349: Jin Feng makes a move

[Although the giant tower was sent flying, the massive recoil also shook Qin Yu, forcing her back repeatedly.]

[Her blood and Qi surged, her face turned pale, and she blurted out, "How... how can he be this strong?"]

[This was, of course, a deliberate act by Qin Yu.]

[Seeing this, the boy threw his head back and laughed. "With only this much capability, you think you're worthy of fighting me?"]

[Sparse sounds of sneering came from the guards on the spirit boat.]

["With this level of strength, why did we need such a large formation..."]

["The Third Elder alone is enough to deal with this. Before we left, the Grand Elder even told us to be cautious. Who would have thought they only had this much skill..."]

["Before we set out, I thought we were going to wipe out some Sect. It turns out it was just to deal with these two?"]

[Just as the sounds of surprise and doubt had yet to fade—]

[Qin Yu suddenly raised her left hand. At some point, an ancient mirror had appeared in her palm.]

[The mirror's surface glowed with a deep, azure light like a dark pool; it was the grotto-heaven magical treasure, the qingming mirror.]

["Lock!"]

[The mirror's light exploded!]

[The space within three yards of the boy instantly solidified!]

[The surroundings became like a massive block of transparent amber, trapping him firmly!]

[The boy's laughter stopped abruptly, and the terror just beginning to surface in his eyes was frozen in place.]

[Without time to think, the majestic Nascent Soul Power within his body circulated frantically.]

[But when this power touched the boundary of the mirror's light, it felt as if it had fallen into a quagmire—]

[In the blink of an eye, the hunyuan hammer in Qin Yu's hand instantly grew in size, perfectly covering the three-yard space.]

["Die, you old dog!!!"]

[Qin Yu's scream carried a cracking hatred as the hunyuan hammer slammed down toward his head!]

[The boy discovered in horror that every direction—up, down, left, and right—was sealed by the mirror light, except for the top—]

[On the trajectory where the giant hammer was falling, the power of space had deliberately left a gap.]

[Even if his Nascent Soul tried to flee, wouldn't it just run straight into the falling giant hammer?]

[With no way to retreat, he could only meet it head-on!]

[The boy gave a sharp shout and sacrificed his defensive Magic Treasure, the "Taiji Disc"—]

[The Yin and Yang fish on the disc's body rotated rapidly, the Yin and Yang Qi circulating endlessly, instantly unfolding a Taiji Eight Trigrams light screen!]

[Qin Yu's eyes narrowed as the Chaos Dao Patterns in her body surged from her Dantian along the Meridians of her arm, pouring entirely into the hunyuan hammer. She gave a soft shout:]

["Break!"]

[The hammer's body glowed with an internal dark light, and its surface even took on a hazy, gray luster like the beginning of Chaos—Strength breaks all Laws!]

[Although this power had not yet reached the level of the Law of Strength, it was certainly not something a Nascent Soul Cultivator's Magic Treasure could easily withstand.]

[One must know that the Law of Strength is one of the ten supreme Laws.]

[To be able to mobilize such power while only at the Nascent Soul Stage, perhaps only a Chaos Body could achieve it.]

[In an instant,]

[The hammer fell.]

[The moment the Taiji Eight Trigrams Diagram came into contact with the hammer's face, the flow of Yin and Yang abruptly halted.]

[Immediately after, spider-web-like cracks appeared on the surface of the light screen—]

[There was no deafening explosion, only the fine, brittle sounds of space being forcibly crushed by some even more ancient power.]

[The Eight Trigrams Diagram shattered upon impact, the Yin and Yang Qi scattered in a chaotic flow, and the Taiji Disc itself cracked into several pieces with a loud snap!]

[The final image in the boy's pupils was the giant hammer passing through the fragments of collapsing spiritual light and imprinting itself onto his forehead—]

[His eyes were filled with endless terror as he shouted in despair:]

["No—!"]

["Squelch!!!"]

[It wasn't a sharp sound, but the dull thud of a watermelon being smashed by a sledgehammer!]

