Chapter 66: Life and Death Talisman

"Who are you?"

Zhu Fenglan reacted in time, her face a mask of shock and suspicion, looking at Li Musheng with extreme wariness.

Although the opponent looked young and emitted not a trace of martial arts aura, the fact that he had sent the Marquis Marquis Marquis Cangyuan and two elders from the Taiyuan Yuan Sect flying with a single move was enough to prove he was far from ordinary.

At the same time, the old crone and the pursued Shangguan Qingqing also paused temporarily, turning their gazes toward Li Musheng.

The scene just now had truly stunned them all; under these circumstances, not acting rashly was undoubtedly the best choice.

Just then, Cang Yin Yue's figure leaped rapidly through the distant night, arriving behind Li Musheng.

Her gaze was filled with shock and suspicion, her face full of an expression of disbelief.

Although she hadn't seen anything clearly just now, she knew for certain that Li Musheng must have been the one to act.

But the opponent was truly too terrifying!

Not only had he blasted her foul-smelling father flying with a single strike, but even those two elders with obviously extremely powerful martial arts strength were not a match for his single move.

When she saw him last night, wasn't he just at the Half-Step Grandmaster realm?

Did he break through in just one night?

But even if he broke through, there was no reason he should be able to suppress this group of Wudaoda Sect Grandmasters like this!

Cang Yin Yue's heart was full of doubts; it wasn't that she felt compelled to question Li Musheng.

Rather, for any martial artist, the difficulty of martial arts cultivation is deeply understood.

It requires not only talent but also emphasizes accumulation and grinding effort; every advancement inevitably demands a vast amount of time and hard work.

To say that someone as young as Li Musheng could reach the Wudaoda Sect Grandmaster realm, even if one searched the entire martial world, one might not find a few such people.

At this moment, Zhu Fenglan saw Cang Yin Yue, her eyes immediately narrowing, her expression cold as she said:

"So it was you, that wretch, who found this helper."

Then, she turned to Li Musheng and said:

"You had better understand who you are dealing with."

"The Taiyuan Yuan Sect behind me and Her Imperial Concubine are existences you cannot provoke; if you are sensible, leave immediately, and tonight I can pretend nothing happened."

Hearing this, Li Musheng simply ignored Zhu Fenglan's words.

He turned his head slightly, looking back at Cang Yin Yue, and said:

"Miss Cang, watch closely; I will only teach the art of showing off once."

Hearing this, Cang Yin Yue was slightly stunned, not yet having reacted.

She saw Li Musheng lightly snap his fingers.

Then, Cang Yin Yue watched in shock as the old crone who had stopped not far away suddenly bent over like a cooked shrimp with a curved back, her entire body flying backward at a speed too fast to capture.

At the same time, Zhu Fenglan and the two maids beside her met the same fate.

In an instant, they were slapped away by a terrifying invisible true qi, following in the footsteps of Marquis Marquis Marquis Cangyuan and those two elders; their figures flew rapidly through the air leaving only afterimages, all crashing heavily into the courtyard.

Soon, a tremendous boom rose again within the Hou Fu.

"You... how exactly did you do that?"

This time Cang Yin Yue saw clearly... well... she still hadn't seen Li Musheng act at all.

On the other side, Shangguan Qingqing, with her heroic face and ponytail, had eyes wide as bronze bells, her crystal lips gaping open wide enough to swallow an egg.

What had she just witnessed?

That old woman who had been not far from her had simply gone "whoosh" away; by the time she reacted, the other person had already vanished, leaving only the sound of a heavy object hitting the ground with a "bang" in the distance.

Shangguan Qingqing never understood what had happened from beginning to end.

After staring blankly for a long while, she instinctively looked toward Li Musheng:

"Did he do all this? This is too terrifying!"

At the same time, facing Cang Yin Yue's question, Li Musheng waved his hand with a calm expression.

He led Cang Yin Yue toward the direction where Zhu Fenglan and the others had fallen, arriving at the courtyard where everyone had smashed into the ground.

At this moment, all of them were trapped in the ground pit, completely stripped of any ability to resist by Li Musheng's strike just now.

Seeing that Cang Yin Yue was still staring at him nonstop, Li Musheng knew the other party's current confusion.

He rubbed his chin and said in a low, deep voice:

"Miss Cang, reaching my realm is just like this; you don't understand."

"Of course, even if I told you, you wouldn't understand; this requires you to work hard on cultivation in the future."

Cang Yin Yue:...

Looking at Cang Yin Yue, who was suddenly full of confusion again, Li Musheng shook his head and couldn't help but sigh in his heart:

Indeed, when it comes to showing off, he was becoming more and more perfect.

But there was no other way; the force of his strike had already been restrained very, very much.

If not for the intention to temporarily spare these people their lives, they would probably have been reduced to nothing but corpse fragments just now.

At this moment, Li Musheng shifted his gaze, looking toward the courtyard before him.

The entire courtyard had collapsed, forming a sunken earth pit.

In the soil of the pit, dense white bones of women were piled up in disarray, reflecting a chilling, ghastly white under the hazy moonlight.

Some of these bones retained a faint human outline, while others were shattered and scattered in various corners of the pit bottom.

Skulls full of cracks, fragmented ribs, and limbs chaotically intertwined, strangely emitting a tragic aura; it was clear that those women had all suffered inhuman torture in their lives.

At this moment, Cang Yin Yue beside him also looked into the deep pit; after seeing the shocking scene before her eyes, she was instantly filled with shock and anger, her face extremely ugly.

"None of them are good people!"

Li Musheng withdrew his gaze and turned to look at Zhu Fenglan and the others.

At this moment, the seven lay amidst a patch of exposed white bones; struck by Li Musheng's terrifying power, their internal organs were shattered and their meridians severed, leaving them unable to move a single muscle.

The only thing they could move were their still-intact eyeballs, staring at this completely unfamiliar young man before them.

Li Musheng swept a cold glance over the group, nodded, and said:

"Perfect. I shall use you to test the power of my Life-and-Death Talisman."

He had already improved the martial art of the Life-and-Death Talisman based on its earlier prototype; using it to experiment on these people now was entirely what they deserved.

Li Musheng flicked his finger, sending seven invisible streams of true qi into the bodies of Zhu Fenglan and the others.

In an instant, the seven lying in the pile of white bones trembled all over; their remaining intact veins suddenly swelled violently, their eyes bulged out like goldfish, and their bloodshot eyeballs grew larger and larger, as if they were about to explode at any moment.

Inside their bodies, a dense mass of tiny qi signals writhed madly like insects and ants, constantly pricking everyone's nerves.

The itching pain, as if ten thousand ants were gnawing, made the group whimper; fresh blood gurgled in their throats, their breathing became rapid, and it seemed they would draw their last breath at any time.

Yet they would not die immediately; they were forced to endure this agony of struggling between life and death, unable even to die.

(End of this chapter)