Countless people watching were left feeling as though their spectacles had shattered all over the ground. Ma Ying was someone who could rank among the top five Inner Disciples, his strength exceptionally formidable. Since the competition began, he had bulldozed his way here without hindrance.
Yet who would have thought that Ye Xiwen had hidden his strength, and that he was actually comparable to the Inner Gate Five Great Disciples?
Ye Xiwen finally unleashed the Thunderclap Hand in earnest, and rolling thunderclaps echoed across the arena.
Three echoes!
Four echoes!
Five echoes!
Six echoes!
Ye Xiwen directly surged to six echoes. He was so fast that he was nearly leaving afterimages behind.
"Haha, you actually dare use your hands against my great hammers? You're courting death! Watch me smash both your hands to pieces!" Ma Ying let out a savage laugh. His twin hammers descended like mountains, sealing off every inch of space before Ye Xiwen. He crushed others with sheer force, breaking ten thousand techniques with strength alone.
Boom!
With a tremendous explosion, Ye Xiwen's palms struck the pair of great hammers, sending up massive waves of air.
At once, countless people were stunned. The scene they had imagined—Ye Xiwen's hands being shattered—never appeared. Instead, Ye Xiwen's hands swept forward like bamboo splitting before the wind, directly breaking through the great hammers.
Those great hammers were like paper mache, forcibly blasted apart by Ye Xiwen with the force of withered branches being snapped and rotten wood pulled apart!
The Ironback Silver Ape possessed a body like steel sinews and iron bones, impervious to blades and spears, all because it regularly drank that special Monkey Wine. Over the past month, much of the Monkey Wine Ye Xiwen drank had gone toward reinforcing his physical body.
Ye Xiwen's strength had reached nineteen Tigers of Tiger Strength, while Ma Ying possessed only nine. Ma Ying had wanted to crush him through sheer force, to use one strength to overcome ten techniques, yet he did not know that Ye Xiwen's strength far surpassed his own.
Thunderous Gale! Ye Xiwen forcibly broke through Ma Ying's twin hammers and struck Ma Ying's burly body with a palm.
Bang! Before Ma Ying could even resist, Ye Xiwen sent him flying with a single blow.
"Stop!" A furious shout suddenly rang out from the sky.
Ye Xiwen ignored it completely. True energy burst beneath his feet, and using the Heavenly Immortal Steps, he instantly caught up. His hands became shadows, and countless palm images rained down upon Ma Ying, who was still flying through the air.
Lightning Flashes and Thunder Roars!
Ghostly Thunder Axe!
Sudden Wind and Thunder!
Boom! Ma Ying's towering body crashed heavily onto the ground. Every bone in his body had already been broken, and there was not a single intact spot left on him. Most importantly, Ye Xiwen had directly shattered Ma Ying's Sea of Qi. The Sea of Qi was the foundation of a martial artist's cultivation and the place where true energy was stored. Once it was broken, even if Ma Ying did not die, he would be completely crippled from now on, with no possibility of cultivating further.
Ye Xiwen knew that the revenge of petty people never ended. Yet before such a crowd, he could not kill Ma Ying. Shattering his Sea of Qi would completely eliminate any future trouble.
"Ye Xiwen, what gall! Didn't you hear me tell you to stop?" At that moment, a figure descended from the sky and darted into the arena. It was a Black-Robed Elder, eyes wide with fury as he glared at Ye Xiwen.
From his memories, Ye Xiwen knew that this Black-Robed Elder was named Wang Jian. He was the hall master of the Yi Yuan Sect's Hall of Punishments, in charge of punishments throughout the sect. Ordinary disciples were quite afraid of Wang Jian. More importantly, Wang Jian and Ye Kongming were deeply at odds, seemingly due to grudges accumulated long ago.
"In full view of everyone, you maimed a fellow disciple. Do you have no regard for the bond between disciples? Do you have no regard for the laws of the Yi Yuan Sect? If someone like you is allowed to grow, you will surely become a calamity to our Yi Yuan Sect!" The moment he opened his mouth, one enormous accusation after another was piled onto Ye Xiwen.
"Maiming a fellow disciple? What a grand accusation. You didn't see what happened, so are you treating everyone else as blind? Ma Ying was the one who struck to kill first, intending to murder me here. I was merely defending myself!" Ye Xiwen replied without the slightest politeness. Ye Kongming and Wang Jian had never gotten along to begin with; the two sides were enemies. Besides, Wang Jian had clearly come looking for trouble.
"What a sharp-tongued brat!" Wang Jian stared coldly at Ye Xiwen. "You say it was self-defense, and that makes it self-defense? You wounded a fellow disciple to this extent! What's more, Ma Ying was a genius of our Yi Yuan Sect. Crippling one of our sect's geniuses makes your crime all the graver!"
"Does self-defense mean one must simply endure being bullied and not fight back? What kind of logic is that?" Ye Xiwen shot back. "Besides, this counts as a genius? He couldn't even withstand one move from me. He was nothing but trash. No matter how many resources the sect used to raise such trash, it would have been a waste. Stopping now is just right!"
"I was merely defending myself. The right and wrong of this matter will be judged fairly by everyone. You cannot cover the sky with one hand!" Ye Xiwen said.
"Hmph, I am the hall master of the Hall of Punishments. All punishments within the sect are under my authority. You maimed a fellow disciple, and the evidence is irrefutable. Don't even think of denying it!" Wang Jian did not care about right or wrong. The terrifying aura of a Xiantian expert erupted in an instant. He extended a great hand toward Ye Xiwen, turning his hand into a claw as he grabbed for Ye Xiwen's shoulder. If he caught him solidly, Ye Xiwen's shoulder would likely be dislocated on the spot.
How vicious!
Ye Xiwen immediately stamped his foot and retreated swiftly with the Heavenly Immortal Steps, but Wang Jian relentlessly pursued him. His claw descended, nearly ripping the air apart, terrifying beyond measure.
"Ha!" Ye Xiwen shouted. He had been driven into a dead end, Wang Jian's terrifying aura firmly locking onto him.
Clang! With the sound of metal striking metal, Ye Xiwen drew the long blade from his back and slashed out with a New Moon Slash.
Nine blade shadows instantly appeared in the sky, hacking fiercely toward Wang Jian. They were incredibly fast, carrying within them some of the profound meaning of the Thunderclap Hand, making them unimaginably swift.
The nine blade shadows overflowed with surging blade energy, sealing off every inch of space around Wang Jian with invincible momentum.
The people around them stared dumbly. They had never expected Ye Xiwen's slash to be so terrifying. This was Ye Xiwen's true strength. Only now did they understand that even when Ye Xiwen had sent Ma Ying flying with one blow earlier, he had not used his full strength. Only after being forced into a dead end had he truly unleashed his terrifying power.
The sharp blade wind blew wildly, slicing everyone's skin until it stung painfully.
"How is that possible?" A trace of shock flashed through Wang Jian's eyes. He had not expected Ye Xiwen to be capable of such blade techniques.
Wang Jian immediately took several steps, his figure flashing like lightning. In an instant, he withdrew beyond the range covered by Ye Xiwen's blade shadows, evading the attack.
Just as he was about to continue his assault, another furious shout suddenly came from the sky. "You old bastard, don't you dare hurt my son!"
A huge hand blanketed the sky as it descended, blasting toward Wang Jian. It formed a great palm of condensed air several meters wide and pressed down upon him.
Wang Jian thrust out both hands to meet it.
Boom! A terrifying wave of air spread across a radius of more than ten meters. Even the air seemed to evaporate, and many disciples were driven back again and again by the dreadful blast.
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