[Red and white mixed with shattered bone and mangled flesh, exploding like a crushed berry!]

[The terrifying force didn't stop at all!]

[The hammerhead pressed down through the ruined head all the way, a continuous series of dull thuds as the Nascent Soul was forcibly suppressed back into the Qi Sea, ground into the Meridians, and the entire skeleton was crushed—]

["Boom—Bang!"]

[With a dull thud,]

[The boy's headless corpse was driven into the ground like a nail!]

[It smashed out a deep, human-shaped pit of flesh!]

[At the bottom of the pit, bone, flesh, and internal organs were all ground into pulp!]

[Qin Yu released the hammer handle. After the giant hammer reverted to its original size, it landed beside the pit with a "thud."]

[Her chest heaved violently as she stared fixedly at that puddle of mangled flesh, the anger in her eyes not yet extinguished.]

[Between heaven and earth, there was a deathly silence.]

[The Black Armored Guards who had been sneering earlier now had pale faces, their Adam's apples bobbing, without making a single sound.]

[On the spirit boat, a wisp of gray Qi slowly dissipated from Liu Jinfeng's fingertips; she had ultimately suppressed the urge to strike.]

[Liu Xuanyin lowered his eyes to look at the pit and the puddle of mangled meat, his sleeve fluttering for a moment without any wind.]

[Only then did everyone understand—]

[It turned out this little girl had deliberately shown weakness to the enemy just now.]

[To have such deep schemes at such a young age. If she were to grow up in the future, she would surely become a great threat to the Liu Clan.]

[After a brief silence,]

[The Black Armored Guards on the spirit boat were all flushed with shame, staring at Qin Yu with eyes full of killing intent.]

["If this girl is not eliminated, our Liu Clan will never have peace."]

["Rest assured, she is doomed to die this time!"]

["I truly didn't expect that even with the Tianhuang Secret Realm being purged every thousand years, such a figure could still appear."]

["She must have also undergone Possession!"]

[In the eyes of the Liu Clan members, the Tianhuang Secret Realm was like a pigpen in a Mortal's home.]

[Who could have thought that a "pig" raised in one's own pigpen could actually be more powerful than themselves—not just in terms of strength, but extremely formidable in all aspects.]

[Because Qin Yu had never struck before, they had no idea of her true strength.]

[Only after this strike did they understand that within the same Realm, there was likely no one left who was Qin Yu's match.]

[Just the coordination of that spatial lock, combined with the power that was infinitely close to the Law of Strength, would likely be unstoppable for any Nascent Soul Cultivator.]

[A Black Armored Guard stepped forward, his eyes bloodshot, and said through gritted teeth, "Elder, let me go and slay this wretch in the second round!"]

["Step back," Liu Jinfeng's voice said without a hint of emotion.]

["For the second round, I will come personally."]

[As soon as she finished speaking, her figure dissipated like thin smoke, and in the next moment, she was already standing quietly in the center of the field.]

[She let one hand hang loosely at her side, her eyes as empty and cold as the water of an ancient well, looking at you calmly.]

[You gave a cold smile and took a step forward, standing a hundred meters across from her.]

[You felt both expectant and nervous—you had wanted to kill this woman for a long time.]

[That being said, you were also wary of her Spirit Treasure, the "Yin-Yang Burning Heaven Diagram."]

[Seeing you take the field, she didn't waste a single word; her figure suddenly became blurred.]

[In the next instant,]

[She appeared right in front of you, raising her hand to slap you across the face—]

[No Moves, no disdain for fancy tricks; she purely wanted to give you a slap to the face.]

[Your eyelid twitched.]

[How vicious!]

[How shameless!]

[But you didn't just stand there.]

[The moment her palm wind pressed against your face, your fist had already met it.]

[Not a block, not a parry, but a direct strike back.]

["Bang—!"]

[The two forces collided head-on and exploded.]

[The airwave exploded outward like a physical substance, the dust on the ground rose violently in a circle, and the nearby air buzzed and vibrated.]

[The two of you separated as soon as you touched, each sliding back dozens of yards, leaving deep furrows in the ground.]