"Hmph. Overestimating yourself."
Yet again facing Zi Xunyi's most powerful killing move, the Kong Heavenly Clan Master merely let out a soft snort.
With a casual sweep of his massive sleeve, a sharp clanging rang out, and both of Zi Xunyi's ancestral daggers were sent flying away.
Just like that, with a single effortless gesture, he had neutralized Zi Xunyi's strongest attack.
"Uwaaah—!"
At that moment, the Kong Heavenly Clan Master reached out and grabbed through the void. Zi Xunyi let out a piercing scream.
The Kong Heavenly Clan Master had seized her by the throat across the empty space and pulled her directly to his side.
"Stop!" Ying Mingchao bellowed when he saw this.
However, the more frantic he became, the more smug the Kong Heavenly Clan Master's expression grew. He looked at Ying Mingchao and said:
"I almost forgot to tell you — not only can I kill you, but I can also kill your Chu Feng, and this woman here."
"Oh my, now that I look closely, this little lady is quite the beauty."
"No wonder that fellow from the Blood Scale Demon Clan was so concerned about you both."
As he spoke, the Kong Heavenly Clan Master turned his gaze toward Zi Xunyi, and whether deliberately or from genuine feeling, a lecherous light welled up in his eyes.
He then looked back at Ying Mingchao and said, "Ying Mingchao, such a gorgeous woman — I wonder if you've ever even shared her bed."
"It doesn't matter, though. I may be doomed, but I still have some time left, and I intend to put on quite a show for you during that time."
"What are you trying to do?!" Ying Mingchao roared in fury, a look of alarm surfacing in his eyes.
"What am I trying to do? I intend to defile your woman right in front of you." As the Kong Heavenly Clan Master spoke those words, he reached out and grabbed Zi Xunyi's left shoulder. Then, with a tearing sound, he ripped away a piece of her clothing.
"I'm going to kill you!"
When he saw this, a terrifying killing intent exploded from Ying Mingchao's eyes.
But the cruel reality was that he was completely in the Kong Heavenly Clan Master's grasp. No matter how furious he was, no matter how desperately he struggled, he could only hang there on the ancestral weapon that had been driven through his body — he had no strength whatsoever to do anything to the Kong Heavenly Clan Master.
"Angry, are you? Good. Be angry. That's exactly what I want — to defile your woman right before your very eyes."
After finishing those words, the Kong Heavenly Clan Master reached out once more, his hand moving toward Zi Xunyi.
BOOM—!
But at that very moment, an ear-splitting roar suddenly tore across the heavens.
Dark clouds came roiling down from the sky, and at the same time, an immensely powerful aura erupted from within Ying Mingchao's body.
"You—?!"
The Kong Heavenly Clan Master's expression froze the instant he saw Ying Mingchao.
He realized with shock that Ying Mingchao's eyes were not merely burning with overwhelming killing intent.
A ghostly green glow had appeared in those eyes — a gaze that did not belong to a human, but rather to a savage beast.
And it wasn't just his eyes. Even within the churning mass of dark clouds overhead, that same green light had begun to shine through.
CRACK—!
In that moment, Ying Mingchao's hand clamped down on the ancestral weapon embedded in his body. Then, with flesh and sinew tearing, he began to forcibly pull the weapon out of himself.
Seeing this, the Kong Heavenly Clan Master immediately gripped the ancestral weapon tightly, desperately trying to drive it back into Ying Mingchao's body.
But to his disbelief, he could no longer overpower him. Ying Mingchao's strength in that moment completely eclipsed his own.
CLANG—!
In a sudden burst, blood sprayed in every direction. Ying Mingchao had not only ripped the ancestral weapon free but had also snatched it directly from the Kong Heavenly Clan Master's grasp.
BOOM—!
At the same time, the roaring in the sky grew ever more deafening, and the very earth began to tremble.
The green light within the dark clouds blazed brighter and brighter, and through the roiling black mass, Chu Feng could faintly make out the visage of a fearsome beast.
It was enormous — large enough to blot out nearly the entire sky, covering the whole of the Kong Heavenly Clan.
It looked like a wolf, yet the aura it exuded was far more savage than any wolf could possess.
"Heavenly-grade bloodline?"
Chu Feng's eyes narrowed. Though the green light radiating from the sky carried a suffocating and chilling sensation, he could sense that it was, in truth, a God-given power.
However, upon reaching the True Immortal realm, whether it was the power of a heavenly-grade bloodline or that of a God-given body, both would be suppressed.