Chapter 769: Sent Flying with One Palm Strike
Chapter 769: Sent Flying with One Palm Strike
The flowers would never die and the blazing sun would never go out; the heavens would help those who helped themselves.
Xiao Chen waved his hand, and the Lunar Shadow Saber appeared in his grasp from the Universe Ring. Without even drawing his saber, he casually swung the scabbard.
“Pu ci!”
As the heavy scabbard sliced through the air, it gave off a shrill sound as if tearing space. Before the middle-aged man landed on the ground, the scabbard pierced his chest and pinned him to the yellow sand.
Blood flowed out of the middle-aged man’s wound, dripping onto the yellow sand. Soon, the blazing sun baked it into an eye-catching patch of blood stain, like a flower of death that just bloomed.
Suddenly, a shadow appeared on the ground. Xiao Chen looked up and discovered that Xuan Yu had transformed into his true form—a three-tailed white fox about four meters tall and more than twenty meters long.
However, even after revealing his true form, Xuan Yu still did not have the confidence to fight Xiao Chen. He only did this for the sake of running faster, to increase his chances of escaping.
Xiao Chen gently pushed off the ground and smiled coldly at the fleeing three-tailed white fox. He circulated his energy for Myriad Heaven Divine Fist and executed its fourth move, Chains of Deities.
“Ka ca! Ka ca!”
Long golden chains appeared around the three-tailed white fox. Now infused with Xiao Chen’s Heavenly Sage Laws, these chains looked even more realistic than before.
The patterns on the chains were more distinct, flowing with divine scripts. They gave off a bright glow, looking even more divine and dazzling under the blazing sun.
“Sou! Sou! Sou!”
The three-tailed white fox’s nimble body leaped around in the air, dodging the divine-script-covered chains moving like berserk dragons.
However, these chains contained the will of the deities and worked together with nature. Unless the three-tailed white fox forcibly broke through them, with his large body, no exquisite Movement Technique would allow him to escape the sealing of the chains.
Soon, a chain caught one of the three-tailed white fox’s legs. He could not struggle free, and the other chains snared him.
Divine scripts flowed around, hitting the three-tailed white fox, causing him to shriek in pain. His body trembled nonstop as the divine scripts sealed his strength bit by bit.
Xiao Chen stretched his hand out and waved. The three-tailed white fox bound by the divine script chains fell right before Xiao Chen, kicking up large amounts of yellow sand, and a strong wind blew.
After landing, Xuan Yu lost all the energy he needed to maintain his Fiend form. He turned back into human form and appeared before Xiao Chen.
However, Xuan Yu’s pretty face now no longer had any blood in it. He had no strength left and was like an ordinary person.
Before Xiao Chen’s half-Sage aura, Xuan Yu could not resist at all. Fear filled his heart. He did not dare to look at Xiao Chen—in stark contrast to his previous ferocious appearance releasing killing Qi.
Xuan Yu thought about what he had said previously: There are some people whom an insignificant person like you cannot offend. He felt the irony in this. Indeed, there were some people that insignificant characters could not afford to offend, but the insignificant one was himself and not Xiao Chen.
“Don’t kill me. As of now, the Spirit Fox King accepted Xiao Bai as his adopted daughter. Many Fiend geniuses desire her. With me by her side, I can guarantee no one will be able to harm her.”
In the end, Xuan Yu’s desire to live trumped his pride. He looked at Xiao Chen expressionlessly and could not help but start pleading.
Nonetheless, Xuan Yu just wanted to buy more time for himself, waiting for the Xuan Clan Senior Elder to arrive. At that time, the situation would change. Then, the one kneeling and begging would be Xiao Chen.
Xuan Yu thought about how he was born in a Noble Clan of the Silver Moon Spirit Fox Race. He had good looks and outstanding talent, the attention of everyone since he was young, and unlimited potential.
