As the dust cleared, Xia Yu's figure appeared before everyone.
His head was lowered, his body turned sideways. His once-tied hair now flew loose.
He still cradled Xia Yao protectively in the crook of his left arm.
Xia Yu raised his head and gently wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.
The next moment, he straightened his chest.
"I only came to seek treatment for my sister. Please let me meet Miss Ming Yue."
Xia Yu began backing away, moving quickly.
The outer sect elder narrowed his eyes, a cold sneer covering his face. "What? You slapped Martial Saint Academy in the face, and now you want to leave? What sort of place do you take Martial Saint Academy for?"
Xia Yu ignored him and set Xia Yao down instead.
"Sis, rest for a while. Don't worry. I'll find Miss Ming Yue and have her cure you."
Xia Yao's brow creased, her eyes filled with pain. She shook her head with difficulty.
Just then, Duanmu Wenshan appeared beside Xia Yu. "I'll take care of her, but you need to hurry."
"Thank you!"
Xia Yu turned around and stared at the outer sect elder. "I came to see Miss Ming Yue! Get out of my way!"
The outer sect elder froze. This brat certainly had some nerve!
He had thought the fellow was trying to escape.
Instead, he had only been moving away to set down the person in his arms.
And he even dared to bark orders at him.
His anger flared at once.
"Brat, you're tired of living!"
The next moment, he raised his hand, spread his fingers, and slammed his palm down toward Xia Yu.
Sky-Covering Palm!
Vast amounts of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy gathered under the control of the outer sect elder's Origin Force, then crashed down.
This time, the outer sect elder was prepared, and the power of his Sky-Covering Palm doubled.
He was truly enraged. He intended to slap this young man to death.
Thud!
Xia Yu stamped down hard, his entire body turning into an afterimage.
Divine Dragon Movement!
The next moment, a tremendous roar erupted behind him.
The earth shook and the mountains trembled!
A palm-shaped crater more than ten feet deep appeared in the ground behind him.
Without looking back, Xia Yu drove a punch straight at the outer sect elder.
Ancestral Dragon Fist!
Threefold Boundless!
This time, he brought every ounce of his physical strength to bear.
Bolstered by Divine Dragon Movement, his punch was as swift as lightning.
Xia Yu's body left a trail of afterimages in its wake.
He moved so quickly that these lingering images remained in the others' eyes.
The outer sect elder's expression darkened. This fellow had dodged his Sky-Covering Palm.
He snorted coldly and threw a punch.
In the blink of an eye, his fist seemed to swell to more than ten times its size.
This time, he held his Origin Force and the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy within his fist, poised but unreleased.
King Tier martial technique, Explosive Charging Fist!
In an instant, the two figures collided.
The next moment, both figures recoiled.
The outer sect elder stamped heavily against the ground with each step, leaving deep footprints behind him.
He retreated a full dozen steps.
Xia Yu was also forced backward by the recoil, his feet plowing two furrows more than ten feet long through the ground.
Boom...
A deafening explosion rang out.
Only now did the sound erupt.
The surrounding spectators felt even the space before their eyes tremble slightly.
The next moment, an invisible shock wave swept through like a force crushing rotten wood. Within dozens of feet, no one could remain standing.
At the point where their fists had collided, a crater appeared, twenty feet across and more than ten feet deep.
That single exchange sent every onlooker's expression changing drastically.
No one had expected a young man like Xia Yu to possess such formidable strength.
He could fight an outer sect elder-and this was an outer sect elder of Martial Saint Academy!
While everyone was still stunned, Xia Yu, still sliding backward, abruptly spun and charged again.
Afterimages flickered into view. Divine Dragon Movement.
A glint of cold light suddenly appeared.
The Sin Dragon Spear!
Heaven-Splitting Three Forms: Heaven-Breaking!
This time, Xia Yu wanted to end the fight quickly.
His sister Xia Yao's illness had flared up, and she was suffering. He could not waste time here with an old man.
The outer sect elder had only just steadied himself when his expression changed.
He had never expected this youngster to be so strong.
Before he could recover, another attack was already upon him.
