Lin Kaixuan threw back his head and laughed smugly, then spat at Lin Qi with utter disdain. He had already activated the power inherited through his bloodline, as well as a wondrous artifact he had obtained from some ancient ruin. Strange power flooded his body; every strand of black fur bristled with inexhaustible strength, while an invisible barrier enveloped him.
He had once exchanged a move with an ancestor-level figure of the main family. Even when that ancestor struck with the full force of a mid-grade divine artifact, he had failed to break through Lin Kaixuan's defenses. Lin Kaixuan looked at Lin Qi with complete confidence, disdainfully commenting on this plain, ordinary attack with no blazing aura or special effects whatsoever. An attack like this could never possibly harm him!
With a thunderous crash, the incomparably heavy, incomparably hard scepter smashed viciously into Lin Kaixuan's tiger paw. An unimaginable, terrifying force howled forth. The strange power within Lin Kaixuan was shattered by that single blow. He stared at Lin Qi in utter shock as the black fur and thick skin on his palm exploded apart. His muscles burst into a spray of mangled flesh, splattering in every direction, and even his dark-golden translucent bones cracked apart inch by inch with piercing explosions.
Having severely crippled Lin Kaixuan's tiger paw with one strike, Lin Qi leaped up and kicked him in the lower abdomen, sending him flying hundreds of meters away. Lin Kaixuan opened his mouth in terror and spat out a mass of scorching blood, then crashed heavily to the ground and lay still for a long while.
"What is mine is mine! No one can take it, and no one can covet it!" Lin Qi tossed aside the scepter and strode toward Lin Kaixuan step by step. Whenever he