Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus

The instant Lin Yu threw out the Battle Venerable skeleton, he had silently activated the Spatial Ancestral Talisman.

The power of space silently enveloped him and Han Shanshan. While everyone was distracted by the skeleton and no one noticed, they directly traversed space and left the secret chamber.

When his feet touched solid ground again, the two of them were already standing before the cliff wall outside the cave estate.

"Junior Brother, are we running now?" After steadying herself and looking around to confirm that they were safe for the moment, Han Shanshan lowered her voice and asked.

There was concern in her tone, not for herself, but for Lin Yu's safety.

With her strength, she might not necessarily be at a disadvantage even in a direct fight against those people. But Lin Yu had only recently broken through to the Dou Zong realm and was merely a one-star Dou Zong, while there were five Dou Zongs inside the cave estate alone.

"Senior Sister, the advantage is ours. Let's kill them all, especially that one from the Soul Hall." Lin Yu smiled faintly, his tone relaxed.

Han Shanshan was briefly stunned, then broke into a smile and nodded.

As a direct descendant of the Pill Tower, she understood the enmity between the Pill Tower and the Soul Hall better than Lin Yu did.

Over the years, in order to collect souls, the Soul Hall had secretly slaughtered countless young Pill Tower disciples who had gone out to train. The debts between the two sides had long become impossible to settle.

Besides, the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts did not look like decent people at all. Leaving them alive would only bring disaster.

Since her Junior Brother said they could be killed, then they certainly could be killed.

With a flip of Lin Yu's left hand, Beastfire rose from his palm. At the same time, a ghostly white flame ignited in his right hand.

Lin Yu extended his soul power into the two flames, guiding the entirely different fires to slowly draw closer in a delicate and fragile balance.

As the distance between the two flames shrank, the repulsive force between them grew stronger. Pale white and multicolored light clashed violently in midair, producing piercing hissing sounds.

Before long, however, a palm-sized flame lotus took shape in his hand.

Just then, a burst of disorderly footsteps came from the entrance to the cave estate.

The Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts rushed out first. Human Scorpion followed behind Sky Scorpion with a sour expression, while Earth Scorpion clutched his shoulder, seemingly having suffered a minor injury.

The Soul Hall Protector followed closely behind, his black robes fluttering as the Soul-Locking Chain swayed slightly in his hand.

The Dou Zong from Falling Cloud City rushed out after them with two Dou Emperor subordinates. His gaze swept vigilantly over the surroundings, then suddenly landed on Lin Yu, who stood calmly on the cliffside platform with a flame lotus resting in his hand. His pupils abruptly contracted.

The remaining Dou Emperors also rushed out of the cave estate one after another, all of them filthy and battered, with injuries of varying severity from the scramble over the skeleton.

"Tsk, everyone's here." A brilliant smile curved across Lin Yu's lips. Then, with a light flick of his finger, the flame lotus drifted out like an arrow released from a bow, tracing an elegant yet lethal arc through the air before landing in the center of the densest crowd.

The instant Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus touched the ground, time seemed to freeze for a moment. The blast wave it unleashed crashed outward in every direction like a massive hammer.

The seven weakest Dou Emperors bore the brunt of it. They were blasted backward like kites with severed strings, blood spraying wildly from their mouths as their auras instantly withered to the extreme.

They had already expended a great deal of Dou Qi while fighting over the skeleton. After taking Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus head-on, surviving at all was already a stroke of luck.

Even though the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts and the Soul Hall Protector reacted swiftly and hastily mobilized their Dou Qi to protect themselves the moment the fire lotus flew out, they were still blasted back more than ten steps by that overwhelming force. Their blood and Qi churned violently, their throats sweetened, and each of them spat out a mouthful of blood.

The Dou Zong from Falling Cloud City fared no better. His face turned deathly pale from the impact, blood trickled from the corner of his mouth, and the hand gripping his shield trembled slightly.

"Senior Sister, deal with that one from the Soul Hall." Before Lin Yu's words had even faded, his body became a streaming fiery afterimage and vanished from where he stood.

The power of space surged as he charged at the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts like a sword drawn from its sheath.

Human Scorpion had only just regained his footing and had not even wiped the blood from his mouth when he caught sight of a cyan afterimage less than three feet away from him.

Alarm bells rang in his heart. He instinctively tried to retreat, but Lin Yu was faster.

His right fist, wrapped in the multicolored blaze of Bone Prison Beast Cold Flame, smashed toward Human Scorpion's chest like a meteor falling from the heavens.

The Bone Prison Beast Cold Flame surged violently at the instant he threw the punch. The pale white flames carried both a frigid cold that devoured souls and a scorching heat that burned all things.

"Courting death!" Sky Scorpion roared. His right hand formed a claw, wrapped in a sinister gale of cold Dou Qi. His five fingers tore five dark green claw marks through the air as he viciously clawed at Lin Yu's neck from the side.

His Dou Zong cultivation erupted at full strength. That claw carried enough force to split mountains and shatter rocks, while the shriek of torn air stabbed painfully at the ears.

At almost the same moment, Earth Scorpion moved as well. He lowered his body, and a short dagger coated in dark green poison had somehow appeared in his hand. Soundlessly, he stabbed straight at Lin Yu's lower back.

Yet Lin Yu seemed to have eyes in the back of his head.

He did not even turn around. The Spatial Ancestral Talisman flashed faintly, and his entire body disappeared from where he stood, causing both Sky Scorpion's claw and Earth Scorpion's poisoned dagger to strike empty air.

Human Scorpion seized the chance to retreat several yards in a miserable state. Where the wind from Lin Yu's fist had grazed his chest, his robes had already turned to ash, exposing a horrifying wound where blackened burns and frostbite intertwined.

Lin Yu reappeared several yards away, attacking the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts again from another tricky angle.

His figure was swift as a ghost. Every flicker brought him to a position the three ghosts least expected. Spatial traversal and Cloudfire Step alternated in use, making him impossible to predict.

Bone Prison Beast Cold Flame churned in his palms, sometimes transforming into sharp flame palm strikes, sometimes into dense shadows of flaming fists. On top of that, the Earth Rank Battle Skill Scarlet Flame Sky-Shattering Palm would occasionally erupt among them. With every palm strike, scarlet fire filled the sky, scorching that entire stretch of space until it warped and distorted.

The Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts grew more alarmed the longer they fought.

This young man, who appeared to be only a one-star Dou Zong, possessed combat strength far beyond his cultivation level.

His movement technique was strange and unpredictable. Eight out of every ten of their attacks struck nothing but air.

His flames were even more tyrannical, terrifying them to the bone. Every punch and every palm forced them to defend with all their strength.

What was even more deadly was that Han Shanshan was nearby.

Although Han Shanshan's primary opponent was the Soul Hall Protector, whenever she found an opening during their exchange, she would suddenly fling several strands of Bone Spirit Cold Flame toward the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts.

Those multicolored flames drifted over silently like maggots clinging to bone, insidious to the extreme. Several times, Human Scorpion nearly got touched by them. Had Sky Scorpion not struck in time to blast the flames away for him, he would likely have fallen victim to them already.

Meanwhile, Han Shanshan's battle with the Soul Hall Protector presented an entirely different scene.