At this moment, Lin Xiao’s face was filled with horror.
Just the pressure alone could kill an eighth level Martial Emperor at close range, slaughter nine fifth and sixth level Martial Emperors within a hundred miles, and kill initial level Martial Emperors and Martial Lords hundreds of miles away.
Such strength was truly too terrifying, almost unimaginable.
Fortunately, perhaps because he had acted to help Feng Yourain, this Martial Saint powerhouse had not targeted him. Otherwise, he would have become a pile of minced meat as well.
Facing such a powerhouse, there was no chance of escape whatsoever.
However, Lin Xiao also knew that his crisis had not been resolved.
“Goddess, what to do with this person, kill or spare?” At this time, the Martial Saint elder suddenly asked Feng Yourain.
Feng Yourain’s somewhat vacant eyes flashed with cold light as she looked coldly at Lin Xiao. In an indifferent tone, she uttered, “Kill!”
Lin Xiao’s heart trembled fiercely.
Was he going to die here?
Feng Yourain had a grudge against him, and Feng Yourain had been tampered with by the Temple of Destiny. If she wanted to kill him, he did not blame her at all.
But he was unwilling!
He had gone through countless hardships, faced all sorts of dangers, obtained various opportunities, and finally reached this point. He had seen hope for becoming a martial powerhouse, only to perish here?
His mother was still in the Tianji Tower. He had not rescued her yet. He had not freed Feng Yourain from the Temple of Destiny’s control. He had not gone to Spirit Pool Island to complete the task An Miao had given him. Was he to say goodbye like this?
He was so unwilling!
A intense unwillingness burned in Lin Xiao’s heart. He tried to circulate his yuan force and spiritual force, but everything was futile.
Enveloped by that pressure, he could not mobilise any power at all.
Before a Martial Saint, everything was in vain.
The purple corpse puppet not far away was also rendered useless.
“Our Temple of Destiny fears no thousand-year clans, no forces whatsoever. Our temple’s goddess is so revered, so noble.”
The Martial Saint powerhouse looked at Lin Xiao, his tone laced with intense anger. “Yet you defiled her, polluted the divine blood!”
Lin Xiao’s heart jolted in shock. He had been intimate with Feng Yourain, and the other could actually tell?
Could it be because of something like divine blood?
“You truly deserve to die!” The Martial Saint powerhouse roared in fury.
Earlier, even an eighth level Martial Emperor powerhouse had not stirred him in the slightest, but Lin Xiao had provoked his rage.
The goddess’s virginal body broken, the divine blood tainted, this could affect the Temple of Destiny’s nurturing of her, her state of mind, and even her future cultivation.
It might shackle her even when she became a peerless powerhouse in the future.
“Snort!” An extremely terrifying pressure enveloped Lin Xiao, and a dense sense of deathly crisis surged in his heart.
“I… am unwilling!” Endless unwillingness burned in Lin Xiao’s heart, just like the first time he faced a death crisis, when he was framed by Feng Lanyue.
However, before absolute power, any will seemed utterly pointless.
Lin Xiao’s consciousness began to blur under the pressure. His body was about to shatter.
“Snort!”
And just then, an unimaginably terrifying aura swept over like a tidal wave, an ancient and desolate pressure from eternity itself surging from the rear horizon, filling the heavens and earth, passing over Lin Xiao’s body and clashing against the Martial Saint elder’s terrifying pressure.
Lin Xiao’s body was immediately freed from the threat of shattering.
The Martial Saint’s brows furrowed. His wrinkled eyes lifted as he gazed ahead.
“Whoosh!”
A figure shot over from the horizon at an unbelievably swift speed, appearing beside Lin Xiao in the blink of an eye.
Lin Xiao’s back was already drenched in cold sweat. He hurriedly turned his head to look, only to see a black-robed figure standing in the void.
It was a youth who appeared not much older than him, with a stern face and a naturally furrowed brow of worry. However, his temperament was utterly at odds with his appearance.
Standing there, he was like a towering, ancient mountain of a hundred thousand feet, exuding endless oppression.
From his body emanated an ancient and desolate aura, surging with unimaginably terrifying pressure. He seemed like a peerless powerhouse who had traversed from eternity, dominating the ten directions of heaven and earth, overlooking the eight wastelands, with an invincible aura spanning ages.
“Li Ren Chou?” In that instant, Lin Xiao’s mind went somewhat blank.
This youth’s face was very familiar. It was Li Ren Chou, with whom he had clashed in the illusion array in Prosperity City and confronted the branch hall master at the Temple of Destiny’s branch in the Southeast Domain.
But this aura, he could not even probe its cultivation level. It was far beyond the scope of what he could perceive.
This presence also did not match the Li Ren Chou he had fought at all.
Even at the Temple of Destiny’s branch in the Southeast Domain, when Li Ren Chou had displayed astonishing strength, it was far from comparable to now.
How could it be that in just a few months, Li Ren Chou had become so terrifying?
Even cultivating desperately and encountering a heaven-defying opportunity, it should be impossible, right?
Moreover, that temperament was completely different from the previous Li Ren Chou.
Lin Xiao did not dare to confirm that this was definitely the same Li Ren Chou he had fought in the illusion array.
Even the Martial Saint powerhouse opposite him involuntarily revealed deep wariness on his face. In utmost shock, he said, “You are not a figure from this era?”
“I will protect him.” Li Ren Chou did not answer, but said indifferently instead.
The voice he emitted was still that of a youth, his eyes like endless abysses, impossible to see through.
“Not a figure from this era, yet appearing in this era. You must face many restrictions, I presume?” The Martial Saint powerhouse asked.
“Leave, or die!”
As Li Ren Chou spoke, a cold glint flashed in his abyss-like eyes. That glint seemed capable of piercing into the depths of one’s soul, making even the Martial Saint elder’s heart tremble involuntarily.
“A mere junior is not worth my effort!” As he spoke, the Martial Saint elder had already swept up Feng Yourain below and retreated outward violently.
His speed was like lightning, vanishing from sight in the blink of an eye.
It was evident how wary he was of this mysterious youth before him.
Seeing this, Lin Xiao secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Though Li Ren Chou was terrifying now, the other was a Martial Saint powerhouse after all. If they truly fought, he truly did not dare to be certain of the outcome. If a shockwave rippled outward, he would likely perish from the aftermath.
Yet, with a single sentence, he had scared off a pinnacle realm Martial Saint powerhouse of the present age. One had to say, at this moment, Li Ren Chou was truly domineering.
“You, who exactly are you?”
At this time, Lin Xiao looked at Li Ren Chou and could not help asking.
