Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler, Kill!

"So that's how it is. That's a good idea!" Mo Lan came over and chimed in as well. Although he was somewhat dissatisfied that Mo Cheng had acted on his own without consulting him, mending relations with Xiao Yan as soon as possible was more important to him right now.

As for whether Mo Cheng might grow closer to Xiao Yan in the future and use that relationship to surpass him, Mo Lan merely thought, You may have a grandson, Mo Cheng, but I have a daughter! What do I have to fear from you?

"Well then, Young Master Xiao, are you willing to form this happy union with our Mo Clan?" Mo Cheng asked again with a beaming smile. His eyes kept drifting toward Qinglian, and the greed in them was nearly impossible to conceal. Anyone unaware of the situation might have thought this old fool wanted a second youth and was trying to pull off an old man marrying a young beauty!

"Oh? That does sound rather nice. It feels like I'd be a little unreasonable if I refused, wouldn't I?" Xiao Yan replied with a cold chuckle.

Mo Lan frowned. He could hear Xiao Yan's dissatisfaction between the lines and could not help feeling regretful.

Mo Cheng naturally caught the mockery in Xiao Yan's tone as well. He immediately sneered, and a powerful aura burst from within him, making his robes flap loudly. In a grim voice, he said, "Indeed. This old man believes Young Master Xiao would do well to be more sensible. After all, this is Mo Clan territory. If you refuse, I'm afraid you'll have to stay a few more days."

"Oh? Are you threatening me?" Xiao Yan asked mockingly, his gaze filled with contempt.

"Great Elder, what are you doing? Stop this at once!" Mo Lan had no idea what madness had suddenly seized Mo Cheng and hurriedly tried to dissuade him.

"Hmph! Boy, stop putting on an act! Back when this old man was at the Misty Cloud Sect, I saw more young masters and ladies from wealthy families than you've eaten grains of rice in your life. I've never seen a young master like you, nor have I ever heard of some great Jia Ma Empire clan surnamed Xiao. Boy, the next time you put on a show, remember to investigate properly beforehand!" Ignoring Mo Lan's attempts to stop him, Mo Cheng decided to tear away all pretenses after Xiao Yan's reply.

Mo Cheng beckoned behind him, and half of the Mo Clan experts seated on both sides of the hall immediately rose. They had naturally heard what Mo Cheng said, and at once tossed their previous wariness toward Xiao Yan's group to the winds. Grinning viciously, they surrounded the three of them.

Yet Xiao Yan did not even spare those people a glance. He merely looked calmly at Mo Lan and said, "If I'm not mistaken, you're the Mo Clan Patriarch. I'll give you one chance. If you don't want the Mo Clan destroyed, stay where you are."

"Hmph! Arrogant fool! You're at death's door and still playing tricks! Die!" Mo Cheng no longer held back. Though he believed Xiao Yan had no great force behind him, the power Xiao Yan had displayed was still exceptionally formidable. Therefore, Mo Cheng attacked with all his strength from the start.

Dou Qi surged wildly within him. Deep crimson Dou Qi, like flames, enveloped his entire body and condensed into armor—it was Dou Qi Armor! His right hand curled into a claw and viciously tore toward Xiao Yan's chest, clearly intending to kill him in a single blow!

"What bad luck!" Xiao Yan cursed inwardly. Since both sets of armor were formed from red Dou Qi, Mo Cheng's Dou Qi armor looked rather similar to Xiao Yan's Flame Emperor Armor. Fortunately, Xiao Yan had now refined the Green Lotus Core Flame, turning his flames blue-green and crimson. Otherwise, they would have been difficult to distinguish.

Faced with Mo Cheng's claw strike, Xiao Yan did not dodge. With a cold laugh, blue-green and crimson flames burst from his body, swiftly forming a magnificent suit of flame armor over him.

Mo Cheng's attack struck the flame armor. Not only did it fail to break Xiao Yan's defense, but the rebound shattered the bones in his hand. The flesh on his hand was burned away the instant it touched the Flame Emperor Armor, leaving only several charred bone fragments to fall to the floor!

"Ahhh!! This... impossible! You're clearly only a Great Dou Master!" Mo Cheng's face turned deathly pale as he collapsed to the ground. He ignored the pain in his hand and cried out in terror.

In just one exchange, Xiao Yan had not even truly attacked, yet the Mo Clan's Great Elder, a renowned expert throughout the eastern provinces of the Jia Ma Empire, had lost one hand!

This absurd scene jolted everyone present. The Mo Clan experts who had been preparing to join Mo Cheng now stood awkwardly in place, looking at one another without knowing what to do.

