Chapter 672: Chapter 671: Turn the tide (Subscription Requested)
As he swung his sword, Shi Xiaole still had energy left. He propelled his body hundreds of feet into the air, evading the joint attack of the Earth Immortal from the Hell Gate and the He Family.
"What, he repelled a master at the third level of the Divine Barrier Realm with just one sword strike?"
Only at this moment did exclamations of astonishment begin to rise, like waves cresting one higher than the last.
The people of the Qin Family residing in the Qin Mansion, from the elders to the disciples, from the disciples to the maidservants, everyone was so surprised that they couldn’t close their mouths.
"Could he really be that strong?"
Qin Xiangyu’s eyes flickered rapidly, her chest rising and falling.
She had guessed that Shi Xiaole, having become a Terrestrial Immortal, must be very strong, frighteningly strong. Still, she hadn’t imagined his strength would be so incomprehensibly tremendous.
Repelling the Earth Immortal of the Qiu Family, who is at the third level of the Divine Barrier Realm, with a single sword strike, she wondered how the Jade Lion would feel when he saw this.
"Damn it, this bastard!"
The Qiu Family’s Earth Immortal trembled all over, filled with both shock and anger, and a heavy feeling of fear crawled out of every pore in his body, chilling his heart.
"I was too careless just now, brat you are going to die!"
An endless vigor erupted, a fierce wind forming in circles around Qiu Family’s Earth Immortal as he charged at Shi Xiaole. He refused to believe that he would lose to Shi Xiaole, lose to a greenhorn who had just become a Terrestrial Immortal not so long ago.
The Earth Immortal from Hell Gate and the Earth Immortal from the He Family exchanged glances. Both wisely kept their distance, concentrating their power, waiting for when Shi Xiaole would show a flaw to immediately kill him.
The Earth Immortal from the Qiu Family was highly agile. Often before his afterimage had even dissipated, he had already reached another location. But who was Shi Xiaole?
Not to mention his spiritual force alone, his battle skills and sharp eyesight were more than enough to thwart the opponent’s plan of turning the tide of battle with speed.
Flicking his blade like a bolt of lightning in a moment’s time, Shi Xiaole had cast ten sword strokes. After these ten strokes, all illusions disappeared, the sword’s momentum converged into one solid strike shot directly to the east.
Zap!
A figure shifted to the right.
Now is the time!
The Earth Immortal from the Hell Gate and the He Family’s eyes brightened. They roared in unison, the power from their palms sweeping across half the sky. It seemed as though it was gathering into a circle, the center of which was Shi Xiaole.
"Get lost!"
The force of his Wind Sword Way soared skyward, forming a rapidly spinning, roughly hundred feet wide, cyan-colored tornado around Shi Xiaole. It shot up into the high sky, stopping the dual attack momentarily.
In that same instant, Shi Xiaole swung his sword at the Earth Immortal of the He Family with seven tenths of his full strength. It was the fastest technique within the Wind Extreme Sword Technique – the Wind of Lingxi.
Whoosh!
The interval was too short to measure.
"No..."
Clear eyes void of any Sword Qi, yet every hair on the Earth Immortal of the He Family stood on end. An intense sense of imminent danger urged him to dodge, but his body was unable to move.
With a squelch!
Blood stained everyone’s vision. The Earth Immortal of the He Family let out a loud scream as his left shoulder, along with his left arm, right down to his lower left ribs, was completely severed from his torso.
The cut was so smooth it was unsettling, with strands of Sword Qi infiltrating the body, opportunistically grinding the Earth Immortal of the He Family’s bones and organs. No matter how much he tried to restrain it with his Vigorous Air, it was difficult to take effect in a short amount of time.
Simultaneously, Shi Xiaole, united with his sword, transformed into a ray of sword light and charged toward the Earth Immortal of the Hell Gate.
"Pestle Shattering Mountains and Rivers!"
With a blank mind, the Earth Immortal from the Hell Gate only knew to exert all his might, shouting out the strongest attack of his life.
The terrifying energy of the pestle was bright enough to blind someone’s eyes, the eerie screams coming from within were shaking a person’s soul.
