Chapter 29: Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler, DIE!

"So that's how it is, this is a good idea!" Mo Lan also walked over at this moment to echo the sentiment. Although he was somewhat dissatisfied that Mo Cheng had acted on his own without consulting him, in Mo Lan's heart, easing the relationship with Xiao Yan was more important right now.

As for whether Mo Cheng would eventually overshadow him by becoming closer to Xiao Yan, Mo Lan thought: you, Mo Cheng, have a grandson, but I have a daughter! How could I possibly be afraid of you?

"How about it, Young Master Xiao, are you willing to enter into this happy union with our Mo family?" Mo Cheng asked again with a beaming smile, his peripheral vision unable to help but glance toward Qing Lian, the greed in his eyes almost impossible to conceal. Anyone who didn't know better would think this old codger wanted to relive his youth, staging a scene of "a pear tree in bloom pressing against a begonia"!

"Is that so? It really does sound quite nice, doesn't it? I feel like if I don't agree, I'm being a bit unreasonable!" Xiao Yan sneered coldly.

Mo Lan frowned; he could hear the dissatisfaction permeating Xiao Yan's words and couldn't help but feel a sense of regret.

Mo Cheng naturally heard the sarcasm in Xiao Yan's tone as well and immediately let out a cold laugh. A powerful aura erupted from within his body, causing the robes on his person to rustle loudly, and he said in a grim tone: "Indeed, this old man thinks it would be best for Young Master Xiao to be a bit more reasonable. After all, this is still the Mo family's territory. If the young master doesn't agree, I'm afraid you'll have to stay a few more days."

"Oh? Are you threatening me?" Xiao Yan looked at him with contempt and mocked.

"Great Elder, what are you doing? Stop at once!" Mo Lan didn't know what madness had suddenly seized Mo Cheng and hurriedly tried to dissuade him.

"Hmph! Boy, stop putting on a front there! This old man has seen more young masters and misses from wealthy families at the Misty Cloud Sect than you've eaten grains of rice in your life, and I've never seen a young master like you, nor have I heard of any prominent family in the Jia Ma Empire with the surname Xiao. Boy, remember to investigate clearly next time before you try to act tough!" Mo Cheng ignored Mo Lan's dissuasion and, after Xiao Yan's reply, decided to drop the facade entirely.

Mo Cheng reached out and beckoned behind him, and half of the Mo family experts sitting on both sides of the hall immediately stood up. These people naturally heard what Mo Cheng had said, and they instantly cast their previous wariness of the three of them to the back of their minds, each of them grinning hideously as they surrounded Xiao Yan and his companions.

Who would have thought that Xiao Yan wouldn't even glance at these people, but instead looked calmly at Mo Lan and said: "If I'm not mistaken, you should be the head of the Mo family. I'll give you one chance: if you don't want the Mo family to be wiped out, stay put."

"Hmph! Arrogant, still playing tricks when death is at your doorstep! Die for this old man!" As he spoke, Mo Cheng no longer held back. Although he believed there was no major power behind Xiao Yan, the strength Xiao Yan himself displayed was still extremely formidable. Thus, Mo Cheng used his full strength from the very first strike.

The Dou Qi within his body surged wildly, and a deep red, flame-like Dou Qi enveloped his entire body, condensing into armor—this was exactly Dou Qi Armor!

He gripped his right hand into a claw and viciously lunged toward Xiao Yan's heart, clearly intending to kill him in one blow!

"Bad luck!" Xiao Yan cursed inwardly. Because both were made of red, condensed Dou Qi, Mo Cheng's suit of Dou Qi armor really did look a bit like Xiao Yan's Flame Emperor Armor. Fortunately, Xiao Yan had already refined the Green Lotus Core Flame, turning his flames into a dual-colored green and red, otherwise, it would have been hard to distinguish.

Facing Mo Cheng's claw strike, Xiao Yan did not dodge. He sneered, and the green-red flames erupted through his body, rapidly forming a magnificent flame armor that enveloped Xiao Yan.

Mo Cheng's attack landed on the flame armor, but not only did it fail to break Xiao Yan's defense, the counter-shock force shattered the bones in his hand. Even the flesh and skin on his hand were incinerated the moment they touched the Flame Emperor Armor, leaving only a few charred bone fragments to fall to the ground!

"Ah!! This is! Impossible! You are clearly only a Great Dou Master!" Mo Cheng's face turned deathly pale, and he collapsed to the ground in disbelief, unable to even care about the pain in his hand, screaming in terror.

In just a single exchange—which didn't even count as Xiao Yan truly attacking—the expert who had shaken the eastern provinces of the Jia Ma Empire, the Great Elder of the Mo family, had lost one of his palms!

