"Seeking death!"
Another man roared, throwing a punch as well.
However, it lacked any skill, and in Li Chonglou's eyes, its speed was no different from a snail.
"The one seeking death is you."
Li Chonglou's gaze was icy. He already had no good impression of islanders, and now they were acting so presumptuously on his turf. Was that something he could tolerate?
Kaoshan Ding (Mountain Climbing Fist) and Shenglong Zhang (Ascending Dragon Palm), two traditional Chinese martial arts combos, sent the man flying.
With a sweeping leg kick, the last man hadn't even registered what was happening before he was already on the ground. Li Chonglou straddled him, fist raised.
"Next time you meet a Chinese person, remember to tuck your tail and run."
As the massive fist was about to descend, the first man, who had been knocked away, stabilized himself and shouted, "We've encountered a master! Release the seal!"
As soon as the words were spoken, the auras of three practitioners suddenly surged forth.
They were not high-level, all of them being first-level experts.
Tian Yi, behind the stone gate, showed despair. His best brother had died at the hands of these very people.
It was impossible not to hate them, yet he was utterly powerless.
If they were ordinary people, even if they were special forces, even if their numbers doubled, he would dare to charge forward and fight to the death!
But facing cultivators, that sense of helplessness was something only those who had truly faced it could understand.
However, at this moment, Li Chonglou's cold sneer reached his ears.
"Trash like you?"
Li Chonglou, facing first-level island trash, didn't even bother with fusion. The power of his acupoints erupted instantly.
"Die for me!"
The man's speed doubled. One moment he was meters away, the next he was in front of Li Chonglou.
But what awaited him was a massive fist.
"Ignorant!"
The man sneered back, channeling all his internal energy into his fist, and met Li Chonglou's punch.
Halfway through his punch, he could already imagine Li Chonglou's arm being completely crippled by his own.
Then would come the pain, panic, and fear, and finally, just like that disobedient and arrogant person a few days ago, he would be torn in half!
But the moment their fists actually collided, the man's expression drastically changed.
Hard, impossibly hard!
"Impossible!"
An inexplicable force directly tore through his internal energy shield, like an invisible sharp blade, piercing directly into his body.
Through his fist, arm, and heart, it then surged with destructive force directly into his Dantian.
Despair, fear.
The Dantian was the most crucial area for a cultivator. Compared to it, the heart was secondary!
After all, even if the heart was damaged, a cultivator could sustain their life with their internal energy. As long as they had enough medicinal herbs, they wouldn't die.
But the Dantian was completely different!
Once foreign energy invaded it, even slight damage could lead to weakened cultivation, and severe damage could turn them into a cripple!
"A mere island nation dares to act so presumptuously in my great China?"
This was the last sentence the man heard before his death. The next second, Li Chonglou's acupoint power pulverized his Dantian. The intense impact instantly caused the man to lose consciousness.
Crack.
With the sound of bone snapping, the man died on the spot.
"Village entrance!"
The remaining two men were filled with grief and rage, their cultivation power surging to the maximum as they simultaneously charged at Li Chonglou.
"Mere first-level trash, you don't even have the mood to make me get serious."
Li Chonglou showed no fear. Under these environmental conditions, the power of his latent energy alone was enough to deal with both of them. He didn't even need to use soul fusion.
The battle ended quickly, within ten seconds, both men were lying on the ground.
This scene stunned Tian Yi behind him.
Just then, the entire underground mine began to shake.
"Hm?"
Tian Yi's face changed drastically. "Brother, hurry, go get everyone out! The mine is going to be sealed!"
"Sealed?"
Li Chonglou looked at Tian Yi with confusion.
"This is why cultivators can't enter! As soon as cultivation energy appears inside the mine, the entrance will be forcibly sealed, and then there will be poisonous gas everywhere. Even with living grass, you won't last long!"
Li Chonglou's expression also changed, thinking of Hei Ling.
"But why did they dare to use it?"
Tian Yi said quickly, "They didn't expose their cultivation energy before, and the time they released the seal was short, so they were fine. Hurry, there's at most half an hour, let's go!"
Li Chonglou pondered for half a second, then decisively said, "Give me Uncle Fei's location, and you take the others out first!"
Tian Yi also realized the gravity of the situation. With the chaos that had erupted, the islanders would surely take the opportunity to cause trouble. They might not even wait for him to bring back the living grass to save people; Uncle Fei might have already surrendered.
"But what if they intercept us?"
Li Chonglou's eyes turned cold. "Then tell me the location of the islanders' camp. None of them will escape!"
Since trouble had already occurred, Li Chonglou estimated that using his cultivation energy wouldn't have much of an impact. He truly didn't believe that anyone from the island nation would be like him, with a strength of level five, able to sneak in.
In fact, when the three men had released their so-called seal earlier, he had already noticed a clue.
This technique was very similar to self-sealing the Dantian, which was forcibly compressing all of one's cultivation energy and aura within the Dantian.
This method was completely different from his curse power. Such compression required a prerequisite: a certain degree of self-control!
And the higher the level of a master, the less relative development they had. Li Chonglou estimated that masters who entered using this method would find level two to be their limit.
Rustle.
Stones kept falling from above. Tian Yi couldn't care less and could only place all his hopes on Li Chonglou.
"Brother, can you tell me your name?"
Li Chonglou paused for a moment and said in a deep voice, "Li Chonglou."
Tian Yi didn't seem to have heard his name, showing no reaction, and said with a serious expression, "Brother Li, the fate of our Donghai Island rests on you this time!"
Slap!
Tian Yi clapped Li Chonglou heavily on the shoulder and, with great speed, explained the details about the island nation and Uncle Fei.
There were many details that hadn't been mentioned before!
This guy, it seemed, was also someone who played the role of a pig to eat the tiger.
Li Chonglou looked at Tian Yi with a meaningful gaze.
"Brother Li, it was my fault earlier. If we get through this smoothly, you'll be my big brother from now on!"
Li Chonglou raised his hand.
"No, I don't easily take younger brothers."
Uh.
Tian Yi quickly suppressed his awkwardness, and the two began to split up.