“Who said I only have one?”
Lin Xiao sneered, then with a wave of his hand, a vast array of skeletal frames appeared in everyone’s line of sight.
These skeletons were all complete humanoid skeletons, numbering in the hundreds or thousands.
After being summoned by Lin Xiao, they stood in the void, not falling to the ground.
Under Lin Xiao’s control, the skeletons began to shake their skulls, rubbing their bones together, producing a series of “clattering” sounds from their joints, as if they had come to life.
This sent shivers down countless spines.
These skeletons could actually move?
And, it seemed, they could fight?
How was that possible?
People had heard of secret techniques to refine corpse puppets, but never that skeletal bones could be refined and used in combat.
Without flesh or meridians, only bones remained, so how could they still hold power and attack?
Moreover, each one stood in the void. Could it be that these skeletons all possessed the combat strength of a Martial Lord?
The thought made countless people even more horrified.
If that were true, then today, the Duan family would gain no advantage.
Even the Martial Emperors of the Ling Sword Sect and the Absolute Blade Sect furrowed their brows. They had thought the three major families held the upper hand, but they hadn’t expected Lin Xiao to have such a trick.
Fu Yan and Zhe Renfeng’s faces even showed anger.
The Duan family’s Half-Step Martial Emperor, along with the entire Duan clan, grew solemn after their initial shock.
They could never have imagined Lin Xiao had such a trump card.
“By the way, these are the Martial Lords from the destroyed Yin Luo Wen family, and, well, a few are from your Duan family who died there,” Lin Xiao casually remarked, seeing the stunned looks of the Duan family.
“What!” This sent the Duan family into a rage.
To refine the bones of their fallen into skeletons and bring them to attack the Duan family was nothing short of humiliating them!
The hidden members of the Yin Luo Wen family trembled with fury. Those were their clan’s finest elites, who had died unjustly, and now Lin Xiao had turned them into combat skeletons to attack the Duan family.
“Hmph, just a bluff. How much power can skeletal bones hold? Even if you refined skeletons that can fight, so what?” the Duan family’s Half-Step Martial Emperor snorted coldly.
This calmed the Duan family somewhat. Indeed, even if the skeletons could fight, they couldn’t compare to humans. Their combat strength surely wasn’t as strong.
“Don’t believe it? Send someone to test it!” Lin Xiao said unhurriedly, waving his hand to send a skeleton flying forward.
The Duan family’s Half-Step Martial Emperor frowned slightly, initially reluctant to bother, but they also wanted to gauge the skeletons’ strength to have some clarity.
It would also boost the Duan family’s morale.
Thus, he glanced at a nearby century-old Ninth Layer Martial Lord.
The Martial Lord understood, charging alone toward the skeleton.
“Hmph, just a piece of trash!” the century-old Ninth Layer Martial Lord scoffed, throwing a punch at the skeleton.
Dazzling light burst forth, immense power surging from the elder’s fist, radiating mighty fluctuations that shot straight at the skeleton.
Regardless of the skeleton’s strength, a dead thing like that could likely only engage in close combat.
He avoided close quarters to prove that the dead thing was not only weak but also incapable of ranged attacks.
But at that moment, something shocking happened. A terrifying, sinister aura suddenly erupted from the skeletal frame.
The skeleton clenched its fist and punched through the air, unleashing a fearsome white force from its bony fist, carrying an overwhelming sinister aura that collided with the elder’s fist light.
A thunderous “boom” resounded, a blinding light exploded, and vast waves of energy surged outward, shaking both the century-old Ninth Layer Martial Lord and the skeleton far back.
“How is this possible?” The Ninth Layer Martial Lord who attacked looked shocked, his eyes filled with disbelief.
How could a mere skeleton unleash a ranged attack strong enough to rival him?
He was a century-old Ninth Layer Martial Lord!
In that instant, the Duan family’s Half-Step Martial Emperor and the others were stunned.
Lin Xiao’s combat skeletons were that strong? Even a century-old Ninth Layer Martial Lord couldn’t defeat one?
Others were equally astonished.
The combat skeletons Lin Xiao brought were indeed extraordinary, able to hold their own against a Ninth Layer Martial Lord.
But how many such skeletons had Lin Xiao refined?
“If I said all my skeletons have the combat strength of a Ninth Layer Martial Lord, would you believe me?” Lin Xiao smirked mockingly at the Duan family.
“How could that be? A thousand skeletons with Ninth Layer Martial Lord strength, refined in such a short time? How could you possibly do that?”
The Duan family’s Half-Step Martial Emperor shouted in disbelief, then scoffed angrily, “Hmph, trying to intimidate our Duan family? Not so easy!”
The Duan family snapped out of it. A thousand combat skeletons with Ninth Layer Martial Lord strength, refined in two months? Impossible. No one could do that.
Otherwise, with endless refining, a thousand Ninth Layer Martial Lord skeletons in a year or two could sweep the entire southeast region.
A thousand Ninth Layer Martial Lords could rival a Martial Emperor. If Lin Xiao spoke the truth, why would the Duan family even bother fighting?
No matter what, they wouldn’t believe it, nor would anyone else.
But Lin Xiao’s words had briefly shaken them.
If not for the elder’s shout, they wouldn’t have recovered so quickly.
“Don’t believe it? Try it!” Lin Xiao grinned, knowing his words were meant to crush the Duan family’s morale.
After all, the number and strength of these combat skeletons were comparable to the Duan family’s forces. Psychologically overwhelming them would give him a significant advantage.
The skeleton sent out earlier was one of the three strongest, with the power of a century-old Ninth Layer Martial Lord.
The others, naturally, weren’t as strong.
As Lin Xiao spoke, the group of combat skeletons clattered their bones, each seeming eager to fight, almost lifelike.
It gave a slight possibility that they all had Ninth Layer Martial Lord strength.
