Sent flying dozens of li, Lin Xiao finally managed to barely control his body, his divine sense probing into the storage ring, throwing out the Void Heaven Phoenix Wings, his entire body stepping onto them.
This was already his fastest reaction while carrying injuries, barely able to mobilise his power.
However, before he could take out the blue spirit stone and insert it into the Void Heaven Phoenix Wings, the figure of that ninth-level Martial Emperor strong cultivator had already circled over from his side front, his speed like lightning, in the blink of an eye rushing right in front of him.
“You are very good, but unfortunately, I will not cherish talent!”
As he spoke, this ninth-level Martial Emperor strong cultivator directly slapped a palm towards Lin Xiao, the palm strike seeming casual, yet containing the terrifying power of a ninth-level Martial Emperor, the void seeming as if it were about to be shattered by his slap.
“What!” Lin Xiao was horrified, the Swallowing Heaven Art mobilised, vortices of devouring, thunder, and incineration energy condensing and forming in front of his side, just in time to condense and envelop the body of the ninth-level Martial Emperor strong cultivator.
However, one could only see the ninth-level Martial Emperor strong cultivator’s Yuan power shaking, the devouring vortex directly shaken apart, turning into rolling waves of air surging towards the up, down, left, and right directions.
The ninth-level Martial Emperor strong cultivator’s speed did not diminish, in the blink of an eye rushing right in front of Lin Xiao, a palm bombarding towards Lin Xiao.
The immense power of a ninth-level Martial Emperor contained in his hand made Lin Xiao already feel the breath of death.
“Shoo!” However, just at this instant, a shadow of light flashed past, a slender white fist smashing into the side of the ninth-level Martial Emperor’s body, half of the ninth-level Martial Emperor’s body exploding open, blood spraying out.
The ninth-level Martial Emperor strong cultivator’s palm brushed past Lin Xiao’s shoulder, his entire body also flying out diagonally from Lin Xiao’s side direction.
Lin Xiao was immediately greatly shocked, cold sweat pouring out, his eyes staring blankly as he looked over.
“Boom rumble!”
At this time, a rumbling loud noise, that ninth-level Martial Emperor strong cultivator’s body directly slamming diagonally into the ground.
The entire ground caved in with a large pit spanning over a dozen li in radius, rolling dust spreading outwards.
The ninth-level Martial Emperor strong cultivator’s body was smashed into the deep large pit.
Lin Xiao could see that the ninth-level Martial Emperor strong cultivator’s body, on the side below his right arm, had already been smashed to pieces by half, the entire person lying in the large pit, with no breath left on his body.
“Dead!” Lin Xiao suddenly inhaled a sharp breath of cold air, this ninth-level Martial Emperor strong cultivator, had actually died.
In shock, Lin Xiao lifted his eyes, at this moment one could only see, in the diagonal upper air above the large pit, a young woman around twenty-five years old, standing coldly in the void.
This woman wore a black skirt, her waist slender like a willow, her posture upright and graceful, her ink-black hair divided into strands and twisted together, coiled back at the front of her head, a black hairpin inserted in her hair, her side profile like a cloud of stunning beauty, her entire body emanating a faint lustre, accentuating her jade-like skin even whiter and brighter, a sacred aura spreading, enveloping the ten directions of heaven and earth, terrifying majesty surging over countless li, making one’s mind and spirit tremble.
“This is, Nan Mu Ling?” Lin Xiao’s eyes widened, his entire person completely stunned.
This person was no other than Nan Mu Ling of Ling Xi City.
Nan Mu Ling’s age was only around twenty-five, how could her strength be so terrifying, directly killing a ninth-level Martial Emperor strong cultivator with one strike?
“How is this possible?” An incredulous expression appeared on Lin Xiao’s face, a ninth-level Martial Emperor ah, the entire Central Continent did not even know if there were any Martial Saints, without Martial Saints appearing, ninth-level Martial Emperors were almost standing at the absolute pinnacle of combat power.
