Chapter 792: Layers of Lingering Shadows

Dust filled the sky, drifting down in wisps, blanketing the entire battlefield.

Fine stone powder and blood mist floated in the air.

Just now, the ten attackers jointly stabbed, blasting a ferocious crater into the ground—it suddenly loomed before their eyes.

The cracked patterns…… spread densely over several meters.

It shows just how ferocious and terrifying the attack of these retired special forces is, with shocking force.

After a missed strike, the ten black‑clad assassins didn't pause for a moment; their ten‑man tactical coordination was flawless.

The ten pushed off with their feet…… instantly re‑forming their formation,

Again…… they lunged at Lin Yuan with savage speed.

Cold light flashed, the ten Triangular Military Spikes glowing with an eerie blue light…… all rose together.

The sharp edges of the three blood grooves refracted deadly cold light in the lamp glow;

Each person's eyes were icy and numb, their moves battlefield‑honed killing techniques.

These ten sought no flashiness, only an instant kill; a new round of encircling attack rolled over again.

In that instant of life and death, Lin Yuan seized the brief gap in the enemy's attack, clenched his teeth, and pressed all his pain deep inside.

Lin Yuan ignored the excruciating pain of shattered shoulder bones and torn flesh, his arms hanging at his sides…… he suddenly gathered strength.

His arms tensed, using all his remaining strength, he slammed them hard onto the hard, cold marble floor!

Crack crack crack!

A series of dense, piercing bone‑joint cracks…… suddenly exploded, echoing throughout the suite.

Lin Yuan's shoulder joints, originally completely dislocated and misshapen, hanging limp, under this extreme violent impact, were forced precisely back into place, perfectly restored!

Lin Yuan's displaced joints instantly locked tight; torn meridians and disordered fibers instantly gathered and repaired.

A wave of sore, numb, tearing pain…… instantly swept through Lin Yuan's entire arm.

The pain made Lin Yuan's vision darken in waves, cold sweat pouring wildly from his forehead.

But what followed was a feeling of completely unobstructed power.

Lin Yuan's crippled arms were fully restored to mobility!

Almost at the same moment as his arms were reset, the foremost special‑force assassin…… had already closed in,

The assassin seized the opening everyone thought Lin Yuan, gravely wounded and powerless, had left; his eyes blazed with killing intent, his Triangular Military Spike whistling with a piercing sound as he gathered his full strength, aiming straight at Lin Yuan's brow vital point, and thrust fiercely forward!

This thrust was angled tricky, speed extreme, locking onto the human body's most deadly brow death‑point, so fast that ordinary people could not even track its trajectory!

The assassin's attack closed in on Lin Yuan's face in the blink of an eye, the life‑or‑death crisis right at hand.

A moment as precarious as a thread holding up a thousand pounds, life hanging by a single strand.

Lin Yuan's reset arms shot up like lightning, his bloody, fuzzy hands clenching together in a fierce grip!

Pfft!

The sharp, icy blade of the Triangular Military Spike was gripped barehanded by Lin Yuan, its forward momentum halted instantly!

The spike's tip…… remained firmly fixed just one centimeter in front of Lin Yuan's brow.,

The icy blade's wind flung his forehead hairs aside; a hairsbreadth more and it would have pierced his skull, penetrated his brow, and killed him on the spot!

An extreme chill of death brushed his skin, the danger reaching its peak.

The nearby assassin, seeing this, instantly flew into a rage, his eyes filled with savage ferocity, unable to believe that the gravely wounded, crippled Lin Yuan could still erupt with such a reaction.

The assassin gritted his teeth, his wrist exploding with power, gripping the hilt tightly, he lunged forward to thrust, then pulled back hard, desperately trying to break free and drive the spike into Lin Yuan's skull.

The remaining nine assassins surged forward in unison, several Triangular Military Spikes stabbing from left, right, and rear blind spots, completely sealing off every avenue of escape for Lin Yuan, the assault reaching utter ferocity.

But Lin Yuan's hand‑shoulder joints were fully reset, his bodily brute strength fully returned,

Lin Yuan's palm power…… was as steady as a thousand‑ton boulder.

Lin Yuan locked the spike's blade fast, no matter how the opponent thrust or pulled, that deadly spike didn't budge an inch, unable to advance even a bit.

