Stranger Danger

Ye Qing had to give it to Gong Wuwei. She was stronger than either Mrs. Basket or Mountain Tunneling King, and her Plum Blossom Order Magia was especially powerful.

If he had fought her right after he became a Grandmaster, he still could have dismantled her Magia, but it would not have been nearly as easy.

After he left the Death Sea, he spent his time subsuming the wisp of Profound Yellow Mother Qi he absorbed, tempering his body, and studying the fist intent of the “Three Origin Hammers”. Obviously, it wasn’t an easy art to learn, but thanks to the Dark Overlord’s gift of fist intent, the fact that he witnessed the “Three Origin Hammers” in action back at the Demonbearer Abode, and the fact that he was a body-tempering warrior with the Profound Yellow Mother Qi empowering him, it took him half the effort to progress twice as fast per se. He had already become an initiate by the time he returned to the Temple of Divination.

Becoming an initiate of the “Three Origin Hammers” came with its own perks. It was one of the greatest martial arts out there, so it was only natural that his understanding of fist art, fist intent and fist theory grew by leaps and bounds as well. To give an example, the difference between the current him and who he was after he became a Grandmaster was like night and day.

That was how he was able to break Gong Wuwei’s Magia in one punch.

However, right before his palm would land on Gong Wuwei’s skull, a sudden thump came from inside her body.

He had heard the drumbeat twice before this, but this time, it was a different kind of noise. If before the drumbeat sounded grandiose and upbeat, this was one the complete opposite: dark, eerie, and spine-chilling.

Ye Qing blinked when he felt his right hand being pushed away from Gong Wuwei’s head. Not only that, he could feel the sound seeping into his fingers and spreading across his body.

Shred!