Keep Grinding!

Boom!

Ke Leiyong, blasted flying by a single palm strike, slammed heavily into a stone pedestal at the edge of the training grounds.

The waist-high stone pedestal burst into eight pieces on the spot, shattered rocks spraying in every direction.

Pfft!

A sweetness rose in Ke Leiyong's throat, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Old Ke?!"

Qin Yao's expression changed drastically. He hurriedly darted over, crouching down to support Ke Leiyong.

According to the young man's original "script," that Heaven-Burning Cloud-Sundering Palm should not have erupted with such power while he was deliberately suppressing his cultivation so heavily.

In fact, the first half of Qin Yao's palm strike had indeed unfolded as he expected—just before the surging palm force arrived, Ke Leiyong had raised his saber across his body to block it.

The problem was that, at the exact instant Qin Yao's Heaven-Burning Cloud-Sundering Palm struck the saber's hilt, it happened to advance into the Proficiency Realm!

Although the intensity of the true qi circulating within Qin Yao had remained unchanged after his technique realm broke through—

The power of the Heaven-Burning Cloud-Sundering Palm had surged by more than one or two times!

As a result, after Ke Leiyong's saber hilt snapped with a crack, the lingering force of the Heaven-Burning Cloud-Sundering Palm still injured his internal organs...

"Old Ke, are you all right?"

Qin Yao reached out to check Ke Leiyong's pulse. A wisp of true qi from his fingertips entered and probed along his meridians.

Ke Leiyong's five viscera had been shaken somewhat out of place, and the internal force in several areas of his meridians had fallen into disorder. Fortunately, his life was not in danger.

"Cough, cough, cough..."

Ke Leiyong coughed a few times, spat the bloody foam from his mouth clean, and forced