Chapter 270: Peerless

"Brother Jin, your foresight is indeed uncanny. This boy clearly intended to return to the Shanmen, yet he spoke of having matters to attend to,"Fang Yun said admiringly.

Xu Yang's words had been heartfelt; he had truly believed Xu Yang had matters to attend to.

Jin Lei said, "He sought to divert my gaze, thinking I would fall for it, not knowing I had long seen through his plans."

Just as they spoke, the figure of Xu Yang ahead flashed and vanished into the forest by the roadside.

Fang Yun exclaimed, "He is taking a detour. He is far too cautious. If we were to ambush him halfway, we would never catch him. Yet this suits our purpose perfectly, sparing us the trouble of destroying the body and covering our tracks afterward."

Jin Lei said, "That is why I chose to follow him at the city gate. When dealing with a cautious person, one must be careful."

Speaking thus, the two also plunged into the forest, locking onto Xu Yang's figure from a distance.

"It is time to act!"

After following for several kilometers, the two began to accelerate, racing directly through the forest, rapidly closing in on Xu Yang. The sound of breaking the air was unmasked, startling flocks of birds into flight.

"So eager to deliver themselves to death?"

Xu Yang had originally intended to lure the two deeper before acting, but he did not expect them to be so impatient.

Nevertheless, he did not rush to act. To act was to act completely; he immediately feigned surprise, glanced back once, and then began to sprint with all his might.

After a cup of tea, just as he reached a clearing, Jin Lei and Fang Yun leaped over his head, landing before him to block his path.

Jin Lei tore off the bamboo hat from his head, revealing a smile full of killing intent, and said, "Junior Brother Xu, is this the burial ground you have chosen?"

Fang Yun interrupted, "Brother Jin, no more nonsense. Will you do it, or shall I?"

In his eyes, Xu Yang was already a dead man; the only difference was whether he killed him or Jin Lei did.

Jin Lei said, "Did you not say you had never killed a genius of the Ten Heroes? Then it would be better for you, Brother Fang, to make the move."

"Good!"

The Qi fluctuation of the Minor Success Realm of Jin Gang!

Almost the moment the words fell, Fang Yun's figure vanished from the spot. The Qi fluctuation of the Minor Success Realm of Jin Gang was released without reservation, causing gusts of wind to rage all around.

"Xu Yang, my name is Fang Yun. When you report to the King of Hell, do not give the wrong name."

With a cruel smile on his face, Fang Yun let out a light shout and directly blasted a fist light through the air.

"Boom!"

The air roared. A flash of red light appeared, and the fist light, like an arrow leaving the string, rushed toward Xu Yang at a terrifying speed.

"Thump, thump..."

As the fist light traveled, it scattered force, plowing a distinct trail through the ground.

"Brother Fang, be careful!"

Just as the fist light was about to strike Xu Yang, Fang Yun suddenly heard Jin Lei's shocked cry in his ear.

He could not help but contract his pupils. Where Xu Yang had stood, there was no longer any figure of Xu Yang. The fist light he had blasted missed, striking an empty patch of ground devoid of any person.

"Bang!"

The ground trembled, earth and stones flew, and a large pit was blasted into existence by the fist light.

"Not good!"

Fang Yun was terrified. In his perception, a sharp, blade-like Qi was rushing toward him at a terrifying speed. Before it even approached, the sharp, blade-like Qi already made him feel as if needles were pricking his back, raising goosebumps all over his body.

Without any hesitation, he, having experienced life-and-death crises many times, decisively retracted the fist he had blasted, crossing his arms to protect his chest, while simultaneously condensing his entire cultivation base of the Minor Success Realm of Jin Gang before him to shield his body.

"Whoosh!"

Before the body-shielding Jin Gang could fully expand, a fist emitting a silver-white light appeared in his line of sight. Like a silver meteor tearing through the sky, it struck his body-shielding Jin Gang with a domineering posture capable of crushing everything.

Xu Yang's killing intent was fierce, and his Qi surged.

Only then did Fang Yun see that his skin was actually silver-white as snow, as if cast from liquid silver, emitting a dim, cold metallic glow.

Even his Jin Gang was not the normal blood-red color, but a silver-white hue never seen before, with a level of condensation that was astonishing.

"Bang!"

Fang Yun was struck as if by lightning. His whole body trembled, and his body-shielding Jin Gang shattered instantly. Part of it was blasted back into his body. The recoil force caused blood to gush from his seven orifices in an instant, and his skin, like porcelain, became covered in terrifying cracks.

He could not help but emit a muffled groan. Fear filled his face as he realized something was terribly wrong.