So long as he could win Xiao Bai’s heart, he would able to establish a relationship with the Spirit Fox King immediately and get into the Spirit Fox King’s good graces. Then, the other Fiend Race geniuses of the Fiend Domain would not dare to be impudent before him.
I cannot die. I absolutely cannot die. I still have a great future ahead of me and cannot fall here no matter what. Thinking this, Xuan Yu started to plead in a low voice incessantly, offering all sorts of promises.
If Xiao Chen did not get rid of this danger, even if Xuan Yu did not harm him, Xuan Yu would end up harming Xiao Chen’s friends. He could not be bothered to listen to Xuan Yu’s pleading and pointed at Xuan Yu’s forehead, intending to kill him.
“Brat, try if you dare!”
Just at this moment, a thunderous shout came from the distance. The voice seemed to merge with nature, mildly affecting Xiao Chen’s mind.
When Xuan Yu heard this voice, his face automatically filled with wild joy. His earlier miserable appearance disappeared as he laughed loudly. “The Senior Elder is here! It’s the Senior Elder! Xiao Chen, you are dead for sure. Just wait to kneel before me and beg for mercy. You bastard! How dare you vie for Xiao Bai against me?!”
Even though the voice initially came from a distance, just Xiao Chen’s momentary distraction gave that person enough time to appear in his vision.
The figure quickly charged over, and the strong wind that this person’s movement stirred up blew yellow sand towards Xiao Chen.
The cloud of yellow sand hid a figure that immediately sent a palm strike at Xiao Chen.
It turned out to be a Martial Sage of the Xuan Clan. However, even if he came, what could he do? He was just an Inferior Grade Martial Sage. Did he think he was some absolute expert?
Myriad Heaven Divine Fist, tenfold combat prowess, Deities Descending!
A divine light tore through the barrier of the sky and flooded Xiao Chen’s body, interacting with his Heavenly Sage Laws. Instantly, he gave off a dazzling golden light. His hair fluttered in the wind, spilling motes of light.
Xiao Chen’s aura rose infinitely; everything in the world seemed to want to bow and worship him.
“Bang!”
Xiao Chen sent his radiant fist at the Xuan Clan Senior Elder’s palm strike. A loud rumbling resounded, kicking up yellow sand and filling the air with it.
Before Xuan Yu’s shocked gaze, Xiao Chen actually knocked back the Xuan Clan Senior Elder, whom Xuan Yu depended on for rescue, with a dull ‘thud.’
The Xuan Clan Senior Elder flew back five kilometers and landed on the yellow sand, then skidded back another two kilometers before coming to a stop.
Before Xuan Yu’s expression of wild joy could fade away, his brain short-circuited. He did not even realize what happened until Xiao Chen’s gaze shifted over.
Only then did Xuan Yu react. “Xiao Chen, please don’t kill me. I’ll give you a million Astral Coins. I can give you all the pretty girls of the Spirit Fox Race and won’t have any more thoughts about Xiao Bai. I—”
Before Xuan Yu finished speaking, a finger-sized bloody hole appeared on his forehead. Blood poured out, and he no longer showed any signs of life, unable to say another word.
A Martial Sage could cover the distance of seven kilometers in merely the blink of an eye.
However, because that Xuan Clan Senior Elder underestimated Xiao Chen, he suffered some internal injuries. He quickly charged forward, but his expression immediately changed dramatically when he saw Xuan Yu die.
“You actually dared to kill my Xuan Clan’s heir!” the Xuan Clan Senior Elder raged, shouting angrily.
Xiao Chen gently floated backwards. Then, he casually drew the Lunar Shadow Saber stuck in Xuan Yu’s second uncle’s chest. Finally, he said in a cold voice, “When intending to kill someone, no matter who it is, they have to be prepared to get killed themselves.
“This has always been the principle of the world. This is something he sought himself. Why the need to feign ignorance?”
