Extermination

"Since you can't produce a hundred thousand Pure Yuan Pills, don't mention the Ice Fire Snake Scale Fruit again. Hand over ten thousand Pure Yuan Pills, and we can let today's incident of you barging into the Blood Wolf Gang slide."

"Otherwise, even if you're from the Lin Clan, don't even think about leaving Flame City today!"

As more and more people gathered, Yue Shan's expression grew increasingly grim. Especially after seeing the gloating look in his sworn enemy Xia Wanjin's eyes, the fury he had suppressed for so long erupted upon Lin Chen.

There was no doubt that Lin Chen had utterly disgraced Yue Shan today. The main reason was that the people of the Blood Wolf Gang were nowhere near as capable or tactful as the Wan Jin Merchant Guild. This bandit gang masquerading as an organization would likely have been wiped out by someone else sooner or later, even if Lin Chen had not acted today.

"Enough talk. Let's fight..."

Lin Chen calmly spoke a few words, clearly having no intention of wasting any more breath on Yue Shan.

He had already given Yue Shan a chance to live, but apparently, he had been a little too presumptuous. Yue Shan did not want it.

The next moment, all of Lin Chen's Spiritual Power poured out from his Mud Pill Palace, surging like a tide. That formidable Spiritual Power made the entire area, already crowded with people, tremble violently.

In the next instant, the crowd saw a massive palm imprint radiating brilliant light slowly take shape in midair. A terrifying spiritual ripple erupted from it like a volcano.

The originally invisible Spiritual Power had become even more dazzling than the blazing sun.

"Divine Blazing Palm!"

Then, with Lin Chen's sharp shout, the radiant palm condensed from immense Spiritual Power shot straight toward Yue Shan's face.

The Divine Blazing Palm was a top-tier spiritual secret art of the Qi grade, which Lin Chen had obtained from Lin Mu. Once mastered, a single palm strike could destroy an entire city. When unleashed, it possessed not only the invisible, ever-present nature of Spiritual Power, but also the fierce and tyrannical force of Origin Energy.

This was already the strongest attack Lin Chen could unleash, and he had no intention of holding anything back. With his current Spiritual Power, he could only use such an attack once.

The events of those brief moments made Yue Shan's expression change drastically. He did not dare lower his guard. He abruptly rose into the air as an immense surge of Pure Origin astral energy rapidly gathered around his fist, then threw out a savage punch!

"Mountain Yue Fist!"

A dazzling sphere of light burst from Yue Shan's fist. As it shot forward, it was like a meteor tearing through the sky, crashing head-on beneath countless gazes into the enormous palm imprint descending like a blazing sun!

From the very first move, Lin Chen had used his strongest trump card.

Spiritual Power attacks might be strange and powerful, but they could not be sustained for long. If he wanted to defeat Yue Shan, he had to end the fight quickly. His Origin Energy was vastly inferior to Yue Shan's, and a prolonged battle would be highly unfavorable to him.

The same was true for Yue Shan. The Mountain Yue Fist was already the highest-grade martial art he possessed. If he dared evade Lin Chen's attack, the Blood Wolf Gang he had painstakingly built, along with the many loyal subordinates he had painstakingly cultivated, would all be reduced to ashes beneath that palm.

"Boom!"

At the instant of collision, terrifying energy ripples erupted through the air like a mountain flood. Other than the very few who possessed considerable strength, everyone nearby could not withstand the pressure and hurriedly retreated.

"Break!"

Lin Chen's expression was sharp as he stared at the spreading energy ripples and gave a cold shout. The power of that dazzling palm, formed entirely from extremely condensed Spiritual Power, suddenly surged. As its brilliance intensified, it exploded forth before countless astonished eyes, forcibly shattering Yue Shan's incomparably fierce Origin Energy fist.

After shattering the Origin Energy fist, the radiant palm also rapidly faded from lack of strength, finally turning into air and slowly dissipating.

Lin Chen exhaled a breath of white mist, his face somewhat pale. Spiritual secret arts like the Divine Blazing Palm consumed an enormous amount of Spiritual Power, a loss that no Four Symbol Master could quickly recover from.

The instant Yue Shan's martial art was completely destroyed by Lin Chen's Spiritual Power, Yue Shan suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood. His face rapidly withered, becoming deathly pale, and his body fell from the sky.

The scene that had unfolded in only an instant made countless pupils contract. They found it hard to imagine that Yue Shan, renowned throughout Flame City and a peak Core Formation Realm expert, had actually been defeated by a youth.

"Uncle Lin Lie, you may act now."

Amid the countless reverent gazes, Lin Chen suddenly called out. The crowd's hearts shook as they sensed a suffocating pressure.

In the next moment, they saw a figure standing in the air, with a blazing sun-like orb beneath his feet. The terrifying Origin Energy ripples surging around him instinctively filled people with fear.

"Origin Energy taking form—a Three Creation Realms expert..."

Ignoring the reactions of the people throughout Flame City upon seeing Lin Lie, Lin Chen sat down cross-legged where he was and began rapidly recovering his Spiritual Power.

Lin Chen had no intention of taking part in the remaining battle. His Origin Energy cultivation was simply too low. Other than eliminating Yue Shan as a future threat, it was basically impossible for him to kill Yue Shan himself.

Rather than create further needless complications, it was better to decisively let Lin Lie act and eliminate the threat.

From beginning to end, Lin Chen had not given Yue Shan any opportunity to beg for mercy, nor could he be bothered to waste words on him. As for the remaining members of the Blood Wolf Gang, they were not worth worrying about.

Once Yue Shan died, whether the Blood Wolf Gang could survive the attacks of its many enemies and the Wan Jin Merchant Guild was no longer something he needed to consider.

I've been rather busy lately before May Day, with meetings popping up all the time, so whether there are updates or not during this period is perfectly normal.

Also... don't worry about this being dropped. Unless trolls and argumentative people manage to completely wreck my mindset, though that possibility is very small—practically nonexistent.

It isn't because the author has an especially strong mindset, but because the author has no need to cater to certain self-righteous people. Many brainless readers are simply ignored.

One final sentence: thank you to those who point out typos, and thank you as well to everyone who has continued supporting this book.