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"What should we do then? Can we outrun them?" Qin Xiao asked.

Miao Kaijie sighed: "Who knows?"

“But it doesn’t matter, there are only three of them, and we have four!” Miao Kaijie clenched his fist, and just as he finished speaking, he glanced at Hua Wujian, “Oh, you don’t count—”

She glanced at the scars remaining on Qin Xiao's shoulder and couldn't help but sigh again: "It wasn't really for you either."

“That’s perfect, three against three.” Miao Kaijie held up one finger.

Qin Xiao: ...

Qin Xiao was speechless. Just as he was about to say something, his pupils suddenly contracted. The giant bear that had been holding the girl had vanished without a trace, leaving only a wide and deep pit.

The earth trembled violently, and an explosion erupted behind Miao Kaijie, sending dust and debris flying. A tall, rugged figure was vaguely revealed amidst the sand, its scarlet eyes fierce and ominous. The giant bear let out a deafening roar and raised its sharp claws to strike at Miao Kaijie!

The massive forefoot tore a gash through the yellow sand, then swung down with enough force to easily shatter rocks, the force of the blow pulverizing the surrounding grass and wood. The energy released in that instant sent shivers down the spines of the viewers outside the projection screen.

"Get rid of him."

At the critical moment, Miao Kaijie suddenly turned around, raised one arm, and caught the overwhelming palm strike.

The moment the two collided, an astonishing shockwave was generated. Several cracks appeared in the soil beneath Miao Kaijie's feet, and his heel slid backward uncontrollably several inches before coming to an abrupt stop.

His body, which had always seemed boneless, became firm and straight at this moment. His large, thick bear paws trembled slightly, only inches away from Miao Kaijie's face, yet he could no longer lower them even a fraction.

Luo Feng was astonished: "You accepted it?!"

Miao Kaijie's face was completely hidden in the shadows, making it impossible to see his expression. However, he slowed his arm slightly, then suddenly exerted force in his waist and abdomen, kicking the giant bear and forcing it to stagger back several steps!

The dust settled, revealing the cracks beneath his feet.

"Are you kidding me?" Luo Feng's eyes twitched slightly, and his gaze toward Miao Kaijie became serious.

"He actually withstood Luo Feng's Earth-Splitting Mad Bear's 'Meteor Palm'! This is truly unbelievable! Viewers who are familiar with the matter will know that Luo Feng's Earth-Splitting Mad Bear is known for its great strength and high defense, which earned him fifth place in the previous Qi Cultivation Competition."

"The ones above him are all top-tier in both strength and defense. Even so, they wouldn't dare to take his meteor palm head-on. But this contestant from Jade Stone was able to withstand it without using any attributes. It's truly an eye-opener."

"...It should be said that before this, there had never been a case where a contestant was able to withstand this palm strike with their bare body without any attribute attached!"

The commentator became passionate and eloquent, explaining incessantly to the uninformed audience how terrifying this palm strike was.

Luo Feng was somewhat taken aback, staring at the boy standing in the distance with suspicion and uncertainty. Suddenly, his eyes narrowed, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

"I thought you were so amazing..." Luo Feng smiled slightly, his gaze falling on Miao Kaijie's slightly trembling arm.

Miao Kaijie's arm trembled almost imperceptibly, his long sleeves soaked with bright red blood. Blood seeped through his clothes, dripping onto the ground.

Miao Kaijie slightly raised his eyelids, his gaze falling directly on the other person's face.

His usual smiling face suddenly lost all expression, the usual curve of his lips vanished without a trace. The relaxed aura around him abruptly tightened, and a stagnant gloom spread from him, indescribably cold and hard.

The air seemed to freeze, and the previous playful and unruly demeanor vanished, leaving only an almost tangible ferocity and indifference.

Countless silk threads were densely woven into new strips of cloth that wrapped around the upper arms, tightening the sleeves, hands, and arms, which were gradually darkening in color.

Qin Xiao, who was closer to him, could clearly hear the sound of the bones twisting and returning to their original position.

Without giving Miao Kaijie any time to catch his breath, Luo Feng attacked again. The giant bear, as large as a small mountain, charged towards Miao Kaijie, baring its sharp claws and fangs, and swung them at him.

Miao Kaijie retreated to avoid the giant bear's attack. The moment the bear's massive paw landed on the ground, it made a huge sound, sending dust flying and actually smashing a large crater into the ground.

The roar of the raging bear echoed through the mountains and forests. Miao Kaijie frowned slightly, his eardrums throbbing with pain.

Mo Hanyu had already lowered the surrounding temperature considerably, but it seemed to have little effect on the raging bear. Lowering it further would probably still not have any effect on the thick-skinned bear, but would instead affect Miao Kaijie.

So Miao Kaijie didn't say anything to Mo Hanyu, staring intently at the charging giant bear, his arms suddenly tensing.

The giant bear charged at him, each pounce accompanied by a heavy whistling sound, its powerful palm strikes, capable of splitting mountains and shattering rocks, coming at him again and again. Miao Kaijie tried his best to dodge, but with each palm strike from the raging bear, the surrounding earth would crack open with jagged fissures, and in the end, he had no choice but to face these astonishing blows head-on.

