save the company." He then sighed as he watch the building he grew up working in crumble to the ground.
'Maybe this is for the best.' Liao Chen thought to himself as he recall how the company was going to go bankrupt in a few weeks to probably a couple months.
"That's exactly why we need to save him! With the CEO even if the company is destroyed we still have hope!" Zou Xiaolian said with a stubborn tone.
Hearing this Liao Chen was suddenly reminded of the beauty pills that Yu Sheng made.
"Zou Xiaolian is right. The CEO is our last hope. Although he's the reason were gonna go broke, he is also our savior at this point in time." Liao Chen immediately agreed with Zou Xiaolian. However...
"But how will we get inside without injuring ourselves..."
"That's exactly the point Executive Chen. We are just mortals for gods sake!" An old executives interrupt their conversation with a shout.
"Yeah! You expect a bunch of mortals to fly up there and rescue him? Delusional!"
"That's the job of the Special Cultivators Force not us!"
The executives voice their own reasons. Although they were grateful for what Xu Wantian did. that didn't mean they were willing to sacrifice their life for him.
Afterall, their just mortals.
"Fine then!" Zou Xiaolian stomp her feet on the ground with a furious expression.
"Once I rescue the CEO I will make sure to tell him everything you all just said!" With a stubborn attitude she ignored everyone and walked towards the burning building that had employees rushing outside.
"Executive Zou don't be so brash!" Liao Chen came up to her and forcefully held her hand.
"Get your hands off me." Zou Xiaolian expression immediately changed. She turn to look at Liao Chen and stare at him dead in the eyes.
"S- Sorry!" Frightened, Liao Chen quickly let go while averting his eyes.
"I just wanted to say that there's still that cultivator from the Xu Clan with the CEO. He will surely save him right?" Liao Chen quickly explained with his back covered in sweat.
"Your wrong." Zou Xiaolian answer made him stupefied.
"The Xu Clan won't ever help anyone that isn't from the main branch."
"That's impossible. Their still family afterall..." Not believing Xu Lengyu would do that Liao Chen rejected her answer.
"Do you really think the Great Clans give a shit? They don't even look at their own children if they aren't worthy." Zou Xiaolian cursed while moving towards the company building.
"No, there's still hope! The CEO proposed for Xu Lengyu to own him a favor when he was buying the beauty pills. Maybe he used that favor..."
Liao Chen quickly came up with an excuses making Zou Xiaolian laugh.
"The Xu Clan don't easily own others favors. Besides, the CEO was foolish to propose a favor without stating what that favor is or giving a time for when he will use it."
"Xu Lengyu most likely already use that favor."
"Furthermore, the Xu Clan disdain saving others. They rather sacrifice their own people to their god than waste time saving a nobody."
"Your right." Suddenly a voice enter their ears from behind. Turning around they saw Xu Lengyu coming out of the shadows, spooking Liao Chen.
"You actually left the CEO to die in there..." Seeing a sly smile on Xu Lengyu face Liao Chen muttered.
"How could you do that!" At that moment Liao Chen began seeing the Great Clans true colors. They weren't saviors of the Human Race, no— they were coldblooded individuals just like the Central Domain People whose wreaking havoc on all the Domains as we speak.
"You have no right to talk back to me insect." Not answering his question, Xu Lengyu swiftly appear before Liao Chen and grab him by the throat.
Liao Chen didn't even notice his neck was held until he began feeling pain from having his neck slowly crushed.
"Those who question the Great Clans can no longer live in this world." With murderous eyes Xu Lengyu applied a little more force into his hand holding Liao Chen.
"Help me!"
Liao Chen screamed for help. He stared at Xu Lengyu with pleading eyes, he then looked at the other executives to see that they weren't even paying attention to him.
He felt betrayed. The people who he grew up with were all ignoring him as if he wasn't there, as if he was a stranger to them.
Liao Chen then smiled through the pain. His smile filled with bitterness.
'What can they even do to help me? We are just mortals...'
Liao Chen suddenly realized that all this time there was a strict hierarchy in the human race.
The poor who lives in constant poverty, yearning for a better life.
The rich who looks down on the poor from their heap of money.
The cultivators that won't even take a glimpse of neither.
And lastly the Great Clans who don't even put any of the three categories in their eyes.
"I refuse to submit to this worlds hierarchy!" Liao Chen suddenly got a burst of power out of no where and grab Xu Lengyu hand gripping around his neck with both hands.
Eyes burning with unwillingness to die Liao Chen managed to loosen Xu Lengyu grip by just a few. It wasn't enough to completely get out of his grip, but this sudden burst of strength shocked Xu Lengyu to his core.
"Let go of me you bastard!" Noticing Xu Lengyu dazed state he cursed, using all his strength to break free. He then sent his fist that got covered in yellow flames at Xu Lengyu face, but in an instant his fist paused, freezing him in place.
"What are the Gods thinking!" Xu Lengyu recovering from his shock by summoning his shadows to lock Liao Chen in place. Shadows in the form of tentacles appear beneath his feet and entangle Liao Chen hands, feet and neck. His throat in an even worser grip than it was before.
"I don't know what the gods are thinking, but after what you nearly did I won't let you live any longer." The fact that he nearly got himself hit in the face by a mortal made him furious.
"Die!" With a shout filled with rage his hands got covered in a dark, gloomy energy.
'Dammit!' Seeing the fist coming at him Liao Chen realized it was all hopeless. In the end he was going to die here today.
"I think its about time you stop playing around." Suddenly a hand came out of no where and caught Xu Lengyu fist and flung it down to the ground. Zou Xiaolian then appeared next to Liao Chen and in what seems like an instant the shadows were torn apart, freeing him.
Catching him she moved a great distance away. Her movement looking like she just teleported next to Xu Lengyu, teleported to Liao Chen and teleported back to the position she was at before Xu Lengyu grabbed Liao Chen by the neck.
BOOM!
A second later Xu Lengyu fist landed on the ground blowing a huge crater into it causing dust to fill the surrounding.
"Man so you finally revealing your power?" The smoke soon cleared revealing Xu Lengyu smiling at them, his furious expression fill with rage disappearing as if it was never there.
"For a second there I thought you were going to let him die." With a jump he leaped out of the crater.
"If that were to hit me I wouldn't even have a corpse to bury." Liao Chen whispered seeing the crater, revealing a fearful face.
The crater wasn't anything small, in fact it was large enough to cause ten vehicles with an average length of 14 feet to get trapped inside.
Not only that, but to get out you would need a ladder that could go up at least 35 feet, enough to climb a fully grown tree.
And that wasn't even using Xu Lengyu full strength...
"You people with the surname Xu disgust me." Zou Xiaolian let go of Liao Chen and looked at him with a hint of disapproval in her eyes.
"Why is that?" Acting like he didn't see the small hint in her eyes, Xu Lengyu questioned.
"Just to accomplish your goals your willing to sacrifice an innocent man. A mortal at that." Zou Xiaolian replied.
"Hah! I can say the same thing to you." Hearing this he let out a loud chuckle as if he couldn't believe what he just heard.
Xu Lengyu then looked at Zou Xiaolian with unconcealable hatred in his eyes.
"Traitor of the Zou Clan."