After overpowering and toppling those Wheel Sea cultivators, Ye Xuan did not rush to attack again. Instead, he looked at Zhu Pi and said with a faint smile,
"City Lord Zhu, what's wrong? Are you still not planning to act yourself? Sending a bunch of trash up here to die?"
As he spoke, he absorbed Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi to recover while swallowing several pills.
At Ye Xuan's words, Zhu Pi's face turned even more livid.
By now, he was certain that Ye Xuan was a monstrous junior from one of the three sacred lands and had opened an enormous number of meridians.
Otherwise, even with powerful martial techniques like the Thunder God Palm and Emperor Formula, Ye Xuan could never have bridged such a vast gap.
"Good, very good!" Zhu Pi gritted his teeth in fury and was just about to act himself-
A thunderous boom rang out.
But Ye Xuan had already charged at one of the Wheel Sea Late Stage cultivators first.
This was a Wheel Sea Seventh Layer cultivator.
He held a folding fan and looked refined and cultured.
Yet as Ye Xuan charged toward him, he suddenly swept the folding fan in his hand-
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Countless needles as fine as ox hair shot out like sharp arrows, instantly piercing the air and hurtling toward Ye Xuan at tremendous speed.
In that instant, Ye Xuan sensed an unprecedented danger.
Danger! Danger!! Danger!!!
These fine needles were actually poisoned!
"Shameless!"
"A Wheel Sea Seventh Layer fighting an Essence Condensation First Layer, and he still uses poisoned hidden weapons?"
"You bastard! A whole bunch of Wheel Sea cultivators ganging up on one Essence Condensation First Layer, and you're still fucking using poisoned hidden weapons? Why don't you just die!"
At this sight, before Ye Xuan could even grow angry, some of the cultivators outside could no longer hold back. They flew into a towering rage and began cursing.
They truly could not stand it anymore. This was fucking bullying taken too far.
Ye Xuan did not think that much about it. Watching the countless poisoned needles shooting toward him, he retreated instantly without the slightest hesitation.
At the same time, he thrust his right hand toward the ground and grabbed. With a whoosh, a spear shot straight toward him.
The next second, Ye Xuan flicked the spear in his hand!
Hum!
The spear's ringing instantly resounded. Everyone saw only a streak of lightning flash past like a radiant beam, and the next second, everything fell silent again.
Deadly Sword Strike!
Ye Xuan had unleashed the Deadly Sword Strike with a spear!
Although the Deadly Sword Strike was a sword technique, it could also be performed with a spear, though its power would be somewhat reduced.
Of course, using another weapon to perform the Deadly Sword Strike required an extremely profound understanding of it.
At the very least, one had to cultivate it to major accomplishment.
Ye Xuan, however, had long since cultivated it to perfection, so even when he performed this martial technique with a spear, it was not much weaker than when he used a sword.
Meanwhile, the Wheel Sea Seventh Layer cultivator holding the folding fan still had his right hand poised in the motion of sweeping his fan, but his body had frozen in place.
Several breaths later, his body fell to the ground with a thud, blood spraying from his throat like a fountain.
Dead!
Even a Wheel Sea Realm Seventh Layer had died!
Once again, in a single move!
The cultivators watching outside were growing more and more confident in Ye Xuan.
Their earlier doubts had turned into hope.
Perhaps Ye Xuan really could bring them a miracle and kill this scum of a city lord.
"Yes! Well killed!"
"These beasts all deserve to die!"
"Kill them all!"
After a brief silence, someone shouted first, and countless others followed.
Their voices shook the heavens!
Every one of them looked incredibly excited and stirred.
It was not as though the city's cultivators had no powerful fighters. There were even many in the Wheel Sea Realm.
But the City Lord's Manor was too powerful. Besides Zhu Pi, who was in the Golden Core Realm, it had more than a dozen Wheel Sea cultivators, including three at the Wheel Sea Late Stage.
Such a lineup kept them so thoroughly suppressed that they could not even lift their heads. Even when humiliated, they dared not resist.
Now, however, Ye Xuan had helped them eliminate more than half their enemies.
They were simply too excited.
Meanwhile, Zhu Pi's expression grew even uglier.
Ye Xuan had slain another Wheel Sea cultivator, and a Wheel Sea Seventh Layer at that!
