“I already said I was going to deal with him!” Yan Huashu said helplessly. Were his words really so untrustworthy?
At that moment, the watching crowd erupted into chaos.
Originally, they had all thought Yan Huashu and Fei Mo would join forces against Mu Haoran. They had wanted to see Mu Haoran suffer defeat.
But in the end, Yan Huashu had betrayed them. His actions were the complete opposite of what he had just said.
“This Yan Huashu actually didn’t join forces against Mu Haoran!”
“It looks like Fei Mo might lose to the two of them working together.”
“This Yan Huashu is simply spineless!”
“After all, Fei Mo has the strongest power. Yan Huashu choosing Mu Haoran is normal. What a pity. If Yan Huashu and Fei Mo had joined forces, Mu Haoran would have been doomed.”
“Who wins and who loses is still hard to say. Who can be certain that Yan Huashu will definitely stick with Mu Haoran? Yan Huashu knows he is inferior to Mu Haoran. Sooner or later he will play dirty. Maybe at a critical moment he will deliver a heavy blow to Mu Haoran.”
“Exactly. The match has only just begun. Fei Mo hasn’t gone all out yet. This is just probing.”
…
Amid the curses and heated discussions all around, Yan Huashu had already acted. While fully unleashing his spiritual form to attack Fei Mo, he retreated towards Lin Xiao’s direction to avoid Fei Mo focusing entirely on him.
However, Yan Huashu’s speed was not particularly fast. Fei Mo summoned two spiritual forms. One attacked Yan Huashu, the other attacked Lin Xiao.
No one knew how much power had been concentrated in each of the two spiritual forms.
But Lin Xiao did not care at all. Since Yan Huashu was on his side, he could now play his trump card directly. And it was the kind of trump card that would catch everyone completely off guard.
“Chi!”
Lin Xiao did not summon a spiritual form. Instead, he directly threw out the skeleton palm. Under his spiritual power control, it surged fiercely towards Fei Mo’s spiritual power.
“Bang!” With a loud crash, Fei Mo’s spiritual power was shattered outright. Clearly, most of Fei Mo’s power had been concentrated on attacking Yan Huashu first. He had wanted to heavily injure the weakest one, Yan Huashu, before dealing with Lin Xiao.
Of course, the power directed at Lin Xiao was not weak either.
But Lin Xiao’s spiritual power was simply too strong. Even if Fei Mo had concentrated fully, he might not have been able to break through directly.
Boom!
On Yan Huashu’s side, the two forces collided. A vast wave of energy erupted and surged towards the direction where Yan Huashu was retreating.
The skeleton palm was also caught in the blast. But under Lin Xiao’s powerful spiritual power control, it did not deviate in the slightest. It continued charging towards Fei Mo. In the blink of an eye, it was right in front of him.
“This is…” Seeing the skeleton flying straight towards him, Fei Mo was shocked on the spot.
However, at that moment, rolling yellow mist already emanated from the skeleton palm. Ghostly wails and wolfish howls rang out. Deathly corpse qi surged forth. A chilling, bone-chilling force of the Yellow Springs rolled towards Fei Mo in an overwhelming wave.
The barrier around the platform activated involuntarily. It emitted bursts of intense sounds.
“Chi! Chi!”
In an instant, just as Fei Mo was about to be enveloped by the yellow mist, everyone saw his entire body corrode into a skeleton.
“What!”
Yan Huashu’s heart jolted violently. He could not help but retreat backwards. He summoned a spiritual power barrier to envelop his entire body, blocking the Yellow Springs power that was spilling outwards.
Only when he retreated behind Lin Xiao did the Yellow Springs power and mist finally dissipate completely.
In truth, Lin Xiao had not gone all out with this strike. He had merely seized the right moment to draw out a small portion of the Yellow Springs power within the skeleton palm.
“Lin Xiao, he is Lin Xiao!” At that moment, the Ji family’s great elder Ji Zhen slammed the table and stood up. The precious wooden table in front of him shattered instantly into dust.
“He is Lin Xiao?” The Holy Heaven Sect’s martial saint elder Zhan Meng also rose in fury. The disciples of Holy Heaven Sect, Ji Yue, and the Ji family members were all stunned.
Only Nan Muling remained calm.
“He, he is actually Lin Xiao!” Murong Jin was so angry she nearly vomited blood. Earlier, Lin Xiao had already killed many geniuses and elders of their Spirit Phoenix Valley. He had even thrown over a hundred giant bone beasts into their Spirit Phoenix Valley, nearly destroying it and forcing her to recover from serious injuries for several months.
Now he had killed their Spirit Phoenix Valley’s genius with limitless potential, Ximen Jing, and the seventh-grade mid-level spiritual controller elder Fei Mo. This was intolerable…
At this moment, Murong Jin felt an overwhelming urge to rush up and kill Lin Xiao on the spot.
“He has actually grown this strong?” Shangguan Tong was stunned on the spot. Her mind felt completely blank.
When she first met Lin Xiao, he had only been a fifth-layer martial lord and sixth-grade mid-level spiritual controller. Later, he had helped her defeat Ouyang Chen.
Yet their Shangguan family, because of a Spirit Phoenix Valley elder who wanted her to enter Spirit Phoenix Valley, had stood against Lin Xiao.
And she herself had chosen to enter Spirit Phoenix Valley and stand with her family.
However, Lin Xiao had killed a seventh-grade initial-level spiritual controller elder of Spirit Phoenix Valley right in front of their two great families. He had become the target of pursuit by both major spiritual controller families.
Later, she received news that her father had also died at Lin Xiao’s hands. From that moment, she had sworn revenge.
Afterwards, hearing the various rumours about Lin Xiao in Yangzhou had filled her with a sense of powerlessness.
Now, she discovered that his strength had far surpassed anything she could match.
If this were outside, even their Spirit Phoenix Valley Master might no longer be able to kill Lin Xiao.
In the Spiritual Controller Grand Competition, she had only reached the second round. Lin Xiao had already advanced to the third round. If nothing unexpected happened, he would continue advancing.
At this moment, Shangguan Tong could not help but feel deep regret.
If, if only she had chosen Lin Xiao back then, perhaps things would have been completely different. Her father would not have died at Lin Xiao’s hands. Lin Xiao would not have become enemies with Spirit Phoenix Valley…
However, everything had already become set in stone.
“He has offended Holy Heaven Sect, the Ji family, and the Xiao family. With so many enemies, he is definitely going to die!” Coming back to her senses, Shangguan Tong gritted her teeth and thought coldly to herself.
Beside her, Fu Chan from the Cold Moon Sect was also dumbfounded.
“My god, Mu Haoran is Lin Xiao. Feng Yuan, did you already know this long ago?” The sect master of the Demonic Void Sect asked in full shock.
He had only heard Feng Yuan mention there would be a surprise. He never expected this kind of surprise.
“Yes.” Feng Yuan nodded.
“You bastard, why didn’t you say so earlier?” The Demonic Void Sect master could not help but curse.
“At the time, I wasn’t completely certain.” Feng Yuan said evasively.
The Demonic Void Sect master gave Feng Yuan a sideways glance. Who would believe that?
Apart from the Demonic Void Sect master and the others, everyone except the people from the Azure Dragon Gate was shocked. Almost all of them nearly stood up in astonishment.
Lin Xiao’s skeleton palm had appeared in the Evil Domain of Yangzhou. The Ji family’s genius Ji Ya had died at the hands of that skeleton palm.
The various trump cards Lin Xiao had displayed and all the related information had already spread throughout Yangzhou.
Therefore, when they saw the skeleton palm erupt with Yellow Springs power, they immediately recognised Lin Xiao.