The most vicious aspect of the Triangular Military Spike is its blade covered in three‑sided barbs and deep blood grooves; as the assassin repeatedly tugged and exerted force, the sharp barbs dug deep into Lin Yuan's palm flesh.

Wave after wave of heart‑rending, flesh‑tearing pain surged wildly through his nerves!

That assassin's face was savage, neck veins bulging, his whole body muscles strained to the limit, he used all his strength to repeatedly yank the blade……

The assassin's forehead…… was covered in cold sweat.

But no matter how desperately he struggled, this Triangular Military Spike forged of alloy steel…… was as if cast in molten iron, locked fast in Lin Yuan's palm, unable to move even a fraction.

The assassin's eyes' fury…… gradually faded, replaced by…… extreme terror and disbelief.

He had spent years on the battlefield, seen countless tough hard‑men, yet never before had he seen anyone…… able to barehandedly grip a high‑speed thrusting Triangular Military Spike and even lock down all of its force!

At the moment the assassin's spirit trembled and his force waned slightly,

Lin Yuan's eyes flashed with a sudden cold light, his suppressed killing intent fully erupting.

Lin Yuan endured the excruciating pain of his palm flesh being torn, his arm muscles explosively tightening, his shoulder‑back sinews and bones gathering power to the fullest!

Lin Yuan's remaining violent brute strength…… gathered entirely in his hands, his palm violently squeezing inward and bending!

Screech!!

A sharp, piercing, teeth‑grating metal‑twisting screech…… burst forth with a boom!

The high‑strength Triangular Military Spike, whose material is hard enough to easily pierce steel plates and sever rebar, in the astonished gaze of everyone, was actually bent violently by Lin Yuan's bloody, fuzzy hands!

The straight deadly blade…… twisted and collapsed bit by bit.

The Triangular Military Spike, forcibly bent into a strange arc, its hard metal in Lin Yuan's hands…… became as fragile as putty.

The nearby special‑force assassin's pupils suddenly contracted violently to pinprick size, his eyes bulging to the extreme, his breath stopping in an instant.

The special‑force soldier froze completely in place, his mind blank, his face filled with utter shock and disbelief, staring fixedly at the spike bent barehandedly.

The special‑force assassin's blood nearly congealed throughout his body, fear spreading wildly in his heart, completely shattering all his killing resolve.

The extreme terror…… had not yet had time to fade from that special‑force soldier's eyes.

Lin Yuan's lifeless eyes……already overflowed with killing intent.

Before the opponent could recover from the rigid trembling.

Hum!

A metallic tremor rang out, slicing the air; the Triangular Military Spike that had been bent into an eerie arc……broke free of its restraint!

Lin Yuan flipped his wrist, the motion swift and ruthless, without a hint of hesitation; he violently drove this weapon bearing a reverse-hooked blood groove into the assassin's Chest Center vital point!

Lin Yuan's right leg……suddenly lifted the knee……pressing against the opponent's limp abdomen.

Immediately, Lin Yuan erupted with force……sweeping out a horizontal kick!

Bang!

The heavy impact sound rumbled and exploded, the assassin pierced through the chest, gravely wounded……like a torn burlap sack with its string cut, his whole body flew sideways outward, ……heavily slammed onto the marble floor several meters away.

The instant the assassin hit the ground, his body jerked twice, limbs twitching weakly, ……finally the assassin's head lolled to one side, completely cutting off all signs of life.

The remaining nine elite special forces, seeing this, the fear in their eyes……was instantly suppressed by their feral killing instinct;

Years of battlefield slaughter training……made them know no fear, only know how to fight to the death.

The nine instantly formed an array, abandoning one-on-one entanglement, taking up a Nine Palace encirclement formation and surging forward fiercely.;

Nine Triangular Military Spurs glowing with an eerie blue cold light……interlocked into a deadly blade net, from upper, middle, and lower three directions……completely sealing off all of Lin Yuan's evasion and counterattack space.

Nine assassins, each thrust……aimed at the throat, heart, dantian, eyes, and other vital points.

The assassins' offensive was fierce and rapid, killing intent blanketing the heavens and earth.

The piercing sound of tearing air……layer upon layer echoed through the suite.

