"Bang...!"
An invisible force burst from the tip of Gu Chenfeng's foot.
"Crack!"
Half of Hong Xiong's shoulder shattered instantly, and the tremendous momentum sent him crashing headfirst into the bluestone beneath his feet.
"Bang...!"
The hard, specially made bluestone exploded on impact. Hong Xiong's head split and bled, and the world spun around him.
"My lord, spare me! Spare me!"
Hong Xiong could no longer spare a thought for the piercing agony or the blood covering his head.
Bracing one hand against the ground, he kowtowed and begged incessantly, spilling still more blood across the ground.
By now, Hong Xiong had long since lost all his fury over his slain subordinates and the daughter who had died before his eyes.
Fear had utterly filled his heart, and his body trembled uncontrollably.
He was terrified that this youth, whose beauty bordered on the uncanny, would casually burst his head with a slap as well.
As the overlord of an area spanning several hundred li along the edge of the Chaos Star Domain, Hong Xiong had developed some discernment.
Under the Magic Ban rules of the Saint-Seizing Land, martial artists' strength was divided according to a rather broad but highly practical system.
Ordinary martial artists who could cultivate energy, barely form a circulation within their bodies, and strengthen themselves were collectively called "unranked martial artists."
As for experts who could release a trace of internal force during combat and channel it into an enemy's body,
they were divided into "third-rate, second-rate, and first-rate experts" according to the strength of their force.
Those experts who could resist the Plane Laws, release energy directly without a medium, and injure others from a distance,
were all classified as "super first-rate experts."
Hong Xiong had cultivated in the Saint-Seizing Land for nearly a hundred years,