Chapter 152

Flames, lightning, blade light and sword intent—these attacks all slammed directly onto the bronze bell that enveloped a person; the distant bell tolled, sweeping away the vicious curse hidden within the attacks. The huge bronze bell showed cracks, and Bai Lang inside shrank slightly, but after a single breath the gangqi bronze bell forged by the Golden Bell Shield Divine Skill instantly regained its pattern, reforged.

The recoil force also surged out—those who had used fire clouds were hit with fire clouds, those who had used lightning were hit with lightning… plus the robust internal force of the Golden Bell Shield Divine Skill. The several Innate Experts before him never expected that Bai Lang cultivated a whole‑body hard‑qigong to reach the Innate level and had even developed external recoil gangqi. Someone shouted, 'Golden Bell Shield!'

Bai Lang strode forward; within the Golden Bell Shield, the white tiger's roar directly sketched a white‑tiger phantom, and his fists and palms emerged from the clash with those few. His steps did not pause, but the Lightness Skill of Grass Flying has its limits—perhaps acceptable in speed, yet the short‑range lunge and change of direction lean more toward lethal attack, whereas in dodging and running it is indeed inferior to the body techniques of those before him.

So he didn't manage to seize the entrance, but that's fine—Bai Lang can explode. The gangqi of the Golden Bell Shield erupted in a 360‑degree blast, instantly reducing the grand hall to rubble; those Innate Experts found no chance to attack Bai Lang, yet they remained unharmed. Bai Lang seized the moment to confront Guan Ba, whose skill with a small knife was superb—while the Thirteen Knives of Spring and Autumn are normally wielded with a big blade, Guan Ba could perform their exquisite techniques with such a small knife.

In terms of talent and ability, he is probably the most outstanding among his fellow disciples— the Death‑Hair Blade, or as known only inside the Six‑and‑Half Hall, the Transform‑Hair Divine Blade, is a skill Guan Ba himself comprehended. Bai Lang doesn't know that, but he does know this hair carries deathly qi, even giving him a hint of the curse he once felt in the Adventure Hall. Perhaps it is by cutting off his own hair, imbuing it with sorrowful, painful deathly qi to bring 'death' to others.

Anyway, Bai Lang is now facing him head‑on, being ganged up on, relying solely on the Golden Bell Shield Divine Skill to hold his ground. Sure enough, it is the Thirteen Tai Bao Golden Bell Shield: each time it is shattered, as long as Bai Lang's true qi does not wane and his fighting spirit does not falter, the shield is indestructible, continually reforging itself. Moreover, this divine skill has the added benefit that injury doesn't matter—if the fighting spirit remains unbroken, the heavier the wounds, the stronger the skill becomes.

The Spring and Autumn Blade could not break Bai Lang's Golden Bell Shield; striking his hand only produced a metallic clang—yet this is also because Bai Lang poured the bulk of his internal force into his hands. For an Innate Expert, laying innate gangqi onto a weapon is no trivial matter; the gangqi capable of piercing the Golden Bell Shield would indeed work, but it would suffer recoil and could not fully shatter it—only then could Bai Lang correctly gauge that his internal force is actually quite robust.

Those present likely fall short of Bai Lang in internal force—the Golden Bell Shield's internal force is inherently robust, so Bai Lang now holds a great advantage. His punches and kicks are not easily met head‑on, and quite a few are half‑hearted, having no intention of fighting Bai Lang to the death… 'The Tiger Fist truly won't do!' Bai Lang increasingly feels that the Tiger Fist cannot unleash his strength in internal force; when executing killing moves, it feels sluggish and unsatisfying.

This needs time to polish; Bai Lang believes he can gradually turn the Tiger Fist into a martial art better suited to him in training, possibly even innovating and evolving a new technique—but right now it is holding him back. 'If the Golden Bell Shield weren't truly marvelous, I'd probably have been torn apart by now.' Thinking of the Golden Bell Shield brings to mind Yu Yu, and then the thought that Yu Yu could grant him such a divine skill even in a low‑martial or no‑martial world…

At that moment, as Guan Ba's relentless frenzied assault suppressed Bai Lang, Bai Lang's claw twitched slightly, giving rise to something new—a sharp gangqi that whipped up the surrounding wind… and at the same moment, the fire cloud brought by Baili Changqing Du Tingbei's Three Yang Opening Peace pressed down from all sides.

A frantic tiger's roar rang out, kicking up a wild wind that swirled the collapsed building structures. The wind was like a blade, directly shredding the fire clouds in the sky. The scorching internal force within those torn fire clouds was now swept up by the wind, turning into a blaze‑driven gale that carried fire‑blades sweeping in all directions. The first to bear the brunt was the unfortunate Guan Ba; Bai Lang's sudden change instantly broke his Spring and Autumn Blade, and only then did Bai Lang possess the true battle aura of an Innate Expert.

Wind and fire intertwined, while Bai Lang's gangqi turned into a fierce tiger, then invisibly seeped into the surrounding wild wind; the robust internal force of the Golden Bell Shield added the tiger's killing aura and the sharp killing aura of metal, turning everything within ten zhang of Bai Lang into a hell of wind blades. Aside from Guan Ba, and perhaps Du Tingbei as well, no one truly wanted to fight Bai Lang to the death—moreover, his attacks felt painless to them, so they were actually in tacit agreement.

Want to rescue the family of Piao Xiang from the Golden Blade Sect? Aside from Guan Ba and Feng Qing, who actually care, the others are indifferent about stopping or not, and Piao Xiang's family… in fact someone has already dealt with them—do you really think the Six‑and‑Half Hall eats vegetables? They had already ambushed Piao Xiang earlier, and shortly after they moved in as well. Bai Lang overpowered Guan Ba, and at that moment Guan Ba's head flashed, a large patch of hair falling off—almost as it fell, the scalp began to gleam, and no hair will grow there from now on.

The hair twisted together into a hair‑blade that shot toward Bai Lang. Though not very fast, Bai Lang felt unable to dodge. This was not merely martial skill; other factors were involved. The Golden Bell Shield appeared, and the hair plunged straight into it—'With the power of the Golden Bell Shield, it still can't be blocked?' Bai Lang was also startled; the hair‑blade clinging to the outer vigorous internal force of the Golden Bell Shield scattered, turning into strands of long hair that drilled inside. It looked rather disgusting.

Bai Lang could no longer continue attacking Guan Ba—the outermost person, Hua Jiao, and those who ask nothing of heaven and earth but of ghosts and gods, had already ceased; Bai Lang thrust his palms together in a heavy blow, the robust bell tone rang out while his vigorous internal force also carried an extremely overbearing yang harmony, like the majestic sun in the heavens. He was about to incinerate those sinister hairs completely, but Guan Ba could not let it go—who made him speak that way in the first place?