Onlookers

"There's no need to speak of martial honor when dealing with a traitor to the sect, an unfilial wretch like this. Attack together!"

Cao Zuoqiu let out a low roar and attacked alongside Qi Dongyuan and ten skilled experts who had achieved success in force training.

"After training all these years, neither you nor that old fossil ever understood what the true Five Elements Body Refining Technique is!"

Wang Daoyi released a long howl.

The aura around him reached its peak at that moment.

Faced with the siege of twelve powerful opponents, he did not need to fight all twelve at once. He only needed to kill the opponent blocking his path before the other eleven attacks reached him, then rely on the explosive burst of an Embrace Dan expert to open the distance.

One against twelve and one against one were no different.

Just like now...

Wang Daoyi fixed his gaze on the strongest of the twelve—Cao Zuoqiu!

In his eyes, no one else existed but him.

At the instant the two sides were about to collide, Cao Zuoqiu was the first to unleash Dan Jin, bolstering his speed. His body shot forward like an arrow loosed from the bow, and at the very peak of his speed, his killing charge surged once more. He sought to use his strongest point to strike Wang Daoyi's weakest point just as Wang Daoyi's aura rose to its zenith.

But...

Wang Daoyi knew the Five Elements Body Refining Technique, and Cao Zuoqiu, too well.

Moreover, compared with Cao Zuoqiu, who sat in the Five Elements Sect teaching students, he had gone through far too many life-and-death battles.

In a flash of thought, he saw through Cao Zuoqiu's intentions a step ahead.

The moment Cao Zuoqiu erupted, Wang Daoyi's qi and blood followed, boiling over.

His five viscera and six bowels rumbled!

Five Elements Body Refining!

The heart belonged to fire, the lungs to metal, the liver to wood, the kidneys to water, and the spleen to earth.

The five elements and five qi were mobilized, circulated, and resonated at the same time, until finally...

"Five Elements Unity!"

Ahead of his fist force, an invisible white wave seemed to burst apart.

At that moment, Wang Daoyi's fist seemed to shatter through an invisible barrier and surpass some limit. Though it moved later, it arrived first. Just as Cao Zuoqiu's erupting Dan Jin landed on him, his fist smashed brutally into Cao Zuoqiu's chest.

"BOOM!"

It was as though a muffled thunderclap had rolled through the air.

Cao Zuoqiu's chest instantly caved in beneath the fist force, as though a fist print had appeared there. The exploding power shredded the front of his clothes, pierced through his body, and forced up a fist-shaped bulge on his back formed by shattered bones.

Cao Zuoqiu's eyes flew wide, filled with horror.

But Embrace Qi into Dan itself required one to endure the terror of life and death.

At that moment, Cao Zuoqiu seemed to return to the scene of when he had embraced qi into dan. Even with Wang Daoyi's punch smashing his chest and pulverizing all five viscera and six bowels, he still roused his remaining strength and smashed viciously toward Wang Daoyi's head, forcing him to twist away in haste.

With that delay, Qi Dongyuan's Dan Jin-wreathed strike had already come crashing down.

Its force was like thunder.

As swift as lightning.

Even though Wang Daoyi had fought through countless battles, he could only hurriedly raise an arm to block.

"Bang!"

"Crack!"

The sounds of exploding force and shattering bone rang out at the same time.

Wang Daoyi's left ulna snapped, and his entire hand bent at an unnatural angle.

"Was that... Gang Jin!?"

Li Pin recalled the exchange between the two just now, his expression somewhat astonished.

He was not the only one. Some of the onlookers had reached the same conclusion.

"Wang Daoyi has cultivated Gang Jin?"

"Gang Jin requires force to travel three inches from the body. His force can't leave his body, so it should be some kind of secret technique!?"

Several experts stationed by the black market discussed it.

"Senior Brother!"

"Sect Master!"

Cries of pain and fury rang out from the Five Elements Sect.

Broken ribs, all five viscera and six bowels shattered by force—such injuries...

