"Disciples of the Beast King Palace can actually be so shameless and overbearing? Snatching away the task others have painstakingly completed, how utterly despicable!"
Ling Xiao said coldly.
"You little beast, it seems you’re really tired of living!"
Younger Brother Zhang revealed a ferocious smile on his face.
Initially, due to Ling Xiao being a disciple of the Moon Hua Sect, it wasn’t appropriate for him to make a move in front of so many people.
However, now he felt caught between a rock and a hard place.
Ling Xiao had insulted his sect in front of so many people; if he didn’t make a move, he was likely to become a laughingstock.
At this moment, She Mei giggled and said, "Younger Brother Zhang, it looks like he doesn’t take your threat seriously at all. Isn’t it time to teach this Moon Hua Sect disciple a lesson on how to behave?"
"She Mei, you can rest assured, I’ll take care of this little beast today; there’s no need for Sister to act."
Younger Brother Zhang’s face flushed with a wave of crimson, evidently feeling humiliated.
It really irked him to lose face in front of the woman he secretly pined for.
He looked toward Ling Xiao, raising his hand, a pair of Divine Weapons shimmering with cold light appeared in his hand, the Precious Treasure Artifacts—the Beast Claws.
This weapon was extraordinarily special, not forged from metal but directly crafted from the claws of a Ferocious Beast. Its terrifying nature was such that it could even surpass metallic weapons in its potential for havoc.
"State your name, for I do not slay the nameless!"
Younger Brother Zhang said in a cold voice.
"Outer Sect disciple of the Moon Hua Sect, Ling Xiao. I hope you’ll remember this name even in death. If you seek vengeance, feel free to come after me."
Ling Xiao responded indifferently.
"Huh? Hahaha, an Outer Disciple? A mere Outer Sect disciple from the Moon Hua Sect dares to be so arrogant. It seems no one has put the Moon Hua Sect in its place in so many years, they’re becoming increasingly presumptuous."
Younger Brother Zhang was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing.
The onlookers who were there for the spectacle also joined in the laughter.
From their perspective, an Outer Sect disciple daring to be impudent in front of an Inner Sect disciple of the Beast King Palace was simply seeking death.
"Find it funny, do you?"
Ling Xiao looked at Younger Brother Zhang with a hint of mockery at the corner of his mouth.
Others had scoffed at him in the same way before; however, they ended up either dead or utterly defeated.
"If Younger Brother Zhang is not going to take action, then let me do it."
Just then, another disciple from the Beast King Palace standing beside She Mei spoke up.
This person seemed to be older than both She Mei and Younger Brother Zhang, with a stronger cultivation level as well.
"Elder Brother Hai, to kill an Outer Sect disciple—there really is no need for you to fight me over it,"
Younger Brother Zhang said with a smile.
"That’s true. The Moon Hua Sect is already the weakest among the Twelve Sects, and now we have an Outer Sect disciple here. I reckon that even my pet beast could bite him to death without us lifting a finger,"
Elder Brother Hai joked as well.
The two of them were treating Ling Xiao as if he were already a dead man.
No sooner had Ling Xiao’s words fallen did he launch a palm strike.
The disciples of the Beast King Palace, Younger Brother Zhang and Elder Brother Hai, were still discussing how to kill Ling Xiao, as if deliberating on how to prepare a salted fish.
All of a sudden, they both felt a terrifying presence suddenly emerge, and the air carried the sound of wailing.
It was as if even the elements in the air were screaming in terror because of the palm strike.
This was an exceedingly fearsome palm, bearing an overwhelming sense of destruction and wild ferocity.
The palm strike was so terrifying that it made Elder Brother Hai and She Mei both retreat several steps.
Being closest to Ling Xiao, Younger Brother Zhang found his body seized by the terrifying aura of destruction, frozen to the point of being unable to move.
What he saw was a hand.
But it also seemed like the expanse of the heavens.
Younger Brother Zhang’s heart seized with terror, unable to comprehend why an Outer Sect Disciple of the Moon Hua Sect could be so powerful.
It was just a single palm strike, yet it carried such an overwhelming force of destruction that it seemed to shred him to pieces.
Younger Brother Zhang struggled to turn his head, crying out to She Mei and his Elder Brother Hai for help.
However, his voice was hoarse and filled with despair, as if all hope had burned to ash.
Even so, She Mei and Elder Brother Hai should have heard him.
But sadly, neither of them dared to step forward to rescue him; Ling Xiao’s terrifying palm strike had exceeded their understanding.
Is this really just an Outer Sect Disciple?
Young Brother Zhang was utterly hopeless.
Suddenly, an overwhelming aura of destruction enveloped his body.
He felt his body explode in an instant, and then, everything ceased to matter to him.
Between heaven and earth, fragments of cloth drifted down, accompanied by the thick stench of charred flesh.
Cold sweat incessantly dribbled from She Mei’s and Elder Brother Hai’s foreheads to the ground.
Their hearts raced uncontrollably as they watched a perfectly healthy person die before their very eyes.
And not just die; he had been obliterated without a trace.
No, he was utterly reduced to dust, with only fragments of clothing remaining.
She Mei and Elder Brother Hai had never imagined that someone they deemed as weak as their pets could kill, actually slaughtered their junior fellow disciple.
They had paid a terrible price in blood!
"You actually killed him! Killed Younger Brother Zhang! Have you lost your mind? He was a disciple of the Beast King Palace; do you dare to kill him?"
Elder Brother Hai murmured to himself, fear-stricken.
In his eyes, disciples of the Moon Hua Sect were always meek as sheep, never daring to kill someone lightly even when humiliated, at most they would report the offense to their Sect.
But today, an Outer Sect Disciple of the Moon Hua Sect had actually killed his younger fellow disciple, one from the Inner Sect of the Beast King Palace!
That shows just how shameless and ridiculous they are.
When they wanted to kill Ling Xiao, they never thought about the unspoken rule among the Twelve Sects to not kill each other without cause.
However, now that one of their own had been killed, they suddenly realized that they shouldn’t have done this.
"I know he was a disciple of the Beast King Palace, and an Inner Sect Disciple at that, but I killed him just the same!"
Ling Xiao spoke with a hint of mockery and playfulness, "I intend to kill not just him, but both of you as well. Do not hope to escape!"
As he spoke, he casually lifted his foot.
Yet, that casual step caused She Mei and Elder Brother Hai to tremble in their hearts, and involuntarily they both stepped back.
"Weren’t you just trying to kill me a moment ago? Why are you backing up? You might be going in the wrong direction, right?"
"You can’t possibly be an Outer Sect Disciple of the Moon Hua Sect, who are you really? Are you a demon being from the True Demon Empire?"
Elder Brother Hai yelled, as if screaming could imbue him with immense courage.
"How laughable, unable to win, you resort to slandering others. Is this the behavior befitting disciples of the Beast King Palace?"
Shaking his head, Ling Xiao continued to walk forward, while the other two kept retreating.
In his hasty retreat, Elder Brother Hai tripped over a stone and fell.
How ridiculous it was that a Transcendent Realm Martial Artist was tripped by a mere stone—no one would believe it if they heard.
Yet, that was precisely what had occurred; a late-stage, Third Layer Transcendent Realm Martial Artist from the Beast King Palace had been scared into a tumble by an Outer Sect Disciple of the Moon Hua Sect.