Tang Bai Li

Chapter 75 Qi Family's Qi

“You can take this finger, it really surprises me,” the young man said, slowly retracting his hand. The surprise in his eyes flashed and disappeared as he spoke, “My name is Qi Ye, Qi from the Qi family. May I ask what you are called?”

“Mu Xu, from the Jiang family.” Xu Mu retracted his palm and then slowly replied.

“The Jiang family, is it that Jiang family among the hundred clans?”

“Yes, it is.”

After the exchange, the two faced each other silently across the air.

Qi Ye looked at Xu Mu, a strange smile creeping up the corner of his lips. To meet someone from the Jiang family in the first round.

“I ask you, did Jiang Taixu really come?” Qi Ye twisted his wrist and then asked with a fake smile. As he spoke the name Jiang Taixu, the aura around him seemed to turn cold.

“I don’t know.” Xu Mu shook his head upon hearing this, answering truthfully.

“What, you dare not tell me? Are you afraid something will happen to him?” Qi Ye asked with a faint smile and indifferent expression.

“What happens to him has nothing to do with me, nor with you.” Xu Mu grew a little impatient and continued, “If you want to fight, fight. Don’t talk about these trivial matters.”

“Of course it has something to do with it, because I voluntarily gave up my qualification to participate in the Myriad Clans Assembly and came to participate in the preliminaries, with the sole purpose of finding him.” Qi Ye said seriously to Xu Mu. He had some grievances with Jiang Taixu that needed to be settled here.

Xu Mu said nothing more, just stood there silently, waiting for Qi Ye’s attack.

Although it was only a simple exchange, he could feel that this Qi Ye was strong, even far stronger than that Ye Que. To participate in the preliminaries of this Myriad Clans Assembly, he could definitely crush most people, but among those most people, he was not included.

“This kid has some background. Many people outside must be watching this fight. To avoid trouble, do you want to just concede?” Charles asked.

“If I concede, how will the Jiang family view me?” Xu Mu shook his head. “Victory or defeat is not important. As long as I can stall for more time.”

“You’re not answering me. Are you stalling for Jiang Taixu? I won’t let you succeed!”

Qi Ye shouted sternly, taking a sudden step forward towards Xu Mu. His special ability surged, transforming into countless threads of energy that entwined Xu Mu’s body, seemingly trying to strangle him to death.

“Concede now, and I’ll spare your life!”

As Qi Ye spoke, he continuously controlled the energy threads with his hands, like a spider spirit spinning silk, instantly enveloping Xu Mu in a cocoon of energy.

Xu Mu held his breath, letting the energy threads lock his body. He could sense the wear and tear on his body caused by the special abilities, but they couldn’t reach his core.

“In five more seconds, we’ll get out.”

Xu Mu silently calculated the time. Then, just as he finally felt a sharp pain in his arm, he suddenly swung his arm, tearing apart the white energy cocoon as if stirring clouds and mist.

Boom!

Xu Mu burst out of the cocoon. His cloth garment was torn in many places, but his aura was incredibly stable, clearly unharmed.

Seeing this, Qi Ye was stunned. He hadn’t expected this outsider from the Jiang family to withstand this move.

“Alright, it seems you do have some skill. I underestimated you,” Qi Ye said, his aura strengthening further. His body instantly vanished from its spot, and he launched a punch directly at Xu Mu’s face.

Xu Mu suppressed his special ability, meeting the punch with pure physical strength. He didn’t even use his full power.

Boom!

The collision of iron fists produced a huge explosion. Qi Ye’s expression remained calm, his body suspended in the air. Endless energy surged from his body, converging into immense force, cracking the ground beneath Xu Mu’s feet like a spiderweb, as if it would collapse at any second.

Seeing this, Qi Ye’s smile returned. If nothing unexpected happened, this outsider from the Jiang family would be mercilessly smashed into the ground by the absolute difference in strength, losing the match.

But as the seconds ticked by, Qi Ye’s special ability and energy grew stronger, and the veins on his arm bulged. Yet, he found that the ground beneath the opponent’s feet was still in its initial state, and even the opponent’s expression hadn’t changed much.

His cloth garment fluttered gently, and the young man’s eyes were calm, a confidence that stemmed from the depths of his heart. At this moment, Qi Ye even had an illusion that it wasn’t him launching a punch and suppressing Xu Mu, but rather Xu Mu raising his hand and holding his body in mid-air.

Unmoving.

Bang!

It was about time. Xu Mu took a deep breath and then suddenly exerted force, pushing Qi Ye’s body high into the sky. He then instantly charged up, raising his knee and slamming it heavily into the opponent’s thigh.

