Chapter 4144 — The Turn Comes Too Fast
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Having seized the initiative in the first exchange, Nan Tian Liuguang pressed his advantage without mercy, pinning Di Xingdao down with dozens of powerful martial techniques for a full half-incense's worth of time.
The onlookers could not help but glance sidelong. Beneath the shroud of materialized true qi, they could not clearly see Di Xingdao's present state of ruin, but from the ground crumbling and caving in beneath his feet, they could tell that even if he was not dead, he was surely not far from it.
With an assault so ferocious, an ordinary Nascent Soul Grand Perfection expert would die almost at a touch, and even experts of the early Xuan Ascension stage at the same level could not withstand Nan Tian Liuguang's desperate barrage of martial techniques.
"Dead or not? If you're not dead, open your mouth and beg for mercy, and perhaps I'll be merciful and spare your little life. You are, after all, a legendary figure of your generation—and a former deputy island lord at that. If I just killed you like this, I'd fear others would say I am narrow-minded and cannot tolerate others. So I might consider leaving you a way to live, ha ha ha!" Nan Tian Liuguang laughed wildly in triumph.
The crowd, too, wore expressions of inability to watch. Though Di Xingdao had once been formidable, he was now a thing of the past; before Nan Tian Liuguang he had no power to strike back at all.
"Leave me a way to live? Then I must thank you, Tian, for that?" Di Xingdao's voice suddenly rang out. The whole crowd was startled into doubt, and turned in disbelief toward that little patch of ground at the center, still being savagely bombarded by dozens of martial techniques.
"You're actually still alive?" Nan Tian Liuguang's face changed drastically, and he instinctively retreated several steps.
"Heh heh, your question is strange indeed. You think these techniques of yours, which feel like scratching an itch, can finish me? You underestimate Tian far too much!" Again Di Xingdao was heard but not seen.
"Hmph, putting on an act. You think that can frighten me? You are too naive!" Nan Tian Liuguang came to his senses at once, then threw caution to the wind and bombarded him with all his strength, determined to put Di Xingdao to death in one stroke.
But the next moment, Di Xingdao merely threw a single bare-handed punch, plain and unadorned, and all those dazzling powerful techniques instantly dissolved like smoke, as though they had never appeared at all.
As for Di Xingdao himself, never mind wounds—not even a speck of dust clung to him.
"Impossible! Impossible!" Nan Tian Liuguang retreated again and again in terror. He could never have imagined that his prized Formless Divine Art would have not the slightest lethality against this Di Xingdao. Had he not witnessed it with his own eyes, no one would believe it if told.
"I said it long ago—the Xuan Ascension experts who have died at my hands are not one or two. As for an early Xuan Ascension like you, save your breath." Before Di Xingdao's words had faded, he threw a bare-handed punch at Nan Tian Liuguang from afar.
Boom! No leaked true qi was seen, no unusual power was felt—yet Nan Tian Liuguang, as though struck by a hammer weighing ten thousand tons, was blasted backward, driven clean off the peak of Zhongding Mountain!
With a wail, Nan Tian Liuguang, like a kite with its string cut, fell straight down from the sea of clouds beyond the peak, vanishing from sight in an instant.
The whole arena fell into dead silence. Everyone could not help but exchange glances, and the looks they turned on Di Xingdao were both shocked and fearful. This turn of events had come far too suddenly, far too fast! R1152