Yet, a youth of merely twenty-five years could kill one with a single strike?
Although there was an element of sneak attack in this, even a strong cultivator of the same realm might not necessarily succeed in a sneak attack, killing him in one go.
What exactly was this Nan Mu Ling’s strength?
“Hmm, her cultivation is at the third-level Martial Emperor realm?”
At this time, Lin Xiao finally came back to his senses, Nan Mu Ling’s might was extremely terrifying, but her cultivation level was only at the third-level Martial Emperor realm.
The greater part of the might should come from her body that was emanating a faint lustre.
“Third-level Martial Emperor realm, yet able to blast away a ninth-level Martial Emperor, what kind of physique is this?” Lin Xiao exclaimed in his heart with utmost shock.
His own talent was already extremely terrifying, his Yuan power cultivation reaching the seventh-level Martial Monarch realm, able to fight against a fourth-level Martial Emperor.
However, this Nan Mu Ling was even more terrifying, at twenty-five years old, she had become a Martial Emperor strong cultivator, and moreover, reached the third-level Martial Emperor realm.
Most importantly, her combat power was even more terrifying, terrifying to the point that at third-level Martial Emperor she could kill a ninth-level Martial Emperor strong cultivator.
This, what kind of monster was this?
Lin Xiao was becoming more and more shocked by the Central Continent, the geniuses here were truly too unimaginable.
Whether it was Wen Ruo, Shangguan Tong, Ouyang Chen and the others, or Zou Yun and the rest from the four valleys, all young in age yet already reaching extraordinary realms.
And now, even a city lord’s mansion of a single city had produced such a terrifying peerless genius.
This Central Continent was simply a place where tigers lurked and dragons hid.
After a while, the lustre on Nan Mu Ling’s body had already converged, her might and aura also completely withdrawn, Nan Mu Ling herself seeming to be weighing something, apparently also somewhat shocked by her own strength.
“Thank you, Miss Nan, for saving my life!” At this time, Lin Xiao, who had been stunned for a long while, finally came back to his senses, thanking Nan Mu Ling.
If it were not for Nan Mu Ling’s intervention just now, he would now be a corpse, or perhaps not even a corpse left behind.
“Just convenient!” Nan Mu Ling looked coldly towards Lin Xiao: “Now that you know my secret, originally, I should just conveniently kill you as well, however, your talent is indeed not bad, not much inferior to mine, so I will spare you, you owe me one life.”
With that said, she flew towards the corpse of the ninth-level Martial Emperor strong cultivator in the large pit, taking the ninth-level Martial Emperor strong cultivator’s storage ring into her possession, and then taking his entire body into her own storage ring.
Afterwards, with a movement of her figure, Nan Mu Ling flew towards the direction of Zong Yan City.
“Miss Nan’s kindness, I, Lin Xiao, have remembered it, rest assured, I will not tell your secret to anyone.” As Nan Mu Ling flew away, Lin Xiao said to her back.
No matter what purpose Nan Mu Ling had acted out of, she had saved his life, he naturally would not reveal Nan Mu Ling’s secret, and if there was a chance in the future, he would definitely repay it.
Repay enmity with enmity, repay kindness with kindness, this was his way of doing things.
“Still, my own strength is too weak.” Lowering his head to look at that giant pit, Lin Xiao shook his head inwardly.
Facing a ninth-level Martial Emperor, he could not even escape with his life.
Besides this ninth-level Martial Emperor, there was also this ninth-level Martial Emperor’s master, that person’s strength must certainly be above this ninth-level Martial Emperor.
Meaning that if the other party found him, he would definitely be on a path to death.
Moreover, there was the Spirit Phoenix Valley pursuing him, he still did not know what kind of strong cultivators exactly existed in the Spirit Phoenix Valley.
To put it plainly, it was still that his strength was insufficient, having just arrived in Yang Province not long ago, yet already surrounded by crises on all sides.