Cra-a-ack...
However, a streak of Sword Qi was even faster, piercing a few hundred meters long cut on the pestle’s surface. The sonic waves crashed on its surface, having no effect whatsoever.
"Falling Autumn Death Palm!"
A seemingly existent and non-existent force from the palm attacked the Sword Qi from the far end of the sky. Inside the attacking force, faint traces of a golden glow could be seen. The Qiu Family’s Earth Immortal twisted his face; this was his full power strike, moreover when his opponent was caught off guard, he refused to believe he couldn’t injure Shi Xiaole.
"I have been waiting for you."
Powerful entities like the Four Great Demons, who just entered the Divine Barrier Realm, might not be able to resist the combined forces of the three Earth Immortals easily.
But Shi Xiaole was different, no one could imagine how rich and plentiful his Vigorous Air was. From the previous fight, he had estimated that his Vigorous Air was not inferior to the three Earth Immortals before him.
Moreover, since their martial arts were at the first-rate level and extremely hard to improve, their realms were lower than Sky Crow Wanderer’s, probably around three-tenths. How could they compete against Shi Xiaole’s Wind Sword Way?
The approach of the three of them joining hands wasn’t wrong, only that they had picked the wrong person to provoke.
"Gale Blade."
Boosting his energy to eight-tenths, Shi Xiaole dodged the pestle’s strike and swung his sword toward the sky.
Boom!
Crack! Crack! Crack!
The enormous palm force was like a piece of chewing gum, retracting along the part struck by the Sword Qi, exerting to bounce back. When stretched to the limit, an explosion occurred. The palm force shattered into pieces. The Sword Qi was left with three-tenths of its power, charging into the high sky, leaving a deep, long mark in the distant sea of clouds.
With a thud!
The Earth Immortal from the Qiu Family, suspended halfway in the sky, had his eyes widened in shock as his body was split in two. Until his death, he couldn’t believe that he would be brutally killed by Shi Xiaole.
The surroundings suddenly grew very quiet, even the fierce fighting sounds of the dozens of Terrestrial Immortals diminished significantly. After the silence, there was a collective gasp of cold breath.
No one word was uttered because they couldn’t find the words to express. Any words would be inadequate to convey the shock in their hearts.
Two of them were at the second tier of the Divine Barrier Realm while one was at the third tier. Any of the three was capable of defeating many first-tier experts of the Divine Barrier. After all, the talent difference between those who could make it to this level was negligible.
And if the three joined forces, most first-tier experts in the Divine Barrier Realm would undoubtedly meet their end, unable to resist.
But today, a young man and his sword overturned everyone’s imagination.
He didn’t just defeat three Earth Immortals; he did this with ease, as though crushing dried weeds and rotten wood.
He was not only at the first tier of the Divine Barrier Realm, but he had also only recently advanced to this level.
The result itself was already terrifying, but the more they pondered over it, the more terrifying everyone found it to be, with chills seeping right out of their marrow.
"Brother Shi, you truly are a celestial being."
Yu Zhao looked up at the sky and the tall, jade-like young man in green. He couldn’t hide his admiration. To make him utter such words shows the magnitude of the shock that Shi Xiaole has caused him.
If you observed the expressions of the Qin Family at this moment, you would find that their gazes were not just looking up but more like witnessing a legend, a legend that was bound to resonate across the divine land.
"Old thing, get back!"
A blade’s radiance pierced through the heavens and earth. The Ancestor of the Qin Family, with his hair and beard flying, let out a hearty laugh, blocking the grey-robed elder with a single cut. The latter’s palm strength was mostly dissolved, but a part of it still rushed towards Shi Xiaole, like a doomsday meteor, its power far surpassing the three previous Earth Immortals.
Raising his hands high, with his sword pointed towards the sky, Shi Xiaole didn’t dodge or avoid, he just slashed out with his sword.
Clang!
The palm strength and Sword Qi shattered simultaneously, and the violent winds spread out, messing up Shi Xiaole’s black hair and the white at his temples, making him look like a wandering sword expert in a painting, an immortal exiled from the heavens.
