A half-step Martial Saint, killed with such ease again?
“Everyone, focus everything on him!” The Heaven-Tyrant Crab half-step Martial Saint snapped back to his senses and roared. He himself charged straight at Lin Xiao.
The youth had stolen the spirit lotus roots and could now slay half-step Martial Saints. If they did not join forces, they would be picked off one by one.
At his command, every remaining beast-clan expert abandoned their current opponents and rushed Lin Xiao.
The nearly three hundred surviving elite Heaven-Tyrant Crabs also turned and surged toward him.
“Hold them back!”
Wang Qi shouted. Forcing his wounded body to move, he threw himself in the path of the beast experts.
The other human survivors clenched their teeth and unleashed their strongest attacks, desperately intercepting their former opponents.
In their eyes, the youth had already wiped out waves of crabs with ease. Even three hundred should fall gradually, as long as the half-step Martial Saint beasts were kept away.
Once the crabs were gone, the tide would turn.
Moreover, without the elite crabs swarming them, the pressure on the humans dropped sharply; they were temporarily out of mortal danger.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Lin Xiao watched the nearly three hundred Heaven-Tyrant Crabs converge on him from every direction. He did not strike immediately; instead he waited until they packed even tighter.
He had been worried these beasts might scatter and flee. Now they were kindly delivering themselves.
Soon the three hundred crabs closed in.
Lin Xiao’s left fist sent ordinary crabs flying, while his petrified right fist punched straight through bodies, turning them to stone on contact.
In moments all three hundred had surrounded him.
His stone palm slapped forward. An enormous boulder materialised and instantly shattered into a heaven-covering storm of petrifying force that swept one entire direction.
Fifty-six crabs were reduced to ash in the blink of an eye.
Lin Xiao spun and slapped again. Another huge swath of crabs turned to dust.
Several more palms followed, and every charging crab was annihilated.
In the entire field, only one Heaven-Tyrant Crab remained, the half-step Martial Saint still entangled with a human opponent.
“What?!”
The crab’s face was filled with disbelief.
Those three hundred were the cream of the ten-thousand-strong army, every one at least early seventh-tier spirit beast, many mid-tier, some even Seventh, Eighth, or Ninth Layer Martial Emperor.
Even a half-step Martial Saint could not have lasted long against their combined assault.
Yet this youth had wiped them out effortlessly?
“His strength… may have reached Martial Saint level! Run!” the crab shouted in panic.
The surviving beast half-step Martial Saints and experts were all stunned.
Martial Saint strength?
Even if they attacked together, they would stand no chance.
How could such a monster appear among these humans?
But if he truly possessed Martial Saint power, why had he not revealed it sooner?
Had he done so earlier, even ten thousand crabs would have been slaughtered to the last shell. Most of them would never have survived.
The humans would not have lost so many experts either.
The beast experts were baffled, but the surviving humans were equally confused.
They had no time to think. They threw everything into blocking escape.
After the beasts had butchered so many of their comrades, how could they be allowed to flee now?
Whoosh!
The Heaven-Tyrant Crab half-step Martial Saint had barely retreated a few li when he was forced to turn and defend.
At that instant Lin Xiao’s first heaven-splitting stone pillar shot toward him.
The crab raised his remaining pincer and unleashed a desperate blast.
Yet his power crumbled layer by layer.
The stone pillar punched clean through his vaunted defence and through his body.
The crab instantly petrified, then collapsed into drifting ash.
The remaining beast experts fell into despair. No matter how they looked at it, a battle meant to warn the human race had turned into this nightmare.
They frantically attacked, trying to shake off their opponents and flee.
They never got the chance.
The stronger ones were targeted first. Lin Xiao struck one after another, a single punch for each, killing every last beast expert.
When the final beast fell, the surviving humans finally exhaled.
But anger quickly followed.
“With strength like that, why didn’t you act sooner?” the Jiang youth demanded furiously, tone full of accusation.
“Exactly! If you had revealed this power earlier, we wouldn’t have lost so many people!” the Tantai genius woman snapped.
Whoosh!
A stone-pillar fist beam shot from Lin Xiao’s hand straight at the Jiang youth.
“You!”
The youth’s expression changed. He hurriedly unleashed his strongest defence.
It was useless. The stone pillar smashed through everything and punched clean through his chest.
His eyes bulged wide in disbelief. He had never imagined the youth would strike so decisively.
He was from the Jiang Clan!
Yet the other party acted without the slightest hesitation?
The Jiang youth died with everlasting regret.
Everyone else stood dumbfounded.
“And who gave you the likes of you the right to question me?” Lin Xiao’s voice rang out, cold and overbearing.
They had seen his strength, yet still dared speak to him with such arrogance. These great-clan members truly were spoiled beyond reason.
The beast clans dared to attack them, so why would a human not dare to attack great-clan members?
“You… you dare kill a member of my Jiang Clan?” one Jiang half-step Martial Saint roared in shock and fury.
“Just who are you? You killed the supreme genius of our Jiang Clan! Are you not afraid of our clan’s vengeance?” the other Jiang elder bellowed.
This youth was one of the Jiang Clan’s top talents. Not yet thirty, yet already stronger than they were.
He would certainly have become a Martial Saint in the future, a pillar of the clan.
Yet after surviving the beast onslaught, he had been slain by this youth before their eyes.
How could they not be enraged?
“To stand before someone stronger than you and still dare speak of vengeance? Utterly stupid.” Lin Xiao’s fist shot forward again. A stone-pillar beam hurtled toward one of the Jiang elders.
“You!”
The elder’s heart shook. He swung his iron bamboo, unleashing a domineering strike to meet the attack.
Boom!
His power shattered. The stone pillar punched straight through his body.
The Jiang half-step Martial Saint fell, reduced to drifting ash.
The last Jiang elder felt his heart seize. Only now did he understand: this youth intended to silence them all!
And they had actually questioned him!
Realisation dawning, he turned to flee in terror and regret.
Lin Xiao’s next punch was even faster. The beam pierced his back. Dead on the spot.
At that instant the Tantai genius woman’s heart lurched violently.
The entire Jiang Clan group… wiped out?
Just because that youth had opened his mouth?
She too had spoken. Would he turn on her next?
Her face went deathly pale.
Tantai Wenjun and Tantai Qiuping also turned ashen.
Especially Tantai Wenjun. He had tried to enslave Lin Xiao’s mind during the battle.
There was no way this youth would let him live.
“Young friend, we were rude earlier. Please, for the sake of the Tantai Clan, show mercy. We are willing to offer everything we possess!” Tantai Wenjun lowered his posture and pleaded. As an elder of the Tantai Clan, he still had some presence of mind and recognised the danger immediately.
