Chapter 377 - 375: Nothing More Than This

Chapter 377: Chapter 375: Nothing More Than This

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Chapter 375: Nothing More Than This

Silence fell.

Many people in the surrounding sky frowned as they looked over.

Just as some were about to react, a cold voice rang out from not far away.

"Are you looking to die?"

"Hm?"

The young man leading the disciples of the Taiyin Divine Mansion’s expression shifted slightly.

He turned toward the voice, but before he could see who had spoken, an overwhelming aura of death enveloped him.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Suddenly, a piercing whistle tore through the air.

The heavens filled with countless feathers of light, each one like a flying sword slashing downward. They blazed brilliantly, transforming into dazzling streams of divine radiance.

They completely enveloped the disciples of the Taiyin Divine Mansion.

Boom!

In an instant, the mountains seemed to collapse, the seas roared, and the heavens themselves appeared to split apart.

It was an overwhelmingly tyrannical force, as if an entire ocean had exploded, with colossal waves sweeping across the world.

Everything within hundreds of li erupted into chaos.

Many spectators’ expressions changed abruptly, their faces filled with shock and uncertainty.

Over the years, disciples of the Taiyin Divine Mansion had indeed died while traveling outside.

But attempting to kill them in broad daylight, before countless witnesses, was almost unimaginable.

Moreover, this place was only a few thousand li from the Taiyin Divine Mansion itself.

Attacking them here was no different from killing people right before the gates of the Taiyin Divine Mansion—a blatant slap in the face.

Immediately, an elderly man from the Taiyin Divine Mansion, his face dark with anger, raised his hand to intercept the attack.

Yet before he could move, an overwhelming pressure descended upon him.

The old man held a high position within the Taiyin Divine Mansion. As one of its elders, his cultivation had already reached the peak of the Divine Palace Realm, only a step away from becoming a Saint.

Even so, the omnipresent aura of slaughter made every hair on his body stand on end.

His instincts screamed at him that if he dared intervene and block this attack, the first one to die would be him.

There is an expert hidden in the shadows!

The thought flashed through his mind in an instant.

Boom!

Ten thousand beams of sword light poured down like liquid mercury, piercing through a hundred li of space.

The Taiyin Divine Mansion disciples trapped inside had no time to defend themselves.

Several of them were instantly blasted into clouds of blood.

Only the leading young man managed to survive, relying on his formidable cultivation to barely withstand the assault.

Even so, his clothes were in tatters.

His body was covered with wounds, and across his chest stretched a deep gash exposing bone, blood pouring from it without end.

"Who?"

"Who was it?"

"You’ve got some nerve! How dare you attack me! Are you courting death?" The young disciple of the Taiyin Divine Mansion roared repeatedly.

His gaze swept wildly across the surrounding crowd, searching for whoever had attacked from the shadows.

He did not have to wait long.

A figure suddenly appeared before everyone.

Standing motionless in the sky, his long hair fluttered in the wind.

He was as steady and immovable as an ancient boulder that had endured since time immemorial.

"For the words you spoke just now... even a hundred deaths would not atone for your crime."

"Xiao Fan!"

Seeing the newcomer, the young man’s face twisted with rage as he growled through clenched teeth.

He had never imagined that, on his own sect’s doorstep, he would be wounded so badly by a mere junior.

The strength Xiao Fan had displayed in that brief exchange had completely exceeded his expectations.

After all, Xiao Fan was only in his teens.

He himself had cultivated for over a hundred years.

Originally, he had intended to bolster Senior Brother Xiao Chen’s prestige.

If Xiao Fan appeared, he thought he could seize the opportunity to defeat him in advance.

But who could have expected Xiao Fan to be so powerful?

After only a single exchange, he had been reduced to such a miserable state.

He narrowed his eyes and carefully examined Xiao Fan.

A trace of relief appeared in his heart.

Fortunately, Xiao Fan’s cultivation level was not as terrifying as he had initially feared.

His cultivation was only at the mid-stage of the Life and Death Realm.

