Chapter 568: Ning Mo

Among the towering, overlapping mountains, numerous gazes converged on the figure emerging from the summit of a green peak. Those gazes were filled with profound astonishment.

They were clearly stunned by the figure's earlier words.

How dared this person be so disrespectful to the Saint Palace's Chief in this situation? His audacity was simply too great!

In the valley, Jin Zhang and the others, after a moment of astonishment upon seeing the figure, couldn't help but exclaim, "Zhou Yuan?!"

"Chief Zhou Yuan?!"

They clearly hadn't expected that the first person to arrive for their rescue would actually be Zhou Yuan.

"Chief?" In mid-air, Ning Mo also heard the exclamations. He immediately cast a somewhat sinister gaze towards the young figure holding a mottled black brush and said indifferently, "Your Cangxuan Sect is truly becoming increasingly inept. To think that even someone at the Seventh Layer of the Alpha Origin stage can become a Chief?"

A sneer curled at the corner of his mouth.

"With such strength, he would probably not be qualified to be a Chief, even in any first-rate force on the Shengzhou Continent."

Ning Mo stared at Zhou Yuan, his tone calm yet containing a chilling murderous intent. "Kid," he said, "if you kneel down and admit your mistake now, perhaps I can show some mercy and merely cut off your tongue as a small punishment."

In the distance, forces from various sides were also staring this way, whispering amongst themselves.

"That kid is also a Chief of the Cangxuan Sect?"

"How can a Chief of the Cangxuan Sect be so weak?"

"But Jin Zhang called out quite clearly..."

"I don't know the full situation, but it doesn't matter anyway. Though this kid has some courage, he's too foolish to dare speak such insolent words to Ning Mo. Today, he will surely pay a heavy price."

In their view, Zhou Yuan, merely at the Seventh Layer, was simply courting death in this kind of situation.

Under the convergence of numerous gazes, Zhou Yuan, however, smiled faintly. He ignored Ning Mo and only looked at Jin Zhang and the others in the valley, asking, "Are you all alright?"

Jin Zhang shook his head and said, "Zhou Yuan, are you here alone?"

"The others will arrive soon; I came ahead," Zhou Yuan said. He had been worried they couldn't hold on here, so he had sped up, but it seemed he had arrived just in time.

Jin Zhang nodded. With a flick of his Genesis Rune Brush, Genesis Soul power surged from his brow, and he was about to rise into the air to help Zhou Yuan.

However, just as his figure moved, a fierce and unparalleled gust of wind suddenly roared down from the sky, cracking the earth. Under Jin Zhang's Genesis Rune Brush, Genesis Runes rapidly flowed out, forming rings of light.

Thump! Thump!

All the rings of light shattered, but Jin Zhang's figure also drifted back. He looked up, his expression solemn, gazing at mid-air, where he saw a tall, robust figure standing in the air.

He held a black iron staff, his expression indifferent, and looked down at them.

It was Wang Yuan, another Chief of the Saint Palace.

"All of you, just stay obediently in the valley," Wang Yuan said indifferently. Then he slightly tilted his head, looked at Ning Mo, and added, "One minute."

Upon hearing this, a sinister smile appeared on Ning Mo's lips. "That's enough," he said. "I'll break his limbs and make him kneel here forever for future generations to observe."

As he spoke, murderous intent almost seeped out.

Clearly, Zhou Yuan had enraged the Saint Palace's Chief.

As his voice fell, Ning Mo's robes suddenly billowed, and a powerful surge of Genesis Qi swept out from his body like a storm, bringing with it an intense oppressive feeling.

The Genesis Qi emanating from his body was crimson in color and permeated with high temperatures. From a distance, it looked like a massive pillar of fire, soaring into the sky.

Crimson light flared in Ning Mo's eyes. He clenched his hands, and a crimson Genesis Qi whip appeared in his grasp. The whip, like a giant python, tore through the sky and lashed down fiercely towards Zhou Yuan's location.

Swoosh!

The air itself seemed to burn.

The power of that whip was sharp and domineering.

As the whip whistled down, Zhou Yuan's body rapidly blurred.

The crimson Genesis Qi whip landed on Zhou Yuan's body but passed right through it. It was an afterimage.

