Huo Xiu had never expected Ye Xuan to strike so suddenly.
Seeing Ye Xuan charge straight at him, his expression changed drastically!
In an instant, the Spiritual Qi within him surged out of control. As he thrust his right palm forward, his body began retreating rapidly.
As a cultivator at the Wheel Sea Realm First Stage, Huo Xiu was naturally no fool. He had combat experience.
Moreover, his response could hardly be called wrong.
Yet he had vastly underestimated Ye Xuan's strength.
Or rather, he had underestimated the might of the Emperor Formula.
With a thunderous rumble, Ye Xuan's fist whipped up a terrifying radiance and smashed into his palm.
Bang!
At the deafening impact, Huo Xiu's expression changed.
Violent power surged into his body, instantly tearing through all his meridians like a storm sweeping through rotten wood.
"Aaah-!"
A wretched scream escaped Huo Xiu's mouth.
But Ye Xuan gave him no chance, whipping up a leg and striking his dantian.
Bang!
Another deafening impact rang out!
Everyone saw a cloud of bloody mist burst from Huo Xiu's dantian before his entire body went flying.
The sight made everyone's eyelids twitch, leaving them trembling with fear.
Another single move-no, two moves. That was not right either; Huo Xiu had already been crippled by the first move.
They could not quite tell whether Ye Xuan had crushed Huo Xiu in two moves or instantly defeated him in one.
All they knew was that Huo Xiu, at the Wheel Sea Realm First Stage, remained as helpless as an ant before Ye Xuan, who was only at the Essence Condensation Realm First Stage.
What monstrous strength!
Zhu Pi's face was frighteningly dark. Especially as he looked at the crippled Huo Xiu, he could barely contain his killing intent.
Another one crippled. Yet another one had been crippled.
These men were all his subordinates, his trusted followers!
Ye Xuan paid no attention to Zhu Pi's fury. Almost the instant he crippled Huo Xiu, his figure flashed, and he charged at Zhu Pi.
Since Zhu Pi and the others would not attack together, he would force them to.
Seeing Ye Xuan charging at him, a trace of cruelty surfaced in Zhu Pi's eyes.
Still, he restrained himself from striking and instead ordered, "Attack together!"
Though he wanted nothing more than to crush Ye Xuan to death himself, he still had reservations.
The more heaven-defying Ye Xuan proved, the greater his reservations became.
He did not want to act personally-or rather, he did not dare act personally-to slay this genius.
Although Ye Xuan was certain to die, dying at his hands and dying at someone else's were two entirely different things.
Besides that, Zhu Pi had another purpose in having the others attack.
He wanted to see Ye Xuan's methods and whether Ye Xuan had any trump cards.
As a Golden Core cultivator, he naturally understood one principle.
The more monstrous a prodigy was, the more trump cards he possessed. One mistake, and Ye Xuan might truly be able to kill even a Golden Core cultivator like him.
At Zhu Pi's command, the dozen or so Wheel Sea cultivators behind him immediately stopped holding back and charged at Ye Xuan.
For a moment, the powerful presence of the Wheel Sea Realm spread across the skies above the entire City Lord's Manor, making the whole manor feel oppressive.
Feeling that oppressive atmosphere, the spectators outside also trembled with fear, their breathing quickening.
Their eyes widened as they stared fixedly ahead, afraid of missing even a single detail.
Ye Xuan, at the Essence Condensation Realm First Stage, was about to fight more than a dozen Wheel Sea cultivators alone, including three at the Wheel Sea Late Stage.
Did he have any chance of winning?
The possibility was vanishingly small!
It was not that they looked down on Ye Xuan. This was simply too outrageous!
If Ye Xuan could bridge such an enormous gap, his name would surely shake the entire Eastern Wasteland.
Even compared with the legendary Holy Son about to be formally invested by the Ancient Desolate Holy Land, he would likely be no less impressive!
Seeing more than a dozen Wheel Sea cultivators charging at him, Ye Xuan's expression grew extremely serious.
The Spiritual Qi in his dantian began roaring wildly. In just an instant, he had brought himself to peak condition.
"Ignorant madman! A mere Essence Condensation cultivator dares run wild here? Your grandpa will send you to your death!"
With a cold snort, a Wheel Sea Third Layer cultivator charged at Ye Xuan ahead of the others.
He gripped an enormous hammer, and the air trembled as he swung it.
