signingbooks #393 - The defeat of Dongzhou's top expert
#393 - The defeat of Dongzhou's top expert
In the distance, Liang Jin's initially languid expression instantly sharpened, his eyes gleaming with excitement.
He knew that this thrilling drama had reached its most crucial and exciting climax.
Zou Cifeng's hand shot up, revealing a soul jade emitting a deep blue light in his palm.
At that moment, Zou Cifeng's face was contorted, his facial muscles twisted with anger and determination, his body radiating murderous intent, like a ferocious beast thoroughly enraged:
"I will risk everything today to kill you!"
This soul jade was what he had obtained after a fierce battle at the auction.
Now, the soul jade shone brightly, the dazzling blue light like a small sun, completely dispelling the dense darkness around it, enveloping the surrounding ten zhang in an eerie blue light, as if being in a mysterious blue ocean.
Clearly, Zou Cifeng had begun to fully activate the soul jade, and a terrifyingly powerful attack was about to erupt.
Liang Jin's attention was instantly drawn to the soul jade, his eyes fixed on the soul jade emitting a mysterious light, his heart full of anticipation:
"Finally, I can see the power of the soul jade!"
"Let me see, what kind of power does this soul jade, which can drive Zou Cifeng so crazy, possess?"
Liang Jin had always been full of curiosity about the soul jade, but unfortunately, the soul jade was extremely precious and a one-time consumable item, which meant that he had never had the opportunity to witness its power.
Even the soul jade he had stolen from Xiafei Manor had always been carefully kept in his possession and never used.
At this time, although the power of the soul jade in Zou Cifeng's hand had not been fully unleashed, the powerful and heart-palpitating aura was already coming.
The air around Zou Cifeng surged wildly, forming a violent wind centered on him, causing the surrounding vegetation to rustle, as if trembling for the upcoming battle.
When Li Xueqing saw that Zou Cifeng was actually going to use the soul jade, she secretly cried out in alarm and immediately retreated like lightning.
With her knowledge and experience, she naturally knew what terrifying effects would erupt after the soul jade was activated.
Unfortunately, fate seemed to be playing a cruel joke on her at this moment.
Zhui Ying's ghostly figure had already appeared behind her, blocking her retreat.
This Zhui Ying was always insidious and cunning. His strength was obviously stronger than Zou Cifeng's, and he even had the ability to injure Li Xueqing.
Just as Yu Linglong had said, there were not many people in the world who could injure Li Xueqing, and Zhui Ying was clearly one of them.
Of course, Zhui Ying did not injure Li Xueqing head-on in a one-on-one fight like Liang Jin, but took advantage of Zou Cifeng and Li Xueqing's fierce battle, relying on his ghostly movements and keen timing to launch a sneak attack and injure Li Xueqing.
Even so, this was enough to prove Zhui Ying's strength.
Especially since his martial arts were exquisite, and he had a unique skill in breaking moves and disassembling moves, he could always find flaws in his opponent's moves at critical moments and then deliver a fatal blow.
However, even such a master always let Zou Cifeng confront Li Xueqing head-on, while he hid in the dark, like a lurking cheetah, secretly looking for opportunities to launch a sneak attack.
Although this approach was extremely shameless, it did create tremendous pressure on Li Xueqing.
Li Xueqing had to divide her attention to deal with Zhui Ying's sneak attacks because of Zou Cifeng's frontal containment.
It was also because of Zhui Ying's sneak attacks that Li Xueqing was unable to quickly defeat Zou Cifeng, resulting in a bitter battle, with each attack and defense being extremely difficult.
At this time, Zhui Ying once again used his powerful stealth ability, blocking Li Xueqing's retreat like a ghost, and then unhesitatingly attacked again.
Zhui Ying's figure flashed, instantly closing in and once again using his grappling technique to attack Li Xueqing at close range.
But when Li Xueqing's energy finished shaking, the chain actually popped out again like a snake, with a fierce aura, trying to wrap Li Xueqing.
Li Xueqing relied on her powerful lightness skill to quickly dodge. Her figure drew a graceful arc in the air, like a dancing butterfly.
Even so, her waist was hooked by the hook at the end of the chain. With a "hiss" sound, the chain tore off a piece of flesh from her, and blood instantly stained her clothes red.
