Xu Yang!
Hearing that name, Song Wenshan could no longer wait. He stood up and said, "Wenxuan, if your spirit is watching from the heavens, know that today, your big brother will avenge you."
"Don’t leave any traces of our family’s Martial Techniques. Uncle Shizhao and I will be responsible for killing Xu Yang. The rest of you will deal with the other disciples from the Purple Sun Sect and seize the ore. Make it look authentic."
They weren’t interested in the mine’s Profound Iron, but if they didn’t disguise themselves as mountain bandits, any fool would know they were here for revenge. If Elder Huoyun investigated, they would have no excuse.
"Understood!" Song Shizhao and the others cupped their fists.
"Masks on!"
Song Wenshan reached into his robes, and a piece of black cloth appeared in his hand. Song Shizhao and the others also moved, reaching into their own robes.
Just as he was about to put on his mask, he suddenly heard a strange sound in the distance, like an arrow piercing the air.
"Who’s there?" Song Wenshan roared, his voice like a clap of thunder.
’Someone has snuck up on us!’
He spun around quickly to face the direction of the sound, only to see a figure approaching them like a phantom, moving swiftly and silently.
BOOM!
Upon being discovered, the figure suddenly accelerated. Golden Gang Qi erupted from his body, and he shot through the night sky like a golden thunderbolt, his overwhelming aura that of someone at the Great Success stage of the Bone Marrow Cleansing Realm.
Golden Gang Qi!
Xu Yang!
Song Wenshan’s expression changed drastically. They had just crept near the mine, yet Xu Yang had already found them. To face four Marrow Cleansing Great Success Martial Artists and attack without hesitation... he was impossibly audacious.
What shocked him even more was that Xu Yang’s cultivation was no longer at Marrow Cleansing Minor Achievement—he had reached Great Success! That tyrannical aura was definitely not something a Minor Achievement Martial Artist could emit.
"Careful! It’s that bastard Xu Yang!"
Song Shizhao was both shocked and enraged. He had no idea how Xu Yang had discovered them. They were still several hundred meters from the mine; even with the heightened five senses of a Bone Marrow Cleansing Martial Artist, it should have been impossible to detect their presence from so far away.
Without any hesitation, the Gang Qi in his body surged, and his entire being began to radiate a crimson light.
At the same time, Song Wenshan and the other two Song Family experts also quickly unleashed their Gang Qi, turning to face the enemy.
But Xu Yang could already kill Marrow Cleansing Great Success Martial Artists when he was only in the Minor Success Realm of Marrow Cleansing. Now that his cultivation had reached Great Success, while he might not be invincible within the Bone Marrow Cleansing Realm, he was far beyond what an ordinary Great Success Martial Artist could handle.
Unleashing his full power, his speed became indescribable. Before Song Shirong and the other three could even fully deploy their Protective Gang Qi, he had already arrived like a sharp arrow.
BOOM!
A golden palm, containing a mighty, Mountain-Shattering and Mountain-Breaking force, slammed heavily into the Protective Gang Qi of the Marrow Cleansing Great Success expert standing beside Song Wenshan.
It was "Mountain-Shattering and Mountain-Breaking," the most powerful offensive move of the Fuyue Bear King’s Palm.
Although he hadn’t summoned his Martial Dao Imagery, with his current cultivation and Physique, this was not a palm strike just anyone could withstand.
The surrounding grass and trees were pulverized, exploding into dust. Before the Song Family expert could even react, the unstoppable Palm Force had easily shattered his Protective Gang Qi and landed on his chest with devastating ease.
Gang Qi erupted as Force poured out like a river bursting its banks.
CRACK!
A sickening crunch of breaking bone echoed as the sharp, domineering Golden Gang Qi, propelled by a tyrannical physique, instantly blasted into the Song Family expert’s body. His bones shattered on impact, and his chest caved in.
"AHH!"
A short, bloodcurdling scream rang out. The man spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with pieces of his internal organs as his feet left the ground, and he was sent flying backward, crashing heavily into Song Wenshan, who stood behind him.
"You bastard! Kill him for me!" Song Wenshan roared, his eyes nearly splitting with rage.
Standing behind, he couldn’t see the expert’s injuries, but from that sickening crunch, he knew that if the man wasn’t dead, he was gravely wounded. He most likely wouldn’t survive.
He had never expected this outcome. Before they could even make a move, Xu Yang had attacked first, gravely injuring one of the Song Family’s experts in a single surprise strike.
He was forced to retract the power he had been about to unleash, instead reaching out to catch his clansman who was flying toward him.
"You bastard!" Song Shizhao was incandescent with rage, his eyes instantly turning red.
He saw it clearly: his companion, ambushed by Xu Yang, had a collapsed chest and his body was covered in cracks. He was already dead.
Without a moment’s hesitation, he and his other companion mercilessly unleashed their long-prepared ultimate techniques at Xu Yang’s position, the sheer force of their auras cracking the ground beneath their feet.
"Hmph!"
Xu Yang snorted coldly and vanished from his spot. ’I have no intention of testing my defense to see if I can withstand the combined, full-power attacks of two Marrow Cleansing Great Success Martial Artists.’
’Although I probably could.’
’After all, during the great battle at Qiushui Manor, Li Ye’s physical body withstood a strike from Gao Lin’s Half-Spirit Weapon. I’m also at Great Achievement in Bone Marrow Cleansing Cultivation now, and my body has been tempered by Golden Gang Qi for years. It’s definitely no weaker than Li Ye’s.’
RUMBLE...
Song Shizhao and his companion’s attacks missed completely, their Gang Qi blasting a huge crater in the ground. The shockwave swept across the earth like a tidal wave, tearing open numerous fissures.
Amidst the billowing dust and smoke, Xu Yang, radiating a dazzling golden light, had already flashed to the side of the other Marrow Cleansing Great Success expert from the Song Family, his palm striking out with suffocating pressure.
BOOM!
Under the immense pressure, the man felt as if a giant boulder was crushing his heart. Fortunately, he was an expert who had been at the Great Success stage for many years and was experienced in life-or-death battles.
In the nick of time, he thrust out his other hand and met Xu Yang’s palm with his own, blocking the fatal strike aimed at his head.