Admit defeat?
From beginning to end, Lin Xiao had never thought of giving Ouyang Chen the chance to admit defeat.
The reason he had not killed him in one move, and had asked so many times, was merely to put on a show for the Ouyang family members to see.
He had asked Ouyang Chen many times, it was Ouyang Chen who refused to admit defeat and instead wanted to kill him, so under urgency he “accidentally” struck lethally, would that not be entirely reasonable?
As for the reason to kill Ouyang Chen, besides Ouyang Chen wanting to “accidentally” kill him from the start, he was also thinking for the Shangguan family and Shangguan Tong, helping them all the way.
Ouyang Chen’s talent and strength were even stronger than Shangguan Tong’s, if Ouyang Chen were left alive, the one Spirit Phoenix Valley would take a fancy to would definitely be Ouyang Chen and not Shangguan Tong.
In that case, it would be disadvantageous to both Shangguan Tong and the Shangguan family.
Once Ouyang Chen died, then Spirit Phoenix Valley could only select Shangguan Tong.
As for himself, he did not dare to easily set foot in Spirit Phoenix Valley, Xue Ling was merely an elder and already a seventh-grade initial-level spiritual controller, inside Spirit Phoenix Valley there were probably even higher-grade spiritual controllers.
With his such talent, perhaps some spiritual controller would be moved and control him as their own slave.
Once becoming a slave, his life would be utterly ruined.
While Shangguan Tong should not yet be at the level of being controlled as a slave.
If Spirit Phoenix Valley recruited Shangguan Tong as a disciple, then the Ouyang family probably would not dare to easily move against the Shangguan family.
If he killed Ouyang Chen, even if the Ouyang family wanted to make a move against him, with the Shangguan family stepping forward, as long as Xue Ling spoke a word for Shangguan Tong’s sake, then the Ouyang family would definitely give Xue Ling face and thus spare him the trouble.
This, Lin Xiao had thought of long ago.
Of course, in the worst-case scenario, he could just run away.
Anyway, the purpose of him staying with the Shangguan family was merely to have the Shangguan family help find people.
At worst, he could just think of another way to investigate the news himself.
Boom!
At this moment, Lin Xiao held the sword in his left hand, gripped his fist with his right, and punched out with a Reverse Chaos Fist Beam, the terrifying reverse chaos vital energy converging into a long pillar like a slender river, piercing towards Ouyang Chen.
This fist beam did not strike squarely at the incoming iron block, but was offset slightly downwards.
“Stop!” Seeing Ouyang Chen about to fight desperately, Ouyang Kuo immediately activated a spirit beast spiritual form and rushed forward rapidly.
As long as Ouyang Chen was alive, they still had a chance to turn the tables, even if they lost the Purple Ginseng Medicine Mountain, they could rob it back sooner or later.
But if Ouyang Chen died, once Shangguan Tong had the opportunity to enter Spirit Phoenix Valley, their troubles would be great.
He could also see that this external aid Lin Xiao from the Shangguan family definitely did not dare to act recklessly, with such powerful strength he had not killed Ouyang Chen in one move, but each time held back, deliberately only slightly stronger than Ouyang Chen.
This time approaching Ouyang Chen was merely to force Ouyang Chen to admit defeat, once Ouyang Chen admitted defeat, the opponent would definitely stop.
Therefore, he had not taken it too seriously.
But what he did not expect was that Ouyang Chen, who had always been steady in temperament, at this moment actually did not listen to him and admit defeat, but instead went to kill Lin Xiao.
If Lin Xiao struck lethally, that would be disastrous.
Therefore, he could not care about the rules and had to make a move.
After all, Ouyang Chen was related to the selection for entering Spirit Phoenix Valley.
And what even surprised Ouyang Kuo was that almost at the moment he made his move, or even a split second before he did, a spiritual form had already rushed out.
That was the spiritual form activated by Shangguan Xiong, the power it contained was even stronger than his, and its speed was even faster than his.
Moreover, not just by a little bit.
Shangguan Xiong’s brows twitched, with a glance he sensed traces of spiritual power fluctuations on Shangguan Xiong and Shangguan Rui’s heads.
The two had actually made a move simultaneously!
That is to say, the two had thought he would make a move before he did, and acted first.
One spiritual form, two people making a move, that Shangguan Rui must have infused his spiritual power into Shangguan Xiong’s spiritual form.
The father and son cooperated so tacitly!
“Boom sizzle!”
At this time, Ouyang Kuo’s spiritual form rushed to the void twenty or thirty li away, Shangguan Xiong’s spiritual form blocked horizontally in front, colliding head-on, the two spiritual forms exploded apart, turning into surging spiritual power fluctuations that roared turbulently towards the heavens and earth in all directions.
And at this moment, Lin Xiao’s fist beam had already broken through from below the flames of the energy weapon, rushing towards Ouyang Chen.
That energy weapon also charged towards Lin Xiao without any obstruction.
Clang!
Bang!
Two sounds resounded almost simultaneously, Lin Xiao’s broken sword in his hand slashed onto the incoming energy weapon iron block, smashing the entire weapon flying away, his body’s vital energy also boiled fiercely, blocking and scattering the surrounding flames, not affected in the slightest.
While on Lin Xiao’s opposite side, Ouyang Chen’s body was pierced through by the Reverse Chaos Fist Beam.
His entire body appeared with countless holes, blood sprinkled through the air, dying on the spot.
In this instant, everyone was stunned one after another.
Lin Xiao had actually killed Ouyang Chen on the spot?
Ouyang Kuo and Shangguan Xiong had simultaneously activated spiritual forms and mutually consumed each other? Yet still failed to block it?
This result left some people almost unable to come back to their senses.
“You actually dared to strike lethally!” Seeing Ouyang Chen perish, Ouyang Kuo erupted in fury, killing intent surging from his body, the table before him exploding apart.
“Ouyang family head!” At this moment, Shangguan Xiong also stood up, powerful spiritual power aura also released.
“It was Ouyang Chen himself who refused to admit defeat and instead wanted to kill Lin Xiao, Lin Xiao only accidentally struck lethally, could it be that your Ouyang family wants to break the rules and make a move against a junior?” Shangguan Xiong roared loudly, his aura not inferior.
It could be seen that if Ouyang Kuo made a move, Shangguan Xiong would definitely move to block.
“You two, the dead cannot be brought back to life, if a war breaks out over a dead junior, it would not be worth it, right?” At this moment, Xue Ling also spoke.
Ouyang Kuo had been standing in place all along, forcibly suppressing the anger in his heart, not making a move.
Looking at the stance, if he moved, Shangguan Xiong would also move, he simply could not kill Lin Xiao.
Moreover, once making a move, it would probably not just be the two of them moving.
Both families’ experts were present, if the others all followed and made moves, then it would be equivalent to the two families thoroughly going to war.
The two families’ strengths were originally not much different, if thoroughly going to war, both families’ losses would definitely be enormous, it could be called mutual destruction.
By then, even if they won, they would probably soon be gradually worn down by other families, the entire family clan ruined in an instant.
Moreover, Xue Ling had spoken, although he was not afraid of Xue Ling, he still had to give face to Spirit Phoenix Valley.
As a family head, he naturally knew the pros and cons, no matter how angry, he still had to forcibly suppress it.
After Ouyang Kuo stopped, the Ouyang family members who had been itching to move also all stopped one after another.
The entire scene immediately became quiet, only cold intent permeating the air.
