59: Chapter 59 Xiao Zhan in Despair

As soon as Qin Yi finished speaking, he prepared to strike. Hovering in mid-air, his sea-like, surging True Qi suddenly churned violently, swirling around him. Golden True Qi enveloped his body, and a crushing pressure instantly blanketed the entire clearing.

Before Dragon King Xiao Zhan, Zhu Ying, and the four core disciples of the Dragon King Hall could even mobilize their True Qi for defense—or even react—Qin Yi transformed his hand into a blade. His figure became an afterimage invisible to the naked eye, and in an instant, he arrived in front of the four core disciples guarding Dragon King Xiao Zhan.

Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash!

Four crisp, decisive sounds of blades slicing through the air rang out simultaneously. Four blood-soaked heads rolled from their necks in response, crashing onto the gravel-covered ground.

These four core disciples, who had fought countless battles in the Dragon King Hall and had all reached the Innate Realm, were now thoroughly dead.

Qin Yi's strike was simply too fast. His hand-blade was overbearing and sharp; the flesh and bone of the four men's necks were severed instantly. Their nervous systems did not even have time to send the signal of death, and their bodies remained in a defensive, standing posture. After two seconds, their tall frames finally collapsed heavily, kicking up dust. Warm blood sprayed wildly from their severed necks, staining the entire ground beneath them red, the stench of blood pungent and suffocating.

Beside them, Dragon King Xiao Zhan and Zhu Ying stared with wide eyes, their pupils contracting violently, while unprecedented shock and fear surged within their hearts.

"Wh... what?!"

"That strike just now... I did not even see a trace of him! Lu Ren Jia and the other three... they died just like that?!"

Dragon King Xiao Zhan roared in a trembling, incoherent voice, a chill rising from the bottom of his heart straight to his scalp.

The four brothers, including Lu Ren Jia, were elite warriors carefully cultivated by the Dragon King Hall. They were the strongest core disciples below the Four Dragon Guards, capable of taking on a hundred enemies alone. Yet, in front of this Heaven-Human Realm powerhouse, they were killed in a single exchange. The disparity was so vast it was despairing.

At this life-or-death moment, Zhu Ying quickly regained her composure. Only one thought remained in her mind—even if she was the only one left, she had to protect Dragon King Xiao Zhan and buy him time to escape.

She knew the opponent was a Heaven-Human Realm expert, and with her mere peak Innate Realm cultivation, rushing forward was no different from a moth flying into a flame.

But as Dragon King Xiao Zhan's most loyal confidante and the woman who loved him deeply, she would not hesitate, even if it meant being smashed to pieces, if she could buy him just one second to escape.

"Dragon King Xiao Zhan! Run! Do not look back!"

With a shrill, desperate roar, Zhu Ying's eyes filled with determination and tragedy. She unleashed all her Innate Realm True Qi, her figure turning into a red blur as she recklessly charged toward Qin Yi. But it was all in vain.

Watching Zhu Ying charge at him regardless of her own safety, Qin Yi's face remained impassive. He did not even lift an eyelid. He raised his right hand, clenched it into a fist, and struck out calmly.

Boom!!

A deafening roar echoed through the deep mountains as the fist force, condensed from massive True Qi, erupted. Zhu Ying's charge did not even touch the hem of Qin Yi's clothes before she was instantly torn apart and crushed by the violent power of that punch.

In an instant, Zhu Ying's beautiful body was reduced to a mist of blood, which scattered across the ground, staining the surrounding earth a shocking crimson.

Dragon King Xiao Zhan stood frozen in place, his body stiff as a statue, his mind blank. He was completely stunned.

The speed was too fast; it was so fast that he was only just now managing to react.

One second ago, Zhu Ying was roaring to protect her master, filled with the resolve to die; the next second, she had completely vanished, leaving not even a corpse behind.

And the four brothers, including Lu Ren Jia, who had followed him for years through life and death, had also died tragically before his eyes in the blink of an eye.

At this moment, endless grief and bone-chilling despair engulfed Dragon King Xiao Zhan's mind like a monstrous tsunami.

These people, who were most loyal to him, had all sacrificed their lives in vain to protect him. Especially Zhu Ying; this woman's heart and eyes were filled only with Dragon King Xiao Zhan. She was willing to give up her life for him, only to end up with the miserable fate of being beaten into a mist of blood.