Miao Kaijie took the blow with his uninjured arm, then the silk thread wrapped around it, just like his injured right arm, tightly binding it so that no more blood seeped out.

The silk threads pierced the skin one by one, drilling deep into the muscles and blood vessels, stitching up the broken blood vessels one by one, attaching them to the surface of the skeletal tendons to prevent them from breaking apart under the next impact.

Miao Kaijie's parries were precise and swift; each time his arms collided with Miao's, a deafening roar was heard, and the shockwaves carried dust in all directions.

Although the bear was huge, it was quite agile. It fought Miao Kaijie faster and faster, and took advantage of the gap to raise its palm high and strike Miao Kaijie's head, but it was accurately blocked the next second.

Miao Kaijie's figure did not move an inch under such a violent attack. The soil beneath his feet cracked and was soon covered with swarms of silk threads.

After dozens of rounds of this exchange, they still hadn't moved an inch.

The raging bear finally slammed its paw into the ground, raising a cloud of dust and creating astonishing cracks in the earth. Miao Kaijie lightly touched the ground with his toes and stepped back to create distance. The rising dust slightly obscured its massive form.

Luo Feng stared at Miao Kaijie's arms, which were completely wrapped in silk threads, and snorted coldly.

Miao Kaijie's arm trembled slightly as he glanced at Luo Feng in the distance and slowly narrowed his eyes.

Before the dust could settle, the giant bear suddenly changed its attack, roaring as it slammed towards Qin Xiao.

An ice wall rose from the ground, blocking Qin Xiao's path. Under the giant bear's attack, several cracks slowly appeared before it was smashed into pieces.

A sense of crisis rose in Luo Feng's heart, and he felt a chill run down his spine. He turned around and found Miao Kaijie had approached him without his noticing. Miao Kaijie met his gaze, and without the slightest hesitation or sign of gathering strength, he raised his fist and punched Luo Feng in the chest.

Looking at his bleeding fist, Luo Feng knew that the attacks he had just blocked had already torn his flesh, clearly exceeding his body's limits. Repeatedly taking such high-intensity attacks would only make his body more exhausted.

Moreover, this punch now looks light and airy, like a whisk gently rising and slowly striking towards him.

Before the wind of the punch even rose, before the sleeves even moved, the surrounding air didn't even ripple.

Luo Feng couldn't help but underestimate it, treating it as just a simple punch. He raised his arm to block, but the moment they made contact, he realized he was in trouble.

broken!

Luo Feng's expression changed drastically. The fist felt like a mountain crashing down on him, leaving him no strength to resist, not even a moment's resistance. The power contained within the fist tore through his arm and pierced his chest the instant they made contact, causing his ribs to creak under the strain.

His arm bone suddenly broke, and the irresistible force sent him flying like a stone thrown by a catapult. His body tore through the air with a mournful cry, turning into a blurry meteor that smashed through several trees before finally coming to a stop several meters away.

With a loud boom, dust billowed up and stones flew everywhere.

As the dust settled, Luo Feng slumped under the broken tree, his arm bone shattered and blood seeping out continuously. His chest heaved, his lips twitched a few times, and he suddenly turned his head to the side, spitting out a mouthful of blood that landed on the surrounding green vegetation, looking particularly glaring and conspicuous.

Luo Feng stared incredulously at the boy in the distance who was slowly withdrawing his hand. Although his arms were clearly stained with blood, his unhurried movements made it seem as if nothing had happened.

Miao Kaijie met his gaze, smiled with a hint of contempt and provocation.

Luo Feng tried to stand up, but failed several times. Instead, he vomited several mouthfuls of blood, looking utterly disheveled.

Luo Feng gritted his teeth; the excruciating pain in his chest told him that he was seriously injured and needed immediate treatment.

How can it be……

It was just one punch.

Luo Feng couldn't believe that the seemingly light fist could have such power, but the pain in his body forced him to believe it.

He raised his trembling arm and struggled to pull out a pill to put in his mouth, but suddenly a tentacle as thick as his forearm appeared around him and attacked him at lightning speed.

Luo Feng wanted to call back the Mad Bear, but there wasn't enough time. He could only watch helplessly as the tentacles transformed into sharp, blade-like spikes that pierced towards him!

At the critical moment, a crack appeared in the space behind Luo Feng. Without any support, Luo Feng fell backward into it.

Luo Feng appeared beside Shen Yuran. Luo Feng glanced at his teammates and closed his eyes briefly.

Shen Yuran stuffed a few pills into his mouth and looked at him coldly: "You're in such a sorry state."

"Why don't you give it a try?" Luo Feng couldn't help but say. "How could I have imagined that he was so strong? There's clearly no biological attribute among his attributes."

All attributes that contain biological characteristics will inherit some of the characteristics of that biological entity from its owner, regardless of whether the owner possesses elemental power.

Just like Luo Feng's "Mad Bear" attribute, it not only endowed him with a physical war bear, but also gave him power and defense far exceeding that of ordinary Qi cultivators, inheriting the tough physique and immense strength of bears.

