“If Elder Ji Gan were not at the ninth-level Martial Emperor realm, killing him would have been more troublesome. They would not have used this method.”
The Fierce Fang Sect leader added.
Having said that, he moved and struck a palm towards Ji Gan.
“You court death!”
Ji Gan snorted coldly. With a flick of his finger, he shot the object forward. It pierced straight towards the Fierce Fang Sect leader’s chest.
At that moment, however, Ji Gan discovered that his meridians seemed to be solidifying. Obstruction set in, and the power he could wield had already dropped by two full levels of cultivation.
The Fierce Fang Sect leader made no attempt to block the object. He let it pierce his body while his palm continued towards Ji Gan. Ji Gan met it with his other hand.
“Puff!”
“Bang!”
The Fierce Fang Sect leader’s chest was pierced clean through. His entire body was sent flying, while Ji Gan himself was forced back several steps.
The Ji family youths flew into a rage. Ji Gan was utterly furious. He roared, “Who dares to raise a hand against my Ji family!!!”
At that instant, nine youths appeared in the void and flew rapidly towards them.
“Hahaha, you fell for it. Now taking you down will be much easier.”
Ling Hu laughed loudly.
“I did not expect you to have this kind of poison.”
Surprise showed on Li Luo’s face.
“The effect is very strong. It can suppress several levels of cultivation even in a ninth-level Martial Emperor. However, it has a major drawback. The victim has to be foolish enough to touch it directly with their flesh.”
Zi Ling said.
The Fierce Fang Sect leader had been controlled by her spirit to carry out the attack. In truth, she possessed more than one type of poison. On the restricted sea island, she had obtained several poison pill recipes and refined a considerable number.
However, against a ninth-level Martial Emperor powerhouse, her current spiritual power was insufficient to refine a pill deadly enough to kill one.
Thus, she could only resort to this method.
Of course, she had only acted after controlling the Fierce Fang Sect leader and confirming that, apart from this ninth-level Martial Emperor elder, everyone else present was a youth.
If there had been eighth-level Martial Emperors or other experts, they might not have been able to handle them.
“Just you lot think you can kill this old man?”
Ji Gan was beside himself with rage. These people wanted to kill him, poison him, and even call him stupid. A dignified ninth-level Martial Emperor elder of the Ji family had never suffered such humiliation.
Yuan force surged violently in Ji Gan’s dantian.
Yet it was severely obstructed. He now had less than one or two tenths of his original power.
Still, the oldest among the opponents was only around twenty-seven. How high could their cultivation possibly be?
Even with his remaining sixth or seventh-level Martial Emperor strength, or even if it were just Ji Mao and the others, the enemy could never hope to match them.
“Exactly. Just us!”
Ling Hu grinned. A powerful fifth-level Martial Emperor aura erupted from him. He charged towards Ji Gan like a primordial fierce beast.
“A mere fifth-level Martial Emperor. You truly court death!”
Ji Mao shouted in fury. Sixth-level Martial Emperor aura burst forth as he rushed fiercely at Ling Hu.
“Boom!”
The two clashed head-on. Fists met in a thunderous collision. Ling Hu was forced back dozens of zhang.
Ji Mao, however, was hurled back more than a hundred zhang.
“So strong?”
Ji Mao was greatly shocked. As a ground-tier genius of the Ji family, sweeping same-level experts in this region was child’s play to him.
Yet this burly youth, whose cultivation was one level lower, had not only forced him back but even gained a slight upper hand.
“Oh? Sixth-level Martial Emperor, and with strength like this?”
Surprise also flickered across Ling Hu’s face. With his combat power and physical robustness, crossing one or two levels in battle posed no difficulty.
Yet this opponent, only one level higher, could match him blow for blow. That alone proved the man’s strength.
“You!”
Ji Mao flew into a greater rage. A dignified ground-tier genius of the Ji family had been forced back, and the opponent even praised his strength. It was pure humiliation.
“Everyone, attack. Kill them all!”
Ji Mao roared and charged at Ling Hu again.
“I wanted to test a Ji family genius, but we need to end this quickly. So I will not play any longer.”
Ling Hu grinned. His arm began to beastify. His body turned crimson. His entire right arm transformed into a beast claw. The aura of a primordial fierce beast exploded from him.
“Five Yin Demon Claws!”
With Ling Hu’s shout, the beast claw struck forward. A massive blood-coloured giant claw condensed ahead of it. Pressure as if from ancient primordial times surged from the blood claw. Utterly wild and violent momentum shook heaven and earth.
The blood claw carried terrifying power as it clawed towards Ji Mao.
“What!”
Feeling that horrifying might, Ji Mao’s expression changed drastically. Dense shock filled his heart.
The power was far too terrifying. Clearly only fifth-level Martial Emperor realm, yet the combat strength unleashed was comparable to an eighth-level Martial Emperor.
Even as a ground-tier genius, he was nowhere near that level.
“Save me!”
Ji Mao shouted and immediately deployed his strongest trump card.
The Ji family’s Ji Water Style, which he could only barely perform, produced a faint flowing water sword shadow that blasted towards the blood claw.
Ji Gan had already sensed danger and charged forward.
Two of the rushing Ji family youths also moved to rescue him.
At the same instant, however, Sheng Li erupted with overbearing grand momentum. The Wordless Heavenly Book, containing boundless power, flipped open and unleashed vast unparalleled fluctuations towards those two youths.
The entire heaven and earth seemed to tremble.
The two youths’ faces filled with horror. They had no time to aid Ji Mao and could only strike desperately at the Wordless Heavenly Book’s power.
Vast righteous qi surged from Lu Chuyou’s body. He thrust his spear. Immense righteous qi converged at the tip in a dazzling golden light.
Extremely powerful righteous force, as if representing heaven and earth granting form to all things, swept forth with rolling righteous qi and shot towards Ji Gan.
Ji Gan’s expression changed. He hurriedly struck a palm at the terrifying spear gleam.
At the same moment, powerful Martial Emperor auras erupted from Li Luo and the other five. Terrifying waves of power burst out.
In front of Zi Ling, several swords formed from spiritual force shot towards the youths.
“What!”
The Ji family youths were all stunned. These nine suddenly appearing youths were utterly terrifying. The fifth-level Martial Emperor youth alone was formidable. There were two seventh-level Martial Emperors. The rest all possessed strength above fourth-level Martial Emperor, and every single one had cross-level combat ability.
It was as if each one was a profound-tier or ground-tier genius of the Ji family. The combat power they unleashed was simply too frightening.
