"Die!"
Ye Ningze swung his black saber through the air from over ten meters away towards Li Xingteng.
With a flash of light, the air within a radius of tens of meters solidified, and Li Xingteng froze, motionless.
In a single instant, a spiderweb-like crack spread downwards from the top of Li Xingteng's head.
Before long, Li Xingteng's body split into two halves.
With a muffled groan, he collapsed into a pool of blood, utterly dead.
"My son!"
Witnessing his son die before his very eyes, Li Mingyuan completely lost his mind, acting like a madman.
"I will kill you!"
Li Mingyuan directly unleashed a secret technique, his entire body enveloped in a blood mist.
As his body withered away, his aura continuously surged.
Originally only at the mid-stage Grandmaster cultivation, his realm quickly reached the peak of Grandmaster.
Finally, he reached the level of a half-step Transcendent martial artist!
Clearly, Li Mingyuan intended to fight Ye Ningze with his life.
Last time in the Sunset Forest, Li Mingyuan had already used a secret technique to escape from the high-level ferocious beast, the Divine Power Ant.
Now, repeating the same trick, although Li Mingyuan's realm had reached its lifetime peak, his lifespan was also rapidly dwindling.
At most, within an hour, Li Mingyuan would perish.
Boom!
The furious Li Mingyuan unleashed a punch, his Yuan force transforming into a colossal fist, the impact reverberating through the land, seemingly tearing even the void apart.
Li Mingyuan, originally a mid-stage Grandmaster, had a physical strength of only two hundred thousand jin.
But now, after using the secret technique, his strength leaped to five hundred thousand jin, and with the Yuan force amplification, it broke through a million!
This had already reached the strength of an early-stage Transcendent martial artist!
Such a terrifying punch was enough to instantly kill an ordinary Grandmaster martial artist.
However, Ye Ningze's attack power exceeded a million jin.
"Flame Black Saber!"
Ye Ningze superimposed his flame talent onto the black saber, and the brilliant strike met Li Mingyuan's attack head-on.
RUMBLE!!
The air exploded, and a semi-circular wave of light swept outwards.
Houses of the Li family were shattered by the impact. Besides the buildings, some Li family martial artists who couldn't dodge in time also perished on the spot.
This was a battlefield at the Grandmaster level; ordinary people could not participate.
BANG BANG BANG!
After the clash, Ye Ningze and the other combatant retreated a few steps amidst the dust.
Ye Ningze took two to three steps back, his expression calm, while Li Mingyuan was blasted back over ten meters, with a saber wound on his chest, blood gushing out.
Li Mingyuan was injured, and not lightly.
"You are a Grandmaster martial artist?!"
Facing Ye Ningze's full power, Li Mingyuan was inwardly shocked.
"No, impossible!" Li Mingyuan clutched the saber wound on his chest, his face a mask of grim uncertainty.
"The Grandmasters in Qingcheng Base are limited, and none of them are skilled in saber techniques. Who exactly are you?"
In response to Li Mingyuan's inquiry, Ye Ningze smiled but remained silent.
Did this old fellow mistake me for a Grandmaster martial artist?
If he knew I was only at the Grandmaster realm, he would probably be so terrified he'd run away immediately.
However, Ye Ningze's strength was undeniable. Both in terms of power and speed, he was comparable to a Grandmaster.
Only in terms of speed, without activating his speed talent, Ye Ningze was still slightly inferior to a true Grandmaster, but the gap was not significant.
At this moment, Li Mingyuan was consumed by rage and had not used his spiritual sense to carefully examine Ye Ningze.
Therefore, it was natural for him to mistakenly identify Ye Ningze as a Grandmaster.
Ye Ningze did not answer Li Mingyuan's question and continued his attack.
The Flame Black Saber technique was something Ye Ningze had just comprehended while killing the Li family martial artists.
His flame talent was already of a high level, and when fused into his perfected saber intent, its speed was difficult for even Grandmasters to parry.
Coupled with Ye Ningze's strength talent, he completely overwhelmed Li Mingyuan in all aspects.
Li Mingyuan's only advantage was his extensive combat experience.
However, in the face of the vast gap between him and Ye Ningze, his so-called experience offered no advantage.
The next instant.
Ye Ningze seized an opportunity and severed one of Li Mingyuan's arms.
Severely injured, Li Mingyuan began to feel fear.
"This is bad, this person's strength far surpasses mine. I must flee!"
Li Mingyuan's secret technique could last for an hour, but the price was the burning of his lifespan.
He had thought he could quickly deal with Ye Ningze, but he never expected to have kicked an iron plate this time.
Li Mingyuan abandoned the thought of avenging his son and turned to flee.
His escape route led towards the Sun family.
Since Ye Ningze dared to commit murder within Qingcheng Base, the only ones who could protect him were the Sun family.
Whether the Sun family would save him after Li Mingyuan reached them was another matter.
Seeing Li Mingyuan flee, Ye Ningze immediately pursued him.
Even with Ye Ningze activating his triple speed amplification, he wouldn't have been able to catch up to Li Mingyuan who was using the secret technique.
He had expected Li Mingyuan to escape, but unexpectedly, Li Mingyuan's speed suddenly slowed down halfway through his flight.
"Is the secret technique over?"
Ye Ningze thought to himself.
Li Mingyuan's actual speed was inferior to his; he could only withstand many of his previous moves by relying on the secret technique.
Now that Li Mingyuan's secret technique was depleted, he was at Ye Ningze's mercy.
Before long, Ye Ningze caught up to Li Mingyuan.
"No, don't kill me! I, Li Mingyuan, and my family are willing to serve as your servants, Senior!"
Li Mingyuan knelt before Ye Ningze, begging for mercy.
"Accept your fate!"
Ye Ningze showed no hesitation and swung his saber.
But just as Li Mingyuan was about to be slain, a square wooden box appeared in his hand.
Fine steel needles erupted from the front of the square wooden box, dense and overwhelming, sweeping towards Ye Ningze.
Although Ye Ningze reacted in time, he was still hit by some of the needles.
A Grandmaster martial artist might have easily dodged them, but Ye Ningze was only at the Grandmaster realm at the time.
Without activating his speed talent, his reaction speed was slightly slower.
Furthermore, being so close to Li Mingyuan, he didn't even have time to activate his Yuan force shield.
Ye Ningze had thought that with his steel-like body, comparable to a Transcendent martial artist, such needles would be unable to penetrate.
However, an unbelievable scene unfolded.
The needles directly pierced through Ye Ningze's hastily erected Yuan force shield and penetrated his body.
"What a powerful hidden weapon!" Ye Ningze was immediately shocked.
Although this hidden weapon was powerful and had pierced Ye Ningze's body, penetrating his internal organs.
But under his top-tier healing talent, Ye Ningze's injuries recovered in an instant, and his damaged organs began to heal rapidly.
At this point, Li Mingyuan was already dead, and several needles were embedded in him.
The wooden box in his hand was fully opened, revealing complex machinery crafted from unknown metals.
"It must be a disposable hidden weapon. I wonder where Li Mingyuan got it."
There was only one thing Ye Ningze hadn't anticipated.
After activation, the hidden weapon in Li Mingyuan's hand unleashed indiscriminate attacks, clearly a mutual destruction tactic.
No wonder Li Mingyuan only took it out now.
Ye Ningze began to feel a sense of lingering fear.
Fortunately, he possessed the top-tier healing talent; otherwise, he would have capsized in the gutter this time.