This absurd scene stimulated the nerves of everyone present. The Mo family experts who had been about to assist Mo Cheng stood awkwardly in place, looking at each other, not knowing what to do.

Until one clever fellow had a brainwave, remembering the words Xiao Yan had said to the Mo family head about staying put, so he turned around and retreated into the crowd of those who were still seated.

Seeing this, the others followed suit, running back to their seats, wanting to act as if nothing had happened.

As for Mo Cheng? He had brought this trouble upon himself; what did it have to do with them?

But they wanted to go back, yet those who had been sitting there before wouldn't have it!

The Xiao Yan before them didn't look like a pushover; once he finished dealing with Mo Cheng, he would definitely settle scores with those who had stood up! If they let them hide back in, what if Xiao Yan couldn't find them later and dealt with all of them instead?

"Mo Ji! What are you doing? I am your elder! I am the son of your second aunt's third uncle's fourth nephew's fifth uncle!"

"Pah! You old thing, do you even know how that's supposed to be addressed yourself?"

And so, before Xiao Yan had even finished off Mo Cheng, the various experts of the Mo family were already fighting among themselves on both sides of the hall.

Seeing Mo Cheng defeated so miserably, Mo Lan instantly lost any desire to help and, taking advantage of Xiao Yan's distraction, snuck off to who knows where.

Xiao Yan scanned the family comedy of the Mo family around him, gave a contemptuous laugh, and then looked at Mo Cheng, who was collapsed on the ground.

Mo Cheng had also realized by now that regardless of whether the youth before him had backing, his own strength was not something he could provoke. Although he was very unwilling, he could only kneel and beg: "Young Master Xiao, today's events were indeed this lowly one's fault. This lowly one is willing to offer up all his family assets, hoping the young master can raise his hand in mercy and spare this lowly one's life."

"Heh, your attitude is sincere enough. But you're a bit confused. What do you mean by 'your' family assets? Once you're dead, aren't they all mine?" Xiao Yan sneered, summoned the Heavy Xuan Ruler with one hand, and raised it high, looking as if he were about to strike down.

Seeing that Xiao Yan did not intend to let him go, Mo Cheng stopped begging for mercy.

"If you want to kill me, don't think you'll have it easy either!" Mo Cheng gave a ferocious grin. His left hand, which had been blocked by his body, appeared again, already extremely distorted. At this moment, it swelled up once more, and the intense force directly shattered the sleeve of his left arm, turning the entire limb a deep red. At this point, Mo Cheng's left arm had completely lost its human appearance, looking more like the limb of a Magical Beast!

"Mountain-Breaking Arm!" Mo Lan, who had popped up from somewhere, screamed.

As the Mo family, which was capable of transplanting Magical Beast organs onto their own bodies, their most prized collection was the forelimb of a Tier 5 Magical Beast, the Blazing Mountain-Breaking Rhino—the Mountain-Breaking Arm!

"Haha! Boy, didn't expect this, did you! While you thought I was surrendering, this old man was preparing this ultimate move! Go to hell!" Mo Cheng looked at Xiao Yan with venomous hatred and, brandishing his inhuman arm, lunged viciously at Xiao Yan!

"You think you're the only one charging up an ultimate move?"

Xiao Yan's calm voice rang out in the hall, but it was quickly drowned out by the energy fluctuations that swept up.

At this moment, it was as if a massive tornado had appeared around Xiao Yan's body, and strands of tangible red fire-attribute energy were forcibly extracted from the void within a radius of several dozen meters, continuously converging onto Xiao Yan.

"This is... Heaven and Earth Energy! He actually triggered Heaven and Earth Energy! Could this be... a Di-tier Dou Technique!" Mo Lan stared at this scene, dazed, and cried out involuntarily.

The Mo family members who had been fighting around them also stopped, staring blankly at this unprecedented sight.

Even Mo Cheng had a moment of distraction, but he quickly sobered up and roared: "Stupid boy, you think you can use a Di-tier Dou Technique with your cultivation? Before you can even launch your move, this old man will tear your body to shreds!"

Indeed, logically, it was impossible for someone of Xiao Yan's cultivation to instantly cast a Di-tier Dou Technique, but geniuses never follow logic!

Xiao Yan simply deactivated the Flame Emperor Armor that had been covering him, and the massive amount of flame energy he had been accumulating surged like a tidal wave into the high-raised Heavy Xuan Ruler, directly filling more than half of the power required to trigger the Di-tier Dou Technique, while the remaining energy requirement was quickly filled by the surging Dou Qi within Xiao Yan's body.

A massive, dual-colored green and red flame ruler suddenly appeared before everyone's eyes. A violent gale erupted, blowing everyone except Mo Cheng away. Within a radius of over a hundred meters, endless flame energy was swept up and wrapped entirely around the giant flame ruler!

"Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler, DIE!"

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