Chapter 333: Consecutive Kills

Xu Yang!

Hearing this name, Song Wenshan no longer wanted to wait. He stood up and said, "Wenxuan, watch from heaven; today, your big brother will avenge you."

"Do not leave any traces of our family's martial arts. I and Uncle Shizhao will be responsible for killing Xu Yang, while the rest of you deal with the other Profound Heaven Sect disciples and seize the ore. Make it look realistic."

They were not interested in the black iron at the mine, but if they didn't disguise themselves as mountain bandits, anyone would know they were here for revenge, and they would have no excuse if Elder Huoyun pursued the matter.

"Understood!" Song Shizhao and the others bowed.

"Put on your masks!"

Song Wenshan reached into his robe and pulled out a black cloth. Song Shizhao and the others followed suit.

Just as he was about to tie the mask on, he heard a strange sound in his ears, like the whistling of an arrow piercing the air.

"Who's there?" Song Wenshan roared like a thunderclap.

Someone had snuck up on them!

He turned rapidly to look in the direction of the sound, only to see a figure moving like a ghost, approaching them silently and at high speed.

"Boom!"

Once discovered, the figure accelerated suddenly. Golden Qi erupted from his body like a golden bolt of lightning streaking across the night sky, the aura of a Great Perfection Marrow Cleansing realm expert surging violently.

Golden Qi!

Xu Yang!

Song Wenshan’s expression changed drastically. They had only just reached the vicinity of the mine, yet Xu Yang had already found them. Facing four Great Perfection Marrow Cleansing realm martial artists, he had attacked without the slightest hesitation—he was truly daring.

What shocked him even more was that Xu Yang was no longer at the Small Success Marrow Cleansing realm; he had reached Great Perfection. The powerful aura he radiated was definitely not something a Small Success martial artist could possess.

"Watch out, it's that beast Xu Yang!"

Song Shizhao was furious and alarmed. He had no idea how Xu Yang had discovered them, especially since they were still several hundred meters away from the mine. Even with the heightened senses of a Marrow Cleansing realm martial artist, it was impossible to detect their presence from such a distance.

Without any hesitation, the true qi within his body surged instantly, and his entire body radiated a crimson light.

At the same time, Song Wenshan and the other two Song family experts also rapidly erupted with true qi, turning around to prepare for the enemy.

Yet, when Xu Yang was still at the early stage of Marrow Cleansing, he could already kill martial artists at the great completion of Marrow Cleansing. Now that his cultivation had reached the great completion of Marrow Cleansing, while not invincible within the Marrow Cleansing realm, he was certainly not someone an ordinary great completion Marrow Cleansing martial artist could compare to.

With his full-force eruption, his speed was indescribably fast. Before the protective true qi of Song Shirong and the other three had even fully expanded, he had already arrived like a sharp arrow.

"Boom!"

His golden palm, containing a powerful force capable of shattering mountains and breaking peaks, slammed heavily onto the protective true qi of the Song family's great completion Marrow Cleansing expert beside Song Wenshan.

It was precisely "Mountain-Shattering, Peak-Breaking," the strongest attack within the Mountain-Bearing Bear King Palm.

Although he did not invoke a martial intent, given his current cultivation and physique, this palm strike was not something just anyone could withstand.

The surrounding grass and trees were shattered, turning into powder and exploding. The unstoppable palm force, before this Song family expert could even react, easily shattered the opponent's protective true qi and landed on their chest with the force of a falling mountain.

True qi burst forth, and the force poured out like a breached river.

"Crack!"

A teeth-grinding sound of bone fracturing rang out. The sharp and domineering golden true qi, driven by his formidable physical body, instantly blasted into the Song family expert's body; bones shattered in response, and their chest collapsed.

"Ah!"

A short, shrill scream erupted. The man opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with internal organs, his feet involuntarily leaving the ground as he flew backward, crashing heavily into Song Wenshan, who was standing behind him.

"You beast, slaughter him for me!" Song Wenshan’s eyes were splitting with rage.

Standing behind, he could not see the extent of the family expert's injuries, but just from that teeth-grinding sound, he knew that even if the man wasn't dead, he was severely injured, and it was highly likely he wouldn't survive.

He had never expected such an outcome. Before they could even make a move, Xu Yang had actually taken the initiative to attack, using a sneak attack to severely wound one of his Song family's experts in a single blow.

The power he had been about to unleash had to be pulled back as he reached out to catch his clansman flying toward him.

"You beast!" Song Shizhao was furious, his eyes turning red instantly.

