A long-faced thug gave a sinister chuckle, drew the longsword at his waist, and prepared to slash at you.
The other two looked on indifferently, with a hint of eagerness in their eyes, showing not the slightest pity for a youngling of their own kind.
You helplessly stretched out your little hand and grasped the tip of the incoming blade. "No need. Young people like me should endure more hardship. Taking losses is a blessing."
"But someone who has already eaten his fill of suffering like you should go down below first."
Under his horrified gaze, your tiny fingers exerted a little force. The strength spread upward from the blade's tip, shattering the longsword into fragments. It then traveled into the thug's body and blew his flesh apart as well.
As his body exploded, it also unleashed a vertically slicing shockwave, expanding outward like a pale circular ring. The other two gang members, standing several meters away, were severed at the chest and abdomen on the spot.
The remaining gravestones were completely unscathed, because the ring's horizontal position had been too high to cut them.
You had only just entered Pure Origin Heaven and were still a pure mortal, without any Dao marks or cultivation. What you had just done came from your application of the Sacred Body.
Besides its 360-fold attributes, your Sacred Body had all sorts of additional functions. What you had used just now were force-transferring vibration and the ability to control pure strength, releasing it in special forms.
Even without externalized energy such as Force Qi or origin power, this function could transform a thousand-pound purely physical punch into an air cannon fired outward.
"Was this converting an object's kinetic energy into... a simple energy shockwave?"
And its form was not limited to cannonballs. It could