Chapter 56: Palm Seal Usurping the Divine Spirit

Xu Yuan's level was lower than Xing Guolong's; using Dan Xiu methods to fight, Xing Guolong firmly suppressed him, yet Xing Guolong did not understand: clearly within Fourth Brother's "Wu Mi" range, how did Xu Yuan discover his ambush?

Fourth Brother's Seventh-Rank "Wu Mi" indeed still had some deficiencies and loopholes.

For instance, when Eighth Brother rushed in, Xu Yuan could see him.

But if Fourth Brother advanced to Sixth-Rank, then even if Eighth Brother smashed Xu Yuan's head with a single punch, he would see nothing at all.

Yet before his own ambush strike, he had been hiding outside the "Wu Mi" range, but Xu Yuan was fully prepared for his ambush, even seeming to know his exact location.

Among all people and all abilities on Xu Yuan's side, the only one unaffected by "Wu Mi" was Xu Yuan's Fate Pattern ability.

Xu Yuan could not see people concealed beneath "Wu Mi," but "Gazing at Fate" could see their Fates.

Eighth Brother's Fate was orange, slightly better than the green "Fate," and he was the first person Xu Yuan had encountered among his enemies who possessed a "Fate Pattern."

His Fate Pattern was "Palm Seal Usurping the Divine Spirit"; this Fate Pattern would, in some mysterious way, snatch the "Prosperous Qi" of those around it to nourish itself, allowing its blood and qi to flourish and its energy to remain abundant.

This Fate Pattern was precisely suited for cultivating Wu Xiu.

Thus, once Eighth Brother unleashed his martial arts, his momentum surged like a fierce tiger descending a mountain or a great river rolling on.

Xing Guolong could not fathom these things, yet he held boundless confidence in this operation.

With himself and Eighth Brother joining forces, and with Fourth Brother's "Wu Mi" restricting the opponent, how could they fail to take down this little thing?

Seeing his eldest brother also rush in to kill, Eighth Brother immediately let out a sinister grin, crossed his legs to swiftly catch up with Xu Yuan, spread his left hand wide, grabbed Xu Yuan's umbrella cloth, then yanked hard, creating a slight opening, and slapped with his right hand through empty space!

Boom!

A muffled sound echoed in the void; a phantom palm seal shot from Eighth Brother's hand, flying straight to strike Xu Yuan's chest!

When a Wu Xiu reaches the Seventh-Rank level, they can cultivate their own unique martial techniques, called "Wu Mi"; this was Eighth Brother's Wu Mi: Void Force Reception.

Xu Yuan wanted to dodge, but Xing Guolong had already opened his mouth to spit, and fiery flames rolled out from his belly; he drew a line with his finger in the middle, splitting the fire dragon into two walls of fire that blocked Xu Yuan's left and right, leaving him no room to evade, forcing him to endure this Wu Mi strike head-on.

Xu Yuan opened his mouth and spat out a Yin Soldier Pill.

A fierce tiger roared; a vast mass of phantoms surged forward to block the palm seal.

The sheer, unyielding power of Wu Xiu naturally counters Yin ghosts; the instant Xu Yuan released the fierce tiger Yin Soldiers, the tiger also unleashed all its zombie ghosts.

They threw themselves forward one after another, repeatedly draining the power of the palm seal.

The palm seal broke through layer by layer, smashing all the zombie ghosts, then struck the fierce tiger Yin Soldiers, shattering them as well, but its power had already been mostly depleted; Xu Yuan, wearing his gloves, met it with a palm strike.

Crack!

Xu Yuan retreated two steps; behind him, a wall of fire roared up, nearly scorching his back.

Xing Guolong pressed forward from behind again, spitting Seventh-Rank belly fire that transformed into two rolling walls of fire; he waved both hands, manipulating the sharp blades formed from golden pills, which leaped out from the fire walls like flying fish bursting from the sea, viciously stabbing straight for Xu Yuan's nape.

While striking ruthlessly, Xing Guolong laughed arrogantly: "You, a proper Dan Xiu, possess only the sinister methods of Shen Xiu? Hahaha!"

If you take the bait and truly fight me using Dan Xiu methods, that would suit my plan to suppress you severely.

