"Who are you?!"
"The Dragon King!!"
The only person who hadn't scurried to the side amid the recent commotion, Chen Yunxiao, looked up at Mu Jinyu, who was floating in the sky, and his pupils couldn't help but contract sharply.
He naturally recognized the appearance of the New Dragon King.
However, he had not expected that upon Mu Jinyu's appearance, he would create such a commotion, arriving above their True Martial Hall, and that none of them in the True Martial Hall had noticed.
Even more unexpectedly, Mu Jinyu was able to walk in the air.
Wasn't this supposed to be the realm of the Terrestrial Immortals, as legends say?
Could the New Dragon King have reached this level?
Chen Yunxiao felt somewhat panicked in his heart.
Mu Jinyu glanced at him and then looked towards the other Elders of the True Martial Hall.
He discovered that their once obscure True Martial Hall now had every Elder as a Master of Energy Transformation.
Although most were just at the Early Energy Transformation Stage, it was still enough to surprise him.
Mu Jinyu stood with his hands behind his back, slowly descending from the sky.
He looked towards Chen Yunxiao, who resembled a scholar, and spoke softly, "Tell me, how did your cultivation skyrocket, breaking through from Dark energy to Energy Transformation in just a few days!!"
The tone was indifferent, imbued with a sense of superiority and a hint of condescension.
Superior, because to him, a group of martial artists just entering Energy Transformation were like cutting vegetables— he simply wouldn't consider them a threat.
The condescending tone was because they should feel fortunate for their value to him; otherwise, he would have blasted them to dust upon his arrival!
Hearing Mu Jinyu's words, Chen Yunxiao's face immediately turned ugly.
He looked at Mu Jinyu, who had landed on the ground, and noting his slightly pale complexion, as if realizing something, he abruptly stood up and said, "Playing god? If you want to know our secret, kneel down and beg me!"
He thought that if Mu Jinyu were truly a strong practitioner of the God Realm, he wouldn't have landed back on the ground. Clearly, he was incapable of maintaining this method for a long time.
And Mu Jinyu's pale face also told him that his current state was not optimistic,
so why should he fear this False Dragon King?
Besides, even if his guess was wrong, did he really have a choice in the face of Mu Jinyu's arrival?
A bold action was the only path forward!
As Chen Yunxiao rose to his feet, a terrifying force energy started rippling out at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Boom!!"
The conference table, already shattered by the ceiling debris that had fallen, suddenly burst apart, turning into fine sawdust that swept towards Mu Jinyu!
To obscure his vision!
At the same time, Chen Yunxiao formed a Fist Seal with his hand and instantaneously executed their True Martial Hall's Unique Skill, the True Martial Seven Fiends Fist. Fist Strength burst forth, ferocious and unmatched, charging at Mu Jinyu amidst the swirling sawdust!
"Hmph! Tedious tricks."
Mu Jinyu, with his hands behind his back, watched the furious sawdust rushing towards him and chuckled derisively with a wave of his hand.
"Boom!"
Instantaneously, the sawdust that filled the sky rolled back towards Chen Yunxiao behind him!
"How is this possible?"
Chen Yunxiao was poised to hide behind the sawdust and ambush Mu Jinyu, but unexpectedly, Mu Jinyu threw the sawdust back at him. Chen Yunxiao barely managed to react in time, and the only thing he could do was to unleash the fierce fist strength he had intended for Mu Jinyu!
However, when his fist strength shot out, although it scattered most of the sawdust, there was still a small part of the sawdust wrapped with Mu Jinyu's True Yuan, which couldn't be neutralized by the fist strength he had released in haste. As a result, these bits of sawdust flew straight towards his face!
"Ah!!"
Chen Yunxiao couldn't dodge, and in an instant, the sawdust struck him, not only shattering his eyeballs but also peeling off a layer of flesh from his face.
He instantly became a bloodied figure and then let out a scream of extreme pain.
After the scream, Chen Yunxiao knew that today's situation was beyond repair. Mu Jinyu's power was beyond his expectations, and if they didn't kill him here, they had no way out.
Suppressing the pain that was as intense as Ling Chi, Chen Yunxiao shouted to the people behind him, "Attack, kill this guy!"
As he shouted, he had no intention of letting his subordinates cover his retreat while he fled, which would be too foolish.
Without his collaboration in leading the Killing Formation, his subordinates wouldn't be able to stop Mu Jinyu for long, and how far could he possibly run?
Only by joining forces to assassinate Mu Jinyu might they grasp a chance at survival.
At this moment, Chen Yunxiao profoundly regretted his previous arrogance and pride, not heeding the Elders who advocated fleeing and choosing to avoid the sharp edge.
After growing into the God Realm, he could then swallow up Dragon King Hall!
"Hehe..."
Mu Jinyu let out a cold laugh, watching as most of the Elders from True Martial Hall, who were showing signs of eagerness, didn't hesitate to swing his hand violently towards them.
Instantly, Qi Blades formed from highly condensed True Yuan shot out towards them!
"Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!!"
Like cutting vegetables, in an instant, all the Elders gathered in the True Martial Hall conference room were sliced across the middle by Mu Jinyu's Qi Blades and fell to the ground, not yet dead, emitting painful howls.
Mu Jinyu also swung out a Qi Blade at Chen Yunxiao, who was gathering strength to fight him again, directly severing both of his hands and legs!
He was turned into a human stick!
"Ah!!"
Chen Yunxiao could no longer endure the pain and crumpled to the ground, letting out a scream of extreme agony, but without his limbs, he couldn't even kowtow to beg Mu Jinyu for mercy.
Looking down from above, Mu Jinyu said to Chen Yunxiao, "Tell me how you all broke through from Dark Energy to Energy Transformation, and I'll give you a swift end. Otherwise, I have plenty of ways to keep you alive and let you continue to feel pain a hundred times worse than this!"
"I'll talk, I'll talk..."
Chen Yunxiao's will had already been completely shattered by Mu Jinyu. Hearing Mu Jinyu's words, his heart tensed in fear that Mu Jinyu would truly inflict upon him a pain a hundred times worse.
He confessed honestly how he had broken through from the early stages of Energy Transformation to the peak of Energy Transformation and the Half-Step Divine Realm within a few days.
It happened on the second day of the dark chaos. In their True Martial Hall's herb garden, a batch of mysterious herbs suddenly grew. Chen Yunxiao, after consulting ancient texts, identified one of the herbs as the Rushing Spirit Grass, which could change a person's aptitude and allow one to absorb nature's spiritual energy at an accelerated rate.
However, this Rushing Spirit Grass could only be consumed once by a person, so Chen Yunxiao didn't monopolize it for himself but let everyone in True Martial Hall take it.
It was precisely because of this that they had been able to progress by leaps and bounds.
From a small power, they had grown to a size where they had more than twenty Energy Transformation Warriors in their ranks.
As for the other herbs that grew in the herb garden, they dared not consume them at random because someone had eaten one of the herbs and suddenly exploded and died.
When Mu Jinyu heard Chen Yunxiao's words, a boundless surprise burst forth in his eyes.
After accepting Lin Qiaoxia and the other two ladies yesterday, he had also checked them, and found that aside from Yu Linglong who had some aptitude but was unlikely to enter the cultivator's path in her lifetime, Lin Qiaoxia and Xu Qingya were just ordinary people without a "Spirit Root" and couldn't engage in cultivation...
But now, with this Rushing Spirit Grass, it was possible for them to become cultivators too!