This enormous hammer was a magical artifact of no low grade. Its weight alone reached several thousand jin.
An ordinary Wheel Sea Realm cultivator could never wield such a strength-based magical artifact as though it weighed nothing.
Holding the enormous hammer, the man smashed it toward Ye Xuan. With a thunderous rumble, the air seemed about to shatter, crackling with sonic booms.
If it struck Ye Xuan, he would likely lose a layer of skin even if he survived.
Feeling that ponderous force, Ye Xuan was unafraid, but he was not foolish enough to meet it head-on.
He still had to kill Zhu Pi, a Golden Core Realm cultivator. He could not waste too much Spiritual Qi before killing him.
He activated his Divine Eyes, and the enormous hammer's trajectory immediately slowed, exposing numerous openings.
Ye Xuan shifted his feet slightly. The Spiritual Qi within him instantly flowed along his spiritual meridians into his legs, and with a whoosh, he shot out like an arrow loosed from a bow.
The enormous hammer narrowly swept past his body, striking empty air.
Ye Xuan had already reached the cultivator's side.
An icy gleam flashed in his eyes. Without the slightest hesitation, he formed a palm, faint lightning flickering around it, and struck.
Thunder God Palm!
Bang!
The palm struck the cultivator's waist instantly. His burly body staggered before shooting backward and crashing to the ground, already half-crippled.
Behind him, two more Wheel Sea cultivators charged at Ye Xuan, their imposing presence surging sky-high.
One was at the Wheel Sea Fourth Layer.
The other was at the Wheel Sea Fifth Layer.
An icy gleam filled both their eyes. Spiritual Qi churned around them, their killing intent biting cold.
Sensing their approach, Ye Xuan's expression turned cold.
He suddenly lunged forward to open some distance, then instantly turned, leaped into the air, and lashed out with both legs, leaving trails of afterimages.
Bang, bang, bang, bang!
He unleashed more than a dozen consecutive kicks, surging Spiritual Qi pouring into his legs and lending them explosive power.
The two Wheel Sea Realm cultivators were kicked backward repeatedly, coughing up blood.
Their eyes were filled with horror.
How could a mere Essence Condensation First Layer cultivator possess such terrifying explosive power?
Ye Xuan pressed his advantage, giving the pair no chance to catch their breath before the other cultivators reached him.
After several more kicks, the two finally could no longer withstand him. With two more bangs, they collapsed completely, barely clinging to life.
"Three! He's actually crushed another three Wheel Sea cultivators! What a monster!"
"With the strength of the Essence Condensation First Layer, he faced an encirclement of Wheel Sea cultivators and instantly overwhelmed three of them. This..."
"Just where did this prodigy come from? Could he be a monstrous junior from one of the three great holy lands?"
"Hah, even the monstrous juniors of the three great holy lands probably couldn't bridge a gap this large, could they?"
Everyone trembled, their hearts once again gripped with dread.
Ye Xuan paid no attention to any of that. He had already charged at the other Wheel Sea cultivators.
Seeing Ye Xuan charging at them, the three at the Wheel Sea Late Stage fared somewhat better,
but those at the Wheel Sea Early Stage looked rather grim.
They did not dare clash with Ye Xuan at all and retreated one after another.
Yet Ye Xuan refused to let them go. Taking advantage of his explosive power, he repeatedly unleashed the Thunder God Palm and the Emperor Formula in succession.
Amid a series of bangs, mid- and late-stage Wheel Sea cultivators fell one after another.
Against the wild, domineering Emperor Formula and Thunder God Palm, they simply could not hold out-not even against a single blow.
Like clay chickens and pottery dogs, they truly could not withstand a single strike!
The scene once again fell deathly silent.
The spectating cultivators felt as though their hearts were about to stop.
Zhu Pi and the three Wheel Sea Realm Late Stage cultivators wore exceedingly dark, ugly expressions.
Those three Wheel Sea Late Stage cultivators, in particular, felt utterly humiliated.
Despite there being three of them, they had failed to catch Ye Xuan, who was merely at the Essence Condensation First Layer.
How ironic was that?
Moments later, once all the early- and mid-stage Wheel Sea cultivators had fallen, only four cultivators of the City Lord's Manor remained standing.
Three at the Wheel Sea Late Stage, and Zhu Pi at the Golden Core Realm.