The young man himself was at the same level. He believed that even if he were no match for Xiao Fan in a fair fight, he certainly wouldn’t have been defeated so quickly. The reason he had ended up in such a miserable state was largely because Xiao Fan had launched a surprise attack.

Thinking of this, a fierce light flashed in his eyes.

He suddenly spat out a thread of divine radiance from his mouth.

It was as thin as a strand of hair, nearly impossible to detect, and unimaginably fast. Anyone even slightly careless would be struck before they could react.

The sudden turn of events caught everyone off guard.

No one had expected that, before today’s duel between Xiao Fan and Xiao Chen even began, such an incident would occur.

For a moment, everyone held their breath.

Then Xiao Fan moved.

His speed was astonishing.

He reached out with one hand, which shone with a golden radiance as though forged from pure gold.

He caught the streak of divine light in his palm.

Lightning crackled around his hand as he forcefully refined and destroyed it.

Without pausing, his other hand clenched into a fist and blasted forward.

The punch was incomparably fierce.

Its power seemed to fill heaven and earth, murderous intent twisting through space itself and shaking the entire world.

Everyone who witnessed that punch instinctively grew solemn.

Although Xiao Fan was only in the Life and Death Realm, the combat power he displayed at that moment was enough that even peak Life and Death Realm experts would treat it with the utmost seriousness.

"How— how is this possible?"

The young man’s eyes widened in disbelief.

He had painstakingly prepared that hidden attack.

Even if it failed to kill Xiao Fan, he had been certain it would at least inflict severe injuries.

But to his complete astonishment, Xiao Fan had neutralized it with effortless ease.

Even worse, he still had strength to spare and immediately launched a killing blow.

There was absolutely no way the young man could block that punch.

Not in his current, heavily wounded state.

Even if he had been completely uninjured, he would never have dared receive it head-on.

Immediately, he turned toward the sky and shouted desperately to an elderly man in the distance.

"Elder, save me!"

As his cry rang out, everyone instinctively looked toward the elder from the Taiyin Divine Mansion.

Many people had already greeted him earlier.

No one doubted the elder’s strength.

His cultivation was terrifying.

He stood on the same level as the Holy Lords of many Holy Lands.

Yet what puzzled everyone was this:

Even though his own disciple was about to be killed, the elder didn’t move.

Not even a single step.

He stood rooted in place.

Cold sweat covered his aged face.

It was as though he were enduring unimaginable pressure, like prey being watched by a terrifying ancient beast.

The slightest movement, and he felt certain he would be doomed beyond redemption.

Finally—

Boom!

With a deafening explosion, the arrogant young disciple of the Taiyin Divine Mansion was obliterated before everyone’s eyes, reduced to dust.

From beginning to end, not a single person intervened.

The entire process was so smooth that it was almost unbelievable.

This was a disciple of the Taiyin Divine Mansion!

And only a short distance away stood the Taiyin Divine Mansion itself.

Yet one of their disciples had been killed here, and not a single person stepped forward to stop it or even speak on his behalf.

The scene felt almost unreal.

It was as though an invisible hand had silently gripped the throats of every powerful expert from the Taiyin Divine Mansion, leaving them utterly incapable of making a move.

Xiao Fan calmly withdrew his fist.

His expression remained unchanged, as though he had merely crushed an insignificant ant.

He said indifferently, "Disciples of the Taiyin Divine Mansion are nothing more than this."

The simple sentence instantly caused countless people’s expressions to change.

With those words, Xiao Fan had not only insulted the entire Taiyin Divine Mansion—he had also dealt a significant blow to Xiao Chen’s prestige before their duel had even begun.

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Note:

Cultivation Realm so far:

1, Body Refinement

2, Qi Condensation

3, Spirit Meridian

4, Profound Elixir

5, Divine Power

6, Life and Death

7, Divine Palace

8, Half-Saint

9, Saint

10, Saint King

11, Great Saint

12, Quasi-Emperor

13, Great Emperor

14, Immortal

15, Immortal Emperor

Treasure Level so far:

1, Mortal Weapon

2, Magical Treasure

3, Spiritual Treasure

4, Dao Weapon

5, Sacred Weapon

6, Sacred King Weapon

7, Imperial Weapon

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