All Wiped Out!

Smack!

With a sweeping chop of his spear, Huo Yuanhong sent the saber-wielding Qi Harmony fighter at the front flying backward, his long saber knocked from his grip and his shoulder shattered!

Rumble!

Watching the demons and monsters, ghosts and fiends closing in to kill him, Huo Yuanhong found his mind calmer than it had ever been!

At this very moment, he had completely unleashed the demon in his heart. Like a Chaos Demon Ape bursting from a shattered mountain, he was mad and ferocious—yet deep in his eyes, he remained incomparably clear-headed, every movement and trajectory of his enemies reflected with crystal clarity!

Within, the sacred intent nurtured by the Buzhou Mountain Fundamental Diagram commanded the whole field; without, the savage madness of the Tiger in the Cage and Ape in the Mind ignited his blood and qi!

Divinity and demonic nature intertwined in a strange fashion, making Huo Yuanhong stronger than ever!

Sshk!

The Six Harmonies Great Spear in his hand carried incomparably shocking Internal Force. Driving it with the method of the Top Elbow Strike, its Spiral Strength violently tore through the hardwood shield held by the expert before him, piercing straight through his chest!

Then his feet rooted into the ground like an ancient tree's coiling roots. Twisting his waist and hips, he swung the great spear in both hands with savage force!

He directly swung the shield-bearing expert into the air, smashing him like a gigantic warhammer into four or five people around him and sweeping down several hidden weapons that shot out from the shadows!

Sshk! Sshk!

As two saber-wielding experts charged him from the side, Huo Yuanhong swept his great spear horizontally, blocking their sabers with two clangs. Then...

The Charge Step erupted, and his two fists blasted out like cannons! Explosive Internal Force poured madly from his fists, directly ripping apart the padded armor on the two saber-wielding experts and slamming heavily into their chests!

Overbearing and arrogant! Forcing open the gates! Two clean, direct punches sent the saber-wielding experts vomiting blood as they flew backward!

Kill!!!

Looking at the remaining enemies, Huo Yuanhong gave his great spear a shake. His blood seemed to boil as he strode forward and charged into the slaughter!

Thrust! Lift! Snap! Smash! Coil! Frame! Block!...

He wielded these basic moves until they became miraculous, returning to simplicity!

Great sweeps and savage chops, fierce snaps and hard thrusts! As domineering spear-shadows danced, enemy after enemy was sent flying, cleaved down, and pierced through!

The true essence of Baji Quan was that when the enemy retreated, you advanced; when the enemy advanced, you advanced still further! Its core was sheer dominance and forcefulness! Offense was the best defense!

As long as you struck fiercely enough, hard enough, and beat your opponent until they could not catch their breath, there was no need to worry about defense at all!

Whoosh!

Just then, a dagger suddenly stabbed out from behind a fallen expert!

It was a man six or seven parts similar in appearance to Wu Yankun. Dagger in hand, he abruptly sprang out from behind the fallen man and launched a killing strike at Huo Yuanhong's face!

From this move alone, it was clear that this man was vicious indeed, directly using another person as a human shield to conceal his approach!

And this was precisely when Huo Yuanhong's burst of power had ended and he needed to draw another breath. A sudden assassination at such a moment would leave even a veteran Strength Harmony fighter unable to change moves in time!

Unfortunately, the one he had encountered was Huo Yuanhong, who had trained the Embrace Rub Step to the point of returning to simplicity!

In that flash of lightning, his rear foot, the pivot of his center of gravity, drove through the back knee with Sinking Heavy Force, sinking his lower body down. His upper body leaned back with the motion, his head tilting aside as the icy dagger skimmed past the mask on his face!

Then Huo Yuanhong straightened his waist and back, launching his upper body abruptly upward. His palm crossed past the dagger-wielding arm, slipping through the opening at a strange angle like a venomous dragon before striking the man's face!

Next!

Force through the soles! Again! And again!

His body surged forward and leapt violently, like a dragon soaring from the sea, while his wrist jerked with brutal force!

Caught completely off guard, most of the dagger-wielding man's body was nearly yanked upside down into the air! Huo Yuanhong gripped his chin and dragged him forward by the face. His struggling feet plowed two deep furrows into the ground, yet still could not halt the momentum. He was hurled sideways into the alley wall behind them, sending dust cascading down!

Bang!

