At this moment, a sky-shattering blade appeared, descending from the heavens.
It cleaved down fiercely.
Caozhi Zhenyan’s complexion turned ugly in an instant.
He never anticipated that Tang Zhong would move to kill so swiftly.
If this strike were not blocked, it would indeed mean certain death.
"With just you, you think you could kill us? The one who should go to Hell is you!" Caozhi Zhenyan said with a cold laugh.
He was already sixty years old, and at this moment, his entire body burst forth with Blood Power.
In an instant, his clothing exploded into shreds, revealing his arms.
Despite being over sixty, his muscles were still robust without any sign of aging.
When the members of the Caozhi Family saw Tang Zhong make a move, they were initially fearful, but now, seeing Caozhi Zhenyan take action, their faces lit up with relief, confident that with the Family Head stepping in, everything would be fine.
"Family Head, quickly slaughter that guy!"
"Avenge our other members of the Caozhi Family!"
At this moment, Caozhi Zhenyan, with his gaze fixed on Tang Zhong, who had already taken up his sword and struck down, had icy cold eyes and clenched fists. Blood Qi converged, and flames burst forth, enveloping his fist.
The Caozhi Family, renowned for their strength in the Martial Arts of Bei Country, were at their most powerful when they could transform their Blood Power into flames.
"You think you could send me to Hell? You’re not good enough!"
Then, he punched out towards the greatsword Tang Zhong had slashed down with.
Flames erupted from Caozhi Zhenyan’s punching fist, coalescing into a Fire Sword.
"Caozhi Sword... also known as Tiancongyun!"
At that moment, the people of the Caozhi Family’s eyes burned with intensity, witnessing the mightiest punch of their clan, the Tiancongyun Style – a punch thrown as if wielding a Divine Artifact.
A Flame Long Sword soared through the air, directly clashing with the great Tang Sword slashed down by Tang Zhong.
Caozhi Zhenyan began to laugh coldly.
In an instant, before everyone’s eyes, the Flame Long Sword collided violently with the blade of the Tang Sword wielded by Tang Zhong.
With a boom, a thunderous and earth-shattering noise erupted, and where the sword and blade met, the sky lit up as if it were daylight.
"You’re as good as dead..." Caozhi Zhenyan roared ferociously beneath the white light.
"Haha!" The people of the Caozhi Family laughed boisterously.
Once the Tiancongyun Sword Style was released, the opponent was undoubtedly doomed to die.
But before they could finish, at that very moment, a shocking scene unfolded.
Crocks began to appear on the Flame Long Sword, spreading rapidly across the blade with a series of crackling sounds.
"How is this possible?" Caozhi Zhenyan’s face turned to terror instantly.
Everyone else was stunned as well.
They saw the colossal Tang Sword in Tang Zhong’s hands, accompanied by sharp Knife Qi.
"Annihilate!" Tang Zhong commanded in a cold voice.
Since the entire Martial Arts world of Bei Country had participated in killing his grandfather, then he would make the entire Martial Arts world of Bei Country pay, starting with Caozhi Zhenyan.
The massive blade pressed down unrelentingly.
The Flame Sword in Caozhi Zhenyan’s hands broke apart continuously.
His attack was being pushed back step by step, and his complexion grew uglier, "How is this possible? Impossible!"
But the blade kept coming down.
Tang Zhong’s murderous aura was fully unleashed.
With a bang, Caozhi Zhenyan’s technique was completely shattered and dispersed, and the blade descended from the skies, about to strike him down.
"No... it’s impossible... How could you be a Grandmaster!" Caozhi Zhenyan exclaimed in horror.
He had assumed that the person before him was just a Martial Arts Master, but to his shock, he was actually a Grandmaster.
Such a young Grandmaster!
As the blade of the knife came chopping down, Caozhi Zhenyan hurriedly raised his hand, a red glow blooming on his palm, condensed by Blood Power, gripping the descending blade tightly.
But the Knife Qi released from the blade was stimulating his body as if it was going to tear his skin apart.
"No..." Caozhi Zhenyan roared desperately.
But the blade was closing in fast, he had nowhere to hide.
Originally, he was midair, but now he was being crushed down from the sky relentlessly.
The massive blade, with Caozhi Zhenyan in its grasp, crashed down from heaven with brute force.
"No!" Fear was even more evident on Caozhi Zhenyan’s face, deathly aura surrounding him, indicating the omen of death’s arrival.
In the next moment, the blade forcefully hit the ground, the immense Knife Qi blasting towards Earth, causing the ground to vibrate violently, cutting a ravine into the once-intact peak of Two Waters Mountain.
The huge booming sound resonated, causing the entire Two Waters Mountain to shake along, with rocks flying everywhere.
At this moment, all the members of the Caozhi Family panicked as if witnessing the most terrifying thing imaginable, seeing their Family Head being brutally crushed down.
It took a long while for calm to return, and the massive blade that had pressed into the ground began to gradually dissipate.
All the members of the Caozhi Family then looked towards the ravine on Two Waters Mountain, wondering about the Family Head’s state.
However, no matter how hard they looked, they couldn’t find the Family Head’s figure.
Everyone began to panic.
"Where’s the Family Head?"
As these words were uttered, everyone’s hearts turned cold.
They didn’t want to believe that the Family Head died, but the scene before them forced everyone to consider this possibility.
"Family Head... Father!"
The retainers of the Caozhi Family shouted.
But there was no response at all.
Could he really be dead?
The complexions of everyone turned grim, and as they looked back at Tang Zhong, fear filled their eyes, "How... how could he possibly be dead?"
No one dared to believe it was true, Caozhi Zhenyan was a Grandmaster, after all, could it be? Soon, everyone’s gaze shifted towards Tang Zhong in the distance, "Is this guy a Martial Arts Grandmaster?"
The people of the Caozhi Family were all in panic.
Meanwhile, ordinary people were slowly making their way up from the base of Two Waters Mountain.
Among them was Ren Wei, who had already reported the news of Tang Zhong climbing the mountain to the Caozhi Family Head, trusting that the Family Head would soon kill that arrogant man from Xuan Country.
Although he himself was from Xuan Country, he hoped for Tang Zhong to die.
Excited, he climbed up the stairs, eager to witness Tang Zhong’s death.
But just as he arrived, he was stunned by the scene before him.
He saw only ruins in front of him, and the man he had wished dead was now standing there, completely still, with the stunned Caozhi Family members surrounding him.
"What... What happened here?" Ren Wei was truly dumbfounded, where was Caozhi Family Head Caozhi Zhenyan?
And just then, he witnessed a scene that rendered him speechless.
He saw Tang Zhong holding a Black Blade, looking at the members of the Caozhi Family before him, coldly saying, "Now, when I ask you something, you answer me. Otherwise, death!"
The members of the Caozhi Family, one after another, kneeled on the ground, terrified.
Seeing this, Ren Wei was completely startled, this... this... what on Earth was going on? Why were the people from the Caozhi Family acting towards that man?
(I moved to a new house with no internet connection, and have been typing this out on a mobile phone, which is extremely slow, but today I finally got broadband installed!)