Instead of raging further, the Xuan Clan Senior Elder laughed. He said, “What a good worldly principle! In that case, if this old man kills you now, you will have nothing to complain about.”
A Martial Sage transcended mortality to become a Sage. A cultivator who advanced to Martial Sage would experience a change from the inside out.
Not only could Martial Sages turn all their Quintessence into Heavenly Sage Laws, but in the instant they advanced to Martial Sage, their physical body would also undergo the baptism of nature.
This baptism would result in the physical body, which had absorbed Spiritual Energy over the cultivator’s long history of cultivation, experiencing a qualitative change, becoming a Sage Body.
At the moment of advancement, these Martial Sages would also enter an indescribable state of being one with nature. If they had any Martial Techniques stuck at a bottleneck, using this state of being one with nature, they could break through these bottlenecks. Their thoughts would broaden and easily overcome these difficulties.
Cultivators who could surmount the hurdle of Martial Sage were always overlords of where they were. Even in a Rank 9 Sect, they would receive respect and many benefits.
Martial Sages were the real experts of the Kunlun Realm. They would be elites in any sect or faction.
The Xuan Clan Senior Elder before Xiao Chen was one such expert—a bona fide Inferior Grade Martial Sage.
If a regular half-Sage heard that a Martial Sage wanted to kill them, they would immediately be frightened to death. Their minds would be in disarray. They would either kneel and plead for mercy right away or turn around and flee madly.
Xiao Chen’s expression did not change much; he held no fear at all. Otherwise, he could not have killed Xuan Yu despite knowing a Martial Sage had arrived.
“If you think you have the ability, you can give it a try.”
Xiao Chen gently floated to the ground and looked calmly at his opponent.
Xiao Chen’s physical body was a Rank 2 Sage Body, far stronger than his opponent’s. Regarding Heavenly Sage Laws, his opponent was not some demonic genius and had not had any notable fortuitous encounters.
His opponent was merely a regular Inferior Grade Martial Sage who converted all his Quintessence into Heavenly Sage Laws. He had only about a hundred and fifty Heavenly Sage Laws, just slightly more than Xiao Chen did.
The only advantages this Martial Sage had were his long experience as a Martial Sage and his better understanding and more efficient usage of Heavenly Sage Laws.
On this point, Xiao Chen was not his match. If the two entered into a drawn-out fight, Xiao Chen would lose for sure. However, he was not silly; he would not seek a fight that he had no confidence of winning.
The Xuan Clan Senior Elder snorted coldly and said, “If I had not been careless earlier, how could you have knocked me back? You think you are already strong enough to defeat a Martial Sage? Die!”
Right after the Xuan Clan Senior Elder spoke, the hundred and fifty Heavenly Sage Laws surged out of his body and danced wildly behind him. Spiritual Energy gushed into the Heavenly Sage Laws like a raging river.
The blue Heavenly Sage Laws deepened in color and filled with power.
Apparently sunk in deep thought, Xiao Chen muttered to himself, “When the Heavenly Sage Laws are outside the body, they can absorb Spiritual Energy even more directly. It looks like there are indeed many techniques that half-Sages cannot grasp until advancing to Martial Sage.”
“Hu ci!”
The Xuan Clan Senior Elder flew forward and sent out a palm strike.
He quickly infused thirty-odd of the Heavenly Sage Laws behind him into the palm strike, making this ordinary blow feel like a massive mountain pressing forward.
When the Xuan Clan Senior Elder charged over, it felt like he turned into a mountain range, continuously compressing the air forward.
Xiao Chen’s shoulders instantly felt immense pressure. However, his physical body could still endure it; it did not affect his Movement Technique.
However, the sand under him could not withstand this pressure. It eddied strangely and created a large pit pulling in sand from all directions.
This was not the pressure of aura or might.
This was a kind of pressure formed by absolute power and Heavenly Sage Laws. Regular half-Sages would have difficulty even moving forward in the face of it.