"Die!"
Leiman charged at Ye Ningze with extreme speed, his wrinkled face contorted with ferocity.
The next moment, Leiman's body surged with Yuan Force, expanding at a visible rate and transforming into a blue light that enveloped the land.
"What kind of secret technique is this? Its attack power can rival a full-powered strike from an extraordinary martial artist!"
Just as Ye Ningze, who was not far away, was wondering, Leiman's body in front of him exploded.
Boom!
The self-detonation of Leiman, a peak Grandmaster, was incredibly powerful, instantly reducing all surrounding houses to dust and blasting a large hole in the ground.
Only then did Ye Ningze realize that Leiman's secret technique was a self-detonation!
This was a true suicidal attack!
On the other side, although Lei Tian and others had quickly retreated before Leiman's self-detonation, they were still affected.
Their own cultivation levels were only at the Grandmaster realm; how could they withstand a full-powered strike from an extraordinary martial artist?
It was only due to their timely evasion that they did not perish directly, but they were still seriously injured, spitting blood.
"Cough, cough..." Lei Tian coughed out a trace of blood from the corner of his mouth and said to the elder beside him, "What a pity for Leiman, but it was all worth it!"
"Yes, Elder Leiman's self-detonation has eliminated a major threat to our Lei family!" a clan elder lamented.
It was clear that these elders and clan elders did not believe Ye Ningze could survive such an attack.
They were well aware of the power of Elder Leiman's self-detonation attack; not only was its attack power comparable to a full-powered strike from an extraordinary martial artist, but its coverage was also 360 degrees without blind spots.
Such an attack might be useless against a true extraordinary martial artist, as they could withstand it with their innate defense alone.
However, Ye Ningze could not.
He was merely a peak Grandmaster, a martial artist who had not even reached the Grandmaster realm. Even if his attack power and speed had reached the extraordinary level, his defense was still at the Grandmaster level.
"Ye Ningze is finally dead. Now our Lei family is safe!"
"Indeed, with such a terrifying attack, Ye Ningze would be crippled even if he didn't die!"
"Elder Leiman is too great, choosing to sacrifice himself to protect us!"
"Yes, Elder Leiman's sacrifice is indeed great, but as the Great Patriarch said earlier, it was all worth it to preserve the Lei family!"
"..."
All the members of the Lei family believed Ye Ningze was certainly dead and had already begun to celebrate their survival.
But at this moment.
A cold voice echoed from the smoke and dust of the ruins.
"Who says I'm dead? You're celebrating too soon!"
As the smoke from the explosion dissipated, Ye Ningze's figure slowly emerged.
His clothes were tattered, but there were no visible injuries on his body.
"You, are you human or ghost?"
Seeing Ye Ningze unharmed, Lei Tian's face was filled with shock, and he asked with a trembling voice.
It wasn't just Lei Tian who was astonished; when Ye Ningze reappeared before the Lei family, everyone's hearts were stirred by a tempest.
After all, that was a full-powered strike comparable to an extraordinary martial artist!
Even the prepared Grandmasters like Lei Tian had been significantly affected, barely managing to suppress the surging Yuan Force within their bodies.
Yet, why was Ye Ningze, a Grandmaster martial artist, only had his clothes damaged in the explosion with no signs of injury?
However, what the Lei family members didn't know was that Ye Ningze was not entirely unharmed.
A moment before Leiman's self-detonation, Ye Ningze sensed the danger and instinctively activated his top-tier talent.
With the boost of twelve times the speed of sound, Ye Ningze managed to escape the epicenter of the explosion.
At the edge of the blast, Ye Ningze, relying solely on his Grandmaster defense, barely managed to withstand the attack, and even so, he sustained considerable injuries.
The shocked Lei family members before him would never imagine that Ye Ningze also possessed a top-tier healing talent.
The internal injuries Ye Ningze had sustained earlier had stabilized within seconds due to the effect of his healing talent.
"Not good, run!"
Seeing Ye Ningze reappear, Lei Tian immediately shouted, urging his clansmen to flee.
Before his words could even finish, Lei Tian had already flown away in the opposite direction of Ye Ningze.
But how could Ye Ningze let him escape so easily? Wielding his Yuan weapon, he pursued.
With a single move, he killed Lei Tian.
Just as Ye Ningze was about to go on a rampage against the remaining Lei family members, a deep, aged voice echoed from not far away.
"Young friend, wait! For my sake, how about we let this matter go?"
Soon, an old man in blue appeared within Ye Ningze's sight.
"Extraordinary Martial Artist!"
Ye Ningze recognized the other party's cultivation level at a glance.
The aura of the extraordinary martial artist was fully displayed, something a Grandmaster could not compare to.
Soon, the extraordinary martial artist appeared within a hundred meters of Ye Ningze.
"Inspect."
Ye Ningze activated his copying talent and immediately checked the other party's talent status.
Race: Human.
Cultivation Talent: A-class.
"So, just an ordinary extraordinary."
Upon seeing that the newcomer only possessed a high-level cultivation talent, Ye Ningze no longer took him seriously.
With his high-level cultivation talent, the other party was likely only at the early extraordinary stage at most.
The physical strength of an early extraordinary martial artist was no more than a million jin. Even if he had two million, coupled with the double amplification of Yuan Force, it would be at most four million jin.
Ye Ningze's physical strength, however, was six million jin, which completely suppressed this extraordinary individual.
As for speed.
An early extraordinary martial artist could reach at most ten times the speed of sound, which was still far inferior to Ye Ningze's twelve times the speed of sound.
The true advantage of this extraordinary martial artist lay in his defense.
But if they were to fight later, as long as Ye Ningze prevented the other party from getting close, the defensive advantage would be negligible.
In terms of strength, this Grandmaster in front of him was not as strong as himself.
"Why should I give you face?" Ye Ningze said neither subserviently nor arrogantly.
Hearing this, the old man looked at Ye Ningze deeply, "Simply because I am an extraordinary martial artist!"
"Extraordinary?" Ye Ningze sneered, "For that alone, you are not qualified."
Whoosh!
Seeing that Ye Ningze was unwilling to show any respect, the onlookers who had heard the commotion were all shocked.
They were also surprised by Ye Ningze's audacity. After all, that was a genuine extraordinary! Did Ye Ningze, no matter how strong he was, still expect to contend with an extraordinary?
"Elder Wu Ning, please uphold justice for my Lei family!" The four remaining Grandmasters of the Lei family knelt before the old man.
"We implore the Great Elder to uphold justice for my Lei family!" More and more members of the Lei family knelt before the old man.
"Rest assured, with me here today, I will not stand by and watch a family in the Wolf Lord Base be annihilated," Wu Ning said indifferently.
Wu Ning was one of the two extraordinary martial artists in the Wolf Lord Base.
In fact, he did not care about the lives of the Lei family members; after all, even Lei Tian and Leiman, two peak Grandmasters, had perished.
The reason he intervened was simply that he did not want to see a family from his base truly annihilated by a martial artist from the Qingcheng Base, as that would have too great an impact.