172: Reaching the summit, the number one young person in Daxia!
The Emperor of Great Xia clapped his hands and laughed.
"As expected of my son!"
He turned his head and glanced at his daughter beside him, whose face was already extremely unsightly and whose delicate body was trembling slightly; a flash of disappointment crossed his eyes.
"Qingyue, what about you?"
"How do you think I should deal with him?"
Hearing her father's suggestive words, Xia Qingyue's heart skipped a beat!
She knew her father was giving her one last chance.
As long as she bowed her head now and admitted her mistake.
Admitting that her previous actions against Li Qing were narrow-minded and short-sighted.
Then, for the sake of their father-daughter bond, her father might forgive her this once.
But!
She couldn't do it!
She, Xia Qingyue, was born a favored daughter of heaven!
From childhood to adulthood, she had always been the most dazzling existence!
When had she ever bowed her head to anyone?
Let alone bowing her head to that low-born peasant who had caused her so much humiliation and whom she hated to the bone?
"Father."
She slowly stood up, her beautiful face returning to a state of cold calm once more.
"I believe the competition is not yet over."
"The final outcome is still unknown."
"Oh?"
The Emperor of Great Xia's eyebrows twitched slightly.
"You mean the remaining people can still turn the tide?"
"Whether they can turn the tide or not, we'll only know after they fight."
Xia Qingyue's voice was cold and devoid of emotion.
The moment her voice fell!
Among the fewer than ten contestants remaining below the arena, five people suddenly lunged forward at the same time!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Five distinct but equally powerful and suffocating Auras erupted!
These five people no longer suppressed their cultivation!
Peak of the Meridian Unblocking Realm!
Peak of the Meridian Unblocking Realm!
All of them were at the Peak of the Meridian Unblocking Realm!
Moreover, the Auras erupting from them were even more solid and violent than those of Wang Teng and Xiao Jue!
What was even more alarming was that they were all permeated with a thick, inseparable bloody Evil Qi!
That was not the Aura of a Genius Martial Artist.
That was the Aura of true killing machines that had crawled out from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood!
Furthermore, their Auras were violent; they were clearly Martial Artists who had taken Medicinal Pills for enhancement!
While such Medicinal Pills would greatly increase their strength, at best, their martial Realm would stagnate forever.
At worst, they would die immediately after the medicine's effects wore off!
"People from Shadow Kill!"
On the Viewing Platform, Elder Xuan's expression changed instantly!
He recognized them at a glance; although they wore the clothes of ordinary contestants, their Cultivation Techniques and Auras clearly marked them as top assassins from the Shadow Kill Organization!
They had actually managed to infiltrate the top hundred of the Martial Selection!
"Not good! Your Highness, they're going for the kill!"
Elder Xuan's face paled as he prepared to intervene.
However, it was already too late!
The moment they exposed their identities, the five Gold-Medal Assassins formed a strange Five Elements Killing Formation and turned into five streaks of light, shooting toward Li Qing on the arena from five different directions!
In their hands, poisoned daggers appeared, shimmering with an eerie light!
Their goal was not to defeat Li Qing.
It was to kill him!
To assassinate the current Marquis Wuan in front of hundreds of thousands of people and the Emperor of Great Xia!
Madness!
It was absolute madness!
"Insolence!"
"How dare you!"
"Protect the Emperor!"
On the Viewing Platform, the Emperor of Great Xia and Crown Prince Xia Yuan both changed color simultaneously!
No one had expected the Shadow Kill Organization to be this insane!
To dare to openly send assassins to carry out an assassination on the Martial Selection arena in front of hundreds of thousands!
This was a direct challenge to imperial authority!
"Boom!"
A terrifying pressure erupted from the Emperor of Great Xia!
Several imperial guards behind him vanished like ghosts, instantly appearing around the arena in an attempt to stop the assassination.
However.
The speed of those five Gold-Medal Assassins was simply too fast!
They were closest to Li Qing, while the imperial guards were originally positioned to protect the Emperor of Great Xia and were naturally near him.
With the attackers having planned this and the defenders being caught off guard, the guards were naturally a few seconds slower.
And a few seconds were enough to decide the entire battle!
The assassins had clearly practiced this countless times; their coordination was perfect!
That strange Five Elements Killing Formation not only boosted their speed and power to a terrifying level but also formed an invisible force field, briefly isolating the arena from the outside world!
Even a powerhouse in the Divine Power Realm would need a moment to break through this killing Formation!
And that moment was enough for them to assassinate Li Qing ten thousand times over!
"Die!"
Cruel and frenzied smiles appeared in the eyes of the five assassins.
They could already see Li Qing's miserable end, his body riddled with holes from their poisoned daggers.
However.
Facing this certain-death situation, Li Qing's face remained as calm as a still well.
He simply, slowly, raised his head.
He glanced at the Viewing Platform at Xia Qingyue, who was also looking shocked.
Not her people?
The corner of his mouth curled into an arc.
Whether they were her people or not didn't matter anymore!
"Is that all?"
He slowly spat out those three words.
The next second.
"Boom—!!!"
An Aura more terrifying and domineering than any before, as if it wanted to trample the entire world underfoot, erupted from his body!
It wasn't Essence Qi!
It wasn't Vital Energy!
It was the absolute "Momentum" condensed purely from five hundred thousand pounds of terrifying physical strength!
[Earth Pulse]!
Li Qing's right foot lightly stomped on the incredibly hard obsidian arena beneath him!
"Crack—!!!"
A terrifying explosion, sounding like the end of the world, erupted!
That massive arena, inscribed with countless defensive Formations and strong enough to withstand the full attack of a Spirit Transformation Realm powerhouse, actually became like ice struck by a heavy hammer under this one stomp!
Starting from beneath Li Qing's feet, countless thick, abyss-like cracks appeared!
Then, these cracks spread across the entire arena at an incredible speed!
Rumble!
The entire arena collapsed and disintegrated amidst hundreds of thousands of horrified gazes!
It turned into countless pieces of rubble that shot up into the sky!
The Five Elements Killing Formation of the five Gold-Medal Assassins, who were in the middle of their charge, instantly collapsed under this sudden and peerless vibration!
Their footing became unstable, their bodies shook violently, their blood surged, and they saw stars!
"How... is this possible?!"