26: Chapter 26 A Soft Knife to Strike the Heart: Luring the Enemy into the Trap

The night wind howled, and the spiritual energy within Black Wind Valley was thrown into chaos by the pressure from mid-air.

Hearing this, Su Hao in mid-air paused slightly.

His single, bloodshot eye stared fixedly at the figure in plain clothes standing with hands behind his back below, as if struggling to search his memory for this face.

A moment later, an expression of incredulous shock appeared on Su Hao's face, which looked like that of an evil ghost.

"Su Tian?!"

He never expected this.

The remnants of the Su Family, who were multiplying in this desolate mountain wilderness and had been locked onto by the bloodline compass.

Turned out to be that dog from back then, the one who fawned over him and had the least backbone!

What made it even more unacceptable to him was the undisguised fluctuation of magical power on Su Yu at this moment.

Ninth Layer of Qi Refining!

"You, a piece of trash with Ninth-Grade Poor Talent, actually managed to cultivate to the Ninth Level of Qi Refining?!"

Su Hao's voice became somewhat shrill due to jealousy and astonishment.

For fourteen years, he, the prodigy supported by the entire clan, had been living in agony at the Foundation Establishment Stage, with his cultivation regressing.

Yet the dog beneath his feet back then had actually cultivated peacefully to the peak of the Qi Refining Stage in this paradise!

Facing Su Hao's loss of composure, Su Yu's expression remained as calm as water.

"Cultivation is about fate; it seems the Young Clan Leader's fate has not been very good these past fourteen years."

Su Yu dusted off his sleeves. His tone was flat, devoid of any fluctuation, yet every word was like a blade, precisely slicing through Su Hao's fragile layer of pretense.

"Back then, you used the Clan Leader as a human shield and took away the entire clan's foundation. I had assumed the Young Clan Leader would be able to carve out a path to the heavens in this cultivation world of the Yue Kingdom."

"I never imagined that forcibly swallowing an inferior foundation establishment pill would destroy your Dao foundation to such a state."

"Now, like a stray dog, you rely on a low-class blood demonic art to seek life extension from your own clansmen."

Su Yu looked at him, his deep eyes revealing a chilling indifference and condescension.

"Young Clan Leader, with such behavior, are you truly worthy of the uncles and elders of the main branch who died in battle for you back then?"

Dead silence.

These words contained no emotional venting; they simply stated a fact in the most plain tone.

But for Su Hao, whose self-esteem was extremely twisted and whose psychology was already pathological.

This pity and insight from a former bottom-tier piece of trash was more damaging than any spell.

"Shut up! Shut up!!"

Su Hao was enraged, his eyes blood-red, his features completely twisted.

"You, a dog I raised back then, are you qualified to lecture me?! I am a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator! I am the true prodigy of the Su Family!"

The string of reason was plucked and broken by Su Yu with extreme precision.

Su Hao completely abandoned the divine sense probing and cold calculations that a high-level cultivator should have.

"Boom!"

He slammed his hands together, and a surge of violent Foundation Establishment true essence transformed into a blood-colored giant hand several zhang in size, carrying the power to destroy everything, as it slammed down from mid-air towards Hidden Dragon Manor.

Faced with such an offensive, Su Yu had no intention of clashing head-on.

He tapped his foot, and his figure retreated into the villa gates as if using the technique of shrinking the earth to an inch.

At the same time, he pinched a formation spell with one hand.

"Rise."

The Second-Rank Spirit Gathering Array dormant beneath the villa instantly changed its formation, shifting from "Gather" to "Defend."

A thick, pale golden light barrier rose from the ground, like an inverted glazed bowl, tightly protecting the entire villa within.

"Bang—!"

The blood-colored giant hand slammed heavily onto the light barrier, erupting with a deafening roar.

The light barrier trembled violently, rippling like water, but it stubbornly withstood the blow.

"A Second-Rank array?! Let's see how many spirit stones you have to burn!"

Seeing that his strike had failed, Su Hao became even more manic.

Suspended in mid-air, he bombarded the formation light barrier with blood-colored seals like a fierce storm.

The entire valley rumbled under this kind of attack.

At the center of the formation eye, Su Yu sat cross-legged, his hands steadily controlling the formation disk, his face as calm as water.

He did not even look at the seemingly precarious light barrier.

All his attention was locked onto Su Hao in mid-air through the perception of the formation.

He was observing the limit of Su Hao's body in circulating magical power.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

Three consecutive full-force heavy blows landed, and the formation light barrier dimmed slightly.

But at the very moment the third strike landed, Su Yu keenly captured a trace of abnormality in Su Hao's aura in mid-air.

That violent blood evil true essence showed an extremely faint stagnation at the position of Su Hao's left rib Qi Sea.

It was like a river bursting its banks, blocked for half a breath by a hidden reef.

Although it was only for half a breath, Su Hao quickly forcibly mobilized his true essence to suppress it.

But this detail caused a cold light of fatal intent to flash in Su Yu's eyes.

He did not rush to act, but continued to stabilize the formation, silently enduring the attacks.

Three more heavy blows.

"Boom!"

The left rib Qi Sea, stagnated again!

The weakness of the backlash from the inferior foundation establishment pill was thoroughly understood by Su Yu.

By forcibly driving his magical power, Su Hao's Dao foundation could not withstand the continuous overload.

Every three heavy blows, his true essence had to reflux and reconnect at the Qi Sea.

The defense of the Second-Rank Spirit Gathering Array cannot withstand the endless consumption of a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator.

Su Yu's heart was as clear as a mirror.

Since it cannot block him, then let him in.

Just as Su Hao was preparing to unleash the next round of attacks.

Su Yu's fingertips flicked the formation disk in an extremely concealed manner, actively cutting off the magical power supply to two spirit stone nodes in the northwest corner of the outer courtyard.

"Crack!"

The pale golden light barrier, which was already trembling incessantly, emitted a crisp shattering sound at the northwest corner, cracking open a gap two zhang wide.

"The formation is broken!"

Seeing this, Su Hao in mid-air erupted with extreme ecstasy and greed in his eyes.

The backlash of the pill poison within his body was already on the verge of erupting.

Seeing the flaw in the light barrier at this moment, how could he think twice?

As long as he rushed in and devoured the blood essence of the hundred or so blood relatives inside, he would not only be able to suppress his injuries but even reshape his Dao foundation!

"Die!"

Su Hao let out a shrill, manic laugh, and without hesitation, turned into a blood-colored streak, following that gap, and charged directly into the outer courtyard of Hidden Dragon Manor.

At the formation eye.

Su Yu watched as Su Hao dove into the trap like a shark smelling blood.

He slowly stood up, waved his large sleeve, and closed the defensive formation patterns.

"Zheng—"

The green edge sword was unsheathed.

Su Yu held the long sword in his hand, his figure like a gray ghost, darting towards the direction of the outer courtyard.