The chain quickly retracted into Zhui Ying's belt. Zhui Ying's expression was indifferent, as if all this had nothing to do with him, and he silently picked off the flesh on the hook and threw it away.
The Six Doors are divided into Dragon, Phoenix, Tiger, Leopard, Machine, and Shadow.
The Machine Door specializes in mechanisms and is responsible for creating various equipment and tools for the members of the Six Doors.
The Tiangang Soul Locking Chain around Zhui Ying's waist is the masterpiece of the Machine Door.
Relying on this Tiangang Soul Locking Chain, Zhui Ying did not know how many court-appointed criminals and Jiangyang bandits he had captured, becoming an existence that made criminals in the Jianghu terrified.
Li Xueqing quickly sealed the acupoints on her waist to stop the bleeding. Her face became a little pale due to the pain, but her eyes were still firm and cold, staring at Zhui Ying coldly:
"The Six Doors have quite a few tricks up their sleeves."
"If I had the Thousand Dragon God Whip in my hand, you wouldn't even have a chance to get close to me. It's a pity that my natal divine weapon was tricked away by a villain."
"But don't be complacent, do you think you are any better off?"
Zhui Ying seemed to sense something when he heard this, and an ominous premonition rose in his heart. He quickly looked at his hand again.
On his palm, which had been corroded by the poison, he could faintly see some small insects wriggling and drilling into his muscles, leaving behind a dense mass of blood holes that looked shocking.
This frightened Zhui Ying and he quickly circulated his energy to his palm, trying to drive these hateful insects out of his body.
But he only forced out more than a hundred small insects, and even more small insects were drilling into his body along his meridians.
And the target of these small insects was his dantian qi sea. Once they succeeded, Zhui Ying would be reduced to a useless person.
This was Li Xueqing's specialty, the Qi Devouring Gu. This type of Gu worm was extremely insidious. It would hatch upon encountering human body temperature, grow upon encountering blood, and loved to burrow into a person's Qi Sea Dantian, turning the victim into a cripple.
Zhui Ying was both shocked and angry, fine beads of sweat appearing on his forehead. He hurriedly sealed the vital acupoints around his body, attempting to prevent the Gu worms from further invading.
Then, he hastily took out a pill and swallowed it. As the pill went down his throat, his expression eased slightly.
Clearly, experts from the Six Doors would also carry some medicinal pills capable of neutralizing poisons.
It was just unknown whether his medicines would be effective against Li Xueqing's unpredictable Gu techniques.
At the same time, Zou Cifeng on the other side had already made his move.
The blue light within the Soul Jade in his hand now flowed like a gentle stream, pouring into his body through his palm.
And after losing all of its blue light, the Soul Jade immediately shattered into a pile of worthless stones, as if it had completed its mission and returned to its original ordinariness.
At this moment, as Zou Cifeng received the blue light's infusion into his body, his aura suddenly surged. His eyes flickered with a crazy light, as if he were being controlled by a powerful force.
"Heaven Shaking Mountain Crushing Palm!"
Zou Cifeng roared, his voice like thunder, and he ferociously struck down towards Li Xueqing with a palm from mid-air.
This palm strike was Zou Cifeng's signature move, known for its extremely terrifying power and its majestic and heavy strength.
When Zou Cifeng used this palm, his entire aura instantly soared, the energy around him surged like a raging sea, and the muscles in his arms bulged high, as if containing endless power. Every muscle seemed to contain explosive energy.
As he thrust out his palm, his palm faced forward, and the palm wind was like an invisible force, carrying the might of splitting mountains and shattering rocks, shaking the air in front of him until it buzzed, as if the air was groaning in pain under this terrifying palm force.
At the same time, the blue light that had poured into his body actually formed an extremely strong inner force, like a raging torrent, roaring and surging within him, causing this palm strike to reach a power he had never possessed in his life!
As Zou Cifeng unleashed this palm, the terrifying inner force seemed to sweep across the heavens and the earth at this moment, forming a powerful aura that firmly enveloped Li Xueqing, leaving her nowhere to escape.
Because she was blocked by Zhui Ying, Li Xueqing had already lost the opportunity to dodge.
