360: An extreme beating! Ultimate speed equals strength!

Although Xu Fu's Emperor Heaven Raging Thunder was greatly weakened, the lingering cold thunder Qi, like a bone-deep parasite, instantly invaded Wuming's Meridians and internal organs along his right arm, which was pointing with two fingers!

"Uh ah—!"

Wuming let out a painful groan, his entire right arm instantly covered in a thick layer of black ice, which rapidly spread towards his shoulder!

The extreme cold not only froze his flesh and blood but also frantically corroded his Sword Essence and vitality!

He felt as if his Soul was about to freeze, his consciousness blurred, and his body, like a bird with broken wings, plummeted powerlessly from the sky.

"Senior!"

"Mr. Wuming!"

Bu Jingyun and Wind's eyes were bloodshot, and they endured their injuries, wanting to rush forward and catch Wuming.

"Hmph, you can't even protect yourselves, yet you want to save someone?"

Xu Fu snorted coldly, not even glancing at the falling Wuming again, merely flicking his sleeve downwards!

"Bang! Bang!"

Two invisible Qi strikes, like heavy hammers, smashed into Bu Jingyun and Wind's chests, causing both to spurt blood again and be violently thrown back onto the ice, their injuries worsening to the point where they could barely stand.

"Bang!"

Wuming's body heavily struck the hard ice, causing the ice layer to crack.

He struggled to get up, but his right arm was completely sealed by the strange black ice, devoid of feeling, and inside him, the ice raged, his Meridians freezing inch by inch, his Sword Essence dissipating, making it incredibly difficult even to lift a finger.

Blood continuously overflowed from the corner of his mouth, turning into ice shards that fell to the ground.

With just one Move!

Xu Fu, with nearly two thousand years of cultivation, used his absolute strength to devastatingly injure the martial arts myth, who had just displayed the might of a god and devil!

Xu Fu's figure slowly descended from the sky, standing before Wuming, looking down at this Sword Dao Genius who had surprised and made him wary.

"What a pity... you are my great-grandson, but too terrifying. If your talent were a little less, perhaps this venerable one would have spared your life and taken you into the Heaven Gate."

Xu Fu's voice carried a hint of feigned regret, but more so, it was filled with cold killing intent, "If you must blame something, blame your Heavenly Sword Realm for being too excessive."

He slowly raised his hand, and a wisp of extremely condensed, ice-blue cold Qi, as if capable of freezing the Soul, reappeared at his fingertips, aimed at Wuming's heart.

"It's over. Don't worry, death is normal!"

Just as that wisp of cold Qi was about to leave his body—

"Xu Fu."

A calm voice, yet seemingly containing the rage of the Nine Heavens Raging Thunder, as if it had Transmigrated through endless space, suddenly exploded over this frozen, silent sea!

The moment the voice sounded, the heavy, lead-gray clouds in the sky were suddenly torn apart as if by an invisible giant hand!

A crimson stream of light, as brilliant as the sun and incomparably overbearing, pierced through the clouds at a speed beyond perception, descending with a roar!

The speed was extreme!

Xu Fu didn't even have time to react; he only felt a blur before his eyes, and a terrifying heatwave, as if capable of burning all eight directions and melting stars, already rushed towards him!

"What?" Xu Fu's pupils constricted; the sense of crisis brought by a thousand years of cultivation made him instinctively want to retreat, but—

It was too late!

That crimson stream of light was not a long-range attack at all; its true form was a person—Lu Jiuyuan!

He had actually transformed himself into the sharpest and fastest sword in this world!

There were no Moves, no names, only the absolute speed and power of transforming his body into a sword after pushing "Free-Willed Ascension Steps" and his own cultivation to their limits!

"Boom!!!"

Xu Fu hadn't even clearly seen the newcomer's appearance; his right hand, which he had just raised and was condensing cold Qi, along with a small part of his shoulder, instantly vaporized and disappeared under this indescribable impact, like ice thrown into a furnace!

Not even a trace was left!

"Seven Nothings Ultimate Realm!"

His body instantly vanished, then reassembled in the sky dozens of steps away.

"Don't misunderstand..."

Bang!

His body was shattered again by the red figure.

Then reassembled over the sea: "I was just playing a joke with my grandson..."

"Don't misunderstand..."

Bang!

His body was shattered again by the red figure, Xu Fu's voice abruptly cut off, his newly condensed body exploding like shattered glass hit by a giant hammer, ice crystals scattering.

Then, not far above the sea, ice crystals rapidly converged again, and Xu Fu's figure painstakingly reassembled, his aura noticeably much more chaotic. He hastily spoke: "Blood is thicker than water..."

"Joke?"

Lu Jiuyuan's cold voice seemed to resound directly inside his reassembled body!

The crimson stream of light didn't allow him to finish his sentence, appearing before him again as if by teleportation!

"I do not like this kind of joke. I had already guessed you were dishonest!"

He no longer spoke superfluous words; his figure blurred again!

This time, it was no longer a single impact, but rather a sky full of crimson afterimages, launching a storm-like attack on Xu Fu from all directions, up, down, left, and right, every possible angle!

Fists, palms, fingers, legs... every part of his body transformed into the most terrifying weapons, carrying terrifying True Qi capable of tearing the Void Realm and melting all things, completely engulfing the space where Xu Fu was!

Ooh-la-la ooh-la-la... "Bang bang bang bang bang—!!!"

Continuous explosions were like thunder tearing through the Nine Heavens!

Xu Fu desperately resisted, pushing Sacred Heart Art to its limit, layers of profound ice shields, Emperor Heaven Raging Thunder raging everywhere, but in the face of Lu Jiuyuan's absolute speed and strength, all his defenses were like paper, easily torn to shreds!

His body was blasted apart and scattered again and again!

Arms, legs, torso, head... repeatedly crushed and vaporized by the violent power!

He performed Seven Nothings Ultimate Realm again and again, his figure frantically shifting between particle and solid form.

"Wait! Stop! Don't fight!" Xu Fu cried out repeatedly:

Although he had the Seven Nothings Ultimate Realm as a trump card to protect himself, he was only uncomfortable, not fundamentally injured.

But being beaten like a sandbag without any ability to fight back reminded him of the shadow of being brutally beaten by Invincible Martial back then.

"Stop! Gang Leader Lu! This old man admits defeat!"

Lu Jiuyuan's figure slowly stopped, hovering in mid-air, the blazing crimson True Qi around him slowly receding, but his eyes remained locked on Xu Fu.

He said nothing, just quietly watched the other party.