" A Da, use that move." Yin Li said to the Sword-wielding Dou Emperor without turning his head.
The Sword- Dou Emperor nodded, holding his serpentine longsword horizontally in front of his chest. The green light on the sword suddenly surged, transforming into a cloud of ghastly green poisonous mist.
The poisonous mist spread along the sword to his arm, and then climbed all over his body.
The whites of his eyes turned an eerie green, fine green patterns appeared on his skin, and his aura surged dramatically under the influence of the poisonous fog.
This is a secret technique that involves burning one's life essence to achieve a short-term surge in combat power.
" A Er, A San, maintain the cordon; do not allow anyone to enter or leave."
The two Dou Wang received the order and retreated to the edge of the bamboo forest to reinforce the Soul-Locking Restriction.
They recklessly poured their Soul Power into the restriction, and the ripples of the restriction stabilized again.
Yin Li didn't waste any more words.
The black ring on his right index finger suddenly lit up with a ghostly light, and he transformed into a blood-red shadow, striking Xiao Yan's head with a palm.
The area covered by this palm strike was not large, only about the size of a palm-leaf fan, but the palm force was extremely concentrated, and the air was even compressed into visible ripples where the palm wind passed.
At the same time, the Sword-wielding Dou Emperor attacked from the side.
The serpentine longsword transformed into countless sword shadows, each coated with a highly poisonous green light. If the blade grazed even the slightest part of the skin, the poison would penetrate deep into the body, reaching the heart within a few breaths along the meridians.
A single sword strike creates two shadows, a mix of illusion and reality, perfectly flanking the attack in conjunction with Yin Li's Blood Hand Seal.
Xiao Yan's gaze sharpened slightly.
Yin Li's palm strike was clearly more solid than his previous attacks. If he were to take it head-on, he wouldn't be injured, but it would consume a lot of his Soul Power —he didn't want to take that risk before he had figured out Yin Li cards.
He took a deep breath, lightly touched the ground with his toes, and unleashed an extremely strange footwork.
This footwork doesn't involve any grand, sweeping movements; each step is a mere dodge within a small space, yet it always manages to perfectly avoid fatal attacks.
This was the movement technique that he and Xiao Huohuo had comprehended under the guidance of the Yao Lao in the desert.
Xiao Yan's every step was precisely placed in the gaps between the attacks.
Yin Li's Blood Hand Seal struck his afterimage, leaving a three-foot-deep palm print on the bluestone ground, with black smoke still rising from the bottom of the print.
The sword of the Dou Emperor grazed the hem of his clothes, and the poisonous mist adhered to the fabric, instantly corroding a large hole in his black robe.
Xiao Yan ducked down and squeezed through the gap between the two attacks, his left hand clenching into the air.
" Netherworld Lock!"
Several illusory chains made entirely of pale Cold Fire appeared out of thin air behind the Sword-wielding Dou Emperor, coiling around his legs like snakes and binding him tightly in an instant.
The moment the chains touched his skin, a chill that penetrated to the very marrow of his bones pierced his very soul. The Sword-wielding Dou Emperor let out a miserable howl, his movements faltering for a split second, and the serpentine longsword in his hand slowed down as well.
Taking advantage of this brief moment, Xiao Yan swept past him like Gui Mei, his right hand thrusting the spear straight at his throat.
This shot had no Heavenly Flames attached to it, no Soul Skill enhancement, it was purely about speed.
Pfft.
The spear tip pierced the neck of the sword-wielding Dou Emperor and exited from the back of his neck.
The sword-wielding Dou Emperor's screams abruptly ceased, the green light in his eyes quickly dissipated, and his body twitched twice before becoming still. Blood flowed down the shaft of the spear, congealing into dark red beads on Xiao Yan's hand.
Another Four-Star Dou Emperor has died.
But in that split second, Yin Li seized the moment when Xiao Yan was unable to immediately defend after firing his spear.
The fifth Blood Hand Seal landed solidly on Xiao Yan's back.
" Cold Fire Soul Armor!"
The force of the Blood Hand Seal exploded the moment it struck, sending Xiao Yan flying three zhang away, carving a deep furrow into the bluestone floor of the Qingzhu Pavilion.
