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Chapter 198: Chapter 194: Xiling Cao Family

If blocking a single arrow meant he could confront the real boss, then Cao Yi didn’t mind playing the good guy for once. He approached a young martial artist who had just dropped down, took his badge and spoke coldly, “This round is mine, beat it.”

As if granted a royal pardon, the young man handed his badge to Cao Yi, bowed his head, bent his body and sprinted out of the combat arena.

Just as the two stewards were about to intervene, they were stopped by Yuan Zun’s yell from the stage, “Let them switch.”

The purpose of the stage martial artists was to help the defending champion sift out suitable challengers, to block those unfit for combat. To massacre average Mortal Realm martial artists wasn’t for amusement, but a warning. A bunch of Martial artists, none of whom had reached the peak of the Mortal Realm, dreaming of making a name for themselves in one fight – they were delusional! On getting a badge, they thought they could easily stand up against the current champion of the Xu Clan!

At least the few who showed up today were respectable, all of them had reached the peak of the Mortal Realm mastering the unity of spirit and intent. Their imposing aura made them worthy adversaries.

Nor did Cao Yi find anything surprising, he took the badge and stepped onstage without introducing himself, for he believed that the majority of martial artists in Xiling knew him!

Xiling had many mid-sized families with a complex web of relations and alliances. Only the knights and ladies of the Cao family were ignored. This was due to their family’s innate technique – The Corpse Refiner, a particularly formidable technique that required a martial artist to immerse themselves in evil Qi and upon mastery, their bodies would be as hard as stone and their spiritual energy poisonous.

Mastery of this technique required one to draw upon the evil Qi. Consequently, the Cao family, in order to facilitate their practice, had constructed their ancestral mansion near the chaotic burial grounds of Xiling. However, those who practiced the Corpse Refiner had difficult childbirths and early deaths, regardless of whether they were men who married into the Cao family or women born into it.

Over time, the Cao family stood alone, unaligned with any of the mid-sized families of Xiling. Fortunately, their formidable combat strength made up for their lack in numbers, making them one of the renowned families of Xiling.

And Cao Yi was the son of the Cao family, 36 years old, at the peak of the Mortal Realm, deeply proficient in the Corpse Refiner technique. His body emitted a ghastly black color, invulnerable to weapons, possessing immense strength.

did not. He just didn’t want to lose more energy than necessary during his match against him which would affect his following confrontation against the pompous young master of

one arrow to challenge the young master of the Xu Clan, so he was

stood immovable, calmly waiting for Yuan Zun

was the first peak Mortal Realm challenger in two days, so Yuan Zun had to show him due respect. However, Yuan Zun, witnessing such arrogance, could hardly contain

shooting only one arrow limited Yuan Zun’s performance; therefore, he could only select an arrow

way to vent than to use Sky Burning Arrow. Yuan Zun let the anger roar within him. His spiritual power surged, filling his

drew his arrow and pulled on his bow, perfectly integrating his mind with the intention of his arrow. He released the bowstring, and a dragon of flames furiously lunged

Refiner energy in his right arm. With a “riiip,” his sleeve tore from the cuff to the shoulder, revealing an arm as thick as a dark pillar, bulging with muscles and popping veins carrying the eerie black sheen of Corpse Refiner-

his bulky right arm, Cao Yi threw a heavy punch, executing the “Ghostly Evil Fist” towards

dragon head and the ghost face exploded simultaneously, a ring of greenish-black spiritual energy emerged. Cao Yi originally thought he had easily blocked this hit and was about to retract his fist when

of this fire ring, but not Cao Yi. The ferocious man advanced instead of retreating, turning his fist into a palm, intending to break this fire

Zhun snorted disdainfully. His hawk-like eyes were full

the spiritual power condensed by the spirit-locking form to cause direct damage, but the intense heat and the spiritual power of fire locked within the dragon body after

flame, besides having extremely high temperatures and being difficult to extinguish, it also had a

of spiritual power can use any other spiritual power to further increase

in contact with the fire ring. Yuan Zhun actually wanted to see how a warrior

his bulky arm that resembled an iron pillar, at the fire ring. As soon as he made contact, the iron-like bulky arm caught fire, and

pillar turned into a pillar of fire, and Cao Yi let out a