"Hmph!"
The face of the grey-robed elder was icy cold, cold to the bone. Shi Xiaole’s talent was so stunning that it scared him. He made several attempts to avoid the Qin Family’s ancestor to kill Shi Xiaole, but he was repeatedly blocked.
Who knew if it was due to the stimulation by Shi Xiaole, but the Terrestrial Immortals of the Qin Family unexpectedly changed their previously desolate stances. Each of them was braver than the other, as if they had been energized, with the help of the power of their Array System, they gradually gained the upper hand.
"I hate it so much!"
The most aggrieved person was Qiu Yuansheng.
In order to wipe out the Qin Family and control the Martial World of Yuanling, he had painstakingly put in many years of effort. He was just about to succeed when his hopes were shattered by a young man.
With bloody eyes, Qiu Yuansheng looked like a beast at the brink of madness. He was employing a reckless and self-damaging style of fighting, temporarily suppressing Qin Xianghe, whom he was in confrontation with.
"Evil can never triumph over the righteous, Qiu Yuansheng, your Qiu Family’s doom is here."
Qin Xianghe didn’t engage in direct confrontation. He only intercepted when Qiu Yuansheng charged towards him, provoking Qiu Yuansheng to the point of bursting with rage but leaving him utterly powerless.
On the other side, Shi Xiaole flew away, chasing down the Earth Immortal from Hell Gate, who had narrowly escaped death.
"Don’t kill me, I beg you!"
Having run almost ten thousand meters and seeing that the gap between them was rapidly closing, the Earth Immortal from Hell Gate’s eyes flashed with a murderous glow. He quickly threw out his long sleeve, revealing an umbrella-shaped iron weapon.
This was Falling Flower Drifting Water, one of the Tang Sect’s Hundred Secret Weapons, capable of seriously injuring or even killing a low-ranking expert in the Divine Barrier Realm. His panic earlier was half genuine and half feigned to lower Shi Xiaole’s guard.
Clang!
With his sword moving swiftly like a shooting star, before the Falling Flower Drifting Water could leave his hand, Shi Xiaole’s sword had pierced through the Earth Immortal from Hell Gate’s palm. With a twist of the wrist, Sword Qi exploded out, and the entire arm of the Hell Gate Earth Immortal exploded into a mist of blood. He uttered a muffled groan, howling in pain as he crashed onto the ground.
With an outstretched hand, Shi Xiaole collected the Falling Flower Drifting Water into his bag.
"You, you won’t be proud for long, Hell Gate, won’t let you go."
Knowing that he couldn’t escape, the Earth Immortal from Hell Gate looked at Shi Xiaole with a malicious gaze.
"You need not worry about that."
Shi Xiaole could have chosen to be a bystander today regarding the day’s events, but Qin Xiangyu was, after all, his friend. Having the strength but choosing to sit idly by was not in his character.
As for the future, who can control that much? All he can strive for is to have a clear conscience.
Not in a hurry to kill the opponent, Shi Xiaole showed the Heaven and Earth Changing Spirit Great Method.
This spiritual martial art could not only draw the opponent into the fantasy of their past life but was also the unmatched method for extracting secrets, its effect being infinitely better than that of the Soul Capturing Skill.
After a while, Shi Xiaole killed the enemy with one sword strike. After confirming the safety with his expanded spiritual power, he quickly returned to the Qin Mansion through the gap in the array system.
"Shi Xiaole, Kirin, you have ruined the big plan of Hell Gate, just you wait!"
Seeing that his aim of annihilating the Qin Family had failed, the grey-robed elder understood that if he retreated today, it would mean that the secret was out. From then on, it would be much more challenging for Hell Gate to control the Martial World of Yuanling.
All of this was Kirin’s fault!
"Get out of here!"
The grey-robed elder gave Shi Xiaole a deep look, as if wanting to engrave him deep into his memory. With an angry yell, he disappeared from sight after taking several flying leaps.
Other people had no choice but to follow his lead and leave one after another.
