Chapter 555
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Chapter 555 The Final Trump Card!?
Lin Batian’s speed was extremely fast.
In the vision of those around, they could only see a flash of light streaking through the air.
In an instant, Lin Batian appeared in front of Xiao Chen.
Xiao Chen, emanating a murderous aura, condensed a ball of true qi in his right palm and struck toward Lin Batian.
Lin Batian extended his left palm, directly meeting Xiao Chen’s right palm.
“Bang!”
The true qi exploded, sending Xiao Chen flying backward some distance.
Lin Batian stood in place and extended his right hand.
The paper fan he had casually thrown to the ground immediately flew back into his hand.
Lin Batian held the fan and looked toward Xiao Chen, a faint smile appearing on his fair face.
Everyone present was still in shock from Fang Yu’s earlier punch.
Lin Batian’s sudden move drew their attention to him.
Only then did they remember that this elegant jade gentleman was the companion of the bearded man.
However, since Lin Batian hadn’t made a move before, they had almost forgotten his existence.
Judging by appearances, Lin Batian looked like a frail scholar.
Compared to Xiao Chen with his murderous aura and surging energy, he seemed at a disadvantage.
But with the previous lesson, no one dared to judge by appearances anymore.
Especially since this person was the companion of the bearded man!
“This person… surely can’t be as strong as that one, right?” The elders of the Wancao Sect hovering above the hall thought with shocked expressions.
“He cannot die, don’t use too much force,” Fang Yu transmitted to Lin Batian.
“Don’t worry, I’m just loosening up my muscles,” Lin Batian replied.
“Be quick,” Fang Yu said, taking out the Dayan Lamp from his storage pouch.
Looking at Xiao Chen in mid-air, Fang Yu frowned.
At present, he couldn’t sense any aura of the Ziyan Palace remnants from Xiao Chen.
Additionally, he remembered that previously during the competition, to prevent his memory from being searched, Wan Long, the Ziyan Palace remnant residing in Xiao Chen’s body, had torn Xiao Chen’s soul apart.
Without a soul, the physical body was just an empty shell with no possibility of recovery.
Therefore, Xiao Chen’s body was clearly now occupied by another soul.
This was something Fang Yu had immediately realized when he saw Xiao Chen.
However, these weren’t the key issues and didn’t require much consideration.
The only thing Fang Yu needed to confirm was whether Xiao Chen’s physical body still retained any traces of the Ziyan Palace remnants’ aura.
Even if there was just a slight trace, the Dayan Lamp could use it to search for other remnants with similar auras worldwide.
Fang Yu held the Dayan Lamp and looked up at Lin Batian ahead.
At this moment, Xiao Chen’s murderous aura was still extraordinarily sharp.
He stared at Lin Batian, extended both hands forward with palms facing up.
Silver light flashed on his palms, and a large hammer appeared in his hands.
This hammer was very large, with a particularly sharp hammerhead.
Xiao Chen gripped the handle with both hands, his true qi exploding behind him as he charged fiercely toward Lin Batian.
“Of all weapons, I dislike hammers the most,” Lin Batian said. “Too cumbersome.”
Xiao Chen rushed to Lin Batian, raised the hammer high, and smashed it down toward Lin Batian’s head.
Given the distance between them and Xiao Chen’s force, Lin Batian had nowhere to dodge!
Xiao Chen’s face was full of ferocity and bloodlust.
The giant hammer was about to touch Lin Batian’s head.
At this moment, Lin Batian merely turned his fan around and gently fanned it at Xiao Chen.
“Whoosh!”
This seemingly casual fan stroke suddenly unleashed a fierce gale!
This gale contained sharp energy, instantly engulfing Xiao Chen and violently blasting him backward.
“Boom!”
Before Xiao Chen’s hammer could fall, his entire body along with the hammer was blasted backward, crashing into the mountains outside with a thunderous sound.
“Come back,” Lin Batian waved his fan again.
“Swoosh!”
The howling gale suddenly changed direction, pushing Xiao Chen back in front of Lin Batian.
Xiao Chen was now bleeding from all seven orifices, gritting his teeth and emitting painful groans.
In the midst of the gale, he was suffering from the sharp energy spinning like a top every second.
