Chapter 966: Attack! Xu Jingming

"The Void Stones in the ninth layer of this Po Xu Tower seem much more abundant than in the first two layers."

High above, Su Qingli, flying through the air, her body wreathed in emerald-blue Lei Ting, spoke softly.

"Indeed."

Xu Jingming nodded, smiling, "In a few more days, we should be able to gather three million Void Stones."

The location of the ferocious beast is not far from here.

Even if we can only fly slowly due to the Iron Thread Lotus, we'll reach it within a few hours.

But he underestimated the richness of the underground Void Stones.

In these three days, they had only traveled four hundred kilometers.

The vast majority of the remaining time was spent collecting Void Stones.

Of course, the harvest was extremely rich—so far, they had gathered 2.72 million.

"It should be about enough."

Su Qingli smiled lightly and nodded, about to speak again.

Xu Jingming's entire body broke out in goosebumps, as if an extremely terrifying threat was about to arrive!

His SS-class perception combat technique, Xin Wang, had remained active, his vast spiritual force spreading around him.

Almost instantly, he sensed an energy shockwave approaching from about five kilometers ahead!

And its target was Su Qingli beside him!

The energy shockwave moved at extreme speed, nearly approaching the speed of light!

Five kilometers, relative to the speed of light, would take only a few microseconds to cross.

If this had been before, even if Xu Jingming had sensed the shockwave, he would have been unable to react.

After all, biological signal transmission also requires time.

But his Body Strengthening Art had broken through to the Tenth Layer; his reaction speed was now unlike that of ordinary psychics.

A few microseconds were already enough for him to react!

"Chaos Doushen Shenlei!!"

Time was too slow—he had no chance to release any combat technique, so he could only unleash his psychic energy!

Boom—

Within a one-kilometer radius around him, the sky instantly became a sea of black Lei Hai!

Puff—

The shockwave entered the Lei Hai and instantly slowed to one-thousandth the speed of light.

This finally gave Xu Jingming breathing room; his psychic energy and spiritual force surged rapidly.

A thick barrier of lightning rapidly coalesced, enveloping him and Su Qingli.

Cang Lei Shield!

A SSS-class defensive combat technique.

The instant the Cang Lei Shield formed, the energy beam slammed into it!

Whosh—

The Cang Lei Shield trembled slightly, its surface rippling with faint waves.

Its power barely diminished at all, completely blocking the beam from penetrating.

Laser gun beams rely on surprise; their power is actually weak—roughly equivalent to an S-class technique released by a ninth-rank lower-tier Law Saint.

With Xu Jingming's current strength, he could easily defend against it.

From sensing the beam to deploying defense, the entire process took less than 0.1 seconds!

This was the terrifying reaction speed granted by his Body Strengthening Art breaking through to the Tenth Layer.

"There's an enemy!"

Su Qingli now reacted as well, her eyebrows furrowing; pure white Doushen Divine Thunder surged forth, swirling around her body.

"To the right front."

Xu Jingming's expression turned icy.

He immediately activated Lei Kuangyong and shot toward the location; Su Qingli followed closely behind.

"It blocked that?"

Shima Taiyi, five kilometers away on the island, nearly popped his eyes out.

That was a laser gun!

The high-energy beam reached light-speed levels!

If a ninth-rank peak had reacted, he could understand.

But Xu Jingming was only eighth-rank mid-tier!

Could his reaction speed be this fast?

Remember, Su Qingli beside him hadn't sensed anything at all at first!

"No good—I must flee immediately!"

Shima Taiyi knew this was no time for confusion.

He immediately activated his psychic ability and fled at full speed.

Suddenly—

A piercing thunderclap rang out; endless black Lei Ting converged, forming a cage that trapped him inside.

He could feel that even a single stray spark from this lightning cage would be enough to obliterate him completely...

"It's over!"

Kojima Taiichi's heart turned to ash; with a thud, he collapsed weakly to his knees on the ground.

Whoosh—

Only a few seconds later, Xu Jingming and Su Qingli landed one after another on the ground not far from him.

"He's actually only a seventh-rank Grandmaster?"

Su Qingli's face showed surprise, and Xu Jingming was equally puzzled.

Since when could a seventh-rank Grandmaster deliver an attack strong enough to threaten a ninth-rank Esper?

"Looks like he's from Sakura Country."

"How can you tell?"

"Sakura Country people come built short — I can spot it at a glance."

Xu Jingming smiled and walked toward Kojima Taiichi with steady steps.

Before he could even get close, Kojima Taiichi began kowtowing and begging for mercy:

"Lord Xu! Please spare me!"

Thud thud thud......

The hard ground actually rang out with quite a noise from his kowtowing.

That Daxia speech laced with a Sakura Country accent — one could tell his origins the moment they heard it.

"He really is from Sakura Country?"

Su Qingli was somewhat surprised.

But on closer thought, the vast majority of Espers from Sakura Country really were just as Xu Jingming had described.

"Tell me — how did you pull off that attack just now?"

Xu Jingming looked down at him from above.

This Kojima Taiichi was simply too weak, forcing him to rein in his oppressive aura somewhat.

Otherwise, the pressure naturally radiating off him in Lei Lei Bao Tai alone would be enough to leave the man rigid all over, unable to open his mouth and speak.

"If I tell you, will you spare my life?"

Kojima Taiichi spoke up cautiously.

"What do you think?" Xu Jingming's gaze was icy.

At those words, Kojima Taiichi's expression changed drastically; he drew a deep breath and said forcefully:

"Let me be blunt — the moment I die, you'll never find this thing!

Unless you let me go, I'll die before I tell you this secret!"

The laser gun was his last trump card.

As long as Xu Jingming needed something from him, then he still had a sliver of hope!

"What a hassle." Xu Jingming frowned.

Without even the patience to pretend to agree, his spiritual force surged out wildly, forming a peculiar imprint.

Whoosh—

The imprint swiftly sank into the space between Kojima Taiichi's brows.

In only an instant, Kojima Taiichi, who had been so defiant moments ago, immediately became reverent:

"Master."

"What technique is that?"

Su Qingli's beautiful eyes went wide, and a flash of astonishment rose on her delicate oval face.

"Slave Heart Seal — a simple spiritual-manipulation-type combat art."

Xu Jingming gave a brief explanation.

For Espers of the same rank, the Slave Heart Seal might not take effect so easily.

But this man was only a seventh-rank Grandmaster; his spiritual force was weak, so planting the Slave Heart Seal was easy.

'A simple spiritual-manipulation-type combat art? Why can't I learn it?'

Su Qingli grumbled inwardly.

She had also studied spiritual-type combat arts before, but could only learn B-rank and A-rank ones.

Any higher rank, and she couldn't learn them.

But from the tone of Xu Jingming's voice, this combat art seemed like something one could pick up at a glance......