Chapter 305

With two successive loud bangs, Tang Chuan only felt his arms nearly shattered by the shock; the broadsword in his hand was actually smashed in two by the immense force, and his body flew sideways uncontrollably, his Qi and blood surging.

"This..."

Tang Chuan was filled with shock. If he hadn't used his sword to block that punch, he might have been punched straight through. That peerless, tyrannical power seemed almost beyond what a Gang Qi martial artist could possess; it was as if he were facing a powerhouse at the Marrow Cleansing Realm.

"Bang!"

With the mud beneath his feet thundering, Xu Yang pursued and struck down with a punch in mid-air.

The fist aura shot out, piercing the air like a falling meteor. Tang Chuan twisted his waist in mid-air, his body shifting sideways by a foot.

The next moment, Xu Yang had already closed in and pointed a finger down.

Pure Origin Gold-Splitting Finger!

The Gang Qi was punctured instantly like a bubble, and the finger struck Tang Chuan's waist like a nail.

"Puchi!"

Blood splattered. Centered on the point of impact, spiderweb-like cracks spread rapidly, and blood gushed out like a fountain.

"Ah!"

Tang Chuan felt his vision go black from the pain; one of his kidneys had been pierced through.

Had he not mobilized his Gang Qi to suppress it in time, this single finger could have cost him his life.

While screaming, he slapped his large hand hard against Xu Yang's chest, hoping to knock Xu Yang back.

But his palm technique was clearly not as sharp as his sword technique; it couldn't break through Xu Yang's protective Gang Qi at all, as if he had slapped a mountain, failing to shake it in the slightest.

"Die!"

Xu Yang's spine rippled like a dragon, his body turned, and he swung his arm; his fist thrust out like a great spear, tearing through the air with a sharp whistle.

"Ah!"

Between life and death, Tang Chuan let out a roar, desperately holding his broken sword across his chest.

"Boom!"

The pale yellow fist shattered the sword body, tore through the protective Gang Qi, and landed on Tang Chuan.

"Crack!"

Accompanied by a crisp sound of bone cracking, Tang Chuan felt as if struck by lightning, his eyes bloodshot, and he didn't know how many bones he had broken.

He hadn't expected things to turn out like this.

Liyang didn't even need to send a disciple at the Major Success of Gang Qi; it was just a disciple at the Minor Success of Gang Qi who had wiped out his entire Qingfeng Stronghold.

"Crack!"

Xu Yang struck another punch, his fist descending like an axe; Tang Chuan's chest was torn open, and he flew backward, spraying blood from his mouth.

By the time he landed, only his limbs were still twitching unconsciously, his eyes filled with regret and unwillingness.

"Hoo!"

Xu Yang exhaled a breath of turbid air, opened his five senses to carefully scan, and confirmed there were no survivors left in Qingfeng Stronghold before he withdrew his Diamond Body Technique, his body gradually returning to normal.

As the tyrannical power receded, he felt a sense of emptiness and discomfort.

"These are all my spoils of war."

Although overturning Qingfeng Stronghold might expose his true strength, the benefits were also great.

With so many mountain bandits robbing and extorting the families in Qingyun City for years, their wealth would certainly not be small.

Not to mention anything else, these weapons alone were worth a lot of money.

He couldn't be bothered to loot the corpses; he would find the treasury first, and once he notified the Yuan family to arrive, he would let those people collect the weapons.

Soon, Xu Yang found a stone cave carved into the cliff face and smashed it open with brute force.

A foul stench wafted out, as if it were piled with dead rats; what met his eyes were piles of animal skins.

This was precisely the cargo stolen from the Yuan family.

The Yuan family was indeed in the animal skin business.

Xu Yang endured the stench to enter and opened a large chest in a prominent position, only to see it filled with gleaming white silver, at least several thousand taels.

There were several other chests nearby; he opened them one by one and found that some were empty, some contained refined mysterious iron, and others were filled with swords and bows.

After searching for a while, there were no more good things here.

He carried the chest containing the silver out of the cave and began searching the surrounding houses.

Half an hour later, seven secret manuals, five bottles of elixirs, a fifty-year-old ginseng, and a stack of silver notes were laid out before him.

There were over two thousand taels in silver notes, and adding the cash, it totaled nearly six thousand taels.

Of the five bottles of elixirs, two were actually the Blood-Coagulating Pills he had refined himself, two were Qi Gathering Pills, and the remaining one contained the Ten-Complete Great Replenishment Pills from the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion.

However, there weren't many; there were only two inside.

【Mountain-Bearing Bear Gang Qi Scripture · Minor Success (2704/4000)】

Xu Yang glanced at the panel; once he refined these two Ten-Complete Great Replenishment Pills, his progress in the Mountain-Bearing Bear Scripture would reach nearly three thousand, and in two or three months, he could reach Major Success in Gang Qi and attempt to break through to Marrow Cleansing.

Once he reached Marrow Cleansing, Xiao Hua's threat would be minimal.

Of the seven secret manuals, four were True Qi martial arts, and the remaining three were Gang Qi martial arts.

One was a blade technique, one a sword technique, and one a fist technique.

These were exactly the martial skills cultivated by Tang Chuan, Meng Yuanshu, and Lu Lin.

The harvest this time was huge; not to mention these manuals, the harvest in silver alone should total around ten thousand taels—of course, only after those weapons and materials were sold.

"Notify the Yuan family to come and clean up first."

Xu Yang took out a signal firework and launched it; a loud bang echoed over Qingfeng Stronghold, instantly resounding through the mountains.

"Master Xu has sent the signal; he has succeeded!"

Five or six miles away, Yuan Qiang and the others, hiding in the mountain forest, heard the sound and stood up one after another, their faces filled with excitement.

"As expected of a Ten Elites genius; he really wiped out Qingfeng Stronghold single-handedly."

Yuan Qiang shouted loudly: "Bring out the carriages and head to Qingfeng Stronghold."