It was a young man with loose, flowing hair, large ears, and a broad face, yet somehow exuding an air of carefree elegance. The moment he charged forward, terrifying power erupted from him. His fists swung in rapid succession, waves of fearsome fist light bursting out and sending figure after figure flying.
“Yang Fengyi!”
Lin Xiao’s brow furrowed. He immediately turned and fled.
An eighth-level Martial Emperor like Yang Fengyi was someone he could not hope to fight.
The moment he made a move, his identity would be exposed, and the entire Ji family would hunt him down.
Fortunately, he had not rushed in.
Yang Fengyi had not attacked him either.
In no time, Lin Xiao was far away from the area.
He ignored another skirmish he passed along the way and flew straight on for more than a hundred li.
Then another astonishing scene appeared before him.
Ahead, the dust had already settled, revealing a huge crater. The pit was completely empty.
Outside the crater stood a bald, oily-faced fat man of about thirty, dressed in loose, plain monk robes.
Quite a few people lay scattered on the ground some distance away.
Beside the fat monk stood a youth in white, around twenty-eight or twenty-nine years old, radiating the aura of a seventh-level Martial Emperor.
Lin Xiao recognised him instantly. He was one of the Sacred Heaven Sect’s top geniuses who had stood beside Yang Fengyi earlier in front of the great Buddha statue, though his cultivation was one level lower than Yang Fengyi’s.
The white-robed youth seemed to have only just arrived. He swept his gaze over the surroundings, noticed an injured Sacred Heaven Sect disciple among the fallen, and his expression turned icy. Finally, he fixed his stare on the fat monk and spoke coldly, “Hand over the treasure, and I’ll let you live!”
The bald fat monk calmly raised a hand and smiled with utter nonchalance. “This poor monk will stand right here and let you hit me as you please!”
Lin Xiao was stunned. Was this bald fatty really that arrogant?
Standing still and letting a top Sacred Heaven Sect genius strike him?
Even Lin Xiao himself did not have that kind of confidence.
“Courting death!”
Fury flashed across the white-robed youth’s face. He charged forward, sweeping waves of momentum behind him as he rushed at the monk.
The fat monk truly made no move to block. He simply folded his hands across his chest and watched the youth with perfect calm.
The white-robed youth was enraged. The highest cultivation allowed in this realm was eighth-level Martial Emperor.
With his strength, even an eighth-level Martial Emperor would never dare take him lightly.
Yet this monk-like bald fatty dared to treat him with such contempt.
The youth barrelled straight in, his fist swinging with force enough to shatter space, carrying terrifying power as it smashed down towards the fat monk’s head.
Whoosh!
The fat monk’s body suddenly transformed into golden flesh, head included. Golden light flowed across his skin, his entire frame seemingly forged from impenetrable metal.
Boom! The white-robed youth’s fist slammed into the monk’s head, producing a tremendous clang. Golden light flared on the monk’s scalp, the fearsome impact rebounding and forcing the youth back several steps.
Yet the fat monk remained standing exactly where he was, unmoving.
The white-robed youth was horrified. Only he knew the full power behind that punch, yet the monk had stood still and taken it without being shaken in the slightest.
Just how much Buddha light had this fatty absorbed to forge such a golden body?
The injured onlookers were equally shocked. They could accept failing to harm the fatty themselves, but even a top Sacred Heaven Sect genius could not budge him?
No wonder they had tried to fight him for the treasure. They had practically been begging to die. Luckily the monk had not killed them.
Even Lin Xiao, watching from farther back, was dumbfounded. That had been the full-force strike of a seventh-level Martial Emperor, yet the monk had stood motionless and taken it without a scratch. Just how monstrous was that defence?
At this moment, Lin Xiao almost felt his Nine Nether Demon Body was lacking.
If he had not used the Nine Nether Demon Body to refine Buddha light instead, and had absorbed massive amounts of it normally, wouldn’t he have been able to forge an equally terrifying golden body defence?
The fat monk raised his hand again and smiled blandly at the Sacred Heaven Sect youth. “This poor monk will stand right here and let you hit me as you please!”
This was blatant humiliation. The white-robed youth flew into a rage, drew a sword, and poured power into it until white light blazed along the blade.
“If you’ve got the guts, stand still again!”
With that, he unleashed the full aura of a seventh-level Martial Emperor, charged forward with heaven-shaking momentum, and brought the glowing sword down in a peerlessly sharp slash at the monk’s throat.
The fat monk truly did not move an inch. He simply gazed calmly at the youth and let the sword strike his neck.
Clang! The blade struck the monk’s throat with a piercing metallic screech, yet failed to cut even a hair’s breadth into his flesh.
The white-robed youth’s face filled with shock. His fist had failed to breach the head, fine, but even a weapon carrying all his power could not break the defence?
At this moment, he finally realised how terrifying his opponent was.
Yet it was already too late. He suddenly felt an inexplicable attractive force rising from the monk’s body, preventing him from retreating quickly.
At the same time, the fat monk’s head underwent a drastic change, transforming into a beast’s head.
The beast head was also bald and completely hairless, but at the front stretched an enormous, elongated maw, somewhat like a crocodile’s yet also resembling a wolf’s, only far larger and longer.
The instant the giant jaws appeared, they snapped towards the upper half of the white-robed youth’s body and his head.
“No!!!”
The youth cried out in horror, but in the next instant, his head and entire upper body had already been bitten off. He died on the spot.
Crunch, crunch. The jaws chewed a few times, swallowing the youth’s body completely. The neck below the beast head bulged, and the monk’s body seemed to grow slightly rounder.
Then the jaws retracted, and the head returned to that of the bald middle-aged man. His face remained as serene as ever. He wiped his mouth with one hand, picked a storage ring from between his teeth, and sighed innocently, “Wine and meat pass through the gut, but Buddha Grandpa remains in the heart!”
Whoosh!
The people lying on the ground sucked in sharp breaths of terror and scrambled to their feet, fleeing in all directions with whatever strength they had left.
Bloody hell, that was too terrifying! Even Lin Xiao, standing farther away, felt every hair on his body stand on end. He turned and ran.
The monk had swallowed a top Sacred Heaven Sect genius alive. This was a genuine monster. Who knew what spirit beast had taken human form?
That had been a seventh-level Martial Emperor, with no power to resist whatsoever, devoured whole.
Terrifying, utterly terrifying! He had to get away immediately and must not let the creature notice him. Against something like this, he stood no chance.
Yet just as Lin Xiao was fleeing at full speed, a gentle voice that felt like a spring breeze sounded behind him, “Little brother, please wait!”
Lin Xiao’s scalp nearly exploded. He glanced back and saw the bald fatty chasing after him at incredible speed, one hand waving cheerfully.
Damn it! There were so many people the monk could have chased, yet he came after him first.
And that speed, it was actually faster than Lin Xiao using both origin energy and spiritual power combined!