His Soul Armor shattered inch by inch. Xiao Yan flipped over and leaped up, spitting out a mouthful of bloody saliva, a burning pain shooting through his back.
The corrosive power of the Blood Hand Seal began to erode flesh the moment it touched the skin, and the cold, foul palm force desperately drilled into the meridians.
The corners of his mouth turned up slightly.
That palm strike was indeed powerful.
But that's all.
The Soul Armor blocked most of the deadly corrosive power.
The remaining palm force struck the Soul Armor, causing the ice crystal armor to shatter and develop fine cracks. However, the cracks only spread for a moment before the Soul Armor was completely rebuilt—smooth and new.
While the Blood Hand Seal's corrosive Dou Qi against battle qi is undeniably domineering, the Bone Spirit Cold Flame is inherently effective against all evil and yin attributes.
The extremely Cold Fire froze most of the corrosive palm force the moment it came into contact with it, and the remaining portion of the palm force that penetrated the Soul Armor and blasted into the body was less than 30% of its peak strength.
Although the thirty percent of the palm force sent Xiao Yan flying backward, it did not fundamentally injure him.
If it weren't for the Soul Armor released in that instant, that palm strike would have been enough to seriously injure him.
Xiao Yan stretched his shoulders; the stinging pain in his back was quickly subsiding.
The Heavenly Flames circulated automatically in the meridians, gradually burning away the palm force that had invaded the body.
"Is that all the power you've got?" Xiao Yan grinned as he looked at Yin Li.
The dark red crack between Yin Li's brows twitched violently.
Of the six people he brought—two Four-Star Dou Emperor and four Dou Wang —more than half have already perished.
Including Han Chi from last night, the elite forces of the Yellow Springs Pavilion in Tianbei City were almost completely wiped out by this young man alone.
He served as a protector at the Yellow Springs Pavilion's Northern Province headquarters for twenty years, carrying out hundreds of missions, and his subordinates, including four batches of Dou Emperor, changed.
But this rate of loss was only the second time in his life he had ever seen it. The last time he lost so many men was when he was leading a team to besiege a high-star Star Dou Huang.
The kid in front of me used only one gun from beginning to end, and didn't even take a few breaths.
"I hope your body is tougher than your mouth."
" Blood Soul Great Hand Seal!"
He shouted angrily.
Yin Li's right palm surged with blood-red light once more. This time, he no longer probed. The black ring on his right index finger emitted a blinding, eerie light, and a wisp of black energy drilled into his palm from the ring, merging with the blood-red light.
Blood-red light and black mist Entanglement and condensed in his palm into a giant, blood-black hand that was a full ten feet in size.
The giant hand had five hook-like fingers, and a distorted human face appeared in the palm, as if countless wronged souls sealed inside were wailing at the same time.
The temperature in the courtyard suddenly dropped several degrees, and the air was filled with a stench like that of rotting corpses.
The bamboo leaves, affected by this aura, withered and fell off, turning into black powder in mid-air before even hitting the ground.
Mid Earth Tier Dou Technique - Blood Soul Great Hand Seal.
Based on the Blood Hand Seal, it incorporates the soul attack techniques that Yin Li learned from You Fan.
A single palm strike contains a dual attack on both the physical body and the soul; even Seven-Star Dou Huang of the same level would be severely injured if struck by this palm.
Yin Li took a step forward, and the ground beneath his feet exploded into a three-foot-deep crater. He then lunged at Xiao Yan with a giant, blood-black hand.
A giant hand slammed down from mid-air.
Xiao Yan's smile slowly faded.
The power of this palm strike was indeed extraordinary; he could feel how intense the resentment of the soul contained within it was.
There were at least a thousand wronged souls sealed in his palm, each emitting a mournful wail. The sound waves overlapped and intertwined, forming a unique soul attack.
An ordinary person would go insane just from hearing that wailing sound.
But Xiao Yan is no ordinary person.
He has a natural resistance to interference at the spiritual level, and the wails of these wronged spirits have almost no effect on him.
Instead of dodging, he suddenly took a step forward.
With each step, the broken bluestone ground beneath his feet was blasted apart by the force of the air, sending the pebbles flying in all directions.