He saw clearly that his companion, who had been ambushed by Xu Yang, had a collapsed chest and a body covered in cracks; the man was already beyond saving.

He and the other companion did not hesitate in the slightest, unleashing their prepared ultimate moves mercilessly toward Xu Yang’s position, the energy shattering the ground beneath their feet.

"Hmph!"

Xu Yang let out a cold snort and vanished from his spot. He did not intend to test his own defense to see if he could withstand the full-force strikes of two great completion Marrow Cleansing martial artists simultaneously.

Although it was highly likely he could.

One must know that during the great battle at Autumn Water Villa, Li Ye’s physical body had withstood a strike from Gao Lin’s semi-spirit weapon. He was now also at the great completion of Marrow Cleansing, and his body, tempered for years by golden true qi, was absolutely not weaker than Li Ye’s.

"Rumble..."

The attacks from Song Shizhao and his companion missed entirely. Their true qi blasted a large crater into the ground, and the shockwave swept across the earth like a raging sea, tearing open numerous fissures.

Amidst the sky-high dust, Xu Yang, radiating a dazzling golden light, had already flashed to the side of the other great completion Marrow Cleansing expert of the Song family, his palm striking out with suffocating pressure.

"Boom!"

Under the intense pressure, the man felt as if a giant boulder were pressing down on his heart. Fortunately, he was an expert who had been at the great completion of Marrow Cleansing for many years and had rich experience in life-and-death combat.

At the critical moment, he extended his other hand to clash with Xu Yang, blocking the fatal strike aimed at his head.

"Bang!"

"Crack!"

He felt as if what had struck him was not a palm, but a mountain weighing over ten thousand jun. The vast power surging from the opposite palm was so immense that his own palm strike, condensed with his great completion Marrow Cleansing cultivation, was pitifully weak; his force was shattered like dry wood, without the slightest power to resist.

It was as if what stood before them was not a man, but a ferocious dragon that had walked out of the ancient wilderness, its strength peerless and unyielding.

His whole body shook, and his arm was instantly shattered, white bone piercing out from the back.

Xu Yang’s palm continued with unstoppable force, cleaving onto the man's forehead.

With a "bang," brains mixed with blood splattered; the man's head exploded like a watermelon, and the headless corpse fell limply to the ground.

"Ah, you beast..." Song Wenshan’s eyes were splitting with rage.

Xu Yang’s ferocity was peerless, and his strikes were ruthless. In a short time, he had killed two of his Song family's great completion Marrow Cleansing experts, leaving him both horrified and furious.

Including the previous three, Song Wenxuan and the others, the Song family had already lost three great completion Marrow Cleansing experts. Even with the Song family’s deep foundations and great power, the number of such experts was limited; losing one was a massive blow to the family, affecting many businesses, and the cost to cultivate a new one was unimaginable.

"Use the semi-spirit weapons!" he roared.

Xu Yang’s strikes were too fast; he had killed two people in an instant, and those two hadn't even had the chance to use their semi-spirit weapons before dying under Xu Yang’s palm.

However, those two lives had bought him time. While warning Song Shizhao, he drew his own semi-spirit weapon.

With the semi-spirit weapon in hand, Song Wenshan’s aura changed instantly; his entire presence became sharp, and his killing intent was chilling.

"Die!" A voice cold enough to pierce the marrow rang out. He raised his hand and swung, and a sword qi, condensed into reality, shot out.

The sword qi was like a crescent moon, whistling as it flashed toward Xu Yang’s chest. Instantly, he felt his hair stand on end.

Xu Yang did not try to withstand it head-on. He stopped his charge toward Song Shizhao and shifted rapidly. The sharp sword qi grazed his body, cleaving several large trees more than ten zhang away at the waist, wood chips splattering everywhere.

"Xu Yang, you have killed many of our Song family experts; this time next year will be your death anniversary." Song Shizhao was filled with killing intent and took this opportunity to draw his own semi-spirit weapon.

At this moment, he wished he could skin Xu Yang alive; among the two who had died, one was his own brother.

Powerful true qi was frantically poured into his precious saber, and a crimson saber qi, like a streak of silk, swept out, shattering the earth along its path.

"You little beast, no matter how high your talent, today you will surely die."

After Song Wenshan unleashed his sword strike, his figure shot toward Xu Yang like an arrow from a bow, intending to kill him at close range.

"Semi-spirit weapons? I have them too!"

After Xu Yang continuously dodged the saber qi and sword qi, Red Blood emitted a crisp sound like a dragon’s roar, appearing in his hand like a streak of blood-red light.