But what made him even more desperate was that the one who killed everyone was a Heaven-Human Realm powerhouse. With such cultivation, let alone a mere Grandmaster Realm martial artist like him, even if the entire Dragon King Hall were gathered and the Old Dragon King himself were present, they would still be vulnerable before a Heaven-Human Realm expert and would be unable to escape their doom.

The gap between the two was like a chasm; he did not even have the most basic qualifications to resist or seek revenge.

Qin Yi looked coldly at Dragon King Xiao Zhan, who wore a look of sorrow and complete despair. His tone was flat and indifferent, devoid of any emotion:

"Are you feeling desperate? This is the price your Dragon King Hall must pay for daring to enter Chinese territory without authorization. Only by making you feel real pain will you foreign forces learn to behave."

With Qin Yi's strength, he could have instantly killed Dragon King Xiao Zhan and everyone around him. However, he deliberately killed them one by one, letting Dragon King Xiao Zhan witness everything. He wanted to break his spirit, personally crushing all his pride and dignity, and making him experience extreme helplessness and despair.

Listening to Qin Yi's words, a sliver of regret sprouted in Dragon King Xiao Zhan's heart for the first time: Perhaps I should not have insisted on returning to China for revenge.

But this regret vanished in an instant. The obsession with revenge was already carved into his marrow. His eyes held only unwillingness and stubbornness: No! I will never regret it! The debt of blood for the annihilation of the Xiao Family is irreconcilable. I have cultivated bitterly for so many years just to destroy the Wang Family; I must not give up now!

Qin Yi could not be bothered to give Dragon King Xiao Zhan any more time to think. His figure flickered, moving at extreme speed, and he arrived directly in front of Dragon King Xiao Zhan.

Before Dragon King Xiao Zhan could recover from his grief and unwillingness, Qin Yi's fingertip precisely tapped the center of his forehead, steadily locking onto his soul and sea of consciousness.

Qin Yi activated Twin Hands. Eerie blue True Qi swirled around his fingertip, pouring continuously from the center of his forehead into the depths of Dragon King Xiao Zhan's sea of consciousness, beginning to forcibly alter his memories.

A false memory was implanted into Dragon King Xiao Zhan's mind by Qin Yi: The mission to China had been exposed, and they were not being pursued by a Heaven-Human Realm powerhouse, but merely by a Great Grandmaster sent by the Martial Arts Administration. Lu Ren Jia and the other three, along with Zhu Ying, had all died in a bloody battle to cover his escape, while he had resisted desperately, suffered serious injuries, and only narrowly escaped the Great Grandmaster by exhausting all his trump cards.

After altering the memories, Qin Yi condensed a strand of True Qi in his palm and slowly injected it into Dragon King Xiao Zhan's physical body.

The True Qi precisely severely damaged Dragon King Xiao Zhan's muscles, bones, internal organs, and meridians, causing him intense pain and making his face twitch slightly. Qin Yi deliberately held back, not destroying his martial arts foundation.

After finishing all this, Dragon King Xiao Zhan's mind suffered trauma, his vision went black, and he completely passed out.

Qin Yi took a pre-prepared micro-nanobot from his pocket, small as a speck of dust and completely invisible to the naked eye, and stuffed it into Dragon King Xiao Zhan's mouth. Once the nanobot entered, it merged into his body as he swallowed.

This nanobot contained a small nuclear bomb within it. Once Dragon King Xiao Zhan returned to the Dragon King Hall, Qin Yi would be able to remotely control it to detonate, completely destroying the entire Dragon King Hall.

With all his contingency plans in place, Qin Yi raised his hand, used True Qi to support the unconscious Dragon King Xiao Zhan, and shot into the sky, flying at high speed toward the seaside five hundred kilometers away.

There was also a secret stronghold of the Dragon King Hall hidden within Chinese territory there.

The speed of a Land Immortal was incredibly fast. Before long, Qin Yi arrived at his destination, casually threw the unconscious Dragon King Xiao Zhan into a hidden corner of the stronghold, and after confirming everything was correct, he did not linger, turned into an afterimage, and disappeared into the horizon.