Pain from all directions!
“Ah…”
Xiao Chen roared in anger, fully releasing his Martial Saint aura.
Gritting his teeth and using all his strength, he spread his true qi outside his body, trying to form a protective shield to block the sharp energy in the gale.
But he couldn’t maintain this process for even a second!
This gale was simply too powerful!
“Ah…”
Xiao Chen’s angry roars gradually turned into miserable screams.
“This person doesn’t take beatings well, that’s enough,” Lin Batian frowned slightly and gently waved his fan.
The gale enveloping Xiao Chen instantly dissipated.
By now, Xiao Chen had exhausted all his strength and couldn’t even maintain basic true qi. He fell from the air, hitting the ground with a dull thud.
Lin Batian descended from the air, waving his fan, and said, “He’s all yours.”
“Good,” Fang Yu lit the Dayan Lamp and directed it to fly toward Xiao Chen.
The Dayan Lamp flew above Xiao Chen’s head and began absorbing the aura from his body.
The Dayan Lamp glowed brightly, and strands of aura emerged from Xiao Chen’s body, flowing toward the lamp.
During this process, the surroundings were completely silent.
The hundreds of people in the hall and the various Wancao Sect elders outside were speechless.
They had already been shocked by the bearded Fang Yu’s performance.
Unexpectedly, this seemingly frail but handsome man was also terrifyingly strong!
These two people… who exactly were they?
Beings who could easily defeat Martial Gods and Martial Saints were rare even throughout the entire Nine Provinces Country!
The Dayan Lamp quickly absorbed all the aura from Xiao Chen’s body.
Fang Yu immediately activated the lamp to search for people with the same aura.
The Dayan Lamp flew toward the sky and soon disappeared from view.
“Was it useful?” Lin Batian asked.
Fang Yu shook his head and said, “I don’t know, let’s hope so.”
“Actually, we could pull out Xiao Chen’s soul and search it thoroughly, perhaps we might find some clues,” Lin Batian said, glancing at Xiao Chen lying on the ground.
“Useless, Xiao Chen’s soul has long dissipated,” Fang Yu said. “The Xiao Chen before us is just a shell, the identity of the soul inside is unknown.”
However, it must be related to Fu Yunhe.
Fang Yu turned his head to look inside the hall.
His earlier strike hadn’t killed Fu Yunhe, at most it had severely injured him.
Because he could still sense Fu Yunhe’s aura, though it was much weaker than before.
From the previous address, Xiao Chen was Fu Yunhe’s disciple.
Why did Fu Yunhe want to save Xiao Chen? What did he see in Xiao Chen?
The answers to these questions might have some connection to the Ziyan Palace.
“Fortunately, I didn’t kill him, so I can still question him,” Fang Yu thought.
“Thump thump thump…”
While Fang Yu and Lin Batian were discussing, a series of chaotic and hurried footsteps sounded from behind.
A group of martial artists dressed uniformly in gray robes ran over from a distant path.
Seeing the scene before them, the leading martial artist’s expression changed as he searched for figures inside the hall.
Soon, he saw the Yu family of three collapsed in front of the stone pillars.
“Master!”
This martial artist immediately led his team rushing into the hall.
Yu Tianming felt relieved seeing these people arrive.
Although the situation was still not optimistic, as long as people arrived, his situation would be much safer.
“Master, we’re late!” The leading martial artist knelt on one knee and said.
“Help me up, check on the young master and miss,” Yu Tianming ordered.
The Yu family’s elite, twenty-six people in total, were all martial artists above the Martial Venerable realm.
All three were helped up.
Yu Nan was particularly weak, her face completely bloodless.
She looked at Fang Yu and Lin Batian standing in the distance, her eyes filled with fear.
“…Dad, we can’t fight them! We… are no match!” Yu Nan said tremblingly.
“I know,” Yu Tianming said with a gloomy expression.
Fu Yunhe was their Yu family’s last trump card.
With even Fu Yunhe defeated, their Yu family had no capital to resist.
“Boom!”
Just as Yu Tianming was considering how to respond, a huge explosion erupted from inside the hall behind him!
Screams and exclamations sounded from behind, and the entire hall shook!
A suffocating, terrifying aura emanated from inside the hall!