Golden true qi roared as it poured into Red Blood, and he raised his hand to slash out a golden-yellow saber qi.

The sharp saber qi swept out like a golden crescent moon. Wherever it passed, the surrounding ground silently turned into powder, as if it had been sliced by a blade.

"Careful!" Such a sight made Song Wenshan’s expression change drastically.

It wasn't just that the quality of the semi-spirit weapon in Xu Yang’s hand was higher than theirs; the main reason was that Xu Yang’s true qi was so pure and domineering that it made his saber qi appear almost tangible.

"Boom!"

Song Shizhao also slashed out a saber qi. The red and golden saber qi collided in an instant. With a "pssh" sound, his saber qi was easily sliced open by Xu Yang’s golden saber qi, turning into blood-colored ripples that tore the earth.

And Xu Yang’s saber qi continued to slash toward him with a sweeping force.

Just as he was about to be sliced in two, Song Wenshan finally arrived, his sword light expanding by a zhang, and he unleashed a sword strike to block the golden saber qi.

"Boom!"

The earth trembled, and dust like a dragon rose into the sky.

Song Wenshan’s face was filled with disbelief as he retreated step by step. The hand holding the sword trembled incessantly, the web between his thumb and index finger split open, and blood instantly soaked his hand.

Just one saber qi, and even after being blocked once by Song Shizhao, it had still managed to split his hand open. Was Xu Yang’s cultivation really just at the great completion of Marrow Cleansing?

"Young Master, be careful!" Song Shizhao roared.

The sky-high dust was shaken away. Xu Yang, his body golden and killing intent surging, had already broken through the dust to attack. The golden saber aura was incredibly striking in the night, like a streak of silk, slashing out with the force of splitting heaven and earth.

Without any hesitation, Song Shizhao took a large step forward to block in front of Song Wenshan, sweeping out with his semi-spirit weapon.

"Clang!"

The two blades collided, and the saber qi, carrying a whistling sound capable of piercing metal and cracking stone, shot in all directions, leaving countless saber marks on the ground.

Song Shizhao’s face showed pain; he felt as if what was in Xu Yang’s hand was not a saber, but a hammer weighing over ten thousand jun, impossible to resist.

He felt as if the fingers holding his saber were nearly shattered, instantly losing all sensation, and his saber was directly knocked away by Xu Yang.

The golden saber aura continued with unstoppable force, cleaving down from the top of his head like splitting firewood.

"Pssh!"

Song Shizhao’s eyes widened; before he could even let out a scream, his entire body had already been split down the middle.

The third great completion Marrow Cleansing expert of the Song family, Song Shizhao, dead!

"How is it possible? How can you, this beast, be so formidable?"

Song Wenshan felt a chill rising from his back, his scalp tingling. Xu Yang’s strength exceeded his understanding of a great completion Marrow Cleansing martial artist.

Song Shizhao and the others were no weaklings; they had polished their skills for many years at the great completion of Marrow Cleansing and were famous experts in Qingyang City, otherwise, they wouldn't have been brought out to hunt down the Four Evils of Wushan.

Yet these great completion Marrow Cleansing experts, renowned in Qingyang City, were like chickens and dogs under Xu Yang’s hand, with three of them killed in an instant!

A full three great completion Marrow Cleansing experts—half of the Song family’s powerhouses of this level were here.

"There is nothing impossible!" Xu Yang snorted coldly.

The techniques he had learned, whether it was the Golden Gang Art, the Immovable King Body, or the Blood Prison Heart Saber Scripture, any one of them, if mastered, would allow him to dominate his peers. Yet he had cultivated all three to a profound level.

With so many superior techniques gathered in one person, if he couldn't crush people who had only reached the great completion of Marrow Cleansing after decades of effort, he wouldn't have needed to waste so much energy.

"Run!"

Song Wenshan did not hesitate in the slightest. True qi exploded beneath his feet, and his body flew out like an arrow from a bow, vanishing from the spot.

Xu Yang’s talent was too shocking, his combat power peerless among his peers. He was not just the fifth on the Ten Talents List; at this age, he was already at the great completion of Marrow Cleansing—he would be more than qualified to be ranked first on the Ten Talents List, and in the future, he would surely reach the Heaven Origin realm and ascend the dragon a second time.

This person was like a venomous snake hidden in the darkness, hiding extremely deep, ruthless and poisonous. He must report this matter to the family and ask for a Heaven Origin expert to kill him, otherwise, the Song family would sooner or later be destroyed by his hands.