Morning dew, lightning flashes, danger in a hair's breath.

Chen Xu's palm fell even before Ah Sheng's sharp teeth.

Firstly, his speed was fast enough, surpassingly fast like a shooting star or lightning; secondly, his palm had always been hovering above Ah Sheng's head.

As it turns out, Chen Xu was prepared all along.

This movement of the palm hovering above the opponent's head was both a comfort and a form of control!

In the split second of life and death, Chen Xu's preparation gave him the best reaction time.

Ah Sheng violently pounced, but Chen Xu was even faster than him.

So fast that the old woman deep within the River God Temple had just begun to cackle triumphantly: "Hehe, naive little demon, kind scholar, foolish humans, all for me to eat! I want to eat, ah—"

The words halted abruptly.

So fast that the little hedgehog in the cage opened its eyes wide, its little hands just clutched the iron bars of the cage, being pricked by the runes above, bleeding.

It trembled all over, yet refused to let go of the bars, wanting to say something...

Below, from the Copper Bowl Water Mirror came the image of Chen Xu smashing Ah Sheng's head with a palm.

Bam!

Like a watermelon exploding.

Red and white splattering in all directions.

Saint child, or demon child—

Why so fragile?

In truth, it wasn't that the other was too fragile, but that Chen Xu's palm carried incredible strength.

Not only because his own Qi Blood Attribute was already at a high of [351] points, when his palm came down, vigorous Qi Blood burst forth suddenly, as if a silent volcano suddenly erupted.

But also because Chen Xu had long laid a "Flowers Are Not Flowers" mist upon first meeting Ah Sheng.

This mist was traceless in coming and going, yet could invisibly help Chen Xu control a certain range of Heaven and Earth Qi around him.

Moreover, he inherently bore Innate Qi, so such a palm falling was seemingly a palm strike, but in truth equivalent to Chopping Wood.

[Chopping Wood Level 3 (326/5000)]

Chopping Wood Level 1 emphasizes swift as the wind, slow as the forest;

Chopping Wood Level 2 emphasizes seeing clearly and perceiving into the microcosm;

The key and characteristic of Chopping Wood Level 3 lies in, unmoved like a mountain, aggressive like fire!

In the moment of explosion, like the waves of divine rivers stacking up.

Accumulating force to the peak, it is volcanic eruption.

Ferocious, wild, swift!

No room for the slightest hesitation.

Bam!

Ah Sheng's head was smashed, his body too, under the scorching and wild power of Chen Xu's palm, instantly shattered into pieces.

Boom——

A wave of heat swept out, in an instant scorching and vaporizing the leaves and branches under Chen Xu.

A huge void appeared with a boom.

The villagers below looked up and were shocked to find a young man with floating long hair standing in mid-air above them.

His robes fluttering, surrounded by a mist of blood.

His palm still maintained a gesture of pressing down, as if in the flip of a palm he could exterminate all living beings in sight.

At the same time, the Jade Infant shooting upwards like an arrow, just reached the front of that young man.

The Jade Infant opened its mouth and shrieked, two rows of fierce sharp teeth carrying a keen wind blade.

"Ah!" the villagers screamed.

Yet such a powerful upward charge of the Jade Infant, in this critical moment, once again collided into the young man's palm.

Yes, the posture of Jade Infant's upward charge, at this moment precisely met Chen Xu's pressing down palm.

So this action appeared as if the Jade Infant was rushing into the net.

Bam!

In a spark of stone and fire, ephemeral bloom.

The Jade Infant let out its second scream since birth: "Waaa—"

The sound not yet ended, its entire body had already followed in the footsteps of Ah Sheng, blasting apart under Chen Xu's palm, vaporizing into a mist of blood.

And all this happened too fast, the villagers looked up and were dumbfounded, not even having time to react otherwise.

Only the old woman deep within the River God Temple, her mocking laughter just emitted and then cut off.

This time, her eyes also bulged in anger.

She opened her mouth and roared: "Impossible, my Saint Child had power close to Daoist Sect's Condensing Pill, how could he be so easily shattered, ah... pfft!"

Before the words were finished, her throat suddenly surged with reverse flowing Qi Blood, suddenly spitting out a gout of dark red blood.

The Saint Child being killed by Chen Xu caused a backlash on the old woman.

The little hedgehog meanwhile squeezed its upper body against the iron bars, eyes wide with surprise looking at the Copper Bowl Water Mirror below.

Seeing the old woman react urgently, she angrily reached out bloodied hands, as if waves crashing against the shore, towards the blood she spurted into the air just now.

Bam, bam, bam!

The air seemed to emit booming sounds like great waves hitting the shore.

Yet the blood floating in mid-air was all dispersed into fine mist, only to vanish in an instant into the air—

No, these blood were not disappearing into thin air.

But through the old woman's slaps, via some strange transmission, instantly appeared miles away, in the small woods on the slope.

In the small woods, the stunned villagers being surrounded by blood mist, immediately erupted into roars and screams.

"Outlander, dare to harm my Saint Child and Jade Infant, die!"

At the same time, the old woman also chanted an incantation in the secret chamber: "Corpse wax lights the ghost spring, fetal clothes transform into boat and ferry. Jade Infant reborn as a new being, ignorant folk offer me their livestock..."

Her chanting was low and eerie, the tone blurred, carrying a kind of local dialect's grotesque horror.

In chanting, her eye sockets protruded outward, in the pitch-black eyes seemed as if abyssal waves surged and crashed.

Creak, creak——

In the small woods, the villagers absorbed the blood mist, each one's form and stature began to change.

Seeing among the three types of villagers, the tall and thin types' bodies rapidly elongating;

The type with pregnancy in the abdomen all bowed low, making motions as if about to cut open their bellies to give birth;

The type with red faces wheezed, making buzzing calls from their throats.

This call was very strange, at first like waves surging, listening closely it seemed as if countless water waves formed layer upon layer of water nets.

Moreover, it was like dense vines rushing unseen towards the high sky.

These sound waves intertwined, lush and boundless.

It seemed as if the next moment would drag Chen Xu down from the air, to pull him into this huge net.

They shouted wildly in their rural tongue: "Outlander, come down oh."

"March 3rd, so much rain! June 6th, the river's dry..."

"This year again no harvest oh, the officials coming to collect money and grains..."

"Can't pay oh what to do? Daughter used to clear debts, son also sold!"

"River God in anger, storms rage, boy and girl into water oh..."

"Wuwuwu..."

"Wuwuwu..."

The cries seemed woven into a web in the storm, seeing Chen Xu's body floating in air being pulled bit by bit into the net.

The old woman deep within the River God Temple revealed a smile once more.

The water's glow from the copper bowl reflected on her wrinkled face, making each line on it seem as if fiercely battling.

This was a seemingly formless, yet formed, remote battle.

Wei Yuan was anxious again, it gritted its teeth, clasped the bookcase on its back with a reverse grip.

Since it couldn't break free of the iron cage's restraint, it also learned to no longer make useless verbal threats.

Then simply mustering its remaining strength, at this moment making a last struggle.

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