Chapter 519: Punching to the Ground with One Strike (1/2)
Chapter 519: Punching to the Ground with One Strike
The six crimson stone columns formed a wall of raging flames that stood between the people within the colorful area and those without.
Dong Kang and the others could only pace anxiously outside the colorful area after rushing over.
Yang Kan seemed to relax immediately after forming the flame ward with his stone columns.
He took out a crimson crystal ball and tossed it into the air, where it stayed above his head.
Earthflame essence could be seen burning within the crimson crystal ball, along with slithering earthflame crystal strings, which seemed to be manipulating the six stone columns.
Yang Kan laughed wildly. “You lot from the Realm of a Hundred Battles are so naive. You really think you’d beat us just because you have greater numbers?
“It’s a pity that, as core disciples of the Dong Clan, neither of you have entered the late Greater Heaven stage. Otherwise, you’d have caused me much bigger problems.
“As for that Dong Kang, even though he’s at the late Greater Heaven stage, he didn’t receive the kind of attention and resources you two did.
“So even if he were in here, he’d become another victim of mine.
“Gu Haofeng, Qian Xin, and Cao Qiushui are all at the same cultivation stage as you are, which is far from enough to threaten me.”
With these words, Yang Kan dodged Dong Li’s cyan awl with ease and pointed his finger at her.
One of the earthflame crystal strings within the crimson crystal ball over his head instantly morphed into a streak of dazzling light and shot towards Dong Li’s forehead.
The earthflame crystal string was branded with the profound truths of flame power, which made it incomparably fierce and sharp.
Dong Li’s expression flickered as she hastily raised the bone shield in her other hand to defend against it.
The earthflame crystal string slightly altered its path and punctured Dong Li’s left shoulder.
Not only did it go through Dong Li’s shoulder, but it also set her shoulder on fire with tangerine-colored flames.
A low, pained exclamation escaped her mouth as her gorgeous face was instantly filled with anger.
Dong Baijie swung his black hammer down towards Yang Kan, yet it was warded off by a river of flames Yang Kan had formed with one hand.
Yang Kan took a few steps backwards to put a sizeable distance between the brother-sister pair and himself, as if he had realized that the two of them were both very good at fighting at close quarters.
Up in the air, Dong Baijie and Dong Li’s beast spirits were still busy dealing with the discarnate souls from Lu Jian’s Soul Banners.
The discarnate souls filled the air with an aura of malice and violence, which seemed to be somehow clouding the minds of the gray wolf and black phoenix.
Dong Baijie and Dong Li gradually sensed the flickering of their connections with their beast spirits.
Not only that, but whenever they attempted to use their beast spirits to attack Yang Kan, the discarnate souls would swarm in and unleash negative emotions to undermine the connections between them and their beast spirits.
Nie Tian had long since noticed this, and thus once again set his eyes on Lu Jian.
Off to the side, Feng Ying called for help again. “Mu Han! Come and help us!”
The late Greater Heaven stage Qin Yan and the middle Greater Heaven stage Feng Ying were facing two late Greater Heaven stage members of the Flame God Sect, who, at this moment, had already formed a huge net of flames around them.
The net of flames was shrinking constantly, giving Qin Yan and Feng Ying increasingly smaller space to move about.
Yang Kan laughed wildly. “You think killing a handful of us will give you the ultimate victory. How laughable!”
Without considering the feelings of the other Flame God Sect disciples at all, he went on to say, “Every sect or clan will only attach great importance to their core members.
“The deaths of those you’ve killed don’t matter to the Flame God Sect. We still have a lot to spare.
“As long as we can finish off core members from the Realm of a Hundred Battles like you, their deaths will be worth it.”
By ‘core members’, he was clearly referring to Dong Baijie, Dong Li, Gu Haofeng, Qian Xin, Qin Yan, Cao Qiushui, Lu Jian, and himself.
In fact, every Qi warrior force, powerful or not, would pick their most talented and resilient members as their core members. They would receive special attention and have access to the most valuable incantations, spiritual tools, medicinal pills, and other resources.
Core members would be considered as pillars that held up a sect. The most prominent of them would usually be picked as the sect’s future master.
Yang Kan was deemed one the Flame God Sect’s most important core members.
Xia Yi even considered him and Tang Yang to be the two who might be able to take his place and become the sectmaster of the Flame God Sect in the future.
That was the reason why his battle prowess was far superior to that of normal late Greater Heaven stage Qi warriors.
“Core members...” Nie Tian muttered coldly as he chased after Lu Jian from the Spirit God Sect with Starshifts.
He was aware that core members of the powerful sects usually possessed stunning battle prowess, and that, in reverse, was the reason why they had been selected as core members in the first place.
Yang Kang, Dong Baijie, and Dong Li all fell into this category, whose battle prowess couldn’t be measured simply by their cultivation bases.
SHEW!
With another short-range Starshift, Nie Tian once again appeared behind the fleeing Lu Jian, and his chaotic magnetic field enveloped him as well.
Panicked, Lu Jian exclaimed, “Why the hell don’t you go after the others?!”
However, one of his Soul Banners exploded. The blast pushed him forward, out of Nie Tian’s chaotic magnetic field.
From the beginning, he had been avoiding fighting Nie Tian head-on with everything within his power.
He seemed to be waiting for Yang Kan to come over to kill Nie Tian after he finished off Dong Baijie and Dong Li.