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Hearing his son speak, Xiao Lin's brow furrowed as well.
A death duel invitation to himself? It was even delivered in the form of a blood letter?
Just who had such a massive hatred against him?
To be honest, for a moment, Xiao Lin truly could not remember who shared such a deep animosity with him. Xiao Lin asked himself honestly, he shouldn't have formed such an enemy in this lifetime.
Even if there were any, the opponent's entire family had already been completely wiped out. Xiao Lin would not allow anyone who harbored a deep and bitter hatred against him to remain alive.
It might be fine for him, but he still had a family!
Unable to understand it no matter how he thought about it, Xiao Lin followed the motion and took that so-called death duel invitation from his son's hand. Unfolding it to take a look, this letter was indeed written with fresh blood!
The number of words on it was not many, just a few short lines.
"To avenge my older brother, today I solely use this blood letter to initiate a challenge for a death duel to you, Xiao Lin. This battle does not involve the countries we reside in, nor does it involve the forces behind us, and the result is a matter of life and death regardless!"
This was the entire content of this blood letter.
Of course, on top of this blood letter, there was still the location, time, and the signature of the writer for the death duel.
As for the location, it was on a mountain at the border of the Jia Ma Empire and the Luo Yan Empire. As for this person who wrote the letter, it was worth noting that Xiao Lin truly knew him, and they truly had an enmity!
"Yan Penghong, so it turns out to be this guy, I was wondering who would send me a death duel invitation. If it's him, then it's not surprising."
After finishing reading the content of the blood letter, Xiao Lin could not help but shake his head.
This guy was simply like a piece of dog-skin plaster!
During the journey to the secret realm back then, this guy's older brother wanted to eliminate him, but ended up being counter-killed by him instead. Then, this guy came looking for him to seek revenge.
Even if there was no evidence, the opponent had clearly already firmly believed that his brother's death was caused by Xiao Lin. This point, especially during the Sect Grand Meeting of the Four Great Empires, allowed Yan Penghong to further confirm it!
After all, during the Sect Grand Meeting back then, Xiao Lin had swept through three opponents single-handedly in the Dou Wang battlefield!
Since that was the case, then his own brother dying at Xiao Lin's hands, in Yan Penghong's view, was very reasonable. It was worth noting that although there was no evidence, Yan Penghong's guess was entirely correct!
It was just that because the other party had no evidence, Xiao Lin was too lazy to pay attention to him that was all. But he didn't expect that the other party would actually be like a piece of dog-skin plaster, still refusing to give up, and still wanting to target Xiao Lin!
Case in point, right now even a death duel invitation had been brought out.
Xiao Lin truly did not understand where this Yan Penghong got the confidence to dare to challenge him, and even send a death duel invitation? Could the opponent have forgotten the matter of being violently beaten by him during the Sect Grand Meeting?
Was it not good to be alive, why did he want to die?
Xiao Lin did not understand Yan Penghong's brain circuitry anymore.
However, it was not difficult to see from this death duel invitation written to Xiao Lin that the opponent's action this time had clearly not gone through the agreement of the Luo Yan Empire's imperial family.
After all, if the imperial family behind the opponent had agreed, how could he write a sentence stating that it did not involve their respective background countries and forces?
"Father, I think the content described in this blood letter has a conspiracy! It might turn out that he invites you out, and then finds a bunch of people to surround and attack you, and there might even be a Dou Huang stepping in!"
Seeing his father displaying an appearance of not caring at all, Xiao Zhan hurriedly reminded him.
Clearly, Xiao Zhan still regarded his father as a Seven-Star Dou Wang. Even if everyone outside was currently spreading that Xiao Lin was the number one person beneath the Dou Huang level, what if he went against a Dou Huang, or even a Dou Zong?
Then what use would this title of being the number one person beneath the Dou Huang level have? Especially since the location of this death duel was even set at the border of the two countries, which made Xiao Zhan feel even less at ease.
"Whether it is a conspiracy or not doesn't matter."
"Being constantly stuck by such a piece of dog-skin plaster makes me quite annoyed too. It is time to thoroughly resolve this grievance, lest this guy gets desperate in the future and finds an opportunity to make a move on the other people of the Xiao Clan."
Three times is the limit.
Xiao Lin had truly developed a killing intent toward this fellow Yan Penghong now.
Once or twice could be overlooked, and he would have just turned a blind eye to it. But for him to come a third time, and with a blood letter no less!
Had he been spoiling this guy too much? Did he really think he had no temper?
Therefore, this life-and-death duel challenge, he accepted it!
"But, Father..."
Xiao Zhan initially wanted to say something more, but he was cut off by a wave of Xiao Lin's hand.
"Zhan'er, sometimes, you need to have a little more faith in your father! From childhood to adulthood, have I ever done a single thing that I wasn't certain of?"
Xiao Lin was completely helpless against his own son's fussing, mother-hen mindset.
It was just that there were some things he couldn't tell his son right now.
Sometimes, knowing too much wasn't a good thing!
The responsibility of the Xiao Clan was enough for him to bear alone!
"Alright, I understand, Father."
Seeing his father show this kind of expression once again, just like always, Xiao Zhan knew that no matter what he said, his father would not change his mind.
To tell the truth!
Thinking back to what his father had just said, Xiao Zhan really realized that his father seemed to have truly never broken his word. As long as his father said something, it would eventually come true in the end.
Not to mention things in the distant past, just recently, wasn't there the matter of him single-handedly wiping out the Qieke Clan in less than three days?
"It seems, I really did have a bit too little faith in Father!"
Thinking of this, Xiao Zhan felt a little guilty.
Looking at Xiao Zhan's expression, Xiao Lin just smiled and didn't say anything more. After all, his own son was just worried about his safety, so how could he blame him?
"There is no need to make a fuss about this matter, just act as if nothing happened. The time for the life-and-death duel scheduled in the blood letter is one month from now. During this period, everything in the Xiao Clan will proceed as usual."
Xiao Lin didn't want to blow this matter out of proportion.
In his eyes, this was inherently just an insignificant, trivial matter.
"I understand, Father, I will handle it well."
After finishing his words, Xiao Zhan withdrew.
Right now, he had to go command those few clan members who, like him, had seen the blood letter, forbidding them from spreading word of this matter.
Just like that, Xiao Lin noted down the matter of Yan Penghong challenging him to a life-and-death duel, but he didn't take it too much to heart.
However, Xiao Lin had no idea that for this life-and-death duel, if his cultivation level was truly only that of a Seven-Star Dou Wang, he would really end up capsizing his boat!
Fortunately, he wasn't.
As time went on, Xiao Lin had actually forgotten about one thing.
That was, in the original story, a few years after Xiao Yan was born, he had died of incurable, heavy injuries after dueling with a certain enemy. Who this enemy of Xiao Lin was in the original story was never mentioned.
But in this lifetime, this enemy was obviously Yan Penghong!
In other words, if things developed according to the original story, at this point in time, Xiao Lin would actually not be far from death. This could be considered the time period of the original Xiao Lin's fatal tribulation.
However, for Xiao Lin who was now a Five-Change Dou Zun, there was naturally no possibility of anything going wrong.
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