However, Miao Kaijie's attribute was merely silk thread—the kind of ordinary, unremarkable silk thread that could be bent and torn at will, an attribute that almost no one in the vast world of Qi cultivation would give a second glance to…

He didn't possess Luo Feng's innate physique, Shen Yuran's extraordinary talent for tearing through space, or Liu Huangli's berserk elemental power to incinerate everything...

But why——

How can he still stand here and confront them head-on?!

Luo Feng coughed up blood, feeling resentful.

Miao Kaijie coughed twice, spat out blood, wiped it away, and swallowed two pills.

Yin Xihui's pills are really good.

Miao Kaijie felt the healing energy emanating from his body, glanced at his palm, and pondered.

I'll save up more when I make money later.

Miao Kaijie's shadow suddenly lengthened. Chen Mo stepped out from within, glanced at Shen Yuran and Luo Feng who seemed to be talking about something, and then looked at Miao Kaijie.

"How about it?"

"This is a bit troublesome," Miao Kaijie clicked his tongue and touched his hair.

"You knew all along that he could handle it?" Hua Wujian glanced at Qin Xiao, a half-smile on his face.

He didn't believe Qin Xiao hadn't sensed the danger emanating from that attribute, yet he remained indifferent, clearly trusting Mo Hanyu's promise and the strength of that Miao Kaijie.

"Hmm." Qin Xiao nodded, his tone calm. "Over the years, even if the gap widens, it won't be that big."

Qin Xiao's words were so inexplicable that even Qingyi couldn't understand them at first. She glanced at him and gave a soft snort.

Qin Xiao gazed at Miao Kaijie, who was all smiles, his dark eyes unfathomable.

He recalled his childhood in the mountains. Admittedly, it was possible that Mo Hanyu was not strong enough back then to withstand the attacks of two people at the same time, but out of so many people in the forest, only these two posed a threat to him, leaving him in such a sorry state.

When he later heard Mo Hanyu recount that period of history, he reluctantly admitted, with a mix of annoyance and resentment, that Miao Kaijie was the one who made him feel the most threatened at the time.

Although Mo Hanyu defeated Miao Kaijie in the later sparring, Qin Xiao did not feel that the gap between the two was very large—of course, without considering Mo Hanyu's special power—and according to his judgment, Luo Feng was no match for Mo Hanyu.

Therefore, even if Miao Kaijie cannot defeat him head-on, he should still have the strength to contend with him.

Even though they are all at the upper level of the Profound Realm, there are still differences between the upper levels.

Qin Xiao frowned as he looked at the girl who was slowly waking up.

"Are you going to admit defeat and go abroad?"

Before Qin Xiao could think further, Miao Kaijie reappeared beside him and asked him.

Qin Xiao looked at him. Miao Kaijie had already reverted to his previous carefree and nonchalant demeanor, his bones limp as he leaned against the ice wall.

"You think I'm in your way?"

"What are you talking about!" Miao Kaijie spread his hands. "Isn't it because that guy has special attributes and can attack from the ground? Aren't you afraid that Mo Hanyu won't be able to defend against it?"

"You're overthinking it." Mo Hanyu suddenly appeared behind him, slapping his hand that was resting on Qin Xiao's shoulder. "Are you injured?"

"Just a physical injury." Miao Kaijie waved his hand. "Can you figure out what kind of tricks that girl was using?"

"Phantom Needles." Mo Hanyu glanced at the girl who was slowly waking up and frowned. "If you get hit by the needles, you'll fall into an illusion. Let's deal with her first."

"Although it's mid-level, its abilities are a bit troublesome."

"Okay." Miao Kaijie shrugged, offering no objection. "Then how do we fight?"

“I’ll take care of that girl.” Before Mo Hanyu could finish speaking, Miao Kaijie objected.

Why not me?

Mo Hanyu glanced at him and suddenly smiled: "Of course I'm sending you to take care of Shen Yuran because you're so capable."

Miao Kaijie's brow twitched, and he pointed to himself: "Me?"

Mo Hanyu smiled and nodded.

“…If you want me to die, just say so,” Miao Kaijie said seriously. “I will die.”

"Don't say such discouraging things." Mo Hanyu chuckled.

"Then why don't you fight?"

"What you're saying is obviously biased towards myself when I assign tasks."

Miao Kaijie: ...

Mo Hanyu looked at Chen Mo: "Have you figured out his tactics?"

Chen Mo looked at him, then at Luo Feng, and nodded.

"Be careful of his bear," Miao Kaijie suddenly said. "His attributes seem to be integrated with him."

Upon hearing this, everyone turned to look at him.

“I’ve met him before,” Miao Kaijie explained. “Back then, he had a conflict with two members of the Beast Taming Sect, and they got into a fight.”

"I glanced at it a few times and left. I didn't see the result with my own eyes, but I sensed something unusual about the threads laid out around it... Of course, this is just a guess."

“He underestimated his opponent just now.” Miao Kaijie glanced at Chen Mo. “Be careful.”

Chen Mo hummed in response and then remained silent.