As they continued along, Hou Zi would set off from time to time with his pet to find tracks for them to follow.
During this time, they hadn't been attacked again, but they could feel that there were beasts moving all around them.
It was a good thing that they still had their vehicles, otherwise it would have been much harder to move through this jungle.
Beasts were beasts in the end, they didn't fear the known, but rather they feared what they didn't know. Humans were just another creature, but these strange beasts that were made of steel were completely unknown to them, so most of the beasts either avoided them or vigilantly watched them as the vehicles left their territory.
Lin Fan had been watching the map the entire time and as they slowly approached, Lin Fan prepared himself.
But what they didn't know was that in the sky above them, there was a tiny fly that was following their every move.
They were getting close to the marked spot on the map, but there was still a forest between them and that spot.
Hou Zi went out to scout the forest like normal, but after some time passed, Hou Zi still hadn't returned.
Boss Gao said in a concerned voice, "Hou Zi is taking much longer than normal, could it be that something happened to him?"
Yang Xin replied, "Maybe he ran into some beast? Should we go help him?"
Lin Fan said in a vigilant voice, "We would have heard the sounds of him fighting if it was a beast. Boss Gao, do you remember what I warned you about before we came in?"
Boss Gao was confused for a bit before suddenly remembering what they had talked about, "You mean...it might be Ao Jian?"
The others were all surprised.
Ao Jian's team had been considered their competitors, but they had never done something so open before.
Lin Fan felt that unless something had changed, Ao Jian's family wouldn't dare do something like this, so he asked Boss Gao, "Boss Gao, has something happened to your or Ao Jian's families?"
Boss Gao fell into thought, but he couldn't think of anything, "I haven't heard anything recently, but I don't think that something has happened."
Lin Fan just fell deeper into thought.
If it wasn't something that happened to their families, then there was only one possibility, there was an outside force influencing all of this!
While they were considering what to do, there was a sudden "thud" sound as something was dropped to the ground.
Turning to look at the source, they found that it was Ao Jian and under his foot was Hou Zi who was beaten within an inch of his life.
Ao Jian proudly held his chin up and said, "Gorilla Gao, what a coincidence that we met here. I found one of your dogs on a walk and it was rude to me, so I helped you discipline it."
The vein on Boss Gao's head popped out seeing this, but when he tried to charge at Ao Jian, one of the cloaked people standing by Ao Jian suddenly came forward and knocked him back.
Ao Jian just happily said, "Now, now, we're having a good time, don't ruin it."
Boss Gao wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and said, "What do you want?"
Ao Jian looked down on him and said with a faint smile, "Oh, Gorilla Gao, how long have we known each other?"
Boss Gao honestly answered, "We've known each other for around twenty years now."
Ao Jian fell into reminiscence as he said, "Yes, it's been a long twenty years of fighting each other, but now it is finally over."
Boss Gao immediately knit his brows, "What do you mean by over?"
Ao Jian didn't reply, he just picked up Hou Zi from under his foot and lifted him up by the neck before saying, "Look at this kid, he's like a little monkey who's following the gorilla."
Suddenly Ao Jian's eyes turned sharp and cold as he suddenly tensed his hand, "But now this little monkey is going to learn what happens when you mess with the wrong people."
When Ao Jian was about to snap Hou Zi's neck, the same pressure he felt before descended upon him again and his legs went soft, as he fell onto his butt.
While he was falling, his hand had relaxed and Hou Zi who had been released was quickly pulled away by someone.
Once the pressure on him had disappeared, Ao Jian was filled with anger since he saw just who had taken Hou Zi away.
Ao Jian roared with rage, "So it was you who did that last time!"
Lin Fan just looked back at him with a faint smile, "So what if it was?"
Ao Jian roared, "Kill him!"
The two cloaked people that he had brought suddenly released their life energy, which was silver with a trace of gold to it.
These two experts with Ao Jian were actually at the peak of the Silver Realm!
For noble families like Ao Jian's, peak of the Silver Realm was generally what one needed to be to be an elder, so that means the Ao Family had invested two elders for this mission!
While Boss Gao and the others were stunned, Lin Fan had a relaxed look on his face.
The two experts moved to both sides of Lin Fan, preparing to slam down on him with their attacks, but something they never expected happened.
Lin Fan took a single step forward and raised both hands, catching their attacks before throwing them off to opposite sides.
Of course, just throwing them wasn't enough to actually hurt them, all it did was shock them since this kid who didn't seem like he was 20 yet was actually just as strong as them, maybe even stronger.
Lin Fan just turned back to Boss Gao and said, "Boss Gao, I'll let you take care of Ao Jian, I'll take care of the rest."
Boss Gao wanted to call out to stop Lin Fan, but Lin Fan had already charged out before he could say a thing.
The two experts didn't believe that they couldn't defeat Lin Fan, so they charged at him again.
When the two sides clashed, there was just a giant explosion that pushed everything back before they disappeared.
To bring in these two experts, Ao Jian had to leave behind two members of his party. His party was one that was on par with Boss Gao's but now that they were missing two members, even if Hou Zi was incapacitated, Boss Gao's team was stronger than theirs.
Boss Gao was already filled with rage over what Ao Jian had done to Hou Zi and he was worried about Lin Fan fighting the two experts alone, so he wanted to end this as soon as possible so he could go help Lin Fan.
The rest of their team had the same thought, so with quick coordination, Ao Jian was stalled by Boss Gao while the others took care of the remaining members of Ao Jian's team.
The fight went quite quickly since Ao Jian's team members were overwhelmed by this disparity and they were beaten within an inch of dying.
Ao Jian saw that the situation was bad, but he had hope that the two experts that he had brought would save him, so he continued to hold on.
But even that last hope shattered when Lin Fan came back while fighting only one of the cloaked duo. It was also clear who was winning just based on their appearance. Lin Fan was completely fine and didn't have a single speck of dust on him, while the other side had many different tears in their cloak and one of their arms was hanging on the side.
For some reason, Lin Fan had a very serious look on his face as he fought this cloaked expert.
After a few rounds, Lin Fan finally lost patience and gathered all his life energy for one large attack.
The cloaked expert tried to block it, but he was completely exhausted and couldn't even bring out half of his full life energy, so he completely collapsed under Lin Fan's fist.
The fist wind generated by Lin Fan's punch blew away the cloak that person was wearing and it was revealed to be a beast standing on two feet!
Lin Fan turned to Ao Jian, "So you've fallen low enough to be the Beast Clan's lackey?"
