“Break!”
Ji Ya roared, his sword slashing heavily towards the joined palms. Yang Fengyi, the eighth-layer Martial Emperor from Azure Dragon Sect, and the loose cultivator elder all swung their blades at different parts of the Buddha palms at the same moment.
Yet before the weapons could land, the enormous joined palms suddenly flung open and, with overwhelming might, slapped towards the four men, two palms targeting two men each.
Though the palms were huge, their speed was astonishing. They whipped up fierce currents and smashed down with crushing force.
Caught off guard by the sudden change, the four men’s expressions shifted.
They had already anticipated possible mechanisms in the palms and were prepared to react.
Their swords and sabres burst with dazzling light as they struck the oncoming palms.
The power of eighth-layer Martial Emperors was terrifying. Clang! Boom! Their weapons struck the massive palms almost simultaneously, unleashing dreadful shockwaves.
But the Buddha palms seemed to contain boundless strength. Even the combined assault of four eighth-layer Martial Emperors could not shake them.
Instead, with unstoppable momentum, the palms slammed into the four men.
Pfft!
Pfft!
Pfft!
Blood mist exploded. The loose cultivator eighth-layer Martial Emperor’s body was smashed into pulp, reduced almost to minced meat.
The Azure Dragon Sect elder was battered into a bloody mess and hurled backwards, clearly beyond saving.
Half of Yang Fengyi’s chest was crushed. He spewed a great gout of blood and shot far away.
As for Ji Ya, the most terrifying power had erupted from him. Just before impact, a bloodline on his body flared, releasing dreadful fluctuations.
Even so, his chest caved in slightly. He vomited blood violently and was flung far into the distance.
The hundred-zhang golden Buddha’s palms were matchless in power, utterly horrifying.
In that instant, everyone present was stunned.
“Yes, yes, that’s exactly it!”
The laughing voice of the bald fatty rang out from atop the golden Buddha’s head. “These are things left for me by the Buddha Ancestor. All you can do is get slapped…”
“Courting death!”
The five eighth-layer Martial Emperors on the periphery nearly spat blood in rage. They had been completely played by this middle-aged bald fatty, and four men had been killed or grievously wounded.
The eighth-layer Martial Emperors from the three great powers were especially furious. Together with the remaining loose cultivator eighth-layer, they unleashed devastating attacks.
Dazzling sword and sabre lights, carrying incomparable force and terrifying pressure, surged towards the bald fatty like a flood.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Five torrents of power collided with the bald man. Vast energy, like an ocean, exploded outwards with him at the centre, engulfing everything for dozens, even hundreds of li around.
The combined assault of five eighth-layer Martial Emperors was simply too dreadful.
Right behind them, not only the five but many others also struck.
The people from the three great powers were especially incensed that their eighth-layer Martial Emperors had been killed or crippled.
“What a dirty trick!”
Lin Xiao, watching from a little further back, felt speechless.
That bald fatty was simply vile. Two palms had killed one eighth-layer Martial Emperor outright and severely injured two top geniuses, Yang Fengyi and the most dangerous man present, Ji Ya.
The two of them probably never saw it coming.
“Wait… Ji Ya and Yang Fengyi are both gravely wounded?”
Lin Xiao’s eyes instantly lit up. He looked towards the direction the two had been flung.
They had crashed into the distant ground, kicking up clouds of dust.
Excitement surged through Lin Xiao. Ignoring the battle around the bald man, he shot towards where the two had landed.
His first target was Yang Fengyi.
Although Yang Fengyi was an eighth-layer Martial Emperor, he was probably not as strong as Ji Ya. Lin Xiao would test the waters on him first, see how much fight he had left, then decide about Ji Ya.
Otherwise, he might put himself in danger.
At that moment, everyone’s attention was fixed on the fight at the Buddha statue. No one noticed him immediately. Lin Xiao flew at top speed towards Yang Fengyi’s position.
The dust around Yang Fengyi was not too thick and had already begun to settle.
Lin Xiao could faintly see Yang Fengyi lying on the ground, covered in blood.
Instead of striking the killing blow at once, Lin Xiao quietly stood several thousand zhang away and sent spiritual force towards Yang Fengyi’s body.
More precisely, towards his head.
To Lin Xiao’s surprise, Yang Fengyi truly was too heavily injured to react. With a fierce tug of spiritual force, Lin Xiao ripped the man’s head clean off. Blood sprayed from the severed neck.
Overjoyed, Lin Xiao used spiritual force to pull Yang Fengyi’s storage ring towards him, skimming low across the ground.
“This poor monk will just stand here and let you hit me!” At that very moment, the bald man’s calm yet utterly arrogant voice rang out from the Buddha statue.
Lin Xiao glanced over. Through the thinning waves of energy, he saw golden light flowing across the bald man’s body. The combined attacks of the crowd had not harmed him in the slightest.
Lin Xiao’s face twitched. Even the attacks of five eighth-layer Martial Emperors could not shake that bald fatty’s golden body. Just how strong was it?
He wasted no more time watching. Snatching Yang Fengyi’s storage ring, he did not even check its contents before racing at full speed towards Ji Ya.
Meanwhile, more and more people surged towards the hundred-zhang Buddha statue.
In almost no time, Lin Xiao reached a spot several li from where Ji Ya had landed.
The dust around Ji Ya had completely settled. He was coughing up blood, looking down at his wounds while slowly bringing a medicinal pill to his mouth.
“As expected of one of the most dangerous men here. Yang Fengyi can’t even move, yet he can still act!”
Watching Ji Ya from afar, Lin Xiao sighed inwardly.
He immediately took out the skeletal palm and sent it flying rapidly towards Ji Ya under spiritual force control.
Although Ji Ya was certainly gravely injured, very gravely, Lin Xiao had witnessed Ji Yue’s strength before. If he tried the same method as with Yang Fengyi, he might not succeed in killing him.
A failed strike would definitely alert the man. Ji Ya could escape with other means or launch a powerful counter-attack, and then Lin Xiao would be in serious trouble.
So he sent the skeletal palm directly.
In moments, the skeletal palm reached Ji Ya. Lin Xiao poured spiritual force into it. An intensely evil aura erupted, and rolling yellow mist gushed forth.
Terrifying Yellow Spring power poured out like a breached dam from the skeletal palm, flooding in all directions. The corrosive force seemed capable of eating through the void itself.
“No!!!”
Ji Ya let out a cry of extreme unwillingness that echoed through heaven and earth. His bloodline flared, radiance flowing across his body.
But the next instant, his body was swallowed by the Yellow Spring power. The cry ceased. Clearly, he had perished to the Yellow Springs.
From killing Yang Fengyi to finishing Ji Ya, Lin Xiao had taken only the brief span of a few attacks against the bald man.
Hearing Ji Ya’s shout, the Ji family eighth-layer Martial Emperors bellowed in fury, “Someone is attacking Ji Ya! Quickly!”
With that, one of them shot towards this direction.
