Qi Yuan lived in a remote area where not a soul could be seen at night.
The little courtyard was silent.
Yet Qi Yuan sensed something deeply unusual.
After awakening his Mangekyō Sharingan, his perception had grown significantly stronger.
Although he sensed no fluctuations in anyone else's chakra, he still instinctively felt a hint of danger.
A crescent moon hung in the sky, yet its light did not reach the courtyard.
Purplish-black light spread everywhere. At some unknown point, a barrier with no visible boundaries had already unfolded.
Suddenly, four figures dressed in black flickered into view, standing at the four corners. They formed hand seals, which spread directly outward.
The entire stretch of the outskirts was covered by the barrier!!
It was the Four Violet Flames Formation!
A mocking laugh rang out from around a corner, drawing Qi Yuan's attention.
Qi Yuan instantly activated his Three-Tomoe Sharingan and spotted two dangerous figures through its vision.
One was a tall, imposing middle-aged man. Seeing Qi Yuan activate his Three-Tomoe Sharingan so effortlessly left him baffled and incredulous!!
The other was an extremely pale young man with a sinister smile on his lips.
It was this figure that made Qi Yuan's pupils contract sharply, while he sensed something slightly uncoordinated about the man's body!!
"Zhao Hua, is this the little fellow? He really is something, actually able to control the Three-Tomoe Sharingan!!"
"His body is quite extraordinary. I already can't wait to dissect him!!"
The people who had appeared were none other than the Freemasons Leader, Gu Huan, and the head of the Yu Province branch, Zhao Hua.
But they were currently using Shapeshifting Bodies, using other people's bodies as sacrifices so that their own chakra could descend into them.
However, this sacrifice could withstand less than ten percent of Gu Huan's current strength, while the other could withstand thirty percent of Zhao Hua's strength.
Even so, the sacrifices bearing their chakra had reached the peak of the Grandmaster Realm. Otherwise, they could not have withstood their chakra at all.
And once their chakra ran out, they would die immediately.
The other four people performing the Four Violet Flames Formation were merely ordinary sacrifices.
But they had no trouble maintaining this barrier.
Gu Huan stared at Qi Yuan with a strange smile. "What beautiful Three-Tomoe Sharingan. Let me see how you control them."
Yet Qi Yuan's words immediately chilled his expression.
Qi Yuan gave a cold smile. "Skulking around, not even daring to show your real faces. You're nothing but clowns!"
"There must be an utterly disgusting face under that human-skin mask!"
Awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan had given him more than enough confidence!!
Instead, he was even a little excited, hoping these two could give him his fill!!
Meanwhile, Zhao Hua marveled at the wonders of the Shapeshifting Technique. It could actually reproduce everything about them, even forbidden techniques and Kekkei Genkai.
His Kekkei Genkai was merely the lower-tier Transparent Release, but having cultivated to a Level Seven King, his Kekkei Genkai had already undergone a qualitative transformation!!
It was only thanks to his Kekkei Genkai that he had traveled from Huangyan City to Shangcheng City without being detected by the Yu Province authorities.
However, because this sacrifice carried too little chakra, he could not unleash his full power.
Gu Huan was in a rather bad mood. His true body was now one of the Foreign Races, hideous beyond measure.
Qi Yuan had struck him right where it hurt.
"My dear disciple, this technique works quite well, doesn't it? Go capture him. He's excellent experimental material!"
Zhao Hua suddenly surged forward. "You actually killed our Freemasons' Android 17. Then you should have been prepared for this long ago!"
Looking at the people before him through his Sharingan, Qi Yuan kept feeling that something was wrong with their condition.
They seem a little like puppets??
But suddenly, Zhao Hua lunged forward in front of him. "Water Release: Exploding Water Colliding Wave!"
Water like a flowing stream flooded the entire cramped space. At the same time, Zhao Hua formed hand seals again. "Lightning Release: Earth Flow!!"
Powerful Lightning Release shot straight toward Qi Yuan at an unpredictable speed. Coupled with the water's conductivity, it instantly sent waves surging where Qi Yuan stood!!
The power of this man's Ninjutsu far surpassed that of a Grandmaster Realm expert. Even Jia Nan would have gone down on his knees!!
In that instant, Qi Yuan opened the first three gates of the Eight Gates of Limitless and the third Activation of the Seven-Day Guardian!
His strength instantly surged several levels beyond his normal state!!
The moment his opponent unleashed Lightning Release, he leaped into the air, gathered his power, then hurtled toward him like a rocket.
He was so fast that Zhao Hua, who had just finished unleashing Lightning Release, could not even react!!
"Earth Release: Earth Shore Return!!"
But Gu Huan, beside him, had already reacted and unleashed Earth Release.
The scale of this Earth Release far exceeded Liu Tianjun's!!
"Heh, the Sharingan's perceptiveness combined with extremely powerful Taijutsu. Truly a genius seen only once in a century!!"
Yet the earthen wall shattered in an instant, and Qi Yuan sprang up, radiating green energy.
Zhao Hua was beginning to lose face. With thirty percent of his chakra, he still could not track Qi Yuan's movements.
He was just about to unleash his forbidden technique, but his teacher seemed delighted by the promising prey and acted before him!!
"Multiple Hidden Shadow Snake Hands!!"
With Gu Huan's strange laugh, numerous large snakes emerged from his sleeves, racing forward to coil around Qi Yuan!
Qi Yuan opened his fists into palms, his entire hands seemingly turning into blades.
Then, alongside the green of the Eight Gates of Limitless, his palms began glowing faintly blue!!
This was the Chakra Blade Edge, possessing an edge no less sharp than Wind Release. With his Mystical Palm Technique, he performed it naturally.
The large snakes instantly closed in on Qi Yuan's body, some threatening, some coiling, others biting, as though they possessed a degree of intelligence.
As if someone had sped him up, Qi Yuan raised and dropped his hand-blades, spilling foul-smelling blood all over the ground.
As his speed gradually increased, Qi Yuan actually began spinning in place.
The sharp edges he stirred up began covering his entire body!!
Every large snake that approached was shredded.
As he spun, the rapidly colliding chakra formed something like a solid defensive wall, snapping those venomous snakes in half.
Gu Huan said in some surprise, "A little like the Bai family's Rotation. What a fine technique!!"
His hands formed seals once again.
"Many Snakes Formation!!"
Countless snakes emerged from an unknown space, looking even more terrifying in this rather cramped area.
They slithered toward Qi Yuan.
Qi Yuan abruptly leaped backward, then used the momentum to spring into the sky.
But there were simply too many snakes. They actually used their companions' bodies to launch themselves at Qi Yuan in midair.
Gu Huan gave a strange smile. "My snakes are all highly venomous. Just one little bite will leave you unable to move!!"
But Qi Yuan paid no attention to the venomous snakes beneath his feet, instead looking at the two men on the ground.
"The warm-up is over. Now let's play something exciting!!"
"Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation!!"
Suspended in midair, he suddenly spat an enormous expanse of Fire Release toward the ground!!
The flames burned the densely packed venomous snakes straight to ash.
They even spread throughout the entire barrier!!
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