"I can handle 10 experts of the Spiritual Mist Stage, let alone a piece of trash like you in the same stage. Let me prove it." A burly disciple from the Secret Sky Sect that was closest to Chu Chen sneered while signaling the others for him to enjoy this.
The other four understood the signal and stopped in their tracks at the same time. They got ready to watch Chu Chen get tortured and killed.
Chu Chen, the 'prey', stood calmly on the spot, making no movements.
"We've not even started, and you're already scared?"
The burly man's eyes flashed violently, then grinned as he sent a palm at Chu Chen.
The spiritual energy on his palm seemed to be burning, giving off a greenish flame. As his palm swiped through the air, it gave off a continual whistling sound.
"Isn't that much too violent to start off with Green Flame Palm?!"
"Using Green Flame Palm on someone in the Spiritual Mist Stage? Are you trying to burn all his meridians?"
The burly man's expression turned even more ruthless. "Relax, I'll leave him alive for you guys to play with."
The green flame burned, causing the ambient temperature to rise instantly. The area his palm swept through was covered with boiling steam from the evaporated fog.
Meanwhile, Chu Chen was still standing at the same spot unmoving. Everyone thought that this young man at the Spiritual Mist Stage was scared witless, unable to respond.
However, Chu Chen was just quietly waiting for an opening. Just as the Green Flame Palm neared him, his eyes narrowed, and he subconsciously activated his spiritual consciousness.
In an instant, Chu Chen's world changed.
Chu Chen continued to use his crazily powerful spiritual consciousness to fight. Although his body's cultivation was still at the Spiritual Mist Stage, after activating his spiritual consciousness, his senses may have reached the stage beyond that of a grandmaster!
As expected, to Chu Chen's eyes, the originally imposing and majestic palm seemed to have slowed down by several times. He could clearly read all the possible actions after the palm swipe, all the techniques he used to distribute the force, and every travel path of each shred of spiritual energy.
What seemed to be an unmatched palm strike was riddled with countless weak spots that could be exploited. It seemed so easy to dodge!
Chu Chen's body subconsciously shifted to the left, preparing to evade this all-encompassing palm strike.
However, just before he could finish his movement, a massive force swept over him, as though a hammer weighing 5000 catties had just grazed his left shoulder. It lifted him into the air, flying off in an arc for several dozen feet before landing on the ground with a loud bang.
Only then did the strong burning sensation come rushing at him from his left shoulder. Lowering his head, he could see that the clothing on his left shoulder was all burnt. Fortunately, there was no damage done to his bones.
He took in a few deep breaths to alleviate the burning sensation that stemmed from his left shoulder.
"This b*stard managed to dodge so quickly?"
"He managed to dodge that palm strike. It seems that there are some good ones among Crystal Spring Sect's external disciples."
Faced with the surprise of the Secret Sky Sect disciples, Chu Chen was very frustrated. This disciple from the Secret Sky Sect was obviously much stronger than Yao Long. Nonetheless, he was surprised at his failure to fully dodge the attack. It seemed like he needed to adjust his battle plan.
"Kiddo, did your seniors at Crystal Spring Sect only teach you how to run away?"
After narrowly avoiding his palm strike, the burly man's face looked a little pissed. The opponent was just a small fry in the Spiritual Mist Stage after all. The killing intent in his eyes intensified as he was gearing up for the kill. He would at least need to fully decimate half of this young man's body before anything else.
With a flash in his eyes, his palms simultaneously glowed brightly with a green glow with spiritual energy pulsating, burning strongly on his palm and creating a strong wind pressure.
The space around him seemed to be constricted by the two balls of green flame. The four other disciples from the Secret Sky Sect frowned. 'You're an expert in the Spiritual Droplets Stage and you're going all out on a junior who hasn't even undergone spiritual condensation? Are you going to stoop that low?' they thought to themselves.
Two scorching flaming palms managed to synergize with each other, creating two invisible vortexes that continually pulled in the air around him.
"Kill!"
As the burly man bellowed, the two balls of green flame flew toward Chu Chen who was just getting up.
With immense pressure closing in, Chu Chen narrowed his eyes and a bright blade-like flash shot out from his eyes.
He pushed his spiritual consciousness to its limits, once again changing the world around him!
In an instant, Chu Chen seemed to have seen through everything, slowly and clearly calculating the trajectory of everything around him.
Within the imposing green flames, many empty spaces appeared, all its weaknesses were revealed.
Boom!
Both balls of green flame exploded at the same time. The four from Secret Sky Sect widened their eyes at the same time!
"Missed? He fully evaded it this time?"
"Are you joking? Even I couldn't come out of that unscathed, yet a kid from the Spiritual Mist Stage evaded it?"
"His movements seem clumsy. How did he evade it?"
Very soon, they realized that Chu Chen did not evade it but instead rushed straight in!
This young man at just the Spiritual Mist Stage actually dared to rush in between the flaming palms before ramming into the chest of the burly man behind it at full momentum.
Bang!
The burly man's chest was hurting as he was sent flying backward.
The four from Secret Sky Sect were dumbfounded. They did not expect their companion's killing move to be easily nullified by a young man in the Spiritual Mist Stage with such a clumsy move.
However, the surprises did not stop there as he made another move.
His right hand shot forward like lightning, with spiritual energy concentrated on the tip of his index finger. It immediately condensed into a bright glowing light on his fingertip, jabbing hard!
Bang!
A bright flash of lightning arced through the air. The burly man flying in the air trembled, his eyes giving off a look of horror.
The force from his finger burrowed into his forehead, blasting a bloody hole that went through the front to the back of his head!
The back of his head exploded with a mix of his blood and brain matter.
'T-t-this...what's going on?'
The four remaining disciples from Secret Sky Sect almost went nuts. They would never have dreamt of this happening before them.
'This kid's not even at the Spiritual Droplets Stage yet. His cultivation level is so low, how could this happen?'
The four of them shivered, unable to steady their breathing. The young man at the Spiritual Mist Stage carried with him a deadly aura, enough to make their limbs go numb with fear.
Actually, to Chu Chen, the result was less than satisfactory. When he pushed his spiritual consciousness to the limits, not only did he clearly see two weaknesses of the Green Flame Palm, he had also seen several Blood Spots on the burly man.
These Blood Spots were obviously the Fatal Points when the burly man used his killing move. As long as one landed an attack on the Fatal Points, it should kill the opponent.
Unfortunately, Chu Chen was still a rookie on the battlefield. After dodging both the Green Flame Palms, Chu Chen acted hurriedly, slightly mishitting with his left shoulder tackle, missing the Fatal Point, and sending him flying instead.
In the end, Chu Chen had no choice but to follow up and attacked the Fatal Point on the burly man's forehead, ending his life.