“Chi!”
Sensing the Martial King’s threatening aura, Lin Xiao halted his figure midair and unleashed his spiritual energy, activating an energy-based martial skill derived from the Eternal Heavenly Spirit Art.
A massive black-azure energy palm formed above his head, its radiant glow illuminating the heavens and earth. The eerie forces of incineration and devouring radiated from the giant palm with overwhelming power.
“Hmph!” The white-haired Martial King snorted coldly, casually striking out with a palm. A colossal vitality-formed palm print surged toward the energy hand.
Though the move seemed offhand, it carried immense force, whipping up a fierce gale with a howling roar.
“One Hand Covers the Sky!” Lin Xiao muttered, driving the energy palm downward.
“Rumble!”
A deafening explosion shook the sky as a vast energy erupted. Unmatched waves of power rippled through the heavens, accompanied by blinding light. Rolling shockwaves surged in all directions.
This clash was a deadlock.
For a third-grade intermediate spirit controller to match a Martial King’s strike stunned the white-haired elder. Though it was a casual blow, it was still a Martial King’s formidable attack.
“Run!” Lin Xiao thought, veering sideways in flight.
This Martial King was too strong—likely at the sixth or seventh layer, far beyond ordinary.
“Hmph, if I let you escape, wouldn’t my title as the Chen family’s Second Elder be a joke?”
In a flash, the Second Elder darted ahead, blocking Lin Xiao’s path. His palm morphed into a fist, unleashing a dazzling fist beam. The piercing light sliced through the air with a sonic boom, hurtling toward Lin Xiao.
“Roar!” A blood dragon phantom emerged behind Lin Xiao, a brilliant earthen glow bursting from his dantian. With wild martial intent surging, he clenched his right fist and countered with a ferocious punch.
“Reverse Chaos Second Form!” he muttered inwardly. Chaotic vitality erupted from his fist, forming a horizontal beam that surged forward, the nearby air twisting and boiling.
The Blood Dragon Anomaly, paired with savage martial intent and a Heaven-tier skill, unleashed devastating might.
“Boom! Chi!”
Yet when the forces collided, the chaotic fist beam shattered inch by inch, only offsetting part of the elder’s fist beam. The remaining radiant energy smashed through, striking Lin Xiao’s chest.
“Pfft!”
Blood sprayed as Lin Xiao’s body was flung backward, crashing to the ground.
“The Chen family’s Second Elder is indeed powerful!” Lin Xiao grimaced. The gap in strength was too vast—especially against the second-ranked elder, whose single punch had wounded him.
“Lin Xiao, your life ends here!” At that moment, a group charged from behind.
Though not Martial Kings, most were Heavenly Martial experts—dozens strong. On the ground, they posed a significant threat.
“Let’s test the Heaven-Devouring Art on you!” Gritting his teeth, Lin Xiao summoned a torrent of spiritual power from his mind. The black-azure spiritual energy churned along mysterious pathways.
“Whoo! Whoo!”
A eerie whistling erupted from nowhere. A five-to-six-zhang black-azure vortex materialized above Lin Xiao’s head, an immense suction force exploding outward, enveloping all directions.
“Shiu!” “Shiu!” “Shiu!”…
The dozen leading attackers couldn’t slow down—instead, their speed increased, hurtling into the vortex.
“What?!” Seeing them vanish without a trace, the next dozen paled, frantically summoning power to retreat.
To their horror, no matter how they struggled, their bodies were inexorably drawn toward the sinister vortex.
“No!” Screams of terror rang out as they were sucked into the abyss-like swirl, their voices fading into silence.
“Devouring power!”
The Second Elder’s face twisted in shock at the black-azure vortex. He felt its terrifying pull tugging at him, an instinct warning that even he might not survive if ensnared.
Normally, a junior wouldn’t faze him, but this power was too bizarre—infused with cosmic spiritual energy. Recalling how four Martial Kings had been blasted earlier, he could no longer treat Lin Xiao as an ordinary foe.
This kid’s trump cards were endless—he couldn’t afford to be careless.
“Boom!” After a brief stun, the Second Elder struck with a palm, unleashing a mountain-crushing force at the vortex.
Even his feet began sliding forward under the pull.
“Chi!”
The massive palm force slammed into the vortex, eliciting sharp hisses. Yet the vortex swallowed it whole. The Second Elder’s expression shifted again.
Fortunately, his strike dimmed the vortex, and it soon faded into the void.
But seeing no trace—not even a corpse—of the twenty or thirty family experts swallowed by it, rage contorted his face.
“Beast!”
With a furious roar, he unleashed an Earth-tier fist technique.
“Boom!”
The void trembled as a blinding fist beam erupted, surging like a mighty river with terrifying pressure. Lightning-fast, it thundered toward Lin Xiao.
Sensing the oncoming terror, Lin Xiao’s face paled. He couldn’t muster his strongest move, the Heaven-Devouring Spirit Finger, in time. His hand brushed the Sky Demon Scorpion Black Barb—his final trump card. But using it meant immediate escape, or risk it turning on him once it awoke, making things worse.
Precisely because of this, he hesitated to play his last card lightly.
“Shiu!”
In that moment of indecision, a graceful figure appeared. A stunning woman in a third-grade spirit controller’s robe stepped before him, crushing a pill in her hand.
It was Wu Sha. As the pill shattered, a brilliant green light burst from her palm, forming a thick barrier ahead. It solidified into a lotus-shaped crystalline shield, unyielding as a fortress.
“Boom! Chi!”
A resounding crash echoed as the Second Elder’s fearsome fist beam struck the crystalline defense, sparking sharp hisses. The beam dissipated, its residual shockwaves minimal, until it vanished entirely.
The shield had fully blocked a Martial King’s lethal strike.
“She blocked it?!” The Second Elder’s heart jolted. This was his full seventh-layer Martial King strength, enhanced by a potent skill—yet a junior stopped it?
This girl was just a third-grade elementary spirit controller?
