Chapter 41 A Clean Sweep (1/2)

“How is this possible?”

The scene had unfolded in a flash, too fast for Lu Qinghu and the others to follow. Shock and disbelief were written all over their faces as they gradually recovered their wits.

Ma Tianba was an outstanding level-three adept of Qi-gathering who would rank among the top five level-three adepts of the three elite lesser families.

But he had been killed by a single attack from a seventeen-year-old youth.

Although they had not confirmed that Ma Tianba, who had been sent flying, was truly dead, they knew without a doubt that he was indeed dead.

Under the circumstances, it would be a miracle if Ma Tianba had not died.

“Is he holding… the black iron spear from the second floor of the Hall of Gods?”

“Isn’t he only a level-two adept? How could he wield a black iron spear weighing one thousand two hundred jin so effortlessly?”

“If it wasn’t that black iron spear… how could Patriarch Ma have been sent flying like that?”

When Lu Qinghu and the others looked back at Zhou Donghuang, their expressions turned serious, and their eyes were filled with dread.

“Let’s advance together.”

With a quiver of his body, Zhou Donghuang stepped with the Star-Stepping Footwork and darted forward, aiming to attack Lu Qinghu and the others directly.

Although the hefty black iron spear weighed one thousand two hundred jin, he was not slowed down in the least.

Zhou Donghuang had no intention of stopping after killing Ma Tianba because he knew that he had not yet sufficiently intimidated Lu Qinghu and the others.

They could be thinking that he was only putting up a show and had actually exhausted himself, because such a display of prowess could only be performed once.

Indeed, they had that exact same thought.

Now, seeing Zhou Donghuang coming at them with the spear, Lu Qinghu’s gaze froze, and he shouted, “Take him down together! Let’s find out if he can perform such a powerful attack a second time.”

Saying so, Lu Qinghu took the lead and leaped at Zhou Donghuang like a tiger bounding down a mountain.

“Let’s get him!”

As Lu Qinghu attacked, the second master of the Lu family, Lu Bao, and the head elder of the Lu family, Lu Pinglan, followed up with their own attacks.

The second elder of the Ma family, Ma Dongfeng, the patriarch of the Fang family, Fang Jishan, and the head elder of the Ma family, Fang Zhan, were close behind,

With Lu Qinghu in the lead, the six level-three adepts attacked as one, advancing on Zhou Donghuang from all sides.

As level-three adepts, these six were very fast and surrounded Zhou Donghuang in the blink of an eye. They began to attack him in unison.

However, although they were fast, Zhou Donghuang was not any slower.

Although Zhou Donghuang was only a level-two adept of Qi-gathering, he was able to exert his maximum muscular strength, and would not be any weaker in terms of strength compared to a level-three adept.

In addition, he had the level-three swiftness technique, Star-Stepping Footwork to fall back on, while Lu Qinghu and the others did not practice any swiftness techniques. His speed was therefore equal to Lu Qinghu.

The others could not match him in speed.

“It’s a swiftness technique!”

Now, Lu Qinghu and the others finally realized that Zhou Donghuang had used a swiftness technique. Their focus had not been on Zhou Donghuang’s legs, so they had not realized this earlier.

“Die, kid!”

Lu Qinghu roared in rage as he leaned forward and propelled himself like a cannonball towards Zhou Donghuang.

“Well met!”

Faced with Lu Qinghu’s ferocious assault, Zhou Donghuang turned serious and adjusted his stance to meet the incoming attack.

Simultaneously, he also evaded the attacks of three out of his five other opponents, and the closest any of the three got was brushing against his sleeve.

The five of them surrounded Zhou Donghuang and would never have imagined that he would have chosen Lu Qinghu, who was the strongest among them, to be his breaking point.

Perhaps he thinks Big Brother is our weak link because of how thin he is? That’s begging for death!

Lu Bao chuckled to himself.

Seeing Zhou Donghuang not bothering to dodge his attacks and even stepping up to face them instead, Lu Qinghu flexed his arms, clawed his hands, and grabbed at Zhou Donghuang from both sides.

Lu Qinghu’s attack was ferocious and intimidating.

However, just when he thought he had caught hold of Zhou Donghuang, Zhou Donghuang moved in close enough that his body brushed against Lu Qinghu’s. He slipped past him, as agile as a spirit snake.

The move was exquisite, and it seemed like Zhou Donghuang had indeed transformed into a spirit snake.

It was a level-two martial art technique, Way of the Spirit Snake

“Big brother, be careful!”

“Patriarch, be careful!”

“Patriarch Lu, be careful!”

“Brother Qinghu, be careful!”

Zhou Donghuang had slipped past Lu Qinghu, who had no time to check his momentum and saw the other five looking at them with shock at something behind him.

Chi-chak!

The black iron spear descended like black lightning, and the razor-sharp edge of the spear head severed Lu Qinghu’s arm like tofu.

Peng!

As the black iron spear descended to a point beside Lu Qinghu’s chest, it was suddenly and savagely shoved horizontally, and the fearsome force snapped several tendons and bones and sent him flying over five meters away. He was in an untenable situation and completely lost the will to fight.