Chapter 529 - 52: A Small Test

Chapter 529: Chapter 52: A Small Test

From the very first move, Cen Essencetong held nothing back.

His attack was utterly vicious!

If this punch were to land, even someone of Shen Changchuan’s power would be gravely injured!

But as the heavy fist was about to connect with his face, Shen Changchuan showed no reaction whatsoever.

As if he couldn’t react in time, a savage glee appeared on Cen Essencetong’s face.

’It was this little bastard right here who caused me to be cursed and humiliated by the others in the Immortal Sect. Because of him, I had to spend months traveling thousands of miles to this place to rectify my past mistake.’

The pent-up frustration from the past several months was finally being unleashed, filling Cen Essencetong with an immense sense of satisfaction.

However,

the satisfaction in his heart quickly turned to ice.

Because...

A hand...

...had suddenly caught his fist!

BANG!

Fist met palm.

However,

The terrifying force gathered in his fist—enough to shatter a mountain thousands of feet high—simply vanished without a trace, like a clay ox sinking into the sea!

His fist seemed to be clamped in mid-air by iron pincers,

completely immobile!

Cen Essencetong looked up,

his face filled with astonishment.

At some point, the Shen Changchuan before him had become suffused with a golden glow, a faint, gilded light now reflected in his pupils.

Around him, a violent aura caused the surrounding air to boil like water!

His fist...

...had been caught by the man before him.

The power contained within it...

...had been utterly negated by him!

"What?!"

Cen Essencetong’s face was a mask of disbelief.

’My all-out, hate-fueled strike... was caught just like that?’

Cen Essencetong could clearly feel it.

The boiling, violent aura radiating from the other man... was actually that of the Soul Emergence Eighth Layer Peak Realm?!

’What’s going on?’

"Soul Emergence Ninth Layer, an Inner Sect Disciple of an Immortal Sect? Under normal circumstances, I wouldn’t mind having a proper fight with you, to measure my own strength..."

Shen Changchuan held Cen Essencetong’s fist in a death grip. No matter how Cen Essencetong struggled or erupted with Magical Power to break free, the grip remained unyielding.

Beneath pale golden pupils, he stared fixedly at the man before him, his bone-chilling voice echoing in the void:

"But unfortunately for you, of all the things you shouldn’t have done, you should never have attacked my home, my foundation!"

"The last person who tried that had every bone in his body broken by me!"

"And now another one shows up. It seems my reputation isn’t intimidating enough!"

As he spoke,

Shen Changchuan’s voice was tinged with a teeth-grinding fury.

Dawan Village was not just the foundation where he had spent the most time in this world.

Within it,

...lived the few relatives in this world that he cared about!

In a sense,

Dawan Village was one of Shen Changchuan’s current weaknesses!

"Since you people don’t want to play by the rules, I’ll make you understand the consequences of breaking them!"

As Shen Changchuan’s voice fell,

a golden light flared on his arm. His muscles swelled, his entire limb appearing as if cast from Gold, veins bulging on its surface!

As Shen Changchuan abruptly exerted his strength,

CRACK... CRACKLE...

The crisp sound of shattering bone actually came from Cen Essencetong’s arm!

The bones...

...had actually begun to crack under that immense force!

"Aaargh!"

Cen Essencetong shrieked in pain.

He lifted his leg and kicked at Shen Changchuan’s head, attempting to create a diversion to escape Shen Changchuan’s grasp.

However,

his kick was fast,

but Shen Changchuan was faster!

Abruptly releasing his grip,

his pale golden palm flashed like lightning, slamming into Cen Essencetong’s chest!

BAM!

With a muffled thud,

before Cen Essencetong could even react,

an overwhelming force surged into his body. The ribs in his chest snapped in succession, and his entire torso was caved in, leaving a deep Palm Seal!

His entire body was sent flying like a cannonball!

But it wasn’t over!

Shen Changchuan took a step forward,

and his entire being vanished in an instant.

When he reappeared,

he was already behind the rapidly retreating Cen Essencetong!

Shen Changchuan felt a profound hatred for people who would casually attack his foundation!

Since his reputation wasn’t enough to make such people flinch and retreat,

then he would have to use one brutal lesson after another to teach those looking for trouble the price of recklessly attacking Dawan Village!

This was also why,

from the very beginning, Shen Changchuan had activated the Overclocking State of his Golden Wind Jade Dew Gu, causing his Cultivation Realm to skyrocket to the Soul Emergence Eighth Layer Peak!

He had to end this fight as quickly as possible,

to show everyone else,

that he, Shen Changchuan, was not to be trifled with!

BOOM!!!

Before Cen Essencetong could react,

a large foot descended from above, stomping on his head. An irresistible force flooded into him, and the Magical Power Shield he had just managed to raise was instantly shattered!

Shen Changchuan’s body, still stomping on his head, plummeted from the sky and slammed into the ground!

RUUUUMBLE!!!

A massive roar echoed as the earth for hundreds of yards around instantly collapsed. The ground shook violently, and billowing dust and smoke swept out in all directions like a sandstorm, surging into the sky and dyeing half of it a murky yellow.

After a long moment,

the violent tremors subsided.

A light breeze passed through,

gradually blowing away the shrouding dust.

At this moment,

a deep crater hundreds of yards in diameter appeared in the earth.

In the center of the crater,

a miserable figure lay embedded in the ground. He was covered in blood, his head almost completely caved in, and his aura had become incredibly faint, bearing no trace of its previous overwhelming might.

Beside him,

Shen Changchuan’s figure hovered in mid-air.

His gaze was fixed on the man below,

his eyes cold as ice.

The Cultivators watching from a distance were all aghast at this scene.

A Soul Emergence Ninth Level existence... crushed so easily, in no more than three or five moves from start to finish!

’This number one of the Tian Nan Domain’s younger generation...’

’...just how strong is he?!’

For a moment,

silence reigned in all directions.

....

Cen Essencetong was not dead.

When Shen Changchuan first saw Cen Essencetong, he had sensed from the man’s attire and Cultivation Technique that he was likely a disciple of the Yuqing Immortal Sect.

Therefore, although he had been ruthless in the fight, he had not dealt a fatal blow.

For a Soul Emergence Ninth Layer Cultivator, the Divine Soul could already leave the body and act independently.

A mere caved-in head would be an absolutely irreversible injury for a mortal, but for a Soul Emergence Ninth Layer existence, it was manageable.

As long as the crucial Divine Soul was not destroyed and consciousness remained, it was easy to recover by circulating Magical Power and Qi and Blood.

「Two days later.」

Shen Changchuan learned the full story from Cen Essencetong, who was locked in a dungeon.

But after learning the details,

Shen Changchuan’s expression couldn’t help but darken.

’First, I suffered a senseless disaster because of that Lu Haoxuan incident, and now they’re still not letting it go, sending another one, Cen Essencetong, after me?!’