Commander-level

Mo Feng did not move.

He merely watched Shen Che, wanting to see what this man from the Demon Suppression Division would do next.

Shen Che acted.

His five fingers tightened.

A soft crack rang out.

The coarse porcelain teacup shattered in his palm, breaking into more than a dozen sharp fragments of varying sizes.

He did not rise.

He merely sat there and casually flicked his wrist.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

More than a dozen porcelain shards wrapped in crimson-gold Dragon Elephant True Qi turned into streaks of deathly light, tearing through the air with piercing shrieks.

Their speed exceeded the reaction limits of every demonic beast present.

Pfft!

Pfft!

Pfft!

Three dull thuds rang out almost simultaneously.

A shard pierced straight through the skull of the bone-bladed demonic beast.

A fist-sized bloody hole exploded through the heart of the other, one-horned demonic beast.

As for the largest four-armed monster, three shards simultaneously lodged themselves in its brow, throat, and chest.

The expressions on the faces of the three True Meridian Realm demonic beasts were still frozen in the savagery and madness of the previous instant.

Then their massive bodies collapsed with a thunderous crash like sacks whose bones had been pulled out.

Green and black demonic blood flowed across the floor, washing the ground of this black inn clean.

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The system notification and the faint warmth of the Demon Suppressing Token arrived at the same time.

Xue Xi and Tu Rong's little faces had gone deathly pale.

Their minds had already stopped functioning.

From entering the village, to Mo Feng's betrayal, to the appearance of four demonic beasts, their emotions had been like a mad carriage racing all the way toward the abyss of despair.

But now, the carriage had stopped.

And the abyss was gone too.

The young man from the Demon Suppression Division, whom they had taken for either "possibly an accomplice" or "a doomed unlucky fellow," had not moved his butt from his chair from beginning to end.

He had not even stood up.

With only a cup of tea and a teacup—

He had dealt with four True Meridian Realm demonic beasts that could easily have crushed the two of them to death.

What kind of move was that?

He was cheating, wasn't he? He had to be cheating, right?!

"Interesting."

Mo Feng finally spoke.

All emotion vanished from his face, replaced by the burning intensity of meeting a worthy opponent on the chessboard.

"I misjudged you."

"You are qualified to make me truly strike."

Xue Xi shuddered and snapped out of the tremendous shock. She hurriedly shouted at Shen Che, "Be careful! Senior Brother... he cultivates Heavenly Snow Mountain's finest Heavenly Heart Sword Canon. His sword is very fast!"

Eighty-ninth on the Hidden Dragon Ranking was by no means an empty title.

It was a reputation forged through countless battles of life and death.

"Get farther back."

Shen Che finally rose to his feet. He rolled his neck, producing a series of crackling bone pops.

He said this to Tu Rong and Xue Xi.

Before his words had even faded—

Mo Feng moved.

A remnant image was left where he had stood.

Like a ghost, he crossed the shattered table in a single step. Man and sword fused into a streak of white light that shot straight for Shen Che's brow.

There were no flashy sword techniques, only speed pushed to the utmost limit.

So fast that even Tu Rong and Xue Xi's dynamic vision could only catch a blurry flash of white.

Facing this earth-shattering sword strike—

Shen Che neither dodged nor evaded.

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He raised his right hand, clenched his five fingers, and covered his fist with crimson-gold Dragon Elephant True Qi.

Then, simply and directly, he threw a punch.

He used bare flesh and bone to meet that precious sword capable of slicing through iron like mud head-on.

Clang!!!

An ear-piercing crash of metal striking metal exploded with a bang!

That was not the sound of flesh colliding with steel.

It was the explosive boom of two meteorites flying at high speed and smashing viciously into each other!

The razor-sharp Sword Qi contained in the tip of Mo Feng's sword was instantly crushed by that violent, majestic force the moment it touched Shen Che's fist, like spring snow beneath the blazing sun.

The blade itself could not even leave a white mark on Shen Che's skin.

An indescribably immense force surged wildly back along the sword!

Crack!

The square table between them, which had remained relatively intact, could no longer withstand the aftershock of the impact and instantly exploded into a shower of wood splinters.

Mo Feng was like a man struck head-on by a charging giant elephant, sent flying backward uncontrollably.

He forcibly twisted himself around in midair. His feet plowed two deep trenches through the ground, and he staggered back seven or eight steps before barely steadying himself.

The web between the thumb and forefinger of his sword hand had been completely torn open, blood dripping from it.

Shen Che slowly lowered his fist as the True Qi within him erupted without restraint.

Two pale white bands of True Qi emerged on the surface of his body, slowly circling like two swimming dragons.

One was the Hand Taiyin Lung Meridian.

The other was the Hand Yangming Large Intestine Meridian.

This was the unique phenomenon of True Meridian Realm martial artists after opening the regular meridians within their bodies.

Two.

Only two.

"Two true meridians... How is that possible...?"

Tu Rong's mouth hung wide enough to fit an egg inside. She stared at Shen Che, then looked at Mo Feng in the distance, whose face had turned livid.

A martial artist who had opened only two true meridians—

Had taken a frontal attack and sent flying with one punch a genius swordsman ranked eighty-ninth on the Hidden Dragon Ranking, who had opened at least ten true meridians?

This was no longer fighting above one's level.

This was challenging the martial arts common sense they had built over twenty years.

What kind of monster was this man?

"So that's it, so that's it!"

Mo Feng stared at the two true meridians on Shen Che's body. He was stunned at first, then seemed to understand something and burst into wild laughter.

"Hahahaha!"

"I understand! No wonder! No wonder!"

"What you cultivate is not True Qi, but body refinement! You are a body-tempering martial artist specializing in the flesh!"

There was a trace of madness in his laughter.

"Good, very good!"

"Your body is more valuable than those two women's!"

"'King' will definitely like it!"

A flash of blood-red light passed through Mo Feng's eyes.

The aura around him began to undergo a drastic transformation.

The twelve bands of true meridian light clearly visible across his body were rapidly stained by an ominous blackness.

Surging demonic qi burst from every pore of his body, more than ten times denser than the combined aura of the previous four demonic beasts!

Riiip!

The luxurious white brocade robe on his body was torn apart by his swelling muscles.

Something seemed poised to bore out from beneath his skin.

His bones crackled with tooth-aching pops as his body grew taller and twisted.

A pitch-black horn burst through the flesh at the center of his forehead, growing out in a savage curve.

Dense black scales emerged over his skin.

His hands became claws, and a long tail like a steel whip covered in barbs lashed out from the end of his spine. With a crack, it struck the floor and threw up sparks.

In the blink of an eye, Heavenly Snow Mountain's handsome eldest senior brother had turned into a terrifying demonic beast nearly two meters tall, covered in black scales, with a single horn on his head and a long tail trailing behind him.

A terrifying pressure far beyond the True Meridian Realm swept through the entire area like a mountain collapse and a tidal wave.

Demonic qi gathered around him, transforming into twisting black snakes.

A Commander-level Demonic Beast!

Its strength was enough to rival a Human Race expert of the Primordial Qi Realm!

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