One Punch, Saint Remains Shattered!

The force of that bone-white giant claw's slap was enough to destroy heaven and earth!

The ground where the altar had stood instantly collapsed, forming a massive claw-print crater. Spiderweb-like cracks crazily spread for thousands of feet in every direction! A terrifying energy shockwave mixed with dense annihilating Death Qi surged outward like a tangible black tide!

"Defend, now!" Zhou Qiankun shouted in horror, driving the golden light of his True Martial Hegemonic Body to its limit and forming a golden greatshield before himself. The other True Martial Academy disciples also desperately circulated their Spiritual Power, forming a battle formation and struggling to resist.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The black Death Qi shockwaves slammed viciously against the golden shield and the formation's light barrier, producing teeth-grating impacts. The golden light and barrier swayed violently, flickering on and off.

Zhou Qiankun was still holding up, but those behind him had their blood and qi churning as they staggered back again and again, blood spilling from the corners of their mouths. They were clearly finding it incredibly difficult to endure.

And this was merely the aftermath of that giant claw's strike!

As for Xuanyuan Che and the other three, who stood directly in its path, they faced an even more terrifying force!

"Thunder Wall!" Thunder Roar Ravine roared. The power of lightning around him erupted without reserve, forming an incomparably thick wall of lightning at the very front!

"Guixu Sword Domain!" Mu Qingxue swept the Wuchen Sword in a circle. Gray, hazy annihilating sword intent spread out, forming a peculiar sword-intent domain that sought to dissolve and erase the incoming Death Qi.

"Pure Heaven's Blessing!" Yun Mengyao flicked her delicate hands repeatedly, layering sheets of pure white light behind the Thunder Wall and sword domain to reinforce and purify them both.

All three had unleashed their ultimate defensive techniques.

Xuanyuan Che stood at the rear, his gaze slightly narrowed. He did not immediately act; this much impact could not stop his senior brother and senior sisters. What mattered more now was the information before him.

Since the Netherworld Clan had infiltrated the Myriad Races Battlefield, were they tracking the annihilating aura for the thing beneath the abyss... or for this altar?

Rumble—!

The tidal wave of Death Qi crashed viciously into Thunder Roar Ravine's Thunder Wall!

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle... Boom!

Lightning carrying destructive power and deathly, filthy Death Qi frantically corroded and annihilated each other, producing piercing screeches. The Thunder Wall shook violently, cracks appearing across its surface, but it ultimately was not breached at once! Thunder Roar Ravine's muscles tensed, knotted like dragons as lightning flashed madly around him, and he held on with all his strength!

Immediately afterward, the Death Qi weakened after passing through the Thunder Wall slammed into Mu Qingxue's Guixu Sword Domain. The Guixu Sword Intent shared some similarities with Death Qi, yet it was of a higher order, like a monarch facing a rabble. Vast amounts of Death Qi were silently devoured by the sword domain.

Mu Qingxue's face turned slightly pale. Maintaining the sword domain against such enormous amounts of Death Qi was clearly draining her greatly.

The last remnants of Death Qi were easily purified and neutralized by Yun Mengyao's Pure Heaven light barrier.

The four of them had actually withstood that terrifying blow head-on! Though all of them had expended some energy, none were injured!

Watching this from behind, Zhou Qiankun and the others nearly had their eyes pop out. Their entire team had struggled so hard just to resist it, yet those four had endured it head-on?! The gap in strength... was simply too vast!

"Roar—!"

From beneath the abyss came a furious, rather than pained, roar. It seemed deeply dissatisfied that a single strike had failed to crush several "ants." The enormous bone-white claw suddenly lifted, stirring up shattered rocks and dense deathly aura as it locked onto Xuanyuan Che's group again, ready to slam down viciously!

Only then did everyone see the giant claw in its entirety. It was not a claw of living flesh and blood, but one assembled and fused entirely from the bones of countless different creatures! Shadows of pitch-black chains coiled around its arm, exuding a terrifying aura capable of suppressing all things! Several still-turning eyeballs, filled with venomous resentment, were even embedded in its palm!

"This is... a Saint Corpse Bone Demon!" Yun Mengyao recognized it at once. "A terrifying Demonic Beast said to be nurtured by the Death Qi of the Abyss of Annihilation, made from the corpses of the myriad races and fused together. Its strength... is at least at the early Saint Realm, perhaps even stronger! This Demonic Beast can continuously absorb Death Qi to recover, making it almost... immortal and indestructible."

A Saint Realm Demonic Beast!

The True Martial Academy disciples instantly went pale at those words, despair spreading among them.

Zhou Qiankun's expression was also extremely grim. He could still struggle a little against someone at the peak of the Tai Xu Realm, but before a Saint Realm foe, he might not even have the right to struggle!

Should he crush his token? He was utterly unwilling.

