“No wonder he’s a heavenly genius of the Ji family. Truly terrifying!”
Someone exclaimed in awe.
“No, wait. He only became this much stronger after turning into a golden body. He must have received the golden body inheritance.”
Another person shouted.
Everyone else nodded in agreement.
It had to be the golden body. Otherwise, two evenly matched geniuses could not spam supreme techniques like the Nine Dragon Canon or the Ji Shui Form indefinitely. Their strongest attacks outside those techniques should also have been comparable.
Yet Wu Chuo could not block Ji Dong’s golden fist beam at all. That alone proved how frightening the power drawn from the golden body truly was.
“Can anyone inherit a golden body?”
Lin Xiao, still at the rear, grew curious.
There was clearly more than one strand of Buddhist light here.
Moreover, everyone struck by it seemed able to manifest a golden body.
The Saint Heaven Gate youth had done so, and now Ji Dong as well.
Did that mean anyone the light entered would receive the inheritance and forge a golden body?
Well, anyone except him.
Because of the Nine Nether Demonic Body, his physique probably could not form a golden body.
He had never truly experienced what the Buddhist light actually did when shaping one.
Leaving his unusual case aside, it appeared ordinary people could all inherit it. That puzzled Lin Xiao greatly.
A legacy left by a powerhouse should only pass to someone with matching talent or a specific constitution. How could it be given to just anyone?
Puzzled or not, he set the thought aside. The situation ahead had changed. He shot forward at top speed.
“Hahaha! Wu Chuo, don’t blame my Ji family for attacking Canglong Gate. You tried to murder and rob me first. Killing you is perfectly justified. Even if your peak master came, he would have nothing to say!”
Ji Dong laughed heartily. Golden light flowed across his body as he closed in on the fallen Wu Chuo, ready to finish him.
“Senior Brother Wu Chuo!”
The other Canglong Gate disciples cried out in alarm and tried to rush to his aid, but their Ji family opponents pressed the attack, pinning them down.
The dozen or more onlookers gasped. Was Wu Chuo, one of Canglong Gate’s top geniuses, really going to die at the hands of the Ji family’s heavenly genius today?
Whoosh!
At that critical moment, an utterly sinister aura surged from Ji Dong’s side. A torrent of extreme evil power, wrapped in rolling white mist, blasted towards him.
In that instant, everyone felt chills run down their spines.
Where had this terrifying evil force suddenly come from? Had someone triggered something in this place?
Boom!
Ji Dong, who had been about to smash Wu Chuo with a punch, hurriedly spun and met the oncoming evil power with his own fist. A massive shockwave erupted in front of him, hurling his entire body backward.
His golden fist beam crumbled section by section until it completely collapsed.
The weakened evil force continued onward and slammed into his golden body.
Even though the golden body’s defence held and was not breached, the sheer overwhelming evil power churned his blood and qi. He could not hold back a mouthful of blood. His body was flung away once more.
Of course, he was not seriously injured.
After being pushed back a distance, he forcibly stabilised himself.
Everyone present froze in shock. First at the terrifying defence of Ji Dong’s golden body, second at the fearsome might of that evil power.
The Canglong Gate disciples breathed quiet sighs of relief after their initial surprise.
Thank goodness this power had appeared. Otherwise, Wu Chuo would have been in real trouble.
Wu Chuo looked towards the source of the attack, his face filled with astonishment.
No disciple in Canglong Gate was known to wield such sinister power. Who had just saved him?
Ji Dong also turned, fury blazing in his eyes. “Who is it?” he growled.
Then, under everyone’s gaze, Lin Xiao slowly flew forward, thick sinister aura rolling off his body.
“It’s him?”
Wu Chuo and the other four Canglong Gate disciples were stunned.
Only two or three hundred people had come from Canglong Gate this time, so they all recognised each other’s faces, even if not closely.
This youth had seemed completely unremarkable at first, with no reputation at all.
They had assumed he was just an ordinary disciple from the First Vein and paid him no attention.
Yet the power he had just displayed was utterly terrifying.
Could he be a top genius secretly trained by the First Vein?
Seeing an unfamiliar face, Ji Dong did not flare up immediately. Instead he said darkly, “This is a matter between my Ji family and Canglong Gate. Do you really intend to interfere?”
“Hahaha! Ji Dong, you’re wrong. He’s a Canglong Gate disciple! Waving your Ji family name means nothing here!”
Wu Chuo burst into laughter.
He quickly swallowed a high-grade healing pill and began recovering.
With this youth on their side, they could turn the tables.
“A Canglong Gate disciple?”
Ji Dong was dumbfounded, disbelief written across his face.
Since when did Canglong Gate have a disciple this strong?
The youth looked barely over twenty, yet his combat strength rivalled a heavenly genius of the Ji family.
Canglong Gate talents of this level were all known to them.
Was he a genius the sect had kept hidden, or someone who had only recently risen?
While Ji Dong stood stunned, Lin Xiao spoke indifferently. “Hand over the Buddhist light, and I won’t get involved.”
Truthfully, Lin Xiao was slightly shocked inside.
The golden body clearly grew stronger with its user’s own power. Even with the element of surprise and using the Indestructible Skeleton Technique, he had failed to break through the defence.
He had only forced Ji Dong to cough up a little blood, far from seriously wounding him.
Unlike the Heaven-Sealing Stone Hand, which relied solely on the independent hand-sea and would not improve with higher primal energy cultivation, the Indestructible Skeleton Technique drew power mainly from the six bone patterns in his spine, yet it was still driven by dantian energy.
It advanced with overall cultivation. After absorbing that sarira, it was a notch stronger than when he had just broken through to the Ninth Layer Martial Monarch realm.
Yet it still could not heavily injure Ji Dong.
A Seventh Layer Martial Emperor was simply too much for a Ninth Layer Martial Monarch to defeat, even with a sneak attack.
In other words, unless he revealed his spiritual power or used other trump cards that would expose his identity, he could not take Ji Dong down alone.
His only option was to stall, let Wu Chuo recover somewhat, then join forces to kill the man.
Hearing Lin Xiao’s words, Ji Dong flew into a rage. “Hmph! I have two strands of Buddhist light inside me now. Come and kill me if you dare!”
Hand over the Buddhist light?
That light would only leave his body when he died. Was he supposed to kill himself?
This was naked humiliation!
