“Attack!”
Beside Jiang Yi, the eighth-layer elder’s golden body blazed with light. Dazzling golden radiance poured from his skin. He stepped forward through the void and unleashed a peerless punch. Blinding golden light burst from his fist. The matchless fist beam solidified like molten metal, infused with pure Buddhist power, and thundered through the air.
Pure Buddhist force, unbreakable as golden soup. The void itself seemed about to shatter, emitting strange trembling cries.
Clearly, this was the full-powered golden-body strike of an eighth-layer Martial Emperor elder from the Sacred Heaven Sect. Its might was utterly terrifying.
Boom! Jiang Yi swung his blade. A matchless blade beam, cold as the reaper’s scythe, tore through the sky, radiating chilling killing intent.
The blade beam looked almost solid, sharp enough to slice through anything. It carried world-shaking power.
This was far beyond what an ordinary seventh-layer Martial Emperor could produce. Jiang Yi possessed the strength to fight above his realm.
While the earlier shockwave still pushed him backwards, Lin Xiao had already switched the Nether Heaven Demonic Pillar for the Yaoguang Broken Sword.
Hearing Jiang Yi’s transmission, his heart jolted. He instantly mobilised the strongest primal force in his dantian.
The blood-dragon phenomenon appeared. A blood-dragon illusion floated in the sky, exuding an ancient, desolate aura from the primordial wilderness. High above, the heavens turned crimson.
Under the drive of his supreme primal force, Lin Xiao’s body became transparent, radiating brilliant white light.
The Yaoguang Broken Sword in his hand trembled violently, emitting blinding white radiance.
With a downward slash, an even more dazzling sword beam, like true light of annihilation, carrying the power to destroy all things, cleaved straight down through the void.
Immediately behind that blinding sword beam, the Sacred Hand Covering Heaven energy palm followed, slamming forward.
From the other flank, the Purple Corpse Puppet fired five rays of finger light. The beams looked like infernal light from the underworld, filled with sinister, bone-chilling power.
All of this happened in an instant. Jiang Yi and the eighth-layer elder’s fist and blade attacked from Ji Yue’s side.
Lin Xiao and the Purple Corpse Puppet struck from the front. The combined might shook heaven and earth.
Lin Xiao had long known those two would stab someone in the back. He simply had not known whose back it would be.
Seeing Ji Yue’s strength and knowing he could withstand one of her blows, they had decided to strike her first.
Two powerful combatants, one of the same realm as Ji Yue and an elder of the older generation, both unleashing full-power attacks. The destructive force was beyond imagination.
There was a real chance they could heavily injure Ji Yue in one strike. United, they might even kill this top genius of the Ji family today.
“Ji Water Form! Divide Force!”
At the critical moment when both sides’ attacks converged, Ji Yue let out a cold, delicate shout. Her curved sword swept horizontally. Two sword beams shot from the blade.
Though called sword beams, they were not radiant. Instead, they resembled two several-zhang-wide streams of flowing water. One crashed into the attacks coming from the front, the other into those from the side.
The collisions occurred right in front of Ji Yue.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Heaven-shaking explosions erupted. The void shuddered violently. Overturning seas and rivers of energy shockwaves burst forth. The entire sky was instantly swallowed by a terrifying ocean of power.
The horrifying fluctuations shook the ground below. Deafening roars thundered in everyone’s ears.
Lin Xiao’s line of sight was completely engulfed by the energy sea. He could no longer see Ji Yue and had no idea whether she had taken any damage or how severe it might be.
Yet as the rolling energy ocean surged towards him, a faint, two-to-three-zhang-wide flowing-water sword beam shot out from the waves at extreme speed and slammed into him.
On the other side, an identical weakened flowing-water sword beam struck Jiang Yi and the eighth-layer elder who stood close together.
“What!”
Lin Xiao was utterly shocked.
This had been his strongest attack short of instantly draining all his power with Heavenly Demon Palm or Sky-Devouring Spirit Finger.
Together with the Purple Corpse Puppet, plus Jiang Yi and a golden-body eighth-layer elder striking with full force, Ji Yue had split her power into two streams and still shattered all their attacks, then sent the remnants hurtling back at them?
Just how monstrous was her strength?
Even a ninth-layer Martial Emperor might not be capable of such a feat.
Bang!
The faint flowing-water sword beam was too fast. Having just unleashed his strongest attack, Lin Xiao had no time to defend. In a flash, it struck him squarely.
Lin Xiao felt his body turn to bloody pulp. He spewed a huge mouthful of blood and was hurled far away.
Ji Yue’s greatly weakened flowing-water strike had still heavily injured Lin Xiao! And not only him. Jiang Yi and the eighth-layer elder were likewise blasted backwards, spraying clouds of blood mist, vomiting large mouthfuls of blood, their bodies flung helplessly through the air.
“This is impossible! Her strength is actually this terrifying!”
Horror filled Lin Xiao’s heart. As he flew backwards, he saw the other two suffering the same heavy injuries.
With one move she had broken the combined supreme assault of three people and one corpse puppet, then heavily wounded all three of them. This power far exceeded that of an ordinary eighth-layer Martial Emperor.
It even surpassed a ninth-layer Martial Emperor.
Terrifying. Utterly terrifying! No wonder the moment they entered this region, Bi Zhuang had warned him that Ji Ya and Ji Yue were the most dangerous individuals.
Strength like this could sweep aside even elders of the same realm, and fight across tiers with ease.
The heaven-level geniuses of the Ji family truly defied imagination! Shock surged like stormy waves in Lin Xiao’s mind.
The Purple Corpse Puppet, having been pushed back earlier, was farther away than Jiang Yi and the elder, so it avoided the flowing-water sword beams.
Yet it was still sent tumbling by the sweeping shockwaves, flying not far behind Lin Xiao.
Its defences, however, remained intact despite the enormous impact.
Only after a long while did Lin Xiao manage to stabilise his body. He prepared to throw out the Void Heavenly Phoenix Wings and flee.
Yet at that moment, Ji Yue’s figure suddenly burst out from the rolling energy waves ahead.
Her body bore not the slightest injury. Her magnificent long dress remained flawless. Her aura was sharp and overwhelming. Sword in hand, she shot towards Lin Xiao at terrifying speed. An icy voice rang out.
“Prepare to die!”