The whip struck the ground, and the entire mountaintop instantly burst open. Cracks spread, and massive boulders rolled down.

Ning Mo sneered. With a flick of his hand, the crimson Genesis Qi whip instantly changed direction, lashing towards a large boulder not far away.

The boulder exploded, and a blurred figure shot back.

Bang! Bang!

However, no matter how quickly the figure retreated, the Genesis Qi whip followed like a shadow. For a moment, nearby peaks continuously exploded, and one mountaintop after another collapsed.

To the onlookers, it was clear that Zhou Yuan had no way to counterattack and was constantly dodging.

However, being able to dodge for so long, his movement speed was not weak.

But when everyone saw the playful expression on Ning Mo's face, they knew that he was merely toying with Zhou Yuan.

"Ning Mo, stop playing around, you're wasting time!" Wang Yuan said impatiently from a distance.

"Haha, alright," Ning Mo said, laughing loudly as he looked up at the sky. A sinister smile appeared on his face as he stomped his foot violently, and the air beneath him exploded.

His figure instantly vanished.

The next instant, his figure, under the gaze of countless eyes, appeared directly atop a mountain peak not far away.

"Caught you, little rat!"

Ning Mo's sharp eyes stared ahead, where a phantom figure had just appeared.

He brought his palms together, and crimson Genesis Qi frantically gathered in his palms, like a crimson sun. Then that crimson sun, carrying extremely hot and violent fluctuations, slammed down heavily onto the phantom figure before him.

That speed was impossible to evade.

This mountaintop trembled and cracked under such a Genesis Qi offensive.

"Kneel for me, little rat!" Ning Mo roared, and the crimson sun formed by Genesis Qi, amidst the wary gazes of many, collided with Zhou Yuan's body.

Boom! Boom!

A crimson Genesis Qi storm raged at that moment.

Forces from all sides who witnessed this scene shook their heads inwardly. That kid named Zhou Yuan had actually endured Ning Mo's domineering attack head-on. He was surely dead!

In the valley, Jin Zhang and the others' expressions also changed slightly. Although they had witnessed Zhou Yuan's strength during the Genesis Pool Festival, Ning Mo's current strength was simply incomparable to Baili Che's at that time.

Would Zhou Yuan be too careless to resist head-on like this?

The crimson Genesis Qi surged, making Ning Mo's face appear somewhat sinister. He gave a chilling laugh, "Kid, in your next life, if you want to play the hero, you'd better open your eyes wider!"

"Is that so?"

Just as his voice fell, an indifferent voice sounded amidst the raging crimson Genesis Qi before him.

Ning Mo's pupils sharply contracted.

However, before he had any time to react, a slender hand, gleaming with jade-like light, reached out from the crimson Genesis Qi, and deep within its palm, a silver light emerged.

The hand clenched into a fist, and golden Genesis Qi surged forth. Finally, it slammed down fiercely towards Ning Mo's head.

With that punch, the air exploded, and a sonic boom reverberated.

An unparalleled fierce wind assaulted his face, and Ning Mo's expression couldn't help but change. In the nick of time, he hastily twisted his body away. Such power was something a person at the Seventh Layer could not possibly possess!

That punch, imbued with astonishing power, grazed his head as it descended and slammed onto his shoulder.

Crack!

At that instant, the sound of bones breaking resounded.

The terrifying power instantly caused Ning Mo's body to collapse. His feet could no longer stand firm, and he heavily knelt on the ground, cracking even the hard mountain rocks.

Pfft!

A mouthful of fresh blood spurted from his mouth.

The raging crimson Genesis Qi storm only then gradually receded.

The numerous eyes fixed on this scene, at this moment, slowly widened...

Because they saw that Zhou Yuan, who should have been utterly destroyed, was still standing quietly there, while before him, Ning Mo was on his knees...

Thus, the mountain range, which had been filled with whispers, instantly fell into dead silence.

Even the sound of the wind seemed to quietly freeze at that moment.

Amidst the numerous gazes filled with utter horror, Zhou Yuan expressionlessly lowered his head, looked at the figure kneeling before him, and slowly said, "You mean, kneel like this?"