Hearing Ji Dong’s words, Lin Xiao was inwardly startled. Two strands of Buddhist light?
Did that mean the opponent’s golden body was twice as strong as one with only a single strand?
No wonder the defence had felt so formidable!
Still, no matter how tough the flesh, Lin Xiao felt no fear at all.
If he could obtain those two strands, his demonic body would advance considerably.
“Then the two of us will attack you together. Junior brother, let’s join forces. The Buddhist light will be yours!”
At that moment, Wu Chuo roared. He had nearly died at Ji Dong’s hands and was livid.
Moreover, something that valuable must never fall to the Ji family. Canglong Gate and the Ji family were rivals.
“Good!”
Lin Xiao charged forward.
Wu Chuo, having recovered somewhat, also shot into the air. Though badly wounded, he still had fight left in him.
The other four Canglong Gate disciples pressed their own opponents harder, preventing any interference.
“Hah! Even the two of you together cannot harm me!”
Golden light flowed across Ji Dong’s body. His golden form blazed with splendour. Fearless and ferocious, he rushed the pair at top speed.
With the golden body, no attack could injure him. He feared nothing from them.
Once he closed the distance, victory would be his.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Lin Xiao unleashed sinister power. Wu Chuo unleashed his own mighty strikes. Both blasted towards Ji Dong, who countered with golden fist beams while flashing around the battlefield.
Yet the combined force of the two was still overwhelming. Even without the element of surprise this time, Ji Dong was repeatedly forced back by the rolling shockwaves. Blood trickled from the corner of his mouth.
But he suffered no real damage.
Ji Dong attacked again, growing fiercer, weaving through positions, constantly pressing the pair.
Because of his constant changes in direction, their attacks rarely landed on the exact same spot at the same time. He was not always repelled.
Amid the rolling shockwaves, Lin Xiao and Wu Chuo occasionally had to fend off Ji Dong separately. Wu Chuo was sent flying several times.
“I can’t keep up sustained heavy attacks. Be careful not to let him close in!”
Wu Chuo warned Lin Xiao, edging closer to him, afraid Ji Dong would rush in and fight them individually with his physical strength.
He had already experienced the terror of the golden body. In close-quarters melee, neither of them was Ji Dong’s match.
That was clearly the enemy’s plan.
Moreover, the power Lin Xiao displayed seemed to be weakening. In Wu Chuo’s view, this fellow disciple probably relied on some innate gift or technique that consumed enormous energy to produce such sinister might. It could not be maintained forever.
By contrast, Ji Dong’s golden fist beams were as strong as ordinary attacks and showed no sign of diminishing. The two of them needed to strike simultaneously just to hold him back.
Boom!
At that moment, a golden fist beam suddenly blasted out from the rolling shockwaves, streaking towards Wu Chuo’s back.
Startled, Wu Chuo spun and met it with a punch of his own. Dazzling light exploded from his fist.
Yet his power was still no match. His beam collapsed section by section.
The weakened golden beam slammed into him. He spewed a huge mouthful of blood and was hurled far away.
“Senior Brother Wu!”
Lin Xiao shouted urgently and shot towards the direction Wu Chuo had been blasted.
Suddenly, Ji Dong burst from the shockwaves at incredible speed, charging straight at Lin Xiao. His fist descended like a mountain hurtling through the sky.
“Die!”
Ji Dong roared. The invincible might of his golden body powered a fist of absolute ferocity towards Lin Xiao.
“This is exactly what I was waiting for!”
Lin Xiao had planned for this. He instantly drew the Yaoguang broken sword. Mobilising his strongest primal energy (aside from the blood-dragon phenomenon and martial techniques), he slashed heavily at Ji Dong’s body.
At the same instant, sixth-grade advanced spiritual power surged forth, wrapping around Ji Dong’s arm and forcibly deflecting it. Lin Xiao’s own body flashed sideways, letting the fist graze past his shoulder.
His broken sword, however, landed solidly in a diagonal cut across Ji Dong’s torso.
Spurt!
Blood sprayed. The Yaoguang broken sword sliced into flesh.
“You!”
Ji Dong’s eyes bulged in utter disbelief.
In that single instant, the golden body was cleaved diagonally in two. Upper torso and head separated from the lower half.
Ji Dong died with eyes still wide open.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
At that moment, two strands of Buddhist light burst from his corpse and shot straight into Lin Xiao.
Inside Lin Xiao, the Nine Nether Demonic Body activated on its own once more. The demonic frame began frantically devouring the vast energy within the two strands of light.
“What?”
Wu Chuo, who had been sent flying, stared in shock, eyes nearly popping out.
Ji Dong, with his golden body, had been cut in half with a single slash?
How was this possible?
Even Wu Chuo could scarcely believe his own eyes.
But the next instant he snapped back to reality. Seeing the broken sword in the youth’s hand, the suddenly pitch-black body, and the overflowing demonic qi, he cried out in alarm, “Broken sword, demonic cultivator… he’s Lin Xiao!”
Lin Xiao’s name had long rung throughout Canglong Gate, even if few had seen his face.
He was said to possess demonic essence, to dual-cultivate primal spirit and demonic paths, and to have killed the Ji family’s earth-tier genius Ji Yang right in front of the sect.
There were also rumours that he wielded the sword of an eighth-layer Martial Emperor elder from Saint Heaven Gate, and that in the ancient city of the Evil Domain he had used a broken sword to slay that very elder.
Seeing the scene before him now, how could Wu Chuo fail to recognise the truth?
Yet what baffled him utterly was this: wasn’t Lin Xiao only capable of killing earth-tier Ji family geniuses?
How had he grown so powerful that he could now slay a heavenly-tier genius of the Ji family?
And where did that sinister power come from?
Demonic attribute power, dual primal-spirit cultivation, spiritual energy, and now sinister power. What kind of monstrous talent was this?
By now, the rolling shockwaves had mostly dispersed.
Eyes from the periphery could see clearly: Ji Dong’s two severed halves falling to the ground, and the black-clad figure holding a broken sword, demonic qi swirling around him.
Everyone stood dumbfounded.
The fighting between the three remaining Ji family youths and the four Canglong Gate disciples ceased instantly. Disbelief was written across all seven faces.
“This… this…” The three Ji youths rubbed their eyes, unable to accept what they were seeing.
They knew exactly how strong Ji Dong was. Even without the golden body, he could have escaped two geniuses of the same level.
Yet now, with golden-body defence, he had been cleaved in half by a single sword strike?
