A single palm strike pushed the mountains over, transferring the sea’s imposing momentum into this narrow alley!
Originally, it was the Nine Dragons Union executed by her brother, Zhao Chuanzu, who only possessed Inner Qi Cultivation. Yet, it had evolved into such a Palm Seal.
When it collided with the ferocious power of her Mystic Barrier Realm "Nine Dragons Union," it wasn’t outshone; in fact, its might even surpassed hers by more than just a notch.
The two Palm Forces exploded in the alley, blasting up a large expanse of the bluestone pavement!
A clash between the Inner Qi Realm and the Mystic Barrier Realm had, astonishingly, ended in a draw.
"This isn’t Nine Dragons Union..." Zhao Yuyan exclaimed in shock. "Zhao Chuanzu, what Martial Art are you using?"
Although Nine Dragons Union was an Ultimate Skill of the family, it absolutely could not allow a Martial Artist of the Inner Qi Realm to cross a major cultivation realm to fight an enemy.
The power of an Ultimate Skill wasn’t this terrifying.
Unless... that Palm Seal was more than just an Absolute Skill Level Martial Art?
A Supreme Level Martial Art?
As Zhao Yuyan’s mind reeled from the shock, she also saw her brother Zhao Chuanzu at the end of the alley. After unleashing that terrifyingly powerful Palm Seal, his face instantly turned ashen, like paper, as if the strike had drained all the Qi Power from his body.
This made Zhao Yuyan’s heart tremble slightly, but then a sense of gladness overcame her.
Although she didn’t know what fortuitous encounter her brother had experienced to learn a Palm Seal of World-Surpassing Level, his execution of this Supreme Level Martial Art, despite achieving the inconceivable feat of ’Inner Qi battling Mystic Barrier,’ meant he possessed at most the ’Power of One Strike.’
"Chuanzu, I don’t know what you’ve been through after coming to Baojiao County, but based on that move alone, you’ve made a great contribution to the sect! I must capture you, bring you back to the sect, and make you divulge the secrets of that Supreme Level Palm Seal Martial Art!"
Light shone in Zhao Yuyan’s eyes.
In that moment, like a mother leopardess, she pounced toward the end of the alley where Zhao Chuanzu, his Qi Power exhausted, was located.
After experiencing the clash of palms, how could she not clearly see that this Palm Seal was developed from the foundation of the Nine Dragons Union Ultimate Skill, into which another Palm Seal had been integrated? This was a Palm Seal capable of elevating an Ultimate Skill to the World-Surpassing Level!
If she could bring it back to the Ancient Elephant Sect, who knew what earth-shattering transformations awaited the sect.
However, just as Zhao Yuyan envisioned a future where she, despite being only a direct daughter, might ascend to the position of Sect Leader, and leaped dozens of meters to capture the exhausted Zhao Chuanzu, she instinctively sensed something was amiss.
Zhao Chuanzu, who was beneath her palm, had a deathly pale face. Though his Qi Power was depleted, he shouldn’t have lacked the ability to dodge, nor should he have lost the means to escape. So why... why was he foolishly standing there, seemingly resigned to his fate under her strike?
Something was fishy! There was a problem!
Just then, Zhao Yuyan sensed a familiar Palm Seal’s Qi Power surging from behind her, once again carrying the overwhelming force of the Mountain Roar Tsunami Seal!
"Not good, he has backup! Someone is ambushing me from behind!!" Zhao Yuyan’s face lost all color. Almost instinctively, she spun around, redirecting the Palm Strike intended for Zhao Chuanzu towards the source of the oppressive Qi Power.
But, not only did turning around slow her considerably, her redirected Palm Force also faltered, failing to unleash its full power.
Moreover... the person delivering the Palm Seal from behind, much like Zhao Chuanzu, also executed the ’Mountain Roar Tsunami Seal’ derived from Nine Dragons Union.
Its power, however, was worlds apart.
Zhao Yuyan only saw a zhang-sized Palm Seal materialize above her, descending to envelop her! Official source is novel-fire.net
The force of the Palm Seal was like mountains toppling and a tsunami crashing down, bearing down on her with overwhelming power.
Her own Palm Strike, before this opponent’s Palm Seal, was...
...like a small raft swallowed by a colossal wave, instantly crushed into dust and scattered across the air.
Then, the Palm Seal’s momentum unabated, it smashed directly onto her crown. CRUNCH! Before the terror in Zhao Yuyan’s widening eyes could fully spread, her head and body burst like a pulverized watermelon.
Beneath Zhao Yuyan’s obliterated remains, a zhang-sized palm impression was deeply imprinted into the ground.
An overwhelming tide of blood instantly splattered onto the alley walls.
It then streamed down the walls, flowing into the inch-deep, zhang-wide, five-fingered palm impression pit.
[The Diagram Master has slain Zhao Yuyan and obtained one strand of Second Realm Evil Qi.]
"Damn, this Palm Strike is that powerful?"
Chen Ku, too, stood suspended dozens of meters high in the air, looking down in disbelief at the Mountain Roar Tsunami Seal he had just unleashed by channeling all his Qi Power through Nine Dragons Union.
Originally, he had sent Zhao Chuanzu out merely to stall Zhao Yuyan’s escape.
Additionally, he wanted to see the power of this Palm Seal. Zhao Chuanzu’s Incarnation had deduced this technique by fusing two great Ultimate Skills after performing a Qi Performing Technique—a process that had cost the Incarnation dozens of instances of being possessed by the Devil and suffering numerous internal injuries.
He had indeed seen that Zhao Chuanzu’s Incarnation, at the Inner Qi Realm, could actually withstand a full-strength blow from a Mystic Barrier Realm expert.
However, Zhao Chuanzu’s Incarnation, due to insufficient Qi Power, could at most unleash only one strike of this newly fused Martial Art.
But that didn’t matter; Chen Ku himself possessed ample Qi Power.
His Qi Power, augmented by the Third Realm Great Year Beast, was genuinely at the Third Realm level.
Thus, he too executed the same move. Seizing the moment Zhao Yuyan was distracted by Zhao Chuanzu, he delivered ’a palm strike descending from the heavens’ from his position high above.