197: Chapter 197 I'm sorry, having martial arts skills really does allow you to do whatever you want.

Within the dark red mist, the youth's words sounded like a judgment from Hell, making all the surviving dead soldiers tremble.

"Run? The doors to this Dragon Tomb are closed. Where could you possibly run to?"

"I said this would be your graveyard, and I will certainly keep my word."

Lin Qi took another step forward, the bone-covered ground beneath his feet splitting into a gully several meters long; the slaughter was only just beginning.

That group of Li family dead soldiers, who were enough to strike terror into countless people in the outside world, had now completely lost their composure.

"Captain! What do we do! This kid is a monster!"

"He's not affected by gravity at all! Our attacks can't even touch him!"

The Dead Soldier Captain's face turned ashen. Looking at the several corpses on the ground that had died in bizarre ways, his heart pounded wildly.

He forcibly suppressed the horror in his heart and let out a raspy growl.

"What are you panicking for! There's only one of him! Spread out! Use ranged weapons to wear him down!"

"I don't believe his stamina is infinite! Under this kind of gravity, every burst of speed he makes is a massive drain!"

As the order was given, the remaining dozen or so dead soldiers seemed to have found their pillar of support. They quickly dispersed, pulling back to a distance of dozens of meters.

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!

Several throwing knives coated in an eerie green poisonous light sliced through the air, shooting toward Lin Qi from different angles.

A giant net woven from the tendons of an unknown Vicious Beast also descended from above.

Facing these attacks, Lin Qi didn't even lift an eyelid.

His figure left an afterimage where he stood as he threaded through the gaps in the attacks like a ghost.

Ghost Shadow Yu Step.

In this environment of tenfold gravity, which was a Hell where these dead soldiers could barely Move, it was a training ground for Lin Qi where he felt like a fish in water.

Every muscle and every bone in his body was being tempered into something more solid under this pressure.

Not only did he not feel tired, but he felt the Qi and blood within his body becoming increasingly hot, flowing incessantly.

"That's it?"

Lin Qi's figure appeared behind a dead soldier who was throwing knives. Those two casually spoken words made the soldier's scalp go numb.

Without thinking, the dead soldier spun around with a horizontal sweep.

But the short blade he swung only passed through an afterimage.

Lin Qi's figure vanished again, reappearing on the other side.

He was like a hunter playing cat and mouse, enjoying the sight of his prey struggling in despair.

This kind of toying brought more mental pressure than killing them directly.

The Dead Soldier Captain saw through Lin Qi's intentions, and his eyes nearly split with rage.

"Don't let him play you! Everyone, close in on me! Form a shield array!"

He knew very well that if they continued to be separated like this, they would only be picked off one by one.

The only way to survive was to gather all their strength, use their strongest defense to hold out, and bet on the moment the opponent's stamina ran out.

The remaining seven or eight dead soldiers, including three shield guards, immediately retracted toward the captain's position upon hearing the order.

They placed three heavy steel greatshields side-by-side in front of them, forming an airtight iron bulwark.

Behind the shields, long sabers and sharp axes were already poised and ready.

"Come on! You monster! If you have the guts, try to charge through here!"

Hiding behind the shield array, the Dead Soldier Captain let out a frantic roar, trying to use this method to bolster his own courage.

In the distance, Xiao Kuangyun and the other Prodigies watched with racing hearts.

"Crazy, they actually want to use a shield array to hold him off."

"That kid should choose to maneuver around, right? Charging a shield array like that head-on is no different from seeking death."

However, Lin Qi's next Move overturned everyone's perceptions.

He stopped his playful steps and slowly turned around to face that iron bulwark composed of three greatshields.

Instead of avoiding it, a cruel arc curled at the corner of his mouth.

"As you wish."

Before his voice even faded, Lin Qi moved.

Without any wind-up, his feet suddenly exerted force.

Boom!

The bone-like ground beneath him collapsed with a bang, a half-meter deep pit forming instantly as countless bone dust particles shot into the sky.

This wasn't any skill, but a brutal effect produced purely by the terrifying explosive power of his Tendon Refining Realm Prototype Golden Body.

Under tenfold gravity, Lin Qi's body still drew a straight line that was difficult for the naked eye to capture, crashing head-on into the shield wall like a cannonball fresh from the barrel.

The direction he chose was exactly the strongest part of the dead soldiers' encirclement, the point with the highest defense and impact resistance.

Seeing that Lin Qi had actually initiated a collision, a sinister grin appeared on the Dead Soldier Captain's face behind the shield array.

He braced the steel greatshield, which weighed hundreds of catties, firmly in front of him, his muscles bulging as he prepared to use the shield to smash Lin Qi into a pulp.

"Idiot! Die for me!"

Just as they were about to collide, Lin Qi's body sank slightly in mid-air, his right shoulder dropping as he assumed an ancient and heavy posture.

He didn't use any flashy Moves; he simply concentrated all the strength of his body into a single point on his right shoulder through a specific exertion technique.

The killing Move of ancient martial arts Baji Quan—Baji Iron Mountain Lean!

In the next instant, Lin Qi's shoulder slammed violently against the iron bulwark formed by the three shields.

There was no violent explosion, nor were there any light effects from energy.

Only a tooth-aching sound of metal bursting clearly reached everyone's ears.

Crack... Bang!

Those three steel greatshields, capable of withstanding a full-force blow from a Third-Turn powerhouse, began to show spiderweb-like cracks from the point of contact the moment they touched Lin Qi's shoulder.

The cracks expanded rapidly, and the entire shield wall, like a biscuit squeezed by an invisible giant force, caved inward instantly and then shattered with a bang!

Countless metal fragments, carrying terrifying kinetic energy, shot backward.

More frighteningly, a terrifying force accompanied by spiral Penetrating Force passed through the shattered shields and was transmitted without any hindrance into the bodies of the dead soldiers behind the array.

The sinister grin on the Dead Soldier Captain's face hadn't even faded before he felt an irresistible, overbearing power flood into his chest.

He looked down to see that the heavy armor on his chest, along with the breastbone inside, had been instantly vibrated into powder by this force.

"What... is... this..."

He couldn't even finish a complete sentence before his body flew backward like a tattered sack.

He knocked over two companions along the way and finally slammed heavily into a massive dragon rib in the distance, falling silent.

His last thought before death was exactly the same as his previous companions.

What kind of monster is this..."