324: Chapter 322: Smash the Gates of the Heavenly Master Sect!

[Congratulations to Yulu for becoming the first Sect Leader of this book] 324: Chapter 322: Smash the Gates of the Heavenly Master Sect!

[Congratulations to Yulu for becoming the first Sect Leader of this book] “Vermilion Bird, what kind of technique is Immortal Master Li using?

Why have I never seen it before?” Xuanwu asked with a face full of astonishment.

After thinking for a bit, Vermilion Bird said, “I’m not quite sure either.

It should be some sort of secret technique for spiritual attack.

The fundamental principle is probably similar to the Gu technique from Miao Territory.”

“It seems that when Immortal Master Li employs his tricks, he’s also a top-tier expert.

With just a slight ploy, he has caused the disciples of the millennia-old Mystical Sect of Heavenly Master Sect to fear for themselves!” White Tiger narrowed his eyes slightly and genuinely voiced admiration.

…

Meanwhile, at the foot of the mountain, Qin Tianlong also uttered the same kind of astonishment.

“The Alliance Hierarch’s strategy is truly brilliant.

In a casual conversation and with a relaxed demeanor, souls are shattered into oblivion.

Even Zhou Lang from the Battle of Red Cliffs in the Three Kingdoms era probably could do no better!”

Zhang Tianrui strongly agreed, nodding his head in approval continuously.

Qin Qingwu smiled like a blooming flower, her big watery eyes fixed unwaveringly on the stunningly extraordinary Li Chen.

Zhao Yuqing had seen Li Chen use fiery flames to burn Wui Shaotian alive, so to her, such a scene was not at all strange.

Shen Xingchen, who was newly introduced to worldly society, felt a turmoil in her stomach.

Only now did she truly understand why the name Immortal Master Li could terrify people so.

With casual laughter, he burned a person into mere bones.

He was no longer human; he was simply a devil.

If she angered him, would she also be burned to ashes and reduced to a skeletal state?

Thinking of this, Shen Xingchen hugged her arms and involuntarily shuddered.

She subconsciously looked up and saw Li Chen’s demeanor unchanged, even his smile at the corner of his mouth still seemingly harmless to humans and animals.

Xuan Nan, facing Li Chen, saw the morale of his side in disarray and couldn’t help feeling extremely anxious.

At this moment, he was well aware that if he didn’t control the situation soon, the thousand years of legacy of the Heavenly Master Sect might be doomed.

“Immortal Master Li, you’ve killed my junior disciple brother Xuan Long without any reason.

What exactly do you mean?

Do you truly seek an unending feud with our Heavenly Master Sect?”

Li Chen looked at Xuan Nan as if he were looking at an idiot, shrugged his shoulders and said, “If not, why do you think I’m here?

Am I here to play house?”

After that, he pointed at Xuan Nan, his tone mocking and provocative, and joked, “Elder Xuan Nan, you are the Inner Sect Grand Elder of the Heavenly Master Sect.

How about we have a match?

If you can withstand three moves under my hand, I will immediately leave and never set foot in Heming Mountain for the rest of my life.

How about that?”

As soon as Li Chen’s words came out, it caused a stir among everyone present.

“Three rounds, isn’t this Immortal Master Li too arrogant?”

“That’s the Inner Sect Grand Elder of the Heavenly Master Sect, second only to Sect Leader Xuan Tian.

Even the War God Li Lingtian wouldn’t dare to make such outrageous statements, would he?”

…

In an instant, everyone’s eyes were cast toward Xuan Nan, hoping this Great Elder would take action and teach this ignorant rascal a lesson.

However, at this time, Xuan Nan dared not accept the challenge.

You see, at the Divine Dragon Pond, he, together with the Master of Medicine King Valley Sunx Baiyang and the Cross-training Master Puhong from Tianyin Temple, had teamed up but couldn’t last three rounds under Li Chen’s hand.

Now alone, wasn’t that just asking for a beating?

One of Xuan Nan’s disciples, unable to stand it anymore, said urgently, “Master, this Immortal Master Li is speaking arrogantly.

