Lin Changqing no longer held back. From half the acupoints across his body, streams of reddish-brown energy surged forth once more.
His blood and qi churned, and his aura surged again, just as it had when he crushed the Houtian Spiritual Treasure.
By now, the Sect of Elucidation immortals had all closed in on Lin Changqing.
Among the Interception Sect immortals, quite a few were still worried about him.
But in everyone's eyes, the situation had reversed in an instant.
At that moment, they were all Mystic Immortals, yet facing more than a dozen Mystic Immortals, Lin Changqing seemed capable of settling heaven and earth with a single palm!
"Not good!! This brat was hiding his strength! He still has power to spare. He was deceiving us all along!!"
"Fall back!"
Among the dozen or so Sect of Elucidation immortals, someone finally realized what was happening. Their eyes were filled with horror.
But now that they wanted to withdraw, they couldn't.
The two sides were less than ten thousand zhang apart—a stone's throw for Mystic Immortals.
A cold smile crept across Lin Changqing's lips. Since you made the first move and tried to kill me, there's no need for me to hold back against a dozen of you.
After all, I'm a Mystic Immortal too. In the heat of battle, if I happen to hurt someone, even Master Yuanshi, the Sect of Elucidation's leader and my martial uncle, won't have anything to say.
Reddish-brown energy flowed around Lin Changqing's body, then was instantly absorbed into his flesh.
He unleashed his attacks against the hundred-zhang palm, the finger that pierced the heavens, the mountain range, and the great river.
In the blink of an eye, Lin Changqing jabbed a finger forward. The hundred-zhang palm, solid as it was, shattered like a broken mirror!
He easily seized the finger that pierced the heavens, and it crumbled in an instant.
The river and mountain range shattered at once, as if molded from mud, then dissolved into wisps of energy that filled the sky.
The other divine abilities were no better than clay chickens and straw dogs. Under Lin Changqing's hand, they all crumbled!
This was the power of half his acupoints—the power of eighteen hundred divine-demon phantoms!
Lin Changqing could barely contain his joy.
He had known the Divine Demon Prison Suppression Art was peerlessly powerful and utterly unreasonable.
But only after unleashing its true power did he understand just how formidable it was!
With only about fifty percent of his power, he could now move freely among opponents of the same rank. He was practically invincible!
At that moment, a hundred thousand years of humiliation turned into a rush of relief. So what if they were Sect of Elucidation immortals?
Hmph! They were nothing but clay chickens and straw dogs!
"Now, take this!"
Of course, Lin Changqing hadn't acted just to shatter the Sect of Elucidation immortals' divine abilities.
Those people had just used killing moves against him. "No killing fellow disciples" was the strictest of the Three Sects' laws!
Lin Changqing attacked again. A blood-red shadow took the shape of a hundred-zhang palm, gleaming like crystal.
The palm came crashing down, striking at the Sect of Elucidation immortals one by one.
"Disobey the law, and you will be punished!"
The Sect of Elucidation immortals' hundred-zhang palm was like one made of mud, but Lin Changqing's was like steel, forged and cast from molten iron.
In an instant, the Sect of Elucidation immortal flew through the air for a hundred li before crashing onto Kunlun Mountain.
"Argh!!"
A scream rang out as clouds of dust billowed. The supposedly unbreakable Kunlun Mountain now had a giant crater a hundred meters wide.
At the center of the crater lay the Sect of Elucidation immortal!
His body was cracked like a porcelain doll, and wisps of spiritual energy and blood qi leaked from him as his cultivation rapidly declined.
He had been at the peak of the Mystic Immortal realm. In an instant, he fell to the late stage, then the middle stage, where his decline finally stopped.
"Damn you, Lin Changqing! You crippled my cultivation!!"
The Sect of Elucidation immortal's eyes burned with boundless fury. Yet he lay motionless in the crater, struggling to stabilize his injuries and keep his cultivation from falling further.
