Translator: Silavin
“Old Qiu, you people are truly shameless! A Half-Step Martial Ancestor actually using such methods!? Isn’t this clearly bullying?”
Watching the astonishing commotion within the light screen, the Pill Hall Elder spoke with a dark expression.
Although he had seen quite a few geniuses capable of fighting above their cultivation realm, even with their experience, they had never heard of any Early Stage Martial Emperor who could contend with a Half-Step Martial Ancestor!
Moreover, this Half-Step Martial Ancestor was also the Northern Brilliant Hall Elder’s Personal Disciple. Anyone who could be accepted as a Personal Disciple by the Northern Brilliant Hall Elder would be among the very best in terms of talent and combat capability within their level!
“Hmph! If we hold back too much, how can we verify whether what this young man said is true or false!?”
Elder Qiu snorted coldly. This was also what he had specifically instructed Yu Qing to do. If Qin Yichen could not withstand this move, then they would directly forgo the Punishment Hall matter and kill this young man with one strike!
“Ice Frost Spirit Palm!” Yu Qing’s cold delicate shout reverberated throughout the hall. As her palm pushed forward, one could see the solid ground before her instantly coated with a thick layer of frost.
*Swish!*
Then, a transparent palm imprint whistled out, expanding against the wind. In merely a few breaths, it transformed into a palm approximately five metres in size. On this palm, patterns resembling ice crystals covered its surface. It looked incomparably magnificent.
This palm imprint traversed space at an extremely terrifying speed. Wherever it passed, even the solid ground was frozen with thick frost, some ground even frozen until it cracked. Even in the air, white mist rising from extreme cold ascended.
That palm imprint, like a massive iceberg, rapidly enlarged in Qin Yichen’s pupils. When still ten metres distant, Qin Yichen’s skin was already stabbed somewhat painfully, and a bone-deep cold intent swept forth.
Facing this strike, Qin Yichen’s expression became considerably more solemn, because from that frost giant palm, he detected a feeling even more dangerous than Yi Buyan’s full-force strike.
“You just want to see my true strength? Then I’ll show you!” Qin Yichen’s gaze gradually turned cold and severe. In his heart, he roared. At this moment, he no longer held back. Vast Spiritual Energy whistled out, and simultaneously, majestic Yuan Energy also rapidly stacked upward.
Seven stacks of force… eight stacks…
*Puff!* Even with the support of the Supreme Tyrant Body and the Myriad Dao Divine Armour, blood still seeped from Qin Yichen’s arm. Moreover, because of the terrifying backlash, vicious wounds split open across his body.
Nine stacks of force!
Just as he stacked the ninth stacks of force, a confident smile flashed across Qin Yichen’s face. Then, under astonished gazes, he actually did not dodge or evade, meeting it head-on just as Yu Qing had treated him earlier.
*Boom!*
As the punch struck out, Yuan Energy, like a tide, immediately swept outward. The air within several metres ahead was compressed and exploded. The space originally filled with white mist empties out by several metres and turns into a vacuum.
*Bang!* Finally, Qin Yichen’s fist directly collided heavily with that sweeping palm imprint. A Yuan Energy storm immediately swept outward, and beneath it, the ground completely collapsed.
The white mist scattered chaotically, shattered stones flew everywhere. Then, under astonished gazes, a crack actually appeared on that crystalline Yuan Energy palm imprint.
*Crack! Crack!* Immediately after, this crack spread like a spider’s web, ultimately covering the entire palm.
*Crash!* Finally, under astonished gazes, that enormous palm imprint exploded with a crash, transforming into fragments filling the sky.
In the distance, Yu Qing, who had originally thought victory was assured, also had a trace of bewilderment flash through her beautiful eyes. Her feet unconsciously retreated one small step.
*Swish!* Within that sky full of crystalline fragments, a black beam of light penetrated through. One could vaguely see it was precisely Qin Yichen’s figure wrapped in black mist!
That figure had not yet approached when vast Spiritual Energy like fine needles stabbed toward Yu Qing’s head. Although protected by Yuan Energy and not penetrating her Knowledge Sea, it still caused her Soul to become momentarily dazed.
At this time, the black beam of light had already approached Yu Qing’s side.
“Stop!” Just then, the light screen enveloping the two suddenly disappeared, and the Northern Brilliant Hall Elder’s shout also reverberated.
Under this shout, the momentarily dazed Yu Qing also returned to her senses. At this time, what entered her eyes was a fist shrouded in black mist.
In this instant, a trace of fear finally rose in Yu Qing’s beautiful eyes.
*Snap!* At the final moment, the black mist dispersed. A finger covered in dried blood gently flicked Yu Qing’s smooth forehead.
“Senior Sister, thank you for showing mercy!” When Qin Yichen withdrew his palm, he breathed in that enchanting fragrance with infatuation, murmuring, “Actually, if Senior Sister doesn’t wear this cold demeanour all the time, you’d be quite beautiful.”
*Swish!* In this instant, Yu Qing’s originally somewhat pale delicate face instantly turned crimson. She bit her silver teeth tightly, but before she could explode, he had already chuckled lightly and retreated.
Watching that leisurely retreating figure, the entire hall fell silent. Everyone momentarily froze.
“Ah, this young man has several traces of my good old self… *he he he*” After a long moment, the Pill Hall Elder finally returned to his senses first. His eyes filled with satisfaction, and his laughter, without any concealment reverberated through the hall—shamelessly.
Watching the devastated hall, the shocked crowd also gradually recovered.
This young man who, until just before, had always been at a disadvantage, had actually directly defeated a Half-Step Martial Ancestor!
“How could this happen?” Yu Qing’s cold delicate face similarly bore a trace of astonishment. She truly could not understand how Qin Yichen had shattered her Ice Frost Spirit Palm!
Even if that was not her strongest attack, that offensive required power approaching a Half-Step Martial Ancestor to break through!
She naturally did not know that the Demon Execution Palm Technique left behind by the Demon Subduing Great Saint, with each stack, was fundamentally not as simple as one plus one.
Besides the True Dragon Martial Soul, Qin Yichen had just now employed almost all his trump cards. That nine stacks of force was sufficient to rival a Half-Step Martial Ancestor’s strike!
To deploy that move, Qin Yichen was not as relaxed as he appeared on the surface. His body was covered with split wounds, and within his arm, several meridians had ruptured!
If not for the Myriad Dao Divine Armour, even if his flesh was abnormally robust, forget attacking, the instant he condensed till the ninth stack, his arm would have been blown to fragments!
This was also a bold gamble. He was taking advantage of Yu Qing not deploying methods truly belonging to a Half-Step Martial Ancestor. In short, he had caught her completely off guard!