Without the slightest hesitation, he barked a shout and thrust out both fists in succession.
Explosive Charging Fist!
As for Xia Yu's spear, he paid it no mind. He believed his fists could overcome anything.
Both fists shot out. Explosive Charging Fist!
His enlarged fists slammed toward Xia Yu like two great door panels.
At that very moment, the cold gleam of the Sin Dragon Spear thrust toward him.
Pfft!
A muffled sound rang out.
In an instant, the entire world seemed to have been paused.
The outer sect elder's eyes bulged. Utter disbelief was written across his gaze and his face.
He had actually lost!
The tip of the Sin Dragon Spear rested against his throat.
Had Xia Yu not held back, he would already have been dead!
This...
How was this possible?
He was at the King Realm Second Heaven, yet he had lost to a young man in his twenties.
Had he known that Xia Yu was only seventeen by traditional age reckoning, and actually just sixteen, who knew how he would have felt?
Moreover, this young man was only in the Spirit Origin Realm.
Despite the gap of two major realms, he had defeated him.
During Martial Saint Academy's mass recruitment, before more than ten thousand people, he, an outer sect elder, had been defeated by an unknown youth.
His dignity...
The outer sect elder's face flushed crimson, his eyes bloodshot.
"Kill me!" the outer sect elder roared at Xia Yu.
Xia Yu gave him a cold look. "I only came to see Miss Ming Yue. I had no intention of becoming your enemy. You were the one who kept making trouble for me!"
"Miss Ming Yue, Xia Yu requests an audience!"
Xia Yu shouted for the third time, his voice shaking Martial Saint Mountain.
"How dare you! Is Ming Yue's name yours to call out?"
A voice rang out from midair, and several figures swooped down.
In the blink of an eye, the first figure landed before Xia Yu.
He wore a blue outer robe over white clothes, with a longsword at his waist and his long hair tied high. His gaze was haughty.
"Elder Jiao, you've utterly disgraced Martial Saint Academy!"
The outer sect elder's surname was Jiao. His lips moved, but in the end, no words came out.
Indeed, he had made a complete disgrace of himself.
"Were you the one shouting just now?" the man asked coldly, casting a glance at Xia Yu.
The sight of his arrogance stirred an inexplicable disgust in Xia Yu, who turned to leave.
He knew he would not get to see Miss Ming Yue today.
Since he could not see her, there was no reason to waste any more time here.
He recalled the Seventh Princess's jade pendant. Now, he could only go to the imperial palace and ask her for help.
Seeing Xia Yu turn and leave, the man froze at first.
Then his anger flared.
"You insolent brat! How dare you treat others as beneath your notice! This is the first time anyone has ever ignored me, Qingfeng. Take this palm!"
Gu Qingfeng shouted and struck at Xia Yu with his palm.
The wind from his palm was as sharp as a blade, fierce beyond measure.
His hand also swelled abruptly to several times its size.
Sky-Covering Palm!
However, Gu Qingfeng was only at the Profound Origin Realm Peak, not yet at King Tier. He could not directly use his Origin Force to form a Sky-Covering Palm in midair.
He could only gather the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy around his hand.
Even so, the power of this palm strike was terrifying.
Xia Yu turned back and abruptly swept the Sin Dragon Spear downward.
Heaven-Splitting Three Forms: Heaven-Splitting!
A point of cold light slashed past.
The air shrieked, and space was torn open!
Frustration churned within Xia Yu. He held nothing back in this strike.
These people from Martial Saint Academy were far too irritating!
Origin Force surged throughout his body, and the Origin Force from his three small worlds instantly poured into the Sin Dragon Spear.
"Qingfeng, watch out!" a voice called from behind Gu Qingfeng.
At this moment, Gu Qingfeng was also utterly shocked.
He felt as though he could not withstand this spear strike.
But he had nowhere left to dodge!
The cold gleam of the Sin Dragon Spear swept past...
Pfft!
The faint sound of slicing was barely audible.
The next moment, a jet of blood spurted more than ten feet.
Gu Qingfeng stared at the blood spraying from his wrist, his face drained of all color.
His fist fell heavily to the ground.
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