"You're on the brink of death, and you're still barking like a dog! It's a miracle the Jialie Family has survived this long!"
As Ye Xiu spoke, he had already made his move!
A surge of pure, blazing Dou Qi shot from his palm, casually killing the nearest steward, a Two-Star Dou Shi, on the spot.
Everyone was stunned by the sudden turn of events.
After a brief, deathly silence, furious shouts erupted.
"How dare you!"
"You little bastard, you're asking for death!"
"Get on your knees!"
Jialie Nu, seated to Jialie Bi's left, slammed his hands on the table and sprang to his feet. His powerful Dou Qi burst forth, and the pressure of a Three-Star Great Dou Master instantly bore down on the youth at the entrance.
"You ignorant fool! Looks like you haven't learned your lesson in the dungeon! I'll personally snap every tendon in your body, then throw you back in there!"
Jialie Nu's hair bristled as he sneered and pushed off the ground. Like a tiger charging out of its cage, he lunged at Ye Xiu, wrapped in deep-blue Water Attribute Dou Qi!
Though he had no idea how Ye Xiu had managed to kill a Two-Star Dou Shi with a single blow, the boy had most likely used some sort of forbidden art.
But he was a Great Dou Master. No matter how powerful that forbidden art was, it would be nothing before overwhelming strength!
Still, that forbidden art had somehow allowed someone like Ye Xiu, who wasn't even a Dou Zhe, to suddenly reach a level comparable to a Dou Shi!
Once he crippled the boy, he would have to seize that forbidden art!
"You little bastard, die!"
Faced with the ferocious lunge, Ye Xiu stood as unmoving as a boulder.
He remained there quietly until Jialie Nu's palm, powerful enough to shatter stone, was less than three feet away.
Ye Xiu moved.
His figure shifted just slightly as one slender hand shot out and caught Jialie Nu by the wrist in an instant.
"What?!" Jialie Nu's pupils contracted. No matter how hard he strained, he couldn't advance even an inch. Meanwhile, a terrifying heat surged from Ye Xiu's hand, throwing his Dou Qi into disarray!
"That's it?"
Ye Xiu's five fingers closed gently around Jialie Nu's wrist.
"Crack—!"
A series of crisp bone-shattering sounds rang out.
"Ahhh!!!" Jialie Nu let out a blood-curdling scream.
And that wasn't all.
Still holding the now-ruined hand, Ye Xiu pulled Jialie Nu to one side and raised his right foot, delivering an apparently casual kick.
His movements were effortless and smooth.
"Thud!"
A muffled impact!
Jialie Nu's scream cut off abruptly.
His massive body flew backward even faster than it had charged forward. A distinct charred footprint was deeply caved into his chest, while searing Dou Qi rampaged through his body.
The wall instantly cracked, leaving behind a person-shaped dent.
Jialie Nu collapsed to the ground, eyes wide open, blood spilling continuously from his mouth. His chest was charred black, and he was already dead.
A Three-Star Dou Shi, the Jialie Family's Second Elder, was dead!
From his sudden attack to his death, the entire thing had taken no more than two breaths.
The hall fell into deathly silence.
All the Jialie Family's senior members, including their clan head, Jialie Bi, stood frozen in place.
What had they just seen?
Jialie Nu... had been killed in an instant?
That "lowly servant brat" they had sneered at had casually kicked him to death as if crushing a bug?
"N-Nine-Star Great Dou Master?!" Jialie Bi was the first to recover. He had sensed the Dou Qi that had leaked from Ye Xiu's casual kick, and his voice was full of shock.
"What?!"
"Nine-Star Great Dou Master?!"
"How... how is that possible?!"
Everyone looked toward Ye Xiu again and instinctively took a step back.
If he really was a Nine-Star Great Dou Master, then even the entire Jialie Family attacking together would be useless!
After all, the strongest people in all of Wutan City were the clan heads of the three great families, and even they had reached only Five-Star Great Dou Master at most!
Ye Xiu casually shook his hand, as if he had merely brushed away a speck of dust, then continued walking.
He headed toward the center of the hall, where the Jialie Family's senior members stood in stunned terror.
"Ye Xiu, whatever this is about, we can sit down and talk it through!" Jialie Bi backed away three steps and hurriedly spoke.
"Heh."
Ye Xiu looked at Jialie Bi, his killing intent fully unleashed. "When you stripped my tendons and drained my blood, did you think we should sit down and discuss it? Now that I'm going to kill your entire Jialie clan, you want to talk it through with me?! I've never met anyone as shameless as you! Come forward and meet your death!"
Jialie Bi's eyes bulged with rage at Ye Xiu's words.
"This man intends to wipe out my entire clan! He's completely mad! Stop him! All of you, attack! He's just one person!"
Jialie Bi roared. His pale-green Wind Attribute Dou Qi, at the Five-Star Great Dou Master level, burst forth and formed a small whirlwind around him.
He knew there was no way to resolve this peacefully! Ye Xiu's strength and killing intent made it clear that he meant to exterminate the Jialie Family!
The clan head's command, combined with their instinct to survive, drove the remaining elders and stewards into a frenzy.
"Kill!"
"Let's fight him!"
Six or seven figures unleashed their Dou Qi at once. Most were between the Dou Zhe and Dou Shi levels. They charged at Ye Xiu in a frenzy as the light of various Dou Techniques flared. Blades flashed, fists and palms struck, and attacks converged from every direction.
Facing their coordinated assault, Ye Xiu didn't even stop walking.
He moved through the flashing blades as casually as if he were strolling through a garden.
"High Yellow-Tier Dou Technique—Venomous Fang Stab!"
A One-Star Dou Shi steward gripped his sword and concentrated all his Dou Qi into a serpentine streak of sword light, thrusting it straight at Ye Xiu.
It was as if Ye Xiu had eyes in the back of his head. He brought the index and middle fingers of his right hand together and lightly pointed behind him.
A red glint flashed at his fingertips.
"Clang!"
The sword tip collided with Ye Xiu's fingers, ringing out like metal striking metal.
Under the elder's horrified gaze, the sword infused with all his Dou Qi began to shatter from the tip, breaking apart inch by inch like glass!
Fire Attribute Dou Qi raced along the blade and into his hand.
"Ahhh!" The elder screamed and released the sword, but Ye Xiu's Dou Qi had already invaded his arm. It instantly turned black and withered, and the scorching spread rapidly toward the rest of his body.
He stumbled backward, then collapsed after just a few steps. He twitched twice before going still, his body like a charred piece of deadwood.
"Low Yellow-Tier Dou Technique—Azure Wind Palm!" A Nine-Star Dou Shi elder launched a sneak attack from the side, his palm sweeping in with cutting wind blades.
Ye Xiu didn't even look. He casually swung his left arm behind him.
"Whoosh!"
Red Fire Attribute Dou Qi swept past like the sharpest blade of flame.
The steward froze in the middle of his charge. The next second, a smooth, charred gash appeared from his shoulder to his waist. His upper body slowly slid away, and the flesh along the cut vanished in an instant, without a single drop of blood spilling.
Ye Xiu moved like a specter. With every step he took, another senior member of the Jialie Family fell!
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