"W-what... what kind of monster is this..." The five survivors stared at Lin Chuan in shock. The two bone spikes thrusting out of his body were so glaring and bizarre. Combined with Lin Chuan's naturally unusual white hair and pale eyes, they all felt in that instant that they weren't facing a person, but a monster!
"Those are his bones? Who exactly is this guy? He can use his own bones to attack? This..." A Qi Refining Stage sixth-layer cultivator swallowed hard and spoke with difficulty. He had personally witnessed Lin Chuan instantly kill someone at the same level as himself, and was already terrified of Lin Chuan.
"Useless! What are you panicking for? This guy only succeeded because he used a weird attack to catch us off guard. As long as we attack together, what's there to fear?" The eighth-layer Qi Refining Stage youth looked grim, but hadn't lost his head.
Though Lin Chuan's way of attacking was bizarre, he was only at the fifth layer of Qi Refining Stage—three whole levels below him. There was no need to worry too much. Besides, they had five people, while Lin Chuan was alone. They could wear him down to death!
Sure enough, as soon as the youth spoke, the four who had been cowed by Lin Chuan's presence came to their senses. They still had five people. So what if Lin Chuan had caught them off guard and killed one of their own? He would still die at their hands.
"Bastard! I'll kill you!" One of them was evidently close to the man who had just died, and charged the moment he came to his senses.
The other four followed as soon as they saw him attack. They didn't dare let Lin Chuan keep attacking. If he killed another one of them with those bizarre bones, they'd never be able to show their faces again.
"Hmm? You can feel anger over a dead companion, too? Too bad you shouldn't have provoked me!" Lin Chuan's lips parted with a sigh. Then he surged forward, Senjutsu Chakra coursing through his body.
"Shikotsumyaku: Dance of the Willow!"
Boom!
The charging man threw a punch, his fierce face twisted with unrestrained fury. He was angry not only because Lin Chuan had killed their companion, but also because of Lin Chuan's eerily calm expression. It was a lofty, icy calm, as if he were looking down on them and had never taken their attacks seriously.
His fist shot out with lightning speed, too fast for an ordinary person to dodge. Unfortunately for him, with the Byakugan's insight, Lin Chuan found it effortless to evade. He shifted slightly to the side, and the punch missed.
"Impossible... How did he know where my fist would land..." As the man stared in shock at Lin Chuan dodging his attack, Lin Chuan twisted his turned body and drove his knee into the man's abdomen.
"Not good!" Seeing Lin Chuan's knee coming, the man immediately lowered both arms and slammed them toward it. The abdomen was one of the body's weak points, and he didn't dare let Lin Chuan's knee hit him there, or he'd be badly injured.
Yet just as he was about to block the strike, a strange smile curled at the corner of Lin Chuan's mouth. The next instant, a slender bone spike thrust out from the tip of his knee, pierced straight through the man's arms, and struck toward his abdomen.
Thump!
The man was knocked flying by the blow. The Shikotsumyaku bone spike pierced through both his arms, but didn't badly injure his abdomen. At the last possible moment, his teammates had arrived, preventing Lin Chuan from continuing his attack.
"Too bad..." Lin Chuan sighed softly, but his face showed no hint of regret. If these men were so easy to kill, they wouldn't have survived until now. After all, he was fighting five against one, and his combat skills were still far from polished. What he'd managed was already no small feat.
In the blink of an eye, the five had surrounded Lin Chuan, but they didn't attack immediately. Instead, they stared at him with grim expressions.
This was ridiculous—he was practically a hedgehog! At the Qi Refining Stage, when they could only fight hand to hand, he was practically invincible. His attacks were astonishingly powerful, and his defenses were no less formidable. More terrifying still was the cool, seemingly all-seeing calm in Lin Chuan's eyes, which made everyone feel a chill run down their spines.
But they couldn't just refuse to attack. Were they supposed to let Lin Chuan leave? Even if they were willing, Lin Chuan wouldn't be now. They knew his secret and had seen his trump card. That meant only one thing: they had to die.
Sweat beaded on all five of their foreheads. It wasn't that they feared Lin Chuan's strength; from beginning to end, they hadn't thought they would lose. They simply had no idea where to begin.
It was like facing a real hedgehog. You knew you could kill it, but you couldn't bring yourself to act, because all those spines were just too unnerving. One wrong move and you'd hurt yourself. The man whose arms had just been pierced was the perfect example.
Lin Chuan stood in the middle of the field without any intention of attacking. He wanted to see what methods people of the cultivation world would come up with when facing the powerful Kekkei Genkai, Shikotsumyaku, from the Naruto world.
Through the Byakugan, Lin Chuan saw the five exchange glances. Then three of them suddenly attacked: two from in front of him and one from behind.
"Two to draw my attention, and one to sneak up from behind?" Lin Chuan thought without a change in expression. "If I only had Shikotsumyaku, it might actually be a little tricky to deal with. But these pale eyes of mine aren't just here to look pretty..."
Though he had already seen the man coming at him from behind, Lin Chuan didn't react to him. Instead, he raised his hand and attacked the two men in front of him. The pair immediately revealed faint, knowing smiles.
Whoosh!
The Shikotsumyaku bone spike swept across the front, forcing one man back. At the same time, as Lin Chuan withdrew his arm, he drove his elbow backward. The direction and angle were exact, aimed straight at the heart of the man behind him.
At the same moment, the man's full-force strike came down, only for the bones emerging from Lin Chuan's back to clamp onto his arm in an instant.
"How is that possible... Why was he so precise..." The five men's expressions changed at once.
They knew Lin Chuan was like a hedgehog, but they also knew that even controlling his own bones to attack required him to first see where the attacker was. Otherwise, blindly using his bones to attack or defend would be useless and only waste spiritual energy. But now, their expressions finally changed completely.
Lin Chuan could evidently see every one of their attacks. In other words, his field of vision was nothing like an ordinary person's.
Four of them looked at Lin Chuan's pale eyes. The bulging veins around his eye sockets stood out glaringly now—those were definitely not ordinary eyes.
Drip!
Warm blood flowed straight from the enemy's heart, running down the Shikotsumyaku bone spike and onto Lin Chuan's arm.
"Hmm... another one dead..." As he finished speaking, Lin Chuan withdrew his arm from the man's heart. He lowered his legs, spread his arms, and struck a pose like someone showing off his muscles. "So, who's next?"
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