I Can Merge Techniques

The air seemed to freeze, growing thick and heavy.

"Form up!"

Li Mubai and the others looked horrified.

Without another word, the other five Demon Suppression Captains acted in perfect concert. Their figures flashed as they instantly closed in on Li Mubai.

The six of them took their positions, simultaneously plunging their weapons into the scorched earth beneath their feet. Their hands came together like lightning, forming a complex Seal Technique.

"HUMMM—!"

An incredibly solid giant shield of light, inscribed with arcane Runes, rapidly materialized above their heads. It emanated an aura of impenetrable strength.

They were actually planning to combine the full power of six Captains to withstand the furious strike of a fourth-realm expert.

Suddenly—

"Ha!"

A powerful, resonant shout suddenly erupted.

It instantly drew everyone’s attention away from the two opposing sides.

A figure was seen leaping out of the silent canyon. He landed lightly on the edge and dusted himself off. Who else could it be but Chu Fan?

In that instant, the entire area fell deathly silent.

Li Mubai and the others stared with wide eyes, their faces etched with disbelief.

They had personally seen Chu Fan blasted into the bottom of the valley, his aura completely extinguished. How could he possibly...

The masked woman’s body also stiffened abruptly. The hand gripping her sword trembled imperceptibly, her eyes filled with utter disbelief.

She was supremely confident in her attack. Forget someone in the Divine Power Realm; even an early-stage fourth-realm expert would have no chance of surviving it head-on.

’What in the hell?’

’Is this kid an unkillable cockroach?’

Amidst the eerie silence, Chu Fan acted as if nothing had happened. He even found a relatively flat stone at the canyon’s edge and lazily lay down on it.

He propped his head up with his hand and shot a sideways glance at the masked woman. "Hey, what’s the point of trying to cut them down?"

"You can’t even kill a mere Demon Suppression Guard like me, yet you think you can take on a Demon Suppression Captain?"

"Come on, come on. I’ll just lie here and let you have a go. You couldn’t even hurt me while I’m lying down. I called you useless, and you still won’t admit it..."

The masked woman’s chest heaved violently. The ice in her eyes was instantly ignited by flames of fury.

Humiliation. This was blatant humiliation!

If she didn’t tear this brat to shreds today, she felt her very Dao heart would crumble, her will forever broken.

She completely gave up on Li Mubai and the others. Slowly, she turned, the tip of her sword pulsing with a deadly, cold light as it locked firmly onto the reclining Chu Fan. Her killing intent was so thick it was almost tangible.

However, just as she was gathering her power, preparing to annihilate Chu Fan along with the giant stone he was on—

her expression changed drastically, and she snapped her head up.

The once slightly gloomy sky was now a swirling mass of dark clouds, gathering frantically.

A terrifying pressure that made one’s heart palpitate, far exceeding anything she could have imagined, descended upon everyone like the sky itself was collapsing.

When Li Mubai and his men felt this aura, they weren’t alarmed but overjoyed. The tension that had gripped them finally eased slightly. "They’re finally here..."

Before his words had even faded, the roiling dark clouds were violently torn apart by a brutish force...

The shadow of an enormous rod, wreathed in the power of wind and thunder, came crashing down on the masked woman’s head. It was like a pillar of heaven collapsing, carrying with it an aura of absolute destruction.

Before the rod’s shadow even arrived, the ground below had already begun to crack and splinter.

"Xiao Ziye!"

The two words escaped her lips in a cry of shock and anger. The masked woman had blurted out the name.

She recognized this unique attack style and formidable aura in an instant.

How could she possibly spare a thought for hunting down Chu Fan now?

In this life-or-death moment, the Primordial Qi in her body surged wildly. She thrust her longsword upward.

"CLANG!"

The longsword let out a clear, resonant ring as it flew from her grasp.

It expanded in the air, transforming into a Flaming Giant Sword dozens of yards long.

The giant sword blazed with flames that seemed capable of incinerating the heavens and boiling the seas. It shot straight up to meet the descending Wind-Thunder Giant Rod in a colossal impact.

RUMBLE—!!!

In an instant, it was as if a thousand bolts of furious lightning had detonated at once.

A deafening roar swept across the land. The violent shockwave of energy expanded in a ring, shaving another foot off the ground for hundreds of yards in every direction.

But the Wind-Thunder Giant Rod proved superior. The stalemate lasted only a moment before the rod, with irresistible force, smashed the Flaming Giant Sword to pieces, scattering it into a shower of fiery sparks.

The rod’s shadow, its momentum unabated, continued downward with even more ferocious power, hurtling toward the masked woman.

’Not good!’

The woman was horrified.

She had long known that the Demon Suppression Bureau’s Xiao Ziye was unfathomably powerful and superior to her, but she had never expected the gap between them to be this vast.

Her mind raced. With a profound movement of her Step Technique, she shifted rapidly to the right like a Ghost Shadow, leaving only a faint Residual Image behind.

But she had barely moved a few yards when her expression changed dramatically. The Primordial Qi inside her suddenly stagnated, and a strange numbness and searing pain spread from deep within her meridians.

"Poison... When was I poisoned?!"

At this moment, she finally understood why Zhang Lie, the Sect Leader of the Blood Shadow Sect, had suddenly started bleeding from all seven orifices.

The people from the Demon Suppression Bureau had actually laid a potent poison in Cold Crow Valley!

And in the heat of battle, she had already inhaled a considerable amount of it.

That single moment of delay was all it took. Xiao Ziye’s terrifying rod had already come crashing down.

BOOM!!

The strike was Earth-Shaking.

The woman, who was only a few yards from the rod’s point of impact, wasn’t hit directly but was violently thrown by the terrifying shockwave.

Her Protective Gang Qi shattered instantly. She let out a wretched scream and was sent flying like a broken kite, crashing into a distant cliff face. The blood she coughed up painted a stark red arc in the air.

"Die!"

With a cold shout, Xiao Ziye, the very same woman who had whacked Chu Fan with her rod a few times back at the Demon Suppression Bureau, finally made her appearance.

She descended from the sky, her clothes whipping in the wind, her eyes cold and wild. She raised the seemingly ordinary rod in her hand once more and, aiming at the spot where the woman had fallen, swung it again from a distance.

Though they were clearly a hundred yards apart, and the rod in her hand was barely two feet long, with a single swing, the winds and clouds gathered in the void above. An illusory wooden rod, even more solid and immense than the last, materialized out of thin air.