Xu Yuan suddenly closed his umbrella.

The umbrella was a creation of a Jiang Xiu, its mechanical mechanism possessing immense power, and the umbrella cloth was extremely thin and slippery; Eighth Brother, caught off guard, lost his grip and let go.

Xu Yuan closed the umbrella, retreated slightly, then swiftly opened it again, curling his body into a ball and hiding behind the umbrella.

The umbrella surface deflected Xing Guolong's "Sword Pill," and simultaneously, using the umbrella as cover, he rolled on the spot, risking it all to break through Xing Guolong's fire wall.

Xing Guolong cursed inwardly; this brat had escaped again.

He strode after him, only to discover that the brat's speed was extraordinarily fast; with long strides, his entire body leaped three feet into the air, and with a whoosh-whoosh-whoosh, he had already run dozens of zhang away.

Xing Guolong sneered: "Foolish wishful thinking; you cannot escape."

Not only could he not escape, but soon Fourth Brother would use "Wu Mi" to alter the concept of "front and back" here; Xu Yuan thought he was fleeing forward, but in reality, he was running backward, straight into the hands of himself and Eighth Brother!

But Xu Yuan suddenly stopped running, squatted on the ground, hid behind the umbrella, and shouted: "You want Dan Xiu methods? Fine, I will let you witness my Dan Xiu methods!"

Xing Guolong laughed loudly: "Excellent! Today I shall make you understand what it means to show off one's skills before an expert..."

Though he spoke thus, Xing Guolong did not let his guard down for a moment, immediately preparing against every Dan Xiu method an Eighth-Rank Dan Xiu could employ.

At the same time, he gave Eighth Brother a glance, reminding him to beware of Longzhu Waidan ambushes.

Eighth Brother grinned carelessly, rejecting unnecessary caution, and strode forward.

The time Fourth Brother fought desperately to secure could not be wasted even a fraction.

I will take down this brat, and saving Fourth Brother's situation will have to rely on Eldest Brother.

And Wu Xiu can be this arrogant; their nature dictates that when facing any cultivator of a lower level, they can ignore all of the opponent's methods and crush them with overwhelming force.

Xing Guolong frowned slightly but did not stop Eighth Brother.

Nor were there any other Dan Xiu methods around—especially not Yin Soldier Pills or the like.

Old Qian died at their hands; he must have raised many Yin Soldiers, which he had sealed and refined into Longzhu Waidan.

Xing Guolong sneered inwardly; so this was just a bluff...

Boom!

A tremendous explosion erupted; something beside Xing Guolong suddenly detonated! The power was astonishing, blasting out a huge cloud of gray-black smoke, within which countless fragments seemed to be flying outward.

A towering figure was blasted away along with the explosion!

Xing Guolong had guarded against everything, preparing for any Dan Xiu methods Xu Yuan might use.

But he never expected that the "Sword Pill," which was not even fully formed and was tightly sealed by his own "Jiang Xiu Phantom Claw" Pill, would explode!

The Jiang Xiu Phantom Claw Pill was only three feet from Xing Guolong; after grabbing Xu Yuan's Sword Pill, it floated and hovered beside him.

At such close range, what Xu Yuan injected into it was the inner pill characteristic baited with secret mechanical cannon powder; the explosive power was several times greater than previous detonations.

The Jiang Xiu Phantom Claw shattered into dust first; almost simultaneously, Xing Guolong was also blasted away.

The Sword Pill shattered into countless "fragments"; the killing power of these fragments was even more terrifying than the previous golden pills, and some pierced into Xing Guolong's body.

From being blasted away to crashing onto the ground, Xing Guolong completely failed to comprehend what had happened.

Why did such a terrifying explosion occur inexplicably beside me?!

And after being thrown and crashing to the ground, he remained stunned for a moment before suddenly realizing that the entire right half of his body had lost all sensation.

His right eye could no longer see.

He also had pills he had refined himself and immediately spat them out to heal his entire body's injuries—but the moment he opened his mouth, the inner pill did not come out; instead, a huge mouthful of fresh blood mixed with fragments of internal organs was spat out!

The fragments of those golden pills had already pierced his entire body until it was riddled with holes.

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