Chapter 0780: Deliberate Leniency

In panic, the second elder of the Stan family instinctively threw a punch, trying to block Pili Long Jerom’s attack. With another loud crash, everyone saw that the second elder was sent flying once again.
As he was flung away, the second elder felt as though his internal organs had been turned upside down, with an overwhelming force stirring within his body. Then, with a gurgle, a mouthful of bloody fluid was spat out from his body.
The second elder of the Stan family was filled with terror. What kind of being was this?! His physical strength was incredibly formidable!
“Haha, go again!” As fear took hold of the second elder, Pili Long’s terrifying, demonic voice rang out. He looked up and saw Pili Long charging at him excitedly once more.
“I—” The second elder started to speak but was interrupted.
Pili Long rushed at him again, forcing him to fight back. With a third loud crash, the second elder was thrown away like a kite with its string cut, bright red blood spraying into the air.
As he was flung away, the second elder felt his head spin and the world twist. By the time he hit the rooftop, he could no longer tell east from west. His divine battle armor was stained red with blood, and his condition wasn’t much better than Lei Fu’s and the others’.
Seeing this, the elders of the Stan family were terrified, their throats moving nervously as chills ran through them.
Damn, is this even a competition? It’s simply one-sided torture!
Turu’s expression turned grim, with cold sweat breaking out on his back. If it were him fighting instead, what would happen to him?! The thought of facing a worse fate than Lei Fu and the others made Turu tremble inwardly. Fortunately, according to the rules of the rooftop battles, aside from divine kings and powerful warriors, clan leaders and ancestors were also prohibited from participating. So, he didn’t have to fight!
At that moment, he even felt relieved that he didn’t have to take part.
“Third round—you lost, right?!” After a while, Lus spoke to Turu across from him.
By then, after repeated attacks from Pili Long, the second elder of the Stan family was lying sprawled on the rooftop, foaming at the mouth and convulsing, unable to even get up.
Turu removed his fearful gaze from the second elder and looked at Lus again, his expression completely changed.
“We lost the third round!” Turu said, forcing a smile. But that forced smile was even uglier than crying.

“We lost this rooftop duel, our Stan family!” Tru forced a smile as he spoke. Unconsciously, his tone toward Lus even carried a hint of respect.
“Oh, you lost?” Lus’s expression turned cold.
It was obvious enough, yet Lus still asked. The elders of the Stan family felt humiliated.
But Tru didn’t dare show his anger and continued smiling, “Yes, we lost. Brother Lus, the elders of the Nais family are extremely powerful. We at the Stan family admit our defeat wholeheartedly!”
There was a hint of forcedness in Tru’s smile.
“Tru, I remember on the way here, you told me this visit to Hongmeng City would make me regret it,” Lus said coldly.
Tru’s smile froze.
Indeed, he had said that, and back then, Leifu had also told Huang Long that he wouldn’t be able to return to Hailuo Mountain! Now that Lus brought it up again, Tru’s expression naturally became extremely ugly.
“What? Did you forget?” But it seemed Lus wasn’t done with Tru.
Tru’s expression shifted rapidly before he finally smiled and said, “Hehe, Lus is joking. It was just a casual remark back then—nothing to take seriously!” After saying that, he pinched his jade token and teleported back to Hongmeng City, knowing that staying in this duel space any longer would only bring more embarrassment.
With Tru’s departure, the elders of the Stan family also frantically pinched their jade tokens and left the duel space.
Huang Long and the others didn’t stop them. After all, this was a rooftop duel. Since Tru had admitted defeat for the Stan family, Huang Long and the others had no right to hold them back—unless the Nais family ignored the rules of the duel.
At that moment, the gods surrounding Hongmeng City saw a sudden flash of light on the rooftop.
“Huh? It seems one family has already won?”
“Which two families are they?”
The gods were surprised to see the light on the rooftop—this was the sign that a family had won and left the duel space. It hadn’t been long since the duel began.
This was also the first family to decide a winner aside from the five great lords!
As the light in the southern part of the rooftop stabilized, the gods finally recognized who it was.
“Isn’t that the Stan family? That’s Tru, the ancestor of the Stan family!” someone exclaimed.
“The Stan family? Judging by their appearance, it seems they lost?!”
Tru, the ancestor of the Stan family, and the elders all looked dejected, helping the three severely injured people, including Leifu. No wonder the gods thought the Stan family had lost.

“Which family won against the Stan family?” the gods discussed among themselves. Hearing the conversations around them, Tru and the elders of the Stan family lowered their heads in shame. Although losing wasn’t a big deal, it was the first time their family had lost in any of the five matches aside from the five battles between the five great powers, which was extremely embarrassing! As the gods discussed, lights flashed again, drawing their attention to the southern part of the rooftop. Under their gaze, Huang Long and the others appeared before them. “Huh? It’s the Nais family?!” “Impossible! How could it be the Nais family? Their strength is roughly on par with the Stan family. The leader of the Nais family, Lus, is only slightly better at tactics!” “Could it be that the Stan family deliberately lost to make way for them?!” “Probably, but even if they did intend to lose, there’s no need to lose so shamefully!” Aside from Fei Li, Ziniya, Livia, and a few other godly warriors who had seen recordings of the matches between the Nais and Stan families, the rest of the godly warriors began to discuss it. Of course, many of them didn’t believe the Nais family could easily defeat the Stan family, so their remarks were filled with mockery. Tru’s face turned red and blue alternately as he listened. After reporting the result of the Stan family’s loss to the Lei Peng clan elder in charge of recording the outcomes, Tru rushed away from the rooftop with the other elders of the Stan family in a hurry. In the first match, the Nais family won! However, to make it into the top 100 among over 1,200 families, the Nais family still had to compete in three more matches! Of course, these three matches would be determined by drawing lots after all other families had finished their matches. So, Huang Long and the others returned to the Nais family’s area and waited.