If you can just defeat him…”

“Shut up!

Is this your place to speak?” Before the disciple could finish, Xuan Nan suddenly became furiously angry and scolded him.

The scolded disciple dared not speak further and sulkily retreated.

After a moment of pondering, Xuan Nan spoke resolutely and forcefully, “My fellow brothers, Immortal Master Li intends to pick us off one by one.

For the thousand-year legacy of the Heavenly Master Sect, I will not fall for his trick.

Let’s see what he can do to me!”

Seeing that Xuan Nan wouldn’t accept the challenge and could still come up with such a righteous and majestic excuse, Li Chen couldn’t help but look at him in a new light.

Indeed, there is no enemy like one who descends into utter shamelessness!

He glanced at Xuan Nan, then at the few Elders around him, and said, “Well then, all of you come at me together.

It’ll save me some trouble!”

Seeing that Li Chen was really pushing them too far, Xuan Nan’s anger surged to the top, and he called out to several Elders behind him, “Xuan Ku, Xuan Bei, Xuan Jin, Xuan Mu, Xuan Gang, for the thousand-year legacy of our ancestor and for the righteous path of the Human World, follow me to slay Immortal Master Li!”

The five Elders nodded in succession and, together with Xuan Nan, spread out in six directions, forming an encirclement against Li Chen.

Faced with the siege of the six Great Grandmasters of the Heavenly Master Sect, Li Chen was utterly fearless.

“Very well, if I don’t bash down the gates of your Heavenly Master Sect today, then my surname isn’t Li!”

“Rascal, prepare to die!”

The one who shouted was the Elder Xuan Gang.

He, like Xuan Long, was also a Cross-training Grandmaster.

His Martial Arts talent was only above average, but he was exceptionally hard-working and diligent.

To temper his body, he once stood under the Huangguoshu Waterfall, practicing for forty-nine days, almost losing his life in the process.

On normal days, he would often have his disciples pound his body with heavy iron hammers weighing over a hundred pounds, truly forging his body through thousands of blows and hundreds of refinement.

His manner of training was deemed inhumanely brutal and superlatively twisted.

However, as the saying goes, heaven rewards the diligent.

His meager Martial Arts talent, through such twisted and arduous cultivation, broke through the Life and Death Mysterious Gate, advancing to the Transformation Realm, and becoming a Rock-solid Cross-training Grandmaster.

His Taoist name, Xuan Gang, also originated from this.

Xuan Gang’s punch had the force of an Italian cannon.

Even a large truck could be flattened by it.

Even Li Chen couldn’t help but slightly furrow his brow at this sight.

However, it was just a furrowed brow and nothing more.

“Perfect timing!”

Li Chen also clenched his fist and met him head-on.

“Boom!”

When the fists collided, the impact was akin to a live artillery shelling.

Xuan Gang felt a piercing pain in his wrist, and his dark, iron-like face changed color in an instant.

He clenched his teeth, followed up with a series of chain whip kicks, sending ferocious Gang wind sweeping towards Li Chen’s Sun Temple.

The Sun Temple is one of the most vulnerable parts of the human body; once struck, one may suffer a concussion if minor, or die on the spot if severe.

At the moment when Xuan Gang’s sweeping leg came, Xuan Nan saw an opportunity.

Holding a horsetail whisk, he swept towards Li Chen’s neck like a golden snake dancing wildly, with immense ferocity.

Elders Xuan Ku and Xuan Bei also surged their True Yuan, attacking Li Chen’s left and right shoulders from two different directions.

Elders Xuan Jin and Xuan Mu, who practiced swordsmanship, exchanged glances.

Their long swords flicked through the air, like sudden, poisonous snakes extending their crimson tongues, lunging at their prey.

In front, the Cross-training Grandmaster Xuan Gang’s cannonball-like sweeping kick; on the flank, the Magic Master Xuan Nan’s Death Duster.

On the left and right wings, the iron palm strikes of Elders Xuan Ku and Xuan Bei.

And behind, the Poisonous Snake Swords of Elders Xuan Jin and Xuan Mu.

