46: Little one, have you had enough fun?

"Do you not even have the qualifications to make me warm up?"

Lin Chen's understated yet utterly humiliating words, like the most vicious curse, completely shattered The Asura Blood Maiden's final psychological defenses!

"Ah—!"

She let out a desperate roar, actually intending to recklessly detonate her own Golden Core!

She wanted to perish together with this devil before her who had ruined everything she had!

"Want to die?"

A flash of cold mockery crossed Lin Chen's eyes.

"Have you received my permission?"

As the words fell, he extended a finger and was about to point it at The Asura Blood Maiden's glabella, intending to completely cripple the Golden Core she had just condensed into shape!

However! At this very moment!

"Stop!!!"

A sharp cry filled with endless fury and monstrous killing intent exploded like thunder from the Nine Heavens!

On the presiding platform, Sect Master Yun Yun could no longer remain calm!

She stood up abruptly from her throne, and a genuine, terrifying pressure of the Early Nascent Soul Stage, like the sky collapsing, was unleashed without reservation, ruthlessly crushing down toward Lin Chen on the Arena Platform!

"Little beast! How dare you?!"

Her voice was as cold as if it came from the Nine Nether Hell!

"Do you know what place this is?! Do you know what the consequences will be if you dare to cripple her?!"

The Asura Blood Maiden was her pre-selected future successor! She was the most important chess piece used to consolidate her own rule!

She would never allow anyone to ruin her!

Facing this life-and-death threat that would make any Golden Core Cultivator tremble in fear!

Facing the nearly roaring warning from this high-and-mighty queen!

Lin Chen smiled.

He slowly raised his head to meet the Sect Master's gaze filled with killing intent, and the corners of his mouth curled into an arc full of endless arrogance and disdain.

"Not only do I dare."

"But I am going to do it right in front of you."

As the words fell, he no longer hesitated in the slightest!

That finger, concentrated with supreme power, struck ruthlessly toward The Asura Blood Maiden's glabella!

"You are courting death!!!"

Yun Yun was completely enraged!

She had not expected this man to be... crazy to such an extent!

He actually dared, right in front of her, to ignore her warning and insist on crippling her Disciple?!

"Stop... for this seat!!!"

She abruptly raised her hand, and a massive purple palm condensed from Nascent Soul mana, blocking out the sky, instantly tore through space and, with the power to destroy the heavens and earth, ruthlessly slapped down toward Lin Chen!

She wanted to save The Asura Blood Maiden! And even more... she wanted to completely grind this man who dared to provoke her dignity into dust!

A life-and-death crisis! A true life-and-death crisis!

Under the full-force strike of a Nascent Soul True Monarch, everyone believed that Lin Chen would surely die!

He no longer had any chance to cripple The Asura Blood Maiden!

However! At the very instant before the purple giant palm was about to descend!

At the very moment everyone thought Lin Chen would choose to stop and save himself!

A flash of resolute madness flickered in his eyes!

He actually... ignored the death threat descending from the sky!

Instead, he poured all of his power and all of his will into his fingertip!

Braving the terrifying pressure that was enough to crush a Divine Soul!

He slammed his finger onto The Asura Blood Maiden's glabella!

"Pfft—!!!"

The Asura Blood Maiden was struck as if by lightning, suddenly spitting out a large mouthful of blood, her whole body collapsing to the ground as if all her bones had been removed!

That "purple extreme gold pill" of hers, which had just condensed into shape and held limitless prospects, shattered at the sound of this finger strike!

Crippled!

A legend rarely seen in the Purple Cloud Holy Land for a hundred years.

Just like that, right under the nose of the Sect Master, she was forcibly crippled by Lin Chen in a tragic manner... bordering on "perishing together"!

And Lin Chen, having finished all this, was finally struck squarely in the back by that purple, sky-supporting giant palm!

"Boom—!!!"

A heaven-shaking and earth-shattering loud noise!

The entire martial arts arena was forcibly smashed to pieces by this palm strike, collapsing several meters deep!

Dust soared into the sky, and gravel flew everywhere!

And on the presiding platform, Sect Master Yun Yun was looking down from a high position, overlooking the deep pit created by her own palm strike.

On her beautiful, pretty face, endless anger and... a trace of imperceptible satisfaction were currently intertwined.

Although The Asura Blood Maiden, her most important chess piece, had been crippled, the man who dared to provoke her dignity and make her lose face had also died under her palm!

Moreover, he died in the name of "upholding the Sect's rules"! No one could say a single word of "no"!

"Hmph! You ignorant thing!"

She snorted coldly, slowly retracted her hand, and was preparing to announce the death of this "rebel."

However! Just at this moment! Amidst the sky-filling dust, a... soft, seven-colored glow suddenly lit up!

"Sigh..."

A soft sigh, seemingly from above the Nine Heavens, filled with endless vicissitudes and a trace of helplessness, sounded faintly in everyone's ears without any warning.

Immediately after! An indescribable, vast, and gentle power of Law instantly enveloped the entire martial arts field!

In the face of this power, the violent, raging dust instantly... calmed down like a docile sheep, revealing... the scene inside the deep pit.

At the moment everyone saw the scene in the pit, their pupils suddenly contracted into the most dangerous needle points!

Only to see, in the center of the deep pit, Lin Chen was still standing there quietly.

A trace of blood hung from the corner of his mouth, and his face was slightly pale, but his deep eyes were still as bright as stars!

He... actually... was still alive?!

Having withstood the full-force strike of a Nascent Soul True Monarch, he actually... only suffered minor injuries?!

This... this had completely exceeded everyone's scope of understanding!

And what made them feel even more scalp-numbing was that in front of Lin Chen...

A figure of a stunningly beautiful young woman in a moon-white dress, who had appeared out of nowhere as if walking out of a painting, was quietly floating there.

It was she who, with that seemingly fragile back, had blocked that heaven-destroying and earth-shattering strike for Lin Chen just now!

"Old... Old Ancestor?!"

The moment Sect Master Yun Yun saw the face of the person who had arrived, she exclaimed in shock, and her pretty face, which had been filled with pride and cruelty, was instantly replaced by endless... terror!

Immediately after, with a "thump," she knelt on the ground in terror, just like a child who had made a mistake!

Old! Ancestor?!

These two words exploded in everyone's minds like ten thousand Universes simultaneously!

The founding Old Ancestor of the Purple Cloud Holy Land, who had been in seclusion for hundreds of years, existed only in legends, and whose cultivation had long reached the Late Nascent Soul Stage?!

She... she was actually still alive?! And... she was such a young, such beautiful... peerless young woman?!

And this legendary "Old Ancestor" did not pay attention to anyone.

She turned around slowly, her gentle, beautiful eyes, which seemed capable of seeing through all the falsehoods of the world, carrying a hint of curiosity, a hint of appreciation, and a hint of... playfulness. She stared quietly at the only... man before her who had given her too many "surprises."

"Little one," her voice was gentle and pleasant, as if it could soothe all the wounds in the world. "Have you caused enough trouble?"