Although Li Xueqing also had a Soul Jade in her hand, she had similarly lost the chance to activate it at this time.
Now, she could only take this palm head-on!
At this moment, before Zou Cifeng's vast palm force even arrived, the terrifying power had already caused all the surrounding vegetation to be crushed and plastered to the ground, as if surrendering to this powerful palm force.
Even the ground seemed to be slightly sunken by the terrifying power of this palm, with small cracks appearing, as if the earth could not bear the weight under this palm force.
And when Zou Cifeng completely released this palm, even the surrounding air seemed to be pushed away, forming a temporary vacuum zone.
The fierce palm force was like a towering pillar, carrying the momentum of destroying the heavens and extinguishing the earth, pressing directly towards Li Xueqing.
Seeing this scene, Li Xueqing abruptly closed her eyes.
Her complexion actually changed rapidly, and within a short period of time, it actually showed four colors: green, yellow, red, and black, which was extremely strange, as if controlled by a mysterious force.
When she opened her eyes, she thrust out both palms.
At this time, everyone was surprised to find that Li Xueqing's hands had become like those of a zombie, her skin was black and seemed to have grown thick calluses, exuding a nauseating aura.
As this palm was unleashed, a fishy wind howled, containing potent poison.
And these poisons could be said to have thousands of variations, impossible to resolve and impossible to avoid.
This was one of Li Xueqing's ultimate techniques—the Azure Yellow Crimson Black Divine Palm!
Palm against palm!
Li Xueqing's multicolored palm force was like a cloud of miasma, carrying a strange aura, and soon met Zou Cifeng's towering pillar-like, fierce palm force.
The intense explosion and terrifying shockwave that were expected did not occur.
When the two came into contact, Zou Cifeng's towering pillar-like palm force landed in the miasma-like palm force, as if a large iron hammer had smashed into a ball of cotton.
The hammer's power did not diminish, but it was able to continuously dissipate in the softness of the cotton, eventually dissolving little by little.
This made Zou Cifeng's face fill with anger, and his eyes almost burst into flames:
"What a difficult poisonous woman!"
After all, this was a palm strike that Zou Cifeng had obtained by sacrificing a precious Soul Jade. He had originally thought that he could rely on this powerful palm to completely defeat Li Xueqing.
But who would have thought that Li Xueqing was not only skilled in poison, but even this soft and supple skill had been honed to perfection.
She actually used softness to overcome hardness, gradually dissolving Zou Cifeng's fierce palm.
In the distance.
Liang Jin also marveled at this scene, and a look of surprise and admiration appeared on his face:
"This Li Xueqing really has some trump cards up her sleeve."
"If I had encountered her palm back then, I'm afraid I would have found it equally difficult to deal with."
"But now that I have merged with the divine beast's blood essence and have the Divine Dragon Arm, she wants to use softness to overcome hardness, but that's completely impossible."
Using softness to overcome hardness can only be achieved when the opponent is not too strong.
If the opponent's strength far exceeds one's own softness, then using softness to overcome hardness will only become a burden, or even a joke, far less effective than a head-on collision.
Zou Cifeng's palm strike, empowered by the Soul Jade, was indeed very fierce.
But unfortunately, his strength was inherently weaker than Li Xueqing's. Even with the Soul Jade's empowerment, it would at most be equal to Li Xueqing in terms of this palm's power.
And when the two sides were equal, then using softness to overcome hardness would indeed be very difficult.
Perhaps, Zou Cifeng would even suffer a counterattack.
As expected!
Zou Cifeng's hands actually began to show four colors: green, yellow, red, and black, indicating that the toxicity of Li Xueqing's Azure Yellow Crimson Black Divine Palm had also invaded Zou Cifeng's body.
At this moment, blood actually began to slowly flow from Zou Cifeng's seven orifices, and his face turned as pale as paper, as if his life was slowly draining away.
Although he had taken the Poison Resistance Powder, his resistance to poison had greatly increased.
But unfortunately, Li Xueqing had inflicted him with multiple potent poisons, each more ferocious than the last. Layered on top of each other, even the Poison Resistance Powder could not hold out.
This caused Zou Cifeng to no longer be able to hold on, and he actually fell from mid-air, crashing heavily to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.
The number one expert in Dongzhou had fallen!