He gripped the Radiant Heaven World-Burning Spear tightly in his other hand, the flame patterns on the spear shining brightest. The Bone Spirit Cold Flame and the Green Lotus Core Flame converged at the spear tip, condensing into a fireball the size of a fist.
The fireball continued to compress, its surface changing from pale to emerald green, and then from emerald green to a blinding white—a color that only appears when the temperature reaches its extreme.
Just as Yin Li's attention was drawn to the sudden change in the spear in his hand... then his left hand released the spear shaft.
Xiao Yan slightly spread his five fingers on his left hand and pressed down lightly in front of him.
A chilling white light appeared in my palm.
The white light was extremely small, only the size of a bean, but it was incredibly dazzling, like holding a star in the palm of your hand.
" Soul Bone Skill: Immaculate Realm "
He highly compressed his Soul Power into the palm of his left hand, forming a point of " Demon-Breaking Light ".
It ignores all defensive Soul Skill, Soul Bone Skill, and protective qi, acting directly on the body.
Xiao Yan pressed his left hand towards Yin Li's Blood Soul Great Hand Seal, and the Demon-Breaking Light in his palm collided violently with the blood-black giant hand.
The Immaculate Realm is specifically designed to break through defenses.
The blood-red light, formed from vengeful spirits, on the surface of the Blood Soul Great Hand Seal was pierced silently the moment it came into contact with the Demon-Breaking Light, like ice and snow meeting a red-hot iron.
The distorted, grotesque face in the giant palm let out a heart-wrenching scream, its entire face splitting in two.
Immediately afterwards, Xiao Yan thrust out with his right-hand spear.
The spear tip followed the gap torn open by the Demon-Breaking Light, piercing into the core of the Blood Soul Great Hand Seal without any hindrance.
The two-colored fireball condensed at the tip of the spear was released in an instant—the violent earth fire power of the Green Lotus Core Flame and the extreme freezing air of the Bone Spirit Cold Flame erupted simultaneously.
Cold and heat, masculinity and yin—two diametrically opposed forces clashed wildly within the Blood Soul Great Hand Seal.
The blood-black giant hand expanded violently in mid-air, with countless cracks spreading from its interior, through which crimson and pale light shone.
The next moment, the giant hand exploded open.
The shockwave from the explosion hurled all the rubble into the air. The rubble was then burned into lava by the remaining Heavenly Flames in mid-air, and instantly solidified by the cold aura of the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, turning into countless tiny black glass beads that crashed back to the ground with a crackling sound.
Yin Li was blasted backward, his black robe ripped at the chest, leaving a scorch mark.
Amidst the scorch marks, flesh and blood were torn and rolled up, and the stark white ribs were vaguely visible. He reached out and touched his chest, his fingertips stained with warm blood.
The light on the black ring on his right palm had dimmed considerably, and a fine crack had appeared on its surface.
More importantly, the blood-red light that had gathered on his right palm had completely dissipated.
His strongest move was directly countered by Xiao Yan.
"Use whatever other tricks you have up your sleeve."
Xiao Yan spoke calmly, his spear casually pointing diagonally at the ground, the flames on the spear tip still burning, reflecting his serene face and the chaotic battlefield behind him.
Yin Li got up from the ground, looked down at the wound on his chest, and then looked at the corpses of his men scattered all over the ground.
Both Four-Star Dou Emperor were killed, and two of the four Dou Wang collapsed to the ground, having lost their fighting power. The remaining two were still gritting their teeth and maintaining the restriction, but their faces were filled with fear.
He raised his head and looked at Lin Zhenshan, who was already paralyzed with fear on the ground by the bamboo forest.
"You... the intelligence report didn't mention that he had this kind of combat ability."
Lin Zhenshan's legs were trembling violently. He leaned against the bamboo, his lips quivering, unable to utter a complete sentence for a long time.
He watched as Xiao Yan killed one Dou Emperor, then Dou Emperor, and now even the Seven-Star Dou Huang Protector Blood Hand was being beaten until he coughed up blood.
This Tang San... is not Three-Star Dou Emperor at all!
He's finished.
Lin Zhenshan slumped to the ground, his mind filled with only these three words.