Nine Heavens Martial Emperor

The two of them used a Secret Skill!

These two were able to kill a Seventh Layer Soul Gathering Realm Martial Artist despite only being at the Sixth Layer. They were by no means ordinary.

In the Soul Gathering Realm, each layer was a world of its own. Although they were combining their strength, their power far exceeded others at the same realm.

Although Lin Hao was extremely fast and had caught them off guard, once they used their Secret Skill, his advantage in Body Technique was gone.

"Steal the Heavens!"

"Swap the Sun!"

The two spoke one after the other, their killing intent surging.

As they spoke, a blinding light flared, like a red sun falling to the earth, and the entire area was enveloped in a crimson glow.

In the glare, not only Lin Hao, but even the three women instinctively shielded their eyes with their sleeves.

In a duel between Martial Artists, opportunities are fleeting. Their opponents would never let such a chance slip by.

And so, all their opponents made their move.

But Lin Hao’s ability to pinpoint locations by sound was incredibly sharp. With a single flicker of his body, he had already evaded the two’s attack.

Not only that, but Lin Hao even pulled Meng Qing and Lu Diewu aside, causing the Martial Artist attacking them to miss.

Meng Ru, meanwhile, dodged an attack by a hair’s breadth.

"Be careful!" Lin Hao said to Meng Qing and Diewu. Then, instead of retreating, he closed the distance, charging the two men once more.

The two Martial Artists were shrouded in the red light, looking incredibly eerie.

Lin Hao’s figure was like lightning as he lunged at them. Without any visible movement from the two, a massive, sun-like ring of red light appeared before them and shot directly toward Lin Hao.

Lin Hao’s momentum didn’t falter. Just as the ring of light was about to make contact with his body, he dropped straight to the ground.

The ring of light grazed past Lin Hao’s face and slammed into the distance, while his entire body slid across the ground at extreme speed. He then flipped over and struck out at the two men with both palms simultaneously.

Facing Lin Hao’s incoming palms, the two men advanced instead of retreating, then both thrust out their own palms to meet his.

BOOM!

A deafening crash echoed out. Lin Hao’s body was thrown into the air, flipping mid-flight, while the two Martial Artists’ legs were driven deep into the Celestial Meteorite ground.

The Celestial Meteorite ground, which even an ordinary Fifth Layer Soul Gathering Realm Martial Artist couldn’t damage, was not only pulverized beneath their feet, but the surrounding Celestial Meteorite also shattered completely.

At the same time, the sun-like ring of red light crashed into a distant mountain, creating a bottomless black hole in its center.

"Your cultivation is at the Peak of the Seventh Layer of the Soul Gathering Realm!" the two Martial Artists declared, looking up, thinking they had seen through Lin Hao’s true level.

And in front of them lay a small pile of powder, its color completely different from the Celestial Meteorite.

The reason they had been able to take Lin Hao’s first strike and act as if nothing happened was that they were wearing specially-made treasure armor.

That armor was priceless, capable of withstanding a full-force blow from a Seventh Layer of Soul Gathering Realm Martial Artist.

That was why, even though Lin Hao had landed a hit at the beginning, they were largely unharmed.

But now, after Lin Hao had attacked again, both sets of treasure armor had turned to dust. One could only imagine how formidable he was.

This was definitely not something an ordinary Seventh Layer Soul Gathering Realm Martial Artist could do.

"Good! Very good! We can add another Seventh Layer of Soul Gathering Realm Martial Artist to our kill list!" the two said, delighted instead of alarmed.

To them, a Martial Artist at the Peak of the Seventh Layer of the Soul Gathering Realm was far less terrifying than one with a bloodline that surpassed their own.

Lin Hao’s body hovered in the air, but he did not choose to attack immediately.

Lin Hao had already figured out the key to how the two were able to defeat stronger opponents.

To say there were two of them was, in fact, inaccurate. Strictly speaking, each of them could only be considered half a person.

Their Cultivation Technique and martial skills were clearly split between them; only when the two halves were combined did they become whole.

And that combined Cultivation Technique, while not an Emperor-rank skill, or even a pseudo-Emperor-rank skill, was certainly not far from it.

Lin Hao didn’t even need to think to know the reason.

Their Cultivation Technique and Secret Skill must have come from that Yang Qingtian.

And Yang Qingtian didn’t want either of them to obtain the complete Secret Skill, so he had split it between them.

"Brother Hao, we’re about to win!" At that moment, Meng Ru’s voice rang out from below.

She had killed the Martial Artist she was dueling.

With the odds now three against one, the last man’s fate was sealed.

The faces of the two Martial Artists fighting Lin Hao changed, and they prepared to act.

Their target was one of the three women.

But how could Lin Hao let them have their way?

The next moment, Lin Hao descended and blocked their path.

Just as the two were preparing to use their Secret Skill again, Lin Hao advanced instead of retreating, taking a small half-step forward before slowly raising his hands.

A terrifying scene unfolded.

Following Lin Hao’s movement, the very world seemed to fall under his control. Above, in the firmament, clouds churned and thunder rumbled without end, like a flood dragon struggling to break free and leap from the sea.

Just then, Lin Hao pressed his slightly raised hands downward.

Something even more terrifying happened.

The churning clouds in the sky suddenly broke free of their bonds, transforming into a pillar of qi that poured down, pressing toward one of the Martial Artists.

A single move to shake the heavens!

The sun-like ring of red light was just about to form, but as the pillar of qi descended, it instantly disintegrated.

Moreover, the Martial Artist beneath the pillar of qi was completely unable to move.

His body had been sealed in place.

The Martial Artist was horrified. A mass of yellow light flared within his Dantian as he directly unleashed his Bloodline Power. At the same time, a waning sun began to emerge behind him.

Just as this Martial Artist was about to unleash his Secret Skill, Bloodline Power, and Divine Soul all at once to fight back against Lin Hao, on another starry Ancient Road, a young man surrounded by several Martial Artists suddenly lifted his gaze.

Back with Lin Hao, the Martial Artist’s resistance was futile. The suppressive force of the qi pillar was unimaginably strong; the man’s Divine Soul retreated before it even fully appeared.

The next moment, the qi pillar pressed down, and the Martial Artist’s body was reduced to ash.

With one Martial Artist fallen, the other was completely unable to contend with Lin Hao. Lin Hao charged past, and the man’s head flew high into the air.

"Ah, Brother Hao, we tied."

Just as Meng Ru said this, on the other starry Ancient Road, the young man who had just looked up narrowed his eyes.

With just that single movement, the body of a Martial Artist in front of the young man exploded.

Immediately after, the young man casually flicked his sleeve and looked into the void.

"Unable to even summon his Secret Skill and Divine Soul... I, Yang Qingtian, seem to have underestimated the Martial Artists on that Ancient Road. Was that you?" As Yang Qingtian spoke, Lin Hao’s face seemed to appear in the void.

The next moment, Yang Qingtian came back to his senses. He completely ignored the surrounding Martial Artists and took a single step forward.

With just one step, his figure reappeared several hundred meters away.

And at the very moment Yang Qingtian departed, the bodies of the other few Martial Artists exploded simultaneously.

Tokens and storage rings flew up, heading directly in the direction Yang Qingtian had gone.

On this starry Ancient Road, the weakest cultivators were at the Sixth Layer of the Soul Gathering Realm. For Yang Qingtian to annihilate several of them so easily... his power was terrifying.