*Boom!*
The injured youth was remarkably powerful, swiftly striking with a palm and sending the assassinating dagger flying.
The crowd was astonished, their gazes following the dagger’s trajectory. They discovered that the attacker was none other than the purple-robed woman, Zi Ling, a high-grade Fourth-Order Spirit Controller.
A Spirit Controller’s methods were indeed formidable, but they were thwarted.
*Boom!*
In that moment, on the other side, the second youth unleashed a torrent of black fist energy into the void. A deafening roar followed, and a girl in a moon robe appeared, spitting blood as she was blasted far away.
The crowd realized that a hidden assassin in the void had beheaded the first youth.
This woman possessed the ability to conceal herself in the void!
Yet, they couldn’t help but marvel at the Martial Venerable youth’s strength, detecting her instantly.
“Hu Yue!” Lin Xiao’s brows shot up. He popped a Yuan-Replenishing Pill into his mouth, activated the Void Phoenix Wings, and rushed to catch Hu Yue in his arms.
The black-clad youth ceased attacking, stabilizing himself. Wiping blood from his mouth, he cast a scornful glance at Lin Xiao and Hu Yue, his face radiating the arrogance and ruthlessness of a top genius.
Now steadied, he viewed them as corpses, ready to strike anytime.
He and the other youth scanned the battlefield, shocked by the thunderous storm and scattered corpses. Seeing the You Tian Demon Palace’s dire state, their expressions turned icy.
“You okay?” Lin Xiao, supporting Hu Yue on the Void Phoenix Wings, retreated.
“I’m fine. Damn, that guy’s too strong,” Hu Yue wiped blood from her mouth, swallowing a Fourth-Grade healing pill from Zi Ling.
Seeing Hu Yue was unharmed, Lin Xiao relaxed, looking up at the youth with a cold gaze.
“Chu Tianling, second on the Demon List, and Cai Dan, fifth!” Mao Youtan’s brows furrowed deeply.
He recognized them as top powerhouses from the You Tian Demon Palace, both at Martial Venerable Third Realm, with terrifying strength.
Their presence was worth countless ordinary fighters.
The gap in cultivation was too vast.
The Holy City’s fighters frowned.
The crowd was stunned again. With two Martial Venerable Third Realm powerhouses joining, the tide might turn.
“What happened? Where are the others?” Chu Tianling, scanning the battlefield and not seeing the previous ten, frowned and asked.
“Brother Chu, all ten Martial Venerable brothers were killed by those two with mass Explosive Pills,” Zheng Fang pointed furiously at Lin Xiao and Zi Ling, his gaze icy. “The palace’s current state is their doing!”
“What!” Chu Tianling and Cai Dan’s faces flashed with rage. Lin Xiao caused this, killing ten Martial Venerables?
“Today, none of you from the Holy City will leave!” Chu Tianling’s roar echoed, his piercing gaze sweeping over them, thick with killing intent.
“Let’s see if you have what it takes!” Lin Xiao glanced at the Holy City forces below, saying, “Everyone, trap the others. Tianxing List’s three, Dixing List’s top ten, break free.”
With a wave, over fifty skeletons scattered into the air, animating and attacking the You Tian Demon Palace disciples.
“What!” The crowd was shocked. Dead bodies’ skeletons could attack?
What sorcery was this?
*Bang!* *Bang!* *Bang!*
More shocking, the skeletons blasted anyone below Martial King Fifth Realm away, even shaking off Sixth Realm fighters.
Each skeleton wielded Martial King Sixth Realm power, and a formidable kind at that.
Over fifty such skeletons were like adding a new force to the Holy City’s side.
“Kill!”
With the two palace fighters’ arrival, a brief truce ended, and battle resumed.
The skeletons’ addition allowed more Holy City fighters to focus on the palace disciples. Top Dixing List members—seven or eight, even a dozen—targeted each Demon List leader, holding them back.
Meanwhile, the Tianxing List’s three—Bai Moxuan, Mu Yao, and others from the Dixing List’s top ten—soared, attacking the two Martial Venerables in the sky.
“Hmph, you lot aren’t worthy!”
Chu Tianling sneered, charging at Lin Xiao and Hu Yue. His terrifying aura stirred a fierce gale, his long blade sharp and lethal, aiming to kill them in one strike.
Cai Dan moved too, targeting Bai Moxuan and the others to block them.
A Martial Venerable Third Realm, he feared no crowd.
“Worthy or not, let’s find out!”
Lin Xiao roared, channeling Yuan force into his storage ring. With a fling, a dense, eerie gas surged, and a ghastly figure appeared, punching Chu Tianling’s blade.
*Clang!*
A piercing metallic clash erupted, an eerie wave bursting as Chu Tianling was knocked back dozens of feet.
A rigid figure emerged clearly.
Its face shimmered green, stiff and menacing, with lifeless iron-green eyes. Its exposed skin—neck, fingers—was rigid, pure green, wreathed in deathly aura, devoid of life.
This wasn’t a person but a corpse.
“Corpse Puppet!” Chu Tianling exclaimed, as the green puppet charged, striking with a palm of terrifying force.
*Boom!* *Boom!* *Boom!*
Chu Tianling fought the puppet, evenly matched.
The crowd was stunned. Lin Xiao had such a trump card.
In truth, Lin Xiao wasn’t certain the puppet had fully advanced. Previously, it was mostly green, nearing a breakthrough to cyan.
With the situation dire, he risked using it, prepared to waste a Cold Yin Stone’s refinement.
To his delight, the puppet had succeeded, fully cyan, advancing from Green Corpse Puppet to Cyan Corpse Puppet, its combat power reaching Martial Venerable level.
Its strength was astounding, matching Chu Tianling, second on the Demon List, whom even Lin Xiao’s Heaven-Swallowing Spirit Finger couldn’t heavily injure.
The puppet, newly advanced to Martial King First Realm, was shockingly powerful in defense and strength.
Lin Xiao sighed in relief. The puppet, refined with a Cold Yin Stone for so long, had broken through at this critical moment, free from void thunder penalties, ready for action.
Its timely breakthrough justified his 100,000 contribution points.
