Lin Mu stood high on the towering tree canopy, looking down at the sixteen-man alliance that had completely collapsed due to the terrifying damage reflection of the Jade Tendon Gu. A cold, cruel arc curled at the corner of his mouth.
He didn't hesitate in the slightest. His figure was like a weightless withered leaf, leaping down lightly from the giant tree dozens of zhang high.
In the instant before landing, Earth Ring Body operated quietly, unloading all the impact force.
Subsequently, he deliberately messed up his hair, scraped the corners of his clothes against rough bark, and even forcibly forced out a layer of cold sweat, making his breathing rapid and disordered.
All disguises ready.
Lin Mu, like a ghost fleeing in panic, rapidly flashed back to that hidden mountain col.
"Young Master!"
Before he even arrived, Lin Mu's hoarse voice, suppressing extreme shock and "ecstasy," already rang out in the mountain col.
He stumbled and rushed in front of Lin Feng, kneeling heavily on one knee. Panting heavily in large mouthfuls, he reported with extreme speed:
"Collapsed! Young Master, the alliance over there has completely collapsed!"
"Heavy casualties! That kid Lin Ze's turtle shell was shattered, and he's vomiting blood madly. Punishment Hall's Lin Yan is even more miserable; his right arm was snapped, and he's lying in a pool of blood, life or death unknown!"
"The rest were all scared out of their wits, fleeing in all directions!"
"The most crucial thing is that Blood Jade Python! It was heavily injured by the desperate strong attacks of Lin Yan and the others. Even the scales at its vital point are mostly shattered."
"It's currently lying by the pool lingering on its last breath; it's truly an arrow at the end of its flight!"
Lin Mu's report was extremely detailed, depicting the tragedy of the battlefield, the rout of the enemy, and the weakness of the prey vividly.
However, in this perfect battle report, he was like an unqualified scout, uniquely "omitting" that most fatal, most crucial piece of information—that layer of Rank 2 Jade Tendon Gu capable of erupting with terrifying cyan-jade recoil force when attacked!
The information gap is sometimes more fatal than the most poisonous Gu worm.
Hearing this report, Lin Feng, who had been sitting upright on a giant boulder resting with his eyes closed, abruptly opened his eyes.
In those usually deep eyes of his, that fanatical greed and ecstasy could no longer be suppressed at this moment.
Competitors entirely crippled, Rank 2 Beast King dying, massive points and a potential top-tier Rank 2 Gu worm drop, right before his eyes!
All of this was simply like a perfect script tailor-made for him by the heavens!
"Heaven helps me!"
Lin Feng stood up abruptly. With a clang, he drew the long sword flashing with golden light at his waist. The formidable Rank 1 Peak Primeval Essence surged out unreservedly.
"Dormancy ends! Everyone, follow me to clean up the mess!"
With Lin Feng's command, this Third Squad—having rested and reorganized in the mountain col, maintaining an absolute full-condition state—was like a true, impatient oriole, carrying cold killing intent as they pounced toward the primary battlefield at full speed.
A few breaths later.
When Lin Feng led the team rushing out of the jungle and arriving at the edge of the waterfall, the hellish picture scroll before their eyes made everyone suck in a breath of cold air.
The scene was ten times more tragic than Lin Mu had described.
The ground was covered with severed limbs, broken arms, and visceral fragments. The originally clear pool was thoroughly dyed a nauseating black-red.
The bloody stench permeating the air even overpowered the sour stench of the poisonous miasma.
Lin Yan's twisted right arm drooped powerlessly, his whole person soaking in bloody water. If not for the Medicine Hall disciples still desperately transmitting vitality, he would already be a corpse.
Lin Ze's massive body was paralyzed beside a piece of rubble; the light of the Golden Bell Gu had long extinguished, and he vomited bloody foam in large mouthfuls.
And the black-clad Lin Xue, although still standing, had messy hair and cracked webbing between her thumb and forefinger. She led a scarce few remnant soldiers, similarly wounded, struggling bitterly to hold on.
And in the center of the battlefield, that massive Blood Jade Python was indeed exactly as Lin Mu had described, its aura withered to the extreme.
The blood-colored scales all over its body had almost fallen off completely, and that penetrating wound at its vital point was a bloody blur. Its massive body coiled powerlessly on the shoal, gasping heavily.
"Lin Feng?! You despicable villain, you actually dared to break the agreement!"
Seeing Lin Feng leading his full squad charging out unscathed at this juncture, several hot-tempered lone cultivators in the alliance couldn't help but hurl curses, their eyes full of the anger and despair of being betrayed.
However, looking at this group of "allies" who were too busy to care for themselves and exasperated, Lin Feng not only felt not a shred of shame for looting a burning house, but the expression on his face instead became extremely magnanimous, even deeply pained.
Holding his long sword, he took a step forward, shouting righteously and sternly:
"Fellow disciples, you have suffered!"
"I originally had no intention to compete, but I truly couldn't bear to watch my fellow disciples be slaughtered to this extent by this evil beast!"
"Since you are powerless to fight again, then I, Lin, shall make an exception today and strike, sharing everyone's burdens and slaying this menace!"
High-sounding and hypocritical to the extreme. He even found such a righteous-looking excuse.
However, hearing these disgusting words, the reaction of Lin Xue and the others opposite—who should have desperately blocked him—was extremely bizarre.
Not only did Lin Xue not refute, but she instead exchanged a glance with the heavily injured Lin Yan on the ground.
Neither spoke, but a hard-to-detect tacit understanding flashed through their eyes.
Immediately after, Lin Xue actually took the initiative to pull the remaining few remnant soldiers, extremely cooperatively taking half a step back, directly yielding the best attack position facing the Blood Jade Python!
Everyone just quietly watched Lin Feng's righteous-looking appearance, preparing to reap the kill. In the depths of their eyes was nothing but cold mockery and cold sneers like looking at a dead man.
Although Lin Feng sensed the anomaly in the atmosphere, his mind was already clouded by the massive points about to fall into his hands.
In his view, the yielding of Lin Xue and the others was nothing more than fearing his full-condition despotic might, forced to submit.
"The overall situation is set!"
Killing intent was fully revealed in Lin Feng's eyes. To snatch this decisive strike, and also to establish his prestige before this group of defeated opponents, he didn't hold back in the slightest.
He poured the pure Rank 1 Peak Primeval Essence in his body, like a bursting flood, entirely into the Metal Rend Gu on his sword blade.
"Die for me!"
Lin Feng's entire person turned into a blinding stream of light.
The long sword, carrying an extremely dazzling, eye-catching, and indestructible golden sword qi, stabbed ruthlessly toward the mangled vital point of the Blood Jade Python with an overwhelming posture!
"CLANG—!!!"
A deafening sound of clashing metal, like a great temple bell, mixed with a tooth-aching sound of bone fracturing, exploded with a boom beneath the waterfall.
The tearing sensation of a sharp blade entering flesh did not appear.
In that microscopic instant the sword edge touched the Python King's flesh and blood.
The cyan-jade tendons hidden beneath the dim scales, like a triggered peerless fierce array, instantly erupted with extremely blinding cyan light!
Rank 2 Jade Tendon Gu, Tyrant Body Reflection!
The wild arrogance and smugness on Lin Feng's face froze instantly in this moment.
"What the hell is this?!"