Even immortals and gods would struggle to heal them.

However, thanks to Cao Zuoqiu's delay, Wang Daoyi had missed his chance to tear apart the target blocking his way in a single blow, and was besieged by Qi Dongyuan and several experts who had mastered force training.

He was struck several times in an instant.

Yet he had fought through countless battles. Although the situation was perilous in the extreme, the wealth of experience accumulated through those battles allowed him to seize an opportunity to break out in an instant.

As Dan Jin erupted, his entire body became like a speeding truck, slamming viciously into a Five Elements Sect expert who had mastered force training. The expert was sent flying five or six meters, then slid another two or three meters across the ground after crashing down.

Taking advantage of that opening, he lunged out like a tiger and sprinted at full speed, instantly opening the distance from the others.

As long as he made sure he did not fall into an encirclement, he had plenty of ways to kill the ten members of the Five Elements Sect one by one.

"Stop him!"

Qi Dongyuan roared as he gave chase.

The other nine Five Elements Sect experts followed close behind.

Strike while he was ill and take his life.

Everyone understood that clearly.

Any secret technique consumed enormous amounts of stamina when used, let alone when he had also taken a genuine Dan Jin strike. If they failed to kill him now, once he recovered, it would surely be the end of the Five Elements Sect.

Unlike most students, who could simply leave if they wished, these direct inheritors of the Five Elements Sect were bound to it. They shared glory and disgrace alike.

At a time like this, they could not retreat even half a step.

The battlefield shifted.

Li Pin followed closely.

Of the several dozen onlookers, most stopped after seeing the miserable state of Cao Zuoqiu, an Embrace Dan martial master. Yet three groups still followed, unwilling to miss this grand spectacle.

Everyone moved at great speed. In only a few minutes, they had already gone over a thousand meters away.

Qi Dongyuan led his people after Wang Daoyi, but did not rashly surround and kill him.

The Five Elements Unity secret technique of the Five Elements Body Refining Technique was a Gang Jin secret technique, placing an enormous burden on the five viscera and six bowels.

After using Five Elements Unity and engaging in such intense movement, Wang Daoyi's injuries would inevitably worsen.

Besides...

Canglong City was the Five Elements Sect's territory.

As time passed, more Five Elements Sect disciples, as well as friends of the Five Elements Sect, would be invited to join the encirclement of Wang Daoyi.

Time was on their side.

Wang Daoyi seemed to understand this.

At a certain moment, he suddenly darted into a corner. When Qi Dongyuan drew close, he abruptly turned back. His qi and blood blazed like fire as he unleashed three consecutive blasts of Dan Jin in an instant.

Qi Dongyuan could unleash Dan Jin, but he had not embraced qi into dan. He blocked the first blast of Dan Jin, but the second threw his qi and blood into disorder. By the time Wang Daoyi's third blast of Dan Jin came down, he could no longer withstand it. It struck his chest and sent him flying several meters.

The only reason he had not been killed outright was because he had always been cautious and wore armor beneath his clothes.

With no Dan Jin expert blocking him, Wang Daoyi was like a tiger charging into a flock of sheep, plunging into the nine force-training experts and slaughtering them wildly.

"Hahaha! Only one old fossil and Zhao Yuan remain! What does your Five Elements Sect have left to stop my revenge!? I'll kill ten this month and another ten next month! I want to see just how many people your Five Elements Sect has for me to kill!"

Along with his wanton laughter, the fierce aura around his body rose to its peak.

After he beat the fourth force-training expert to death, the remaining five were already mentally broken by terror, on the verge of collapsing on the spot.

Seeing that everyone from the Five Elements Sect would be wiped out if this continued, Qi Dongyuan forced down his fear and pain, looked in every direction, and shouted, "Wang Daoyi is a wicked heretic listed on the Canglong City Martial Arts Association's bounty board! The reward is ten million! My Five Elements Sect is willing to add another twenty million! I implore all fellow martial artists to act righteously, slay this evil fiend, and uphold order in Canglong City's Martial World!"