The instant the man struck the wall, Huo Yuanhong drove his elbow down viciously into his chest, shattering ribs in sheets and caving in his chest!

In less than a single breath, this finale Strength Harmony expert, who looked so much like Wu Yankun, was brutally killed by Huo Yuanhong with thunderous methods!

Stop!!!

Not far away, an elderly man charged over in shock and fury. But earlier, so as not to hinder Wu Yankun's illegitimate son from hiding behind the others and closing in, he had been forced to stand somewhat farther away.

He had thought that with the Strength Harmony cultivation of Wu Yankun's illegitimate son, even if he could not win, he should at least be able to withstand a few moves and escape, so he had not been overly concerned.

Who could have expected Huo Yuanhong to strike so ruthlessly? With a face-to-face palm technique refined to its absolute peak, he broke through Wu Yankun's illegitimate son's guard in an instant and went straight for the kill!

Though the old man rushed over madly, he was still one step too late to save him.

"How can one so young be so vicious! I shall report you to the Martial Guild—"

At this moment, the old man was both shocked and enraged. He glared viciously at Huo Yuanhong, intending to report him to the elders of the Martial Guild afterward—accuse Huo Yuanhong of having a vicious heart and no martial virtue, of being unfit to practice martial arts! His martial arts should be taken away, lest he commit more cruel deeds!

"Where did this old bastard come from!"

Huo Yuanhong's gaze turned savage as he strode forward! The force unleashed by the Tremor Stomp stacked upon itself, blasting into his spine, coursing into his arm, and finally gathering completely at the tip of his elbow, erupting as the fiercest, most tyrannical pure yang force!

"Stop, I am with the Martial Guild—"

BOOM!!!!!

The old man's expression changed drastically. Even as he crossed his arms to block, he hurriedly declared his identity—but before he could finish, he was struck by this ultimate blow, driven to its peak! It felt as though he had been stabbed by a Six Harmonies Great Spear. Even with his arms crossed, he could not withstand the impact of such highly condensed Internal Force!

Crack!

Amid a bone-chilling crack of breaking bone, the old man's arms—hardened through decades of training—were actually snapped by the razor-sharp force condensed into a single point!

Only by paying the price of a broken arm did he barely neutralize most of the force, yet his chest still felt as though it had been smashed shut.

"Get down!"

Huo Yuanhong drove his elbow into the old man's chest. His foot struck the ground in another Tremor Stomp, erupting again and again, trampling the muddy earth until it continually burst apart. In exchange, fierce force surged up from beneath his feet, driving his entire body forward! Forward! Relentlessly forward!

He charged all the way, forcing the old man's feet to plow deep furrows through the ground. Yet the old man still could not halt his retreating body. With a bang, he crashed into an earthen wall, cracking it open before he finally managed to stop!

"Stop! I'm from the Martial Guild... BOOM!!!"

The old man tried to cow him with his status, but Huo Yuanhong, fired up from the fight, no longer cared about any of that nonsense. Single-mindedly, he thought only of knocking every last one of these mongrels flat!

His knees bent slightly, then abruptly straightened. Carrying the savage force of a body rising from the ground, he rammed into the old man's chest again, sending him smashing straight through the earthen wall behind him. Blood spraying from his mouth, the old man flew backward and crashed heavily onto the ground without another movement!

Rumble!

A bolt of thunder tore through the thick dusk clouds, and its fleeting flash illuminated the terrifying scene in the alley.

Figures lay scattered in every direction. Only the figure wearing a monkey mask remained standing, calmly drawing out his long spear.

In barely a dozen breaths, so many formidable Intent Harmony and Qi Harmony practitioners—even two Strength Harmony experts in their final stage...

Wiped out!

Only Huo Yuanhong remained standing amid the torrential rain. He brushed the rainwater from his clothes and strode away without looking back.

"By my reckoning, it should be about time."

A smile appeared on Wu Yankun's face.

With Old Xu present, he could not kill Huo Yuanhong for the moment, but he could still beat him into a dead dog and make him watch helplessly as those he cared about died.

That kind of setback, that kind of agony—even if it could not shatter a person's mind, it could still leave cracks in their heart. When practicing Dark Force, at best they would never succeed; at worst, they would go astray in their training.

Before long, someone came hurrying over with a report.

"Well? Is Huo Yuanhong already gravely wounded and on the verge of death, overcome with grief?"

Wu Yankun asked with a faint smile.