But there was no time for him to make any further moves. Xu Yang's silver fist, unstoppable as a breaking bamboo, struck heavily upon his crossed arms.

"Crack!"

"Crack!"

Jin Gang erupted, and force poured out. The silver light on Xu Yang's fist was dazzling. His fist, like a great spear, had already pierced through Fang Yun's stacked arms, blasting the flesh and bones into fragments.

Accompanied by a flash of blood, the two arms clenched into fists flew off.

"Crack!"

This punch was Xu Yang's peak punch, like a mountain collapsing and the earth splitting, unstoppable. Another sound of bone breaking rang out. Fang Yun's eyeballs bulged, as if they were about to be squeezed out of their sockets, covered in terrifying blood vessels.

His chest instantly collapsed. Screaming, he was blasted backward, spewing large mouthfuls of blood.

"Spit!"

Fang Yun spewed large mouthfuls of blood, mixed with shattered internal organs, while his severed arms flailed wildly in the air.

His body flew backward at high speed, passing over Jin Lei's head, and crashed a zhang away, dragging a scar across the ground before stopping.

Blood stained his clothes red. The fabric on his chest had been blasted apart by the terrifying force, revealing the fist print embedded in his body.

Blood gushed wildly from his seven orifices. His body convulsed uncontrollably. His appearance was indescribably miserable, and his expression was filled entirely with fear.

"Too weak!"

Xu Yang retracted his fist.

The realm of the Minor Success of Jin Gang, the Minor Success Realm of the Jin Gang Gong, combined with a bone structure reaching one hundred in perfection—his combat power at his level was terrifyingly frightening.

With a mere gesture, the force roared within him like a river.

"Fang Yun..."

Jin Lei's eyes seemed ready to burst; his frantic rush toward Xu Yang halted abruptly, leaving him with ice-cold limbs and a tingling scalp.

Because Xu Yang had not broken through for so long, many believed he was undeserving of his reputation and unfit to be one of the Ten Heroes.

This was hardly a lack of breakthrough; with such formidable strength, nearly blasting Fang Yun, who had just formed the Lesser Yang Qi, to death in a single move, he had clearly broken through long ago and merely concealed his power, revealing nothing to the outside world.

"You beast!"

How could such a person exist? Breaking through in strength yet saying nothing, making people call him trash every day—was that fun?

If you had truly formed the Lesser Yang Qi, how would I dare come to kill you?

Fear, uncontrollable, filled Jin Lei's eyes; Xu Yang's skin, silver-white as snow, clearly showed he had cultivated a terrifying Hu Ti Wu Gong.

Fang Yun was nearly blasted to death in a single move; Jin Lei was no stronger than Fang Yun, and without forming the Greater Yang Qi, he had no qualification to fight Xu Yang.

"Jin Lei, I curse your mother."

Fang Yun's face twisted with venom as he shouted with his last strength, wishing to kill Jin Lei's entire family.

This was what Jin Lei called "not yet formed the Lesser Yang Qi"? Even a master who had formed the Greater Yang Qi might not be able to defeat him.

Having experienced it firsthand, only he knew what overwhelming, peerless power Xu Yang's punch carried.

He knew he had been led to his doom by this Bai Chi, Jin Lei; his five viscera and six entrails were crushed, and even if a Great Luo Immortal descended, it would be hard to save him; before dying, he only wanted to curse this Bai Chi, Jin Lei.

This was hardly the tenth of the Ten Heroes; even the first of the Ten Heroes would not be this terrifying.

"This is the burial ground I chose for you; are you satisfied?"

Xu Yang's eyes flashed with murderous intent.

Originally, he had been somewhat wary of Fang Yun because he had never seen Fang Yun before and did not know his cultivation base, but the moment Fang Yun attacked, he knew there would be no accident; today, Jin Lei would not survive.

"So you were deliberately showing weakness before."

Jin Lei realized too late; Xu Yang had been luring him into attacking. They wanted to eliminate Xu Yang in a desolate, uninhabited place, and Xu Yang had held the same Yang De Xiang Fa.

Ridiculously, he thought this was the only Yangdeji Society to kill Xu Yang, yet he had stepped right into the trap Xu Yang had set.

"If I did not show weakness, would you have come to die?"

"Enough; I will send you to meet Hu Hu Fengyi."

Jin Lei's pupils contracted violently, horror overwhelming him.

Hu Hu Fengyi's death had been secretly caused by this cold-blooded viper; he had actually harbored murderous intent against such a person, yet he had never connected Hu Hu Fengyi's death to him.