A one-second clear, points skyrocketing! Playing dumb to fool the enemy? No, the dragon's too lazy to even open its eyes!

His fingers tapped rhythmically and gently on the armrest.

Others only saw Lin Yuan's pitiful points.

But he noticed a detail that everyone else had overlooked.

Lin Yuan's movement route seemed random, as if he were wandering like a headless fly.

In reality, the direction he was heading in had, from beginning to end, been steadfastly pointing toward a Forbidden Ground deep within the wasteland, marked in blood-red in all the great families' records—

Black Wind Valley!

Lin Yuan strolled unhurriedly toward the direction of Black Wind Valley.

However, when he reached a narrow canyon entrance, his footsteps finally stopped.

It wasn't that he wanted to stop.

It was because there was no road ahead.

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh—!

Dozens of figures suddenly lunged out from behind the rock walls on both sides of the canyon like ghosts!

In the blink of an eye, they had completely blocked Lin Yuan's path!

The leader was a burly man with a face full of scars, carrying a glinting Ghost-headed Greatsword on his shoulder. He was Zhao Hu, the eldest grandson of the second-tier Zhao Family!

With a cultivation at the Marrow Cleansing Realm Fifth Level, he was considered quite a figure for his age.

Behind him followed more than fifty disciples from other second-tier families. Each had an unfriendly expression as they surrounded Lin Yuan, their eyes filled with greedy malice.

“Lin Yuan!”

Zhao Hu pointed the tip of his blade at Lin Yuan, his voice arrogant to the extreme!

“Time and again, you have disregarded the various great families of our Yan Capital! You are arrogant and insolent!”

“Today, we shall clean house on behalf of those first-tier families you've humiliated!”

“Prepare to die!”

He roared with righteous indignation, as if he represented the judgment of justice.

However, before his voice even faded!

Whiz! Whiz!

Two black shadows lunged from behind Lin Yuan without warning, like venomous snakes exiting their burrow!

In their hands, they each held a dark green short blade coated in deadly poison, silently stabbing toward Lin Yuan's heart from behind!

At the same time!

Zhao Hu, facing him from the front, gave a cruel laugh as his spiritual Qi exploded!

“Ferocious Tiger Descends the Mountain!”

He roared, and the Ghost-headed Greatsword in his hand whipped up a foul-smelling wind.

The phantom of a fierce tiger even condensed upon the blade's edge, carrying a terrifying momentum that could cleave mountains and shatter stones as it hacked down ruthlessly toward the top of Lin Yuan's head!

A sneak attack!

A coordinated ambush!

And it was a merciless, lethal killing move!

Facing this pincer attack of absolute death, a slight change finally appeared on Lin Yuan's face.

His gaze turned cold.

There was no panic, no anger, only an absolute coldness, as if a god were looking down upon ants.

He did not dodge or evade.

He didn't even move his feet an inch.

He simply, gently, raised his hand.

Hum—!

A wisp of pale blue Sword Qi suddenly erupted from his fingertips!

That Sword Qi wasn't particularly massive.

But it was refined to the extreme, brilliant to the extreme, and fast to the extreme!

It was like a meteor streaking through the eternal night, trailing a dreamlike tail of light, suddenly flashing past at a speed that surpassed the limits of vision!

Slash—!

The air was torn apart!!!

The cruel smiles on the faces of the two disciples attacking from behind instantly froze!

They only felt a chill at their wrists!

In the next second, the poison-coated short blades they were so proud of were sliced off cleanly along with their hands!

Before they could even scream!

That pale blue Sword Qi, as if it had eyes of its own, turned around and instantly plunged into their Dantians!

Thud! Thud!

Two muffled sounds!

Their bodies were like punctured balloons; all their cultivation was completely vented out at this moment!

And having done all this, the Sword Qi still didn't pause for a moment!

It drew a beautiful arc in the air and met Zhao Hu's heavy Ghost-headed Greatsword!

“Clang—!!!”

A piercing, deafening sound of clashing metal exploded!

Zhao Hu only felt an irresistible, overwhelming, and terrifying force transmit from the blade!

His proud Earth-grade Medium Grade Ghost-headed Greatsword was cut into two pieces from the middle as easily as if it were made of paper before that slender wisp of Sword Qi!

“Pfft—!”

Zhao Hu sprayed out a mouthful of blood, flying backward like a kite with a broken string for more than ten meters before slamming heavily onto the ground!

His Dantian was likewise completely crushed by that overbearingly powerful Sword Qi!

All this takes a long time to describe.

But in reality, from the moment Lin Yuan raised his hand to the moment the three were crippled.

The entire process took less than a second!

The second-tier Family disciples who were originally prepared to watch a good show were all dumbfounded!

Their eyes widened, their mouths hung open, and their minds went blank!

By the time they reacted, all that remained were wails all over the ground and that demon-god-like figure who still stood in place as if he had never moved!

“Run—!!!”

Someone let out a heart-wrenching scream!

The remaining people, as if they had seen a ghost, were instantly scared out of their wits and turned to flee!

However, it was already too late.

Lin Yuan casually flicked out several strands of Sword Qi.

The pale blue light, like invitations from the God of Death, accurately caught up to every fleeing figure.

Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!

A series of muffled sounds of shattering Dantians rang out continuously in the canyon.

【Ding! Successfully eliminated a contestant, seized 10 points!】

【Ding! Successfully eliminated a contestant, seized 8 points!】

【Ding! Successfully eliminated a contestant, seized 12 points!】

...On the wristwatch, the mechanical notification sounds rang out frantically like a death-dealing curse!

Lin Yuan's points began to skyrocket from a measly 13!

100!

200!

300!

400!

Finally, it settled on the number 【513】!

His ranking also soared like a rocket, instantly charging from dead last straight into the top ten!

...In the spectator stands.

Instantly, the place boiled over!

“How... how did this happen?! Zhao Hu and the others have all been eliminated?!”

“Heavens! Lin Yuan's points! They jumped by five hundred all at once! He crippled everyone!”

“This... this is a massacre! A blatant massacre!”

The old patriarch of the Zhao Family, whose face had originally been wearing a smug smile, instantly turned ashen!

He lunged up from his seat, eyes bloodshot, and pointed at the calm Lin Jianguo in the corner, letting out a beast-like roar!

“Lin Jianguo! Your son has such ruthless methods! He actually crippled my grandson's Dantian! This matter isn't over!!!”

“That's right! My son was also crippled! Lin Jianguo, you must give us an explanation!”

The elders of the other families whose disciples had been crippled also stood up one after another, echoing with righteous indignation, looking very much like they were about to launch a collective attack.