The sharp cry of the Triangular Military Spike piercing the air……unceasing, the nine black-clad figures advanced and retreated in unison, offense and defense as one, perfect tactical coordination crushing the entire field.

Nine assassins, every strike……was a deadly battlefield killing move, with no superfluous motion.

Faced with the airtight deadly encirclement, Lin Yuan planted his stance firmly in the blood pool, not dodging, not retreating.

Lin Yuan's hands hanging at his sides quietly lifted; between the fingertips, several concealed tiny flower needles lay dormant, the faint blood light on their needles flickering faintly in the lamp light.

Just as the nine Triangular Military Spurs were about to deliver a close-range killing blow, a cold gleam flashed in Lin Yuan's eyes, his wrist twitched slightly, and his fingertip force exploded to the extreme!

Swish swish swish swish!!

Several threads of icy light……tore through the air silently, so fast the naked eye could not catch them, leaving only fleeting glints of light.

These Silver Needles were no longer simple single-point strikes, but precisely locked onto the body's major qi and blood acupoints and nerve vital points!

The Silver Needles' angles were tricky and odd, completely bypassing bony obstructions, specifically aimed at sealing mobility and instantly crippling the enemy's vital points.

The two assassins rushing forward, leaping into a diving thrust……were the first to bear the brunt, the Silver Needles precisely entering their Sun point and Shoulder Well vital points at the moment……

Their whole bodies' tensed muscles suddenly stiffened, their sprinting strides freezing midair, their qi and blood instantly congealed, their nervous system completely paralyzed.

The Triangular Military Spurs in their hands……lost all force, clattering to the ground as they slipped from their grasp.

Their whole bodies, still holding the charging stance, froze for an instant, then plunged forward face-first, their faces heavily smashing into the cold blood pool.

Immediately after, another two Silver Needles shot across the air, precisely embedding into the lower-back Life Gate and thigh Ring Jump point of the two assassins on the right.

Two muffled grunts sounded almost simultaneously; these two assassins felt their entire strength instantly drained, the meridians in their legs suddenly going numb and blocked.

Both of their legs went numb and rigid, unable to stand steady, their bodies uncontrollably staggering and collapsing to their knees, the Triangular Military Spurs in their palms flailing wildly, completely disrupting the formation, reducing them to lambs awaiting slaughter.

In just two seconds, all four top-tier special-force assassins were completely sealed by the Silver Needles from afar, instantly losing combat ability, collapsing to the ground wailing and struggling.

The originally ten-man deadly formation instantly collapsed and scattered, directly eliminating nearly half of its personnel.

The remaining five assassins went completely red-eyed.

They knew full well……the opponent before them was certainly no benevolent sort.

Five men, holding nothing back, all fearlessly threw themselves into a close-range frenzied assault.

They abandoned long-range stabbing, choosing close-quarters melee entanglement, intending to suppress Lin Yuan with their own ferocious grappling skills.

Lin Yuan gave them no chance to close in and encircle, his blood step flickered beneath his feet.

Lin Yuan's figure……drew layer upon layer of afterimages.

He proactively charged into the remaining five's encirclement, initiating an extreme savagery close-quarters blood battle.

One assassin slid low to the ground, the Triangular Military Spike angled upward, aiming straight for Lin Yuan's lower-abdomen vital point, the move sinister and tricky.

Lin Yuan's waist suddenly twisted; in the instant he precisely avoided the blade tip, his bloodied right hand clenched a heavy punch, gathering all his brute strength, and he slammed it hard onto the opponent's face!

Crack!

A sharp, piercing bone-crack sound '6' suddenly exploded, and this assassin's mouthful of teeth all shattered.

The assassin……struck hard, jerked back, his neck bones dislocated and twisted, his whole body hovered in midair for half a second before heavily crashing to the ground, his head tilted to one side, he died on the spot.

An assassin on the left seized the opening, the Triangular Military Spike thrust straight at Lin Yuan's ribs, the blade tip grazing the flesh, drawing a thread of blood.

Lin Yuan endured the subtle pain, his left hand shot out, fingers curled into claws, he locked onto the opponent's knife-wielding wrist, and with fingertip force he directly crushed the opponent's wrist meridians!