After Gu Shiyou’s death, Lin Xiao turned his attention elsewhere. Those who ambushed Hu Yue at Yinwind Ridge or attacked them on the Mysterious Domain battlefield would be “dealt with” by Hu Yue herself, leaving him free to focus on others.
“Xiu!”
Lin Xiao swooped toward a Youtian Alliance elder, a Fifth Realm Martial Venerable, locked in combat with a Holy City elder. He unleashed a close-range sword strike with crushing force.
The elder’s face twisted. After repelling his opponent with a desperate slash, he raised his blade to meet Lin Xiao’s attack.
Clang!
A piercing clash rang out. Blood trickled from the elder’s mouth as he was hurled back.
Caught off-guard, he couldn’t muster full strength, no match for Lin Xiao’s physical might. The strike combined Lin Xiao’s full yuan force and spiritual power.
Though a Fifth Realm Martial Venerable, his strength was slightly below Xiahou Li’s.
Clang! Pfft! The Holy City elder seized the moment, slashing and wounding the Youtian elder further.
Lin Xiao followed up, his sword smashing down.
Boom!
The elder, barely blocking with his blade, was out of strength. He crashed into a Holy City building, collapsing it and cratering the ground.
“Great Azure Dragon Slash!”
Lin Xiao struck downward, a radiant azure dragon sword beam surging into the crater, kicking up clouds of earth.
Turning, he charged another target.
The elder, if not dead, was out of the fight.
Crippling one enemy freed up a Holy City expert.
“Pfft!”
Geng Yan, fourth on the Heavenly Demon List, lost his head.
Another Youtian prodigy fell to Hu Yue.
Boom!
A Sixth Realm Martial Venerable broke free, slashing a terrifying blade beam at Lin Xiao.
Lin Xiao frowned, using yuan qi wings and spiritual power to dodge.
“Chi!”
The blade beam grazed past, cratering the ground.
“Courting death!” Lin Xiao’s eyes hardened. Gripping his sword, he activated Yaoguang Sword Technique, his body glowing translucent, white light blazing. His Yaoguang broken sword hummed with terrifying power.
“Chi!” A brilliant white sword beam shot skyward, targeting the Sixth Realm elder.
The elder sneered, raising his blade with both hands, but his brows twitched. Switching to a single-handed grip, he slashed at Lin Xiao while firing a palm strike into empty space beside him.
The void was empty.
Lin Xiao knew what the elder faced.
Boom!
The elder’s palm struck nothing, and his weakened blade beam clashed with Lin Xiao’s sword beam. The resulting shockwave overwhelmed him.
Blood sprayed from his mouth as he was flung dozens of zhang.
A scream of terror followed, and his head flew.
Hu Yue had claimed another Sixth Realm elder.
“Kill!”
Lin Xiao didn’t pause. Equipping the Void Sky Phoenix Wings, he stepped on, boosting his speed to hunt Youtian’s Martial Venerables.
This strategy minimized Holy City losses, freeing more fighters to overwhelm opponents, potentially shifting the Martial Venerable battlefield—and the entire war.
With a wave, Lin Xiao summoned over thirty mid-tier Martial King-level combat skeletons from his storage ring, ordering them to attack Youtian’s Martial Kings, easing pressure on Holy City disciples.
“Xiu!”
Riding the Phoenix Wings, Lin Xiao targeted a Youtian Demon Palace elder, a Fifth Realm Martial Venerable overpowering a bloodied Holy City elder.
Lin Xiao struck for both strategic and opportunistic reasons.
The Youtian elder was mid-clash with the Holy City elder, leaving his flank exposed. Lin Xiao unleashed Chaos-Reversing Three Forms.
Chaotic yuan force surged before his palms, warping space like a killing machine, barreling toward the elder’s side.
“Trouble!” The elder split his power, blasting the Holy City elder with one palm while striking Lin Xiao’s chaotic force with another.
But his rushed defense crumbled against Lin Xiao’s lethal strike. The palm force shattered, and the chaotic energy tore into the elder.
“No!”
A scream rang out. “Pfft!” “Pfft!” “Pfft!” The Fifth Realm elder was shredded into bloody fragments.
Even the Holy City elder gaped, horrified.
A powerful Youtian elder, reduced to minced meat?
How devastating was Lin Xiao’s attack?
How brutal?
Lin Xiao ignored him, turning to other Martial Venerables.
Meanwhile, Youtian’s low and mid-tier Martial Venerables’ heads kept flying.
In half an incense stick’s time, Youtian lost over thirty Martial Venerables, mostly to Hu Yue and Lin Xiao.
One in the open, one in the shadows, they ravaged Youtian’s forces like wolves among sheep.
This freed twenty to thirty Holy City Martial Venerables, who joined others, crushing Youtian’s Venerables.
“Elder Cao, act now!” You Mo roared, unable to watch further.
They’d come to crush Shengyuan Academy, but the enemy’s Martial Monarch numbers were unexpected.
Worse, their Martial Venerables were collapsing rapidly. If this continued, they’d be wiped out.