Then one clever fellow had an idea. Remembering Xiao Yan's earlier warning to the Mo Clan Patriarch to stay where he was, he turned around and slipped back among those who were still seated behind him.

The others followed suit, rushing back to their seats as though nothing had happened. As for Mo Cheng? He had caused this trouble himself. What did it have to do with them?

But those who had remained seated were unwilling to let them return!

Xiao Yan did not look like some softhearted man. Once he finished dealing with Mo Cheng, he would surely settle scores with everyone who had stepped forward! If they were allowed to hide among them, what if Xiao Yan could not find the right people and simply dealt with all of them?

"Mo Ji! What are you doing? I'm your elder! I'm the son of your second aunt's third uncle's fourth nephew's fifth uncle!"

"Pah! Old fool, do you even know what that makes you?"

Thus, before Xiao Yan had even finished off Mo Cheng, the Mo Clan experts on both sides of the hall had begun brawling among themselves.

Seeing Mo Cheng defeated so miserably, Mo Lan instantly lost any thought of helping. Taking advantage of Xiao Yan's inattention, he slipped away to who knew where.

Xiao Yan swept his gaze across the Mo Clan's domestic farce and gave a contemptuous laugh before looking at Mo Cheng, who was sitting on the ground.

Mo Cheng had also realized that, whether or not the young man before him had a powerful backing, his personal strength was not something Mo Cheng could provoke. Though unwilling, he could only kneel and plead, "Young Master Xiao, today's matter was indeed this lowly one's fault. I am willing to offer up all my possessions and wealth. I only hope you will show mercy and spare my life."

"Heh, your attitude is quite sincere. But you're a little confused. What do you mean, your possessions and wealth? Once you're dead, won't all of it be mine?" Xiao Yan sneered as he summoned the Black-Weight Ruler with one hand and raised it high, about to bring it down.

Seeing that Xiao Yan had no intention of sparing him, Mo Cheng stopped begging.

"If you want to kill me, don't think you'll get off easy either!" Mo Cheng grinned savagely. When his left hand, previously hidden behind his body, appeared again, it was already grotesquely twisted. It swelled further, and violent force instantly shredded the sleeve around it, turning the entire arm crimson. Mo Cheng's left arm had completely lost its human appearance and now resembled the limb of a magical beast!

"Mountain-Breaking Arm!" Mo Lan, who had emerged from somewhere again, cried out in shock.

As a clan capable of transplanting magical beast organs onto their own bodies, the Mo Clan's strongest stored magical beast limb was the forelimb taken from a fifth-tier magical beast, the Blazing Flame Mountain-Breaking Rhino: the Mountain-Breaking Arm!

"Haha! Boy, you didn't expect this, did you? You thought this old man was surrendering, but I was preparing this ultimate move! Die!" Mo Cheng glared at Xiao Yan with venomous hatred and charged fiercely at him, swinging his inhuman arm!

"You think you're the only one charging up an ultimate move?"

Xiao Yan's calm voice rang through the hall, but it was quickly drowned out by the surging energy waves.

At that moment, a massive vortex seemed to form around Xiao Yan. Strands of tangible crimson fire-attributed energy were forcibly drawn from the empty space dozens of meters around him, gathering endlessly upon his body.

"This is... the energy of heaven and earth! He actually drew upon the energy of heaven and earth! Could this be an Earth Tier Dou Skill?!" Mo Lan stared blankly at the sight and cried out.

The Mo Clan members fighting nearby also stopped, staring dumbly at this unprecedented scene.

Even Mo Cheng was stunned for a moment, but he quickly recovered and roared, "Foolish boy! With that little cultivation of yours, you think you can use an Earth Tier Dou Skill? Before you can unleash it, this old man will tear your body apart!"

Indeed, in principle, Xiao Yan's cultivation made it impossible for him to instantly unleash an Earth Tier Dou Skill. But geniuses never followed reason!

Xiao Yan dismissed the Flame Emperor Armor that had been covering him. The vast amount of flame power he had accumulated surged like a tide into the Black-Weight Ruler raised high above him, directly filling more than half the energy required to activate an Earth Tier Dou Skill. The remaining energy was swiftly filled by the raging Dou Qi within Xiao Yan's body.

A colossal blue-green and crimson flaming ruler instantly appeared before everyone. A violent gale suddenly erupted, blowing away everyone except Mo Cheng. Within more than a hundred meters of empty space, endless flame energy was swept over and coiled around the gigantic flaming ruler!

Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler, kill!