Boom! Boom, boom...!
Held in Xu Taiping's hand, Lin Qinggu unleashed dozens of strands of divine intent and edict power in one breath, yet still failed to budge Xu Taiping's palm in the slightest.
Crack! Crack, crack!
With just a squeeze of Xu Taiping's palm, the body of Lin Qinggu, held in his grasp, began making incessant sounds of splintering bone.
In the end, Lin Qinggu gave up resisting and poured all his magic power into the Dao-rhyme golden light instead, using it to lessen the crushing force of Xu Taiping's palm somewhat.
As he withdrew his magic-power defenses, Lin Qinggu said:
"Xu Taiping, I admit I underestimated your combat strength and methods."
Then he suddenly changed tack and said with a cold laugh:
"But you still can't kill me."
Xu Taiping naturally knew that Lin Qinggu must be planning to threaten him with Lin Buyu's remnant soul, so he wasted no words and crushed his body into a mass of flesh and blood with a bang.
"Aah...!"
Because Xu Taiping had used pain-amplifying edict power as he crushed Lin Qinggu's body, Lin Qinggu immediately let out a heart-rending scream of agony.
Boom!
The next moment, amid an earsplitting explosion, a ball of dazzling thunder light rose from Xu Taiping's palm, enveloping Lin Qinggu's nascent soul and the entire mass of flesh and blood his body had become.
That was not all.
The true dragon forbidden domain power in Xu Taiping's palm also barred all edict power other than his own from the area within his palm.
This was tantamount to imprisoning Lin Qinggu in his palm.
Only after doing all this did Xu Taiping withdraw the pain-amplifying edict power and ask calmly:
"Speak. Where did you hide Buyu's soul?"
As he spoke, he stopped tearing Lin Qinggu's body apart,