"Kid, you're really asking for death!"
Song Fangjin gritted his teeth and said, "Originally, all you had to do was kneel before me and beg for mercy, and I would have at most gouged out your eyes, chopped off your hands, and broken your legs... but you brought this upon yourself, so I'll oblige you!"
"Come on, let me see how capable Butcher Junhou's disciple truly is."
Chen Xiao said calmly.
"Fangjin, why are you still wasting words with him? Hurry up and kill him. I'm tired and need to rest!"
He Mingsen urged impatiently.
"Yes, Master He!"
Song Fangjin said, but then he suddenly retreated, "Give me ten minutes, and I'll make sure this kid has nowhere to be buried!"
He raised his shaman drum and struck it hard. With a bang, it made people's eardrums ache.
The lingering sound echoed, lasting for a long time.
And this was just the beginning. Song Fangjin struck the shaman drum again and again.
One drumbeat after another sounded, bang, bang.
Chen Xiao watched him with interest, "A sonic attack?"
But Chen Xiao soon realized it wasn't what he thought.
These drumbeats were merely to disrupt the mind.
He Xinwu and He Xinyi, standing nearby, had vacant eyes and swayed unsteadily, yet they were unaware.
These drumbeats were very effective against ordinary people.
However, using them against Chen Xiao was a bit overestimating their strength.
"You dare to show off your meager skills in front of a master?"
Chen Xiao showed disdain. The drumbeats had no effect on him.
"Kid, don't be so hasty. The real show is yet to come!"
However, Song Fangjin was not surprised that Chen Xiao was unaffected. After shouting, he suddenly split into two.
To say he split into two wasn't entirely accurate; more precisely, one Song Fangjin became two Song Fangjins.
The two looked exactly alike, as if they were copied and pasted.
Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang—
After a burst of drumming, the two Song Fangjins became four!
Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang—
Four became eight... eight became sixteen... sixteen became thirty-two... thirty-two became sixty-four...
In just a moment, there were one hundred and twenty-eight Song Fangjins in the entire hall.
These one hundred and twenty-eight Song Fangjins hopped around, making people dizzy!
They pounced on Chen Xiao like a group of monkeys.
Some grabbed Chen Xiao's thighs, some clutched his arms, some hung on his back, and some wrapped around his neck...
He Xinwu and He Xinyi, the brother and sister, were stunned. What was this? A circus?
He Mingsen, unaware of Chen Xiao's strength, thought Song Fangjin had the upper hand and burst into laughter.
"Well done, Fangjin! I didn't expect you to know such tricks. Quick, quick, tear this kid apart for me to see..."
"Master He, this isn't a trick; it's a divine art!"
The one hundred and twenty-eight Song Fangjins spoke simultaneously, their voices perfectly synchronized, not a millisecond off.
"Kid, do you know how powerful I am now? Do you still want to kill me?"
These one hundred and twenty-eight Song Fangjins surrounded Chen Xiao, each feeling triumphant.
Chen Xiao smiled, "The foremost master of sorcery in Hong Kong, and you resort to such tricks?"
"You brat, you can still laugh? It seems I need to show you some real power!"
These one hundred and twenty-eight Song Fangjins grabbed Chen Xiao's body and exerted force simultaneously, intending to tear him apart for Master He.
With this move, he could even tear apart an adult elephant; tearing apart a person was naturally no problem!
Chen Xiao shook his head helplessly. He had initially hoped to learn something about Butcher Junhou's abilities from Song Fangjin, but he never expected this person's sorcery to be so childish.
"If this is all you've got, then you can die!"
Chen Xiao's body suddenly trembled, and the one hundred and twenty-eight Song Fangjins were sent flying simultaneously, scattering like a shower of flowers.
And from Chen Xiao's eyes, a surge of fire erupted, heading directly for one of them!
Although these one hundred and twenty-eight Song Fangjins were all physical manifestations, their true body was only one.
Song Fangjin could deceive others, but he couldn't deceive Chen Xiao, who possessed divine sense.
Boom—
The flames soared into the sky, engulfing Song Fangjin's true body, causing him to let out a piercing scream.
The remaining one hundred and twenty-seven Song Fangjins dissolved into white smoke, dissipating into the air.
Seeing this, He Mingsen was dumbfounded and terrified, unsure of what to do.
However, when the flames finally died down, the scene before him made Chen Xiao tremble.
Because he discovered that Song Fangjin was not dead!
This was the first person who had survived Chen Xiao's Kylin Fire after he acquired the Quenching Fire Kylin Eyes!
As expected of Butcher Junhou's disciple, he indeed had some skill.
Although Song Fangjin also had the strength of the Golden Core stage, he was much stronger than Xu Banxian and Tian Shi San Hua from the auction.
Chen Xiao was shocked, and Song Fangjin was even more shocked than him!
Although he had survived, his body was scorched, and his long hair was almost completely burned off.
He looked at Chen Xiao in disbelief, cursing inwardly, "Damn it, why is this kid so strong? He can actually detect my true body, which is comparable to my master's abilities. And what's with this fire? How can it be so overbearing?"
"Fortunately, I have tough skin... Wait... something's wrong..."
He suddenly felt that something was not right with his hand. He looked down, and his eyes widened with rage.
He saw that the shaman divine drum in his hand had been burned down to only the part he was holding.
"My divine drum! This is a magic artifact refined by my master himself!"
"Kid, you destroyed my artifact, I'll make you pay with your life!"
Song Fangjin was so heartbroken he was about to cry. When he asked his master to refine this shaman divine drum for him, it cost him a full billion!
This hurt him more than taking his life!
At this moment, Chen Xiao also realized that it wasn't Song Fangjin's own strength that was so great, but rather the shaman drum in his hand was a magic artifact.
It was the life-preserving array talisman on the artifact that had helped him survive.
However, the fact that this artifact could withstand the Kylin Fire meant that the person who refined it was extremely powerful.
Butcher Junhou truly lived up to his reputation as the number one figure in Hong Kong's sorcery world, to be able to refine such a powerful artifact!
Chen Xiao's blood suddenly boiled with excitement, and he began to look forward to a direct confrontation with Butcher Junhou.
However, before that, he had to deal with this fatso!
At this moment, Song Fangjin produced another magic artifact, a skull emitting a faint green glow.
"You brat, you dare to destroy my artifact, I'll burn you until not even a speck of bone remains!"
Song Fangjin squeezed it hard, and the skull shattered!
A ball of verdant flame shot out, burning in the air...