Crack!

Qi Ye felt the pain in his thigh, a pain that only comes from shattered bones. He couldn’t help but be astonished. But immediately following was Xu Mu’s incredibly violent barrage of punches and kicks.

Boom boom boom boom!!!

Xu Mu’s punches and kicks were as fast as lightning, striking Qi Ye’s body in a chaotic manner. A series of explosions rang out. The latter could only defend passively and then retreated in a flustered manner.

“Hiss.” Qi Ye used his special ability to push Xu Mu away and then quickly landed back on the ground. He looked at the bruises on his body with shock, then wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.

“So you’re a pure physical cultivator. That saber was just to confuse enemies. You almost fooled me, kid!” Qi Ye stared at Xu Mu with a solemn expression, forming hand seals. All the special abilities in his body surged out, disappearing into space, but their fluctuations were extremely dangerous.

“I am about to use my third-stage special ability. Using it to defeat you is the greatest sincerity I can offer you.”

As Qi Ye spoke, Xu Mu slowly assumed a boxing stance. His aura was stable, and his expression held a trace of solemnity. He didn’t need to be told; he could already sense that the special ability the opponent was using this time was not from the second stage.

If he were to meet it again with only fifty percent of his physical strength, he would definitely be seriously injured.

“After you are severely injured, if you tell me some information about Jiang Taixu, I can cover your medical expenses.”

Qi Ye said with a detached expression, grabbing a handful of illusory air and shoving it forward. Instantly, Xu Mu felt a pressure from all directions, yet it was all ethereal.

Those special abilities, carrying immense power, attached themselves to the air, transforming into blades, spears, swords, and halberds, or mountains and rivers. In short, Xu Mu could sense the same energy but different pressures, yet he couldn’t see where those powers were.

Unable to see, he could only feel.

So Xu Mu closed his eyes, using his heart to carefully sense every minute change in space.

Boom!

The blood energy in Xu Mu’s body surged out. Then, with a thunderous punch, it directly shattered an illusory sword in front of him. The terrifying explosion resounded throughout the space, its power immense, yet it couldn’t shake Xu Mu’s body in the slightest.

Then, Xu Mu sent more punches and more palms into the illusory space. Countless powerful illusory energies were shattered by him, and countless terrifying energy waves of explosions engulfed him, but his feet never moved an inch.

He didn’t know how long had passed, perhaps until Qi Ye retracted his hands. As the dust gradually settled, although Xu Mu’s clothes were ragged and he had several wounds, he still maintained his initial boxing stance.

Seeing this, Qi Ye fell silent.

He had already used his third-stage special ability, yet he still couldn’t defeat this outsider from the Jiang family. What about next? Did he have to use his full strength?

“To fight you so fiercely here, what if it delays me from killing Jiang Taixu in the end? It’s not worth it.” After a moment of silence, Qi Ye directly chose to concede.

In his opinion, the latter was already at the end of his rope. He only needed to employ a few more tactics to win, but doing so would inevitably draw Xu Mu’s fiercest counterattack.

And if this were to affect his plan to kill Jiang Taixu, it would truly not be worth it. Therefore, he chose to concede.

Xu Mu’s vision was obscured by sweat. He stared vaguely at Qi Ye, and then he was teleported back to the space where he had originally been.

His record on the leaderboard also changed to one victory.

“I’m not seriously injured, but it really hurts!” Xu Mu lowered his boxing stance and gently touched the knuckles of his fist with his index finger. The stinging pain that emanated from it immediately made him wince.

During the recent battle, he had still not used his special abilities or Dao Origin, only relying on pure physical strength for the confrontation, and he hadn’t even used his full power. This was because doing so could maximize the refinement of his physique.

The physical cultivation of a martial artist was like this. After every punch and every blow, once the body healed from the pain, the blood energy within would become more potent, and the physique would become stronger.

But if it continued like this, it was truly painful.

Xu Mu looked at the wounds on his body. They were already beginning to heal slowly. He then looked at the stone tablet again; it was now beckoning him for another battle.

“The top ranker already has four victories? So fast.” Xu Mu glanced at the leaderboard and noticed an unfamiliar name. After pondering for a moment, he sat down on the ground and pretended to be healing his injuries.

Even if he wasn’t injured, he had to act like he was, because he knew that several pairs of eyes were definitely watching him from the outside.

“Let’s rest for the time it takes an incense stick to burn, then fight again.”

Thinking this, Xu Mu took out a section of the root of the Shore Flower and began to quietly contemplate the Great Dao of Death.