In an instant, Li Chen was trapped in a life-and-death predicament.

Everyone held their breath, sucking in a chilled gasp, clenching a handful of cold sweat for him.

The White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Xuanwu, hiding in the shadows, also tensed up, ready to jump out to rescue at any moment.

However, Li Chen, who was encircled at the center of death, not only showed no fear but even burst into hearty laughter.

“Haha, is this all you’ve got?

It truly leaves much to be desired!”

Before his voice even landed, Li Chen suddenly roared, and his Protective Gang Qi spread like a vortex, swiftly rippling outwards.

Moreover, the force within surged like rising tidal waves, one wave higher than the other, startling Elders Xuan Nan, Xuan Gang, and the other six, causing their hearts to tremble with alarm.

Seizing this chance, Li Chen’s head dodged slightly, casually grabbing Xuan Gang’s ankle and snapping it like breaking firewood.

“Crack!”

“Ah!”

Cross-training Grandmaster Xuan Gang immediately let out a miserable scream, his solid-as-rock leg being brutally broken by Li Chen and flung away.

By then, Xuan Nan’s horsetail whisk had already wrapped around Li Chen’s neck.

However, before he could exert any force to pull, a cold light flashed in Li Chen’s eyes as he formed his fingers into a blade, and a green-red Light Blade slash ripped through the air.

“Break for me!”

“Rip!”

The horsetail whisk was severed by the Light Blade slash, and Great Elder Xuan Nan’s entire body, like a kite with its string cut, was flung back, crashing awkwardly into a stone wall.

His internal energy surged violently, unable to recover for a long time.

After slicing through Xuan Nan’s whisk, the Light Blade on Li Chen’s fingertips continued with the force of razing the ancient to the ground, sweeping towards the long swords of Elders Xuan Jin and Xuan Mu.

“Clang!”

“Clang!”

The long swords were instantly cut through, the broken blades tossed into mid-air, and even the arms of both elders were wounded by the Light Blade, blood spurting freely.

Seeing this spectacle, Elders Xuan Ku and Xuan Bei, put more force into their attack, summoning all their power for an assault on Li Chen.

“Contesting palm strikes with me, huh?

Think I’d be scared of you?”

Li Chen roared, a radiant golden glow shining from his palm as a “卍” Buddha Seal burst through the air.

“Great Wisdom Palm!”

“Puchi!”

“Puchi!”

Before Li Chen finished speaking, Elders Xuan Bei and Xuan Ku felt a sweetness in their throats, as blood spurted like fountains from the park, spraying skywards.

In the blink of an eye, Li Chen repelled the six Elders of the Heavenly Master Sect, turning the tide of battle.

He glanced at the “Heavenly Master Sect” plaque with its dragon and phoenix calligraphy and a contemptuous cold sneer curled on his lips.

“Humph, this plaque of the Heavenly Master Sect has been hanging for a thousand years, it’s time for a change!”

Before he finished speaking, Chen leaped into the air and, with a palm cutting like a blade, he struck straight down.

“Boom boom boom!”

The plaque was split in half on the spot, and even the mountain gate shook apart, with pieces of stone falling down loudly.

For a moment, the area was eerily silent!

“My goodness, this Immortal Master Li really is terrifying!” After a while, White Tiger let out an incredulous exclamation.

Xuanwu looked unsettled, unable to hide his disbelief.

He still had lingering resentments about being defeated by Li Chen, and now he understood what it meant to truly look up to the high mountains.

Vermilion Bird pursed her lips, her deep and bright eyes staring tightly at Li Chen, silent.

Seeing that neither Vermilion Bird nor Xuanwu spoke, White Tiger tried to make conversation: “Vermilion Bird, how do you think the Azure Dragon would fare in a fight with this freak?”

After pondering for a moment, Vermilion Bird stretched out five delicate fingers and said, “Fifty-fifty, I’d say.”

Xuanwu nodded his head in agreement, indicating that he shared Vermilion Bird’s opinion.

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A hefty 3000-word chapter delivered, timidly asking for recommendation tickets.

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After discharge, I’ll increase the frequency.

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