Boom!
Where Lin Xiao had stood, several youths couldn’t dodge in time and were smashed into ash.
“Trying to escape? Hmph!” The grey-robed youth sprang into action, snorting coldly. He threw a punch into the air, unleashing a dazzling burst of light. The terrifying fist force poured down like a surging river.
Boom!
Lin Xiao dodged, and the Martial King’s fearsome punch struck a dozen others. Dust billowed, power surged, and screams rang out as countless people were flung aside.
Master Yuling and the grey-robed youth attacked without restraint, heedless of the crowd below.
“Bloody hell!” Lin Xiao cursed, quickly taking flight, soaring over heads towards where Huandie, Ji Mo, and others stood nearby.
“He’s flying— it’s definitely him!” Seeing this, fury blazed in the eyes of Liu Yan, Gong Hongyun, and their families. In this region, only Lin Xiao could fly at such a young age.
“Lin Xiao, don’t come here!” Huandie and Yunlian shouted. Lin Xiao’s antics over the Junzang map key had made waves, and they knew him well. Seeing him charge their way, they darted aside.
“Damn it!” Ji Mo and Qi Mubai’s faces paled as they bolted towards their elders.
This guy was trying to drag them into the mess!
Boom!
Another deafening blast roared. A spiritual seal and a fist strike hit their former spot, cratering the ground and sending shockwaves rolling.
The group escaped, but others weren’t so lucky— reduced to ash.
Lin Xiao darted through the crowd, a throng fleeing with him, curses filling the air.
“Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!”…
A series of explosions thundered, massive waves of force surging outward. Dust clouded the sky as countless screams echoed.
“Interesting?” Watching this, the Tiger Legion’s young commander, calm until now, let out a faint sigh from the void.
Yuan Kai and Guan Shuo, on either side, looked intrigued.
A third-tier mid-level spirit controller youth escaping a fourth-tier low-level spirit controller and a low-tier Martial King!
The other two Martial King youths stood with arms crossed, watching like spectators, uninterested in joining.
After all, a mere Heavenly Martial realm youth— if they all ganged up, it’d be humiliating.
The幽袍 Martial Venerable elder beside them didn’t move either, just observing coldly. Someone of this level was an ant to him.
The Liu and Gong families held back, wary of this group’s power— otherwise, they’d have attacked regardless of face.
Lin Xiao reached the stone gate, leaping into the air. To taunt his pursuers, he removed his mask, dispersed the aura-mixing powder with vital qi, reverting to his sixteen- or seventeen-year-old self, and shouted back, “Martial King genius, fourth-tier spirit controller— is that all?”
“Hmph, courting death!” After missing several strikes, the grey-robed youth fumed, his aura sharpening. Light flared in his hands, a more terrifying force surging as a blinding fist strike shot towards Lin Xiao like lightning.
“Whoosh!” Lin Xiao pushed his spiritual power to the limit, dodging.
Boom!
The youth’s ferocious fist slammed into the stone gate.
“Swoosh!”
A beam shot from the gate, swift as lightning, striking back at the grey-robed youth.
“Trouble!” His face twisted, too late to dodge. He summoned vital qi to shield himself, but the beam hit instantly.
“Pfft!”
Blood sprayed from his mouth as he was hurled far back.
In that instant, the crowd gaped.
The fierce grey-robed youth, injured by the gate’s backlash?
Master Yuling, about to strike, froze. The two spectating Martial King youths and the冷漠 Martial Venerable elder stared, stunned— this was unexpected.
This Heavenly Martial kid had outwitted the grey-robed youth! What a cunning bastard!
The幽袍 elder waved a hand, a gentle force catching the youth’s body.
Stumbling, the grey-robed youth was steadied by his two peers, but blood gushed from his mouth.
Clearly, the gate’s counterattack had left him gravely wounded!
Fury burned on the faces of the grey-robed youth, his companions, and the幽袍 Martial Venerable.
But Lin Xiao’s next words nearly made them explode with rage: “Oh, you didn’t die?”
“Roar!”
The grey-robed youth bellowed, shaking the heavens. A prodigy, a Martial King in his youth, revered by all— yet tricked by an eighth-tier Heavenly Martial kid who even wished him dead.
His lungs felt ready to burst!
Ignoring his injuries, vital qi boiled within him, surging across his body as he prepared to charge in a desperate attack.
“Hmph!” Anger flashed on the幽袍 Martial Venerable’s face. A terrifying mid-tier Martial Venerable pressure swept forward, choking the air for many.
A mid-tier Martial Venerable, enraged, was about to act!
“Rumble!”
But just then, the earth quaked, the void trembled. The massive stone gate shuddered, the air rippling as if in upheaval. Terrifying waves pulsed outward, a fearsome pressure spreading in all directions.
The light mist on the gate vanished completely. The white jade gate slid apart, revealing a mirror-like water curtain in the gap, slowly unveiling itself to all.
In that moment, every gaze snapped to it, tension gripping everyone.
“Rumble!”
Deafening sounds persisted as the gate slid fully open with a final clang, exposing a dozens-of-metres-wide water-curtain doorway.
The shaking ceased, the oppressive pressure dissipating.
“Swoosh!” While the crowd stood stunned, a youth’s figure, pulling a woman, darted into the curtain.
It was Lin Xiao and Hu Yue— closest to the gate. Sensing the pressure lift, they confirmed it was fully open and charged in without hesitation.
Seeing someone enter, the scene erupted. People surged towards the curtain.
“Brat, how dare you!”
The幽袍 Martial Venerable, Guan Shuo, Yuan Kai, and others roared in fury. Sixth-tier Martial Venerables guarding here, yet outpaced by a junior!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The幽袍 Martial Venerable, Guan Shuo, and the Tiger Legion’s young commander struck. As they flew forward, giant vital qi palms formed, brimming with immense power, crashing into the crowd.
Their barrage turned countless people to blood mist, flinging bodies everywhere.
The幽袍 Martial Venerable, with the injured Martial King youth, joined the young commander and Guan Shuo in rushing inside.
“Hmph, a bunch of ants daring to covet Junzang!”
Yuan Kai sneered from the void. Before flying off, he too struck, unleashing a sea-like force teeming with mid-tier Martial Venerable might, surging towards the crowd.
“Rumble!”
The power was overwhelming, its terrifying force hurling countless people aside, killing many instantly.
Under these mid-tier Martial Venerables’ onslaught, a swathe of bodies littered the stone gate’s front.
“These people are ruthless!” someone cried in pained fury. To block others from the prize, they casually slaughtered the crowd, treating lives like ants.
But they were helpless— their strength paled in comparison.
“Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!”…
Now, the crowd’s experts turned on each other, dazzling bursts of light clashing as rolling waves of force surged outward.
The fiercest were the Martial Kings, striking one another before racing to the doorway.
The other two Martial King youths and Master Yuling moved swiftly, their attacks merciless.
The Liu and Gong families sprang into action, their experts bulldozing through, obliterating swathes of foes in their rivalry.
The Ji family and Jade Fan Sect joined in, Ji Mo, Qi Mubai, Huandie, Yunlian, and others surging towards the curtain.
The area boiled over, radiant light filling every inch. Those rushing forward shielded themselves with vital qi, plunging into the curtain one after another.
This chaos left countless dead or wounded.
The fight for Junzang was brutal— even the scramble at the gate was this fierce.