As he tried to regulate his breathing, he spat out another mouthful of blood, and his realm wavered.
The other Sect of Elucidation immortals were now ashen-faced.
He had fallen straight from the peak of the Mystic Immortal realm to the middle stage!
Two whole stages—enough to take ten thousand years to regain, or even tens of thousands!
Lin Changqing had struck with such viciousness!
"And now, the rest of you!!"
"You disobeyed your elders. I'll teach you a lesson on behalf of my martial uncle Yuanshi!!"
Lin Changqing shouted angrily and attacked with a cold laugh.
One Sect of Elucidation immortal had already been crippled.
A peak Mystic Immortal was a pillar of the Three Sects, after all.
Among the Twelve Golden Immortals, only Guang Chengzi had reached the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm. The rest were merely Golden Immortals.
Now that Lin Changqing had crippled one of them, he had repaid half of his hundred thousand years of humiliation.
But it still wasn't enough!
Lin Changqing looked up at the Twelve Golden Immortals, seated high above.
You're next!
Let's see if you can stay seated on your cloud platforms without moving while I cripple them one by one!
Coldness flickered in Lin Changqing's eyes. He attacked again, swinging a punch at another Sect of Elucidation Mystic Immortal.
"Argh!!"
"Lin Changqing! Senior Brother Changqing, we're fellow disciples! I'm calling you Senior Brother—please, spare me!"
The Sect of Elucidation immortal Lin Changqing had singled out had been shouting curses just moments ago. Now he could only beg for mercy as he fled, clutching his head.
But Lin Changqing's strength now rivaled that of a Golden Immortal. How could a Mystic Immortal possibly escape him?
"I'm enforcing the Three Sects' laws on behalf of my martial uncle. How could I let personal feelings sway me?"
"Interception Sect disciples who have been ordered to reflect must all serve their punishment in full. If I find out anyone sneaks out, I won't go easy on them!"
As he spoke, Lin Changqing looked toward the Interception Sect disciples.
The Interception Sect disciples who had been punished earlier were no longer the least bit dissatisfied.
Their eyes lit up as they looked at Lin Changqing, their faces filled with delight.
"We will obey Senior Disciple Brother's orders! We'll reflect for a thousand years and truly repent!"
"If anyone breaks the rules, we willingly accept the punishment!!"
The Interception Sect disciples spoke up one after another. The Sect of Elucidation disciples' expressions changed at once.
Lin Changqing was truly impartial—he wouldn't even show leniency to his own fellow disciples. How could he possibly spare them?
But they only had to reflect for a thousand years! He, on the other hand, had been knocked down a realm. How could he accept that?
"Lin Changqing! You keep claiming you're punishing us on your master's behalf, but you're showing favoritism to the Interception Sect disciples. I won't accept this!"
The Sect of Elucidation disciple kept arguing. He looked toward the Sect of Elucidation's Immortal Palace. Master, Lin Changqing is going to cripple my cultivation! Hurry and intervene!
But instead of receiving help from his master, the Sect of Elucidation disciple heard Lin Changqing shout again.
"I'm fair and impartial. How dare you question me!"
"Punish him!!"
In an instant, the blood-red fist became a streaking blur and shot toward the Sect of Elucidation immortal.
Unlike the previous immortal, this one produced a square seal from his hand. Mysterious characters were engraved upon it, and divine light shone from its surface.
A Houtian Spiritual Treasure! He had no choice but to bring it out and defend himself!
Was he supposed to let his cultivation be knocked down?
Lin Changqing's expression shifted slightly when he saw the seal. It looked like he wouldn't be able to knock this one's cultivation down.
But he didn't hold back at all. His fist crashed into the seal.
In an instant, the seal turned into the phantom of a mountain range, only to shatter moments later. The fist's momentum faltered slightly, then continued downward.
The Sect of Elucidation immortal fell toward Kunlun Mountain like a shooting star.
"Lin Changqing!! You really dared to do it!"
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