By now, nearly ninety percent of his lackeys had been put out of action!
At that moment, he truly could not tolerate it anymore. He simply could not hold back.
"Die!"
Without sending the two remaining Wheel Sea Late Stage cultivators to attack, Zhu Pi charged at Ye Xuan himself.
He would kill Ye Xuan. He would slay this wretch!
He would tear this wretch into ten thousand pieces to vent the hatred in his heart!!!
The powerful presence of the Golden Core Realm erupted instantly. Like a raging lion, Zhu Pi charged madly at Ye Xuan, dazzling Spiritual Qi swirling around his entire body.
A piercing rushing sound filled the air. Under the crushing pressure of that Golden Core presence,
some of the weaker cultivators outside involuntarily went pale, their legs buckling as they collapsed flat on the ground.
In a single instant, Zhu Pi arrived before Ye Xuan, bearing terrifying pressure and killing momentum.
He raised his right hand slightly. The outline of a golden core the size of a goose egg appeared within his dantian, and mighty Spiritual Qi instantly poured into his arm.
He smashed out a fist like the might of heaven, accompanied by rolling booms.
Ye Xuan's expression shifted slightly. All 108 spiritual meridians in his body opened fully, Spiritual Qi roaring wildly within him as he instantly retreated.
At the same time, he raised his right hand and struck out with a palm, lightning blazing.
Thunder God Palm!
Bang!
A tremendous crash rang out. Ye Xuan felt his arm go numb, and his body was instantly driven backward.
Fuck!
So strong!
He felt as though his entire arm no longer belonged to him, nearly losing all sensation in it.
"Brat, no matter who you are or which faction's prodigy you may be, since you dared to provoke this city lord, don't blame me for showing you no mercy!"
"Today, whoever you are, you will die!"
"You will die without a doubt!!!"
Zhu Pi's voice brimmed with endless killing intent. Giving Ye Xuan no chance to catch his breath, he moved and charged again.
With a casual wave, boundless Spiritual Qi gathered around his palm before he struck it toward Ye Xuan.
Fast!
So fast!
Unbelievably fast!
Ye Xuan's eyelids twitched violently.
Only now did he truly realize how terrifying a Golden Core expert was.
And this Zhu Pi was only at the Golden Core First Level.
Yet his explosive power and destructive force surpassed those of a Wheel Sea Ninth Layer by more than tenfold!
Ye Xuan had originally thought that with his protagonist template, his supreme aptitude, and his cheat-like talent, slaying a Golden Core at Essence Condensation would be no difficult feat. But now it seemed...
Ye Xuan had no time to continue that thought. He frantically circulated his Spiritual Qi and began retreating and dodging.
Clashing head-on with a Golden Core expert was a choice only a fool would make.
He, Ye Xuan, would not be a fool.
Ye Xuan had only just dodged aside when a thunderous crash rang out, and a hall behind him was blasted apart.
Zhu Pi, however, was already charging toward Ye Xuan again like a phantom.
He followed him like a shadow, his attacks raging like a violent storm, unceasing, with no intention of giving Ye Xuan even the slightest chance to catch his breath.
In truth, towering waves were already surging in his heart as well.
A mere Essence Condensation First Layer had exchanged a head-on blow with him, a Golden Core First Layer, without suffering the slightest injury?
This was simply inconceivable!
He could no longer quite tell whether he was too useless as a Golden Core or Ye Xuan was too monstrous as an Essence Condensation cultivator.
He could scarcely find words to describe the terrifying talent of the young man before him.
As for the spectators outside, watching the battle left their hearts pounding with terror.
Their hearts were already in their throats.
Ye Xuan, who had shown overwhelming strength and crushed everything in his path, was being suppressed for the first time against Zhu Pi, a Golden Core!
Of course, this did not mean Ye Xuan was weak. On the contrary, it meant he was extraordinarily heaven-defying.
Outside the city, on a mountain peak wreathed in clouds and mist.
Han Bingning's peerlessly beautiful face had also grown solemn.
Her gaze remained fixed in the direction of the City Lord's Manor. Several times, she wanted to intervene and help, but each time, she held herself back.
She, too, wanted to see where Ye Xuan's limits lay.
Could a monster like Ye Xuan accomplish the peerless feat of slaying a Golden Core cultivator while in the Essence Condensation realm?