Chapter 179 - The Flying Dagger Appears Again! (2/2)
Boom!
Under the blow from Ye Chen’s Heavenly King Rupturing the Sun, Xi Li’s Pure Yang Construct crumbled completely.
Xi Li flew backward by five or six meters, then staggered back further on his feet. His five vital organs had shifted and his throat clenched as he nearly spat out blood. The clothes he wore were scorched black and in shapeless tatters. Any part of the skin that was revealed was also charred black.
Xi Li was not prepared for the ambush, thus he was in such a sorry state.
The Chi Construct Barrier of an Earthly Venerable Rank fighter was much sturdier than Dark Xuan-iron. If an ordinary top Tenth Level fighter had made an attack, not only would the Earthly Venerable fighter be unharmed but also the attacker might be hurt from the recoil.
The surrounding Earthly Venerable fighters were stunned. A strike could reduce Xi Li to such a pitiful state. Was this seventeen-year-old boy an Earthly Venerable Rank fighter? This was too unimaginable! Which of the present Earthly Venerable Rank fighters were not an old geezer over fifty years old?
“You’re dead meat!” Xi Li looked sinister. He sent a Heavenly Stalwart Crush toward Ye Chen. If he had not been caught unprepared earlier, he did not believe that a boy like Ye Chen could hurt him!
Ye Chen was not afraid at all. The Celestial Chi within his body revolved swiftly and rushed up to meet Xi Li.
Crimson Clouds Searing Skies!
Boom boom boom!
Flames erupted and danced. Ye Chen and Xi Li wrestled at close range, their fists pounding each other’s bodies.
Although Ye Chen was just a beginner Earthly Venerable One, his cultivation base was not too inferior to a mid-Earthly Venerable fighter. However, it just happened that Xi Li had been in the mid-Earthly Venerable Rank for nearly a decade. In terms of using his body’s Celestial Chi, he was more proficient than Ye Chen. Moreover, he had more fighting experience than Ye Chen had!
After a short while of fury, Xi Li had calmed down. The more he fought, the more surprised he was. This seventeen or eighteen-year-old youth before him had a cultivation base that was not inferior to his own at all. This was too inconceivable!
Xi Li felt that Ye Chen seemed rather familiar and suddenly recalled that in the Sunken Jade Tower, he had seen Ye Chen’s face from the side. His alarm and anger grew. “It’s you!” Ye Chen was not human but a shapeshifted Celestial Beast. It was not surprising that he had such fearsome power!
Ye Chen snorted twice. Had Xi Li only just realized this? The techniques he had used increased in speed and power. Ye Chen suddenly leaped up and delivered a blow of Kunlun Sundering the Mountains!
When Xi Li sensed the harsh, crushing wind approaching, he quickly blocked it with both hands.
Rumble!
The ground quaked for a moment. After Xi Li had received the impact from Ye Chen’s Kunlun Sundering the Mountains, the limestone below his feet shattered and his legs sank into the ground, up until the knees.
Xi Li who was a mid-Earthly Venerable One was losing ground. When the Earthly Venerable fighters in the surrounding chaos looked over here, they felt incredulous.
“You can forget about killing me!” Xi Li exploded with a cry. His left hand gripped Ye Chen’s right leg and he had circulated all of his Celestial Chi. His right fist channeled the terrifying Wind Construct and he swung it at Ye Chen’s lower stomach.
This was Xi Li’s full-power attack, exploding with his full potential. His might was stronger than usual by a few degrees.
Ye Chen’s right leg kicked furiously but his calf was still restrained and he could not retreat. The fist was about to crash into him and he was in a desperate position. The Nine Astra within his body spun violently, turning it all into Celestial Ice Chi that shielded his stomach.
With a boom, Xi Li’s fist punched Ye Chen’s lower abdomen, causing Ye Chen to fly backward.
“Die, you fool. I, Xi Li, have gone around for ten years killing countless people. Someone like you wants to kill me? Aren’t you a bit too young?” Xi Li laughed savagely. With the impact of his attack, even a top Earthly Venerable Rank fighter, who was hit in a critical spot like the lower abdomen, would undoubtedly die.
Xi Li was still laughing when, with a “whoosh”, a cold light shot out and cut him short.
This cold beam of light was swift to the extreme. Xi Li did not even have time to consider what it was before there was a “spluttering” sound and fresh blood spurted from his throat, leaving behind a ghastly, gaping, bloody hole. Xi Li opened his mouth but could not make a sound. After a while, his eyes lost their light and his body crumbled.
Ye Chen flew forward by a dozen meters or so and fell to the ground. He struggled to sit up, sensing the confused Celestial Chi in his body. Although his dantian had received some impact, there was no significant obstruction. It seemed like he had underestimated these Earthly Venerable fighters. Ye Chen had thought he could defeat Xi Li based on his cultivation base, but unexpectedly, he had to rely on the Flying Dagger in the end.
When the surrounding Earthly Venerable fighters who were furiously fighting saw this sight, their hearts trembled with fright. Xi Li had died? What did Ye Chen use in the end to kill Xi Li? What was that streak of icy light? A secret weapon? However, why was there nothing left on the ground behind Xi Li?
A mid-Earthly Venerable fighter who had gone around for ten years had died at the hands of a seventeen or eighteen-year-old youth. If they had not seen it with their own eyes, they would not believe this!
The crowd of Earthly Venerable fighters from the Stalwarts of the Heavenly Stars Sect became angrier and fearful. They had lost two Earthly Venerable experts in a row!
“Xi Li is dead. Fang Bai, kill that young tyke!” a top Earthly Venerable fighter from the Stalwarts of the Heavenly Stars Sect yelled in rage and blocked off two Earthly Venerable fighters under Master Apothecary Xuanyi’s command. A beginner Earthly Venerable fighter from the Stalwarts of the Heavenly Stars Sect dashed toward Ye Chen with a vicious snarl.