Chapter 44

Lin Xuan turned to Ling Chao. "So, are you accepting this Life and Death Battle?"

Ling Chao frowned, a bloodthirsty smile curling across his lips. He pulled out a pill and tossed it into his mouth.

"Boom!"

At that instant, his qi and blood surged wildly, instantly crossing the Body Forging Peak and charging into the Blood Refining Realm.

Then he looked at Lin Xuan with a cold sneer. "I accept. Draw your blade!"

"This day next year will be the anniversary of your death."

"Good that you accepted!"

Lin Xuan's voice carried across the area. Yet with a lift of his hand, he put away his saber. Then his icy voice swept through the entire venue.

"You are not worthy of making me use my blade!"

"Hiss..."

The entire crowd was stunned. One after another, they widened their eyes and sucked in sharp breaths...

"Arrogant! You are merely in the Body Forging Realm—who gave you the courage?"

Lin Xuan's words enraged Ling Chao beyond measure.

He himself was already at the Body Forging Peak, only one step away from the Blood Refining Realm. Within the Servant District, he was considered one of the top Experts.

Out of caution, he had even taken the Bloodburst Pill he had treasured for so long, a life-saving pill that forcefully raised his realm to the Blood Refining Realm.

At this moment, feeling the abundant and powerful force of qi and blood within his body, he was confident that no one in the Servant District could withstand even a single exchange with him.

To him, Lin Xuan's words were no different from humiliation.

"What a pity. He is going to snatch this merit away."

Sun Liang sighed softly at that moment.

Beside him, Su Ding nodded indifferently. "Taking a Bloodburst Pill to force a breakthrough will bring some side effects, but nothing serious."

"With the resources Senior Brother Liu Yan promised afterward, it will be enough for him to break through and enter the outer sect. It still counts as a major merit."

"Since he challenged both of you anyway, why not go up as well and get a share of the spoils?"

"Forget it, Senior Brother Su Ding. If I went up and joined hands with Ling Chao to kill him, who knows what people would say? Never mind. He is just a dead man—not worth it."

Sun Liang curled his lip.

Su Ding said nothing more, turning his gaze toward the Life and Death Arena.

Faced with Ling Chao, whose qi and blood roiled wildly and whose aura ran rampant around him, Lin Xuan did not speak.

He merely glanced at Chen Ze's corpse, then stepped toward Ling Chao.

He was not walking quickly, but his gaze grew sharper and sharper.

As he walked, the qi and blood within his body began to boil as well, releasing a fierce and violent aura.

"Trash!"

Ling Chao was utterly disdainful. Compared to his own, Lin Xuan's aura was no different from that of an ant.

He was now in the Blood Refining Realm, and his Yellow Grade Superior Movement Technique had reached Minor Mastery. Killing those in the Body Forging Realm was as easy as butchering dogs.

"Buzz!"

But at that moment, Lin Xuan's aura suddenly soared. Its tyrannical intensity doubled, actually contending head-on with Ling Chao's aura.

"Hm?"

Ling Chao knitted his brows. "I had forgotten that you cultivate an explosive-type martial skill. It seems I cannot underestimate you."

Though he said that, Ling Chao did not feel the slightest concern. He believed that his Yellow Grade Superior Movement Technique at Minor Mastery was enough to handle anything.

The advantage was his!

"You sure talk a lot!"

Lin Xuan's voice suddenly rang out.

Ling Chao froze, then flew into a rage.

But suddenly, something that terrified him happened. Lin Xuan, who had just been advancing at a slow pace, flashed over like a Specter.

Lin Xuan's speed was outrageously fast. Even with Ling Chao's eyesight, he had failed to catch the slightest trace of him.

Of course, he still reacted swiftly. He unleashed his Minor Mastery movement technique, a blast sounding beneath his feet as his figure immediately shot backward.

"Too slow!"

But then an icy voice rang beside Ling Chao's ear.

"You..."

Ling Chao's eyes widened in horror.

At that moment, he saw a pair of eyes as icy and sharp as blades, devoid of even a trace of emotion.

"Roar..."

A tiger's roar sounded at the same time. Before Ling Chao could even react, pain flared at his waist, followed by an immense force sweeping through his entire body.

"Urgh... Aah!"

Ling Chao could not help crying out in pain. Then his body flew more than ten meters away like a kite with its string severed, before crashing heavily into the center of the Life and Death Arena.

"What?"

"Damn, what just happened?"

"How was Lin Xuan so fast? I did not even see it clearly—how did Deacon Ling Chao get sent flying?"