Boom—!
A torrent of dazzling, multicolored energy instantly swallowed Han Yuchen's figure.
"Hmph. You don't know whether you're dead or alive." A cruel smile curled at the corner of Tie Lin's mouth.
Yet in the next second, his smile froze.
That mass of energy did not explode. Instead, the instant it touched the thin golden film covering Han Yuchen's body, it came to a bizarre halt.
Immediately after, an icy voice rang out from the center of the light:
"Assessment: malicious attack. Attribute: physical/earth-type hybrid. Analysis complete. Initiating countermeasure protocol: double return."
Bzzz!
The thin golden film suddenly snapped outward. All the attacks that had originally been blasting toward Han Yuchen seemed, in that instant, to crash into an absolutely smooth mirror, reversing one hundred and eighty degrees in a manner that completely defied common sense and shooting back along their original paths!
And they were faster, and stronger!
"No—!"
Tie Lin only had time to let out a miserable scream before he was struck head-on by his own Savage Rhinoceros Earth Shattering Strike, now doubled in power.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
A series of dull impacts rang out.
The thirty-two guards, along with Marquis Tie Lin, flew backward in perfect unison like cannonballs fired from a cannon, smashing straight through the doors of the Star Gazing Pavilion and crashing onto the street outside in a heap like a human pyramid.
The dust and smoke dispersed.
Marquis Tie Lin lay on the ground like a puddle of rotten mud, every bone in his body shattered, blood spraying wildly from his mouth.
The onlookers on the street were completely dumbfounded.
At that moment, Han Yuchen's clear voice, amplified by Soul Power, spread distinctly through the entire street:
"Goodness, what a family misfortune. To think Lord Marquis's guards actually harbored resentment toward their