Chapter 5130 — It Must Be Done!
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 2
"Parents?" Bing Wushuang's eyelid twitched. He frowned slightly. "Do you have any idea what you've done?"
"Of course I do. When a child gets bullied, naturally I, as the parent, must step forward and settle the matter. Wouldn't you agree?" Lin Dongfang spoke with the unmistakable air of a family elder.
"You are provoking the Xuejian Sect." Bing Wushuang gave a cold snort. His expressionless face suddenly acquired a touch of murderous intent as he pronounced judgment: "To provoke the Xuejian Sect is to court death. You may go and die now."
With that, the Merciless Ice Force pressing down upon every head in the hall abruptly vanished, and only then did the crowd get a chance to catch their breath. No movement of Bing Wushuang's was visible, yet at that very moment the sand beneath Lin Dongfang's feet suddenly sank, and his whole body plunged without the slightest warning, leaving only his head above the ground.
A closer look revealed a layer of frozen white frost covering Lin Dongfang's entire body, and the pit that had swallowed him had thoroughly transformed into an ice cavity radiating biting cold.
"Senior!" Lengleng, who stood nearest, hurriedly reached out to save him. Only now did she understand that Bing Wushuang had not withdrawn his Merciless Ice Force at all—he had gathered all of it, which had been oppressing everyone, into a single point, which was why it could erupt with such terrifying force in an instant.
But before Lengleng's hand could touch Lin Dongfang's, she too was suddenly driven down. Though she was not trapped immobile in an ice cavity as Lin Dongfang was, her whole body was nonetheless pinned firmly to the ground by the overwhelming Merciless Ice Force—and that was with Bing Wushuang sparing only a small fraction of his remaining strength. Even so, it was more than enough to give Lengleng a bitter draught to swallow.
"I overestimated you. You're nothing but this." Looking at Lin Dongfang frozen there, Bing Wushuang's lips curved into a faintly contemptuous arc. He had thought he had met a rare worthy opponent, but it turned out he had been overthinking it. The old man's ability to send Xue Jianming sprawling with a single slap evidently had not come from Golden Core cultivation—there must be some other explanation.
As he spoke, amid the cries of Qiu Lingshan and the others, Bing Wushuang suddenly stooped and reached for Lin Dongfang. The old man had dared to provoke the Xuejian Sect to his face; there was only one course—to twist his head off before the crowd as a warning to others.
"Stop! This is the territory of my North Island Cangwu Sect. If you dare act recklessly, you make an enemy of the entire North Island Cangwu Sect!" Seeing this, Xin Yi'an could no longer concern himself with anything else. He hastily formed a barrier of true qi between Lin Dongfang and Bing Wushuang—the very move that had earlier cost Xue Jianming so dearly. No matter what, he absolutely could not let Lin Dongfang die here, least of all before his own eyes.
Bing Wushuang paused slightly in his movement. Turning his head, he glanced at him and said, "My Xuejian Sect already has one Xue Jianming laid low. This old man must die as well. Fair and reasonable."
With that, utterly ignoring Xin Yi'an's extremely ugly expression, Bing Wushuang shaped one hand into a claw with utmost speed, shattering Xin Yi'an's true qi barrier almost in an instant, and went straight for Lin Dongfang's forehead.
So powerful! Xin Yi'an was greatly startled. They were both early Golden Core masters; it was hardly surprising that a true qi barrier should be broken by a peer—after all, it was no formidable defensive technique to begin with, and the opponent could exploit a single point to break the whole surface and seize the initiative. But to see it broken as cleanly and crisply as Bing Wushuang had just done—that was a first.