"A Saint Realm pile of bones?" Thunder Roar Ravine licked his lips. Though his face was solemn, the fighting intent in his eyes grew even wilder. "Damn, sounds like it'll be even more satisfying to beat!"

Mu Qingxue gripped the Wuchen Sword tightly, her sword intent becoming ever more condensed. Though she knew she was no match for it, she showed no intention of retreating.

Xuanyuan Che's gaze passed beyond the terrifying bone claw descending once more and swept toward the deeper reaches of the abyssal fissure.

This time, he used a thread of Chaos Qi. Within his chaotic perception, aside from this Saint Corpse Bone Demon, there were several more obscure figures emitting the same Netherworld deathly aura. Taking advantage of the chaos created by the Bone Demon, they were swiftly descending along the edge of the fissure like ghosts!

Their target truly was not the battle on the surface, but something deep within the abyss! This Saint Corpse Bone Demon was more like a guardian they had either disturbed or deliberately lured out!

Trying to kill with a borrowed knife? Or fish in troubled waters? Xuanyuan Che sneered inwardly. Not a bad plan. Too bad you picked the wrong target.

The bone-white giant claw that blotted out the sky was about to crash down again, carrying pressure far greater than before!

"Second Senior Sister, Third Senior Brother, Sister Mu, fall back. Leave this big fellow to me." Xuanyuan Che suddenly spoke, his tone calm beyond belief.

"Junior Brother!" Yun Mengyao was startled, but then she seemed to recall something. The worry in her eyes became trust instead. "Be extremely careful. That is no ordinary Saint Realm creature."

"I know what I'm doing." Xuanyuan Che gave her a reassuring look, excitement curving at the corners of his lips. "Perfect. I'll use it to test my hand and see just how tough this Saint Realm physical body of mine is."

Before his words had faded, Xuanyuan Che advanced rather than retreated. With one step, he actually took the initiative to meet the terrifying giant claw descending upon him!

Compared to that mountain-like claw, his figure was as tiny as a speck of dust!

"Brother Xuanyuan! (Junior Brother!)" Zhou Qiankun, Thunder Roar Ravine, and the others cried out at once!

Under everyone's disbelieving gazes, Xuanyuan Che slowly clenched his fist. There was no dazzling Spiritual Light, no grand display—only a simple clench.

Yet at the instant he made a fist, the space around him seemed to distort slightly. A sensation of pure physical strength, refined to the utmost extreme, spread outward, while the ground beneath his feet silently sank three inches!

Facing the bone-white giant claw descending with enough power to easily crush mountains, Xuanyuan Che threw a punch upward!

It was still a simple, direct punch, utterly without flourish!

Boom—!!!!

It was as though two primordial stars had collided violently!

An incomparably muffled boom erupted, yet it shook everyone's souls to trembling!

Yun Mengyao and the others erupted with Spiritual Power, preparing to rush forward and fight to the death. But...

The sight of Xuanyuan Che being slapped into a pulp never appeared!

Instead, the massive bone-white giant claw was forcibly stopped in midair by Xuanyuan Che's seemingly tiny fist!

At the point where fist and claw met, space rippled violently, and fine black cracks even appeared! Terrifying waves of force spread outward like something tangible, shaving several more feet off the ground!

"Roar?!" The Saint Corpse Bone Demon beneath the abyss let out a roar of shock and pain. Its claw felt as though it had struck the entire earth itself. The rebounding force made its whole bone arm creak under unbearable strain, and cracks even appeared in some of its relatively fragile bones!

"How is that possible?!" Zhou Qiankun and the others nearly had their eyes fall out, their minds blank as they completely failed to comprehend the sight before them!

He had used his physical body to directly withstand the full-force strike of a Saint Realm Bone Demon?! And blocked it?! Was he even human?!

Yun Mengyao and the others were equally shaken. Though they had long secretly known that Xuanyuan Che's physical body had become saintly, witnessing him display the terrifying power of a Saint Realm physical body in such brutally direct fashion still struck them like a thunderbolt!

"The strength is decent. Too bad it's an idiot." Xuanyuan Che gave a calm assessment, then the fist bracing the giant claw suddenly trembled!

An even more vast and terrifying force of Chaos, like an erupting volcano, blasted from his fist into the bone claw!

Crack! Crack! Crack!

Dense bone-cracking sounds, enough to make one's teeth ache, rang out like bursting beans!

The bone-white giant claw, tougher than refined gold, began to crack from the point where it met Xuanyuan Che's fist. The fractures spread wildly like a spiderweb, instantly covering the entire claw and half the arm!

Rumble—!!!

The next moment, amid the Saint Corpse Bone Demon's shrill, agonized roar, its enormous bone claw and half its arm were violently shattered into pieces by the force of Xuanyuan Che's punch, exploding into countless fragments of bone that filled the sky!

One punch! Saint remains shattered!