Chapter 1052: Borrowing a Knife to Kill

"Based on the intelligence I've gathered, you are one of the four strongest pirates among the several thousand on this outer island. I can give you three chances to attack me. If you can make my feet move even an inch, my Glory Team will be at your mercy. What do you say?"

Xu Yang was setting new rules for the engagement.

After all, for him, simply eliminating these guys was too boring. Finding some enjoyment under limited conditions was quite appealing.

His opponent clearly hadn't expected Xu Yang to come up with such an interesting challenge, and immediately nodded in agreement.

"You, fellow, are you so arrogant just because you've gained a little reputation? In that case, I suppose I'll have to reluctantly teach you a lesson."

The leading purple-level expert shed his arrogant smile. His body suddenly transformed into an eerie light and vanished. When he reappeared, he was three feet directly above Xu Yang, and two short blades in his hands struck directly at Xu Yang's neck.

"Arrogant fool, die!" As the two short blades neared his skin, Xu Yang felt the special mental suppression effect contained within them.

A cold curve gently formed on Xu Yang's lips. Xu Yang's aura suddenly erupted, forming an incredibly powerful wall of primal energy within three feet of him.

Boom! The two blades struck heavily against the energy wall, shattering on impact. Not only that, the purple-level expert himself was sent flying dozens of meters backward, and immediately spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Boss! Are you alright?" His subordinates, all peak blue-level pirates, rushed forward, but were coldly pushed away by him. His eyes now held an even more intense fighting spirit.

"Very well, your strength is considerable. Attacking your physical body alone will likely not be enough to defeat you in one or two moves. In the next round, I will focus on your mental power. I hope you'll be as lucky this time as you were just now."

Xu Yang knew very well that the opponent's current stance revealed his true core strength. What his opponent truly excelled at was not physical attacks, but top-tier mental intrusion techniques.

Indeed, this time, the opponent confidently locked onto Xu Yang's aura and launched an incredibly powerful mental assault against him.

However, in that very next instant, the moment the opponent's figure reappeared before Xu Yang, Xu Yang sharply opened his eyes, his pupils burning with an irresistible blood-red light.

In that instant, it was as if he had grasped the opponent's soul out of thin air, rendering him helpless.

Amidst unbearable trembling, the opponent let out a hysterical cry.

Unbeknownst to him, this move by Xu Yang was precisely his self-created mental extraction technique, used to powerfully strike at the opponent's soul world.

In just an instant, an invisible, incredibly powerful mental hand appeared in the opponent's soul world, firmly gripping the opponent's soul essence.

Every moment of struggle made the opponent feel as if he was enduring agony worse than death. This sight completely dumbfounded the surrounding peak blue-level pirate subordinates.

No one knew why their esteemed boss, a purple-level expert, was in such agony before this young man.

After all, Xu Yang's level of mental world was something the peak blue-level cultivators outside simply couldn't comprehend or approach. No one knew the full extent of the torment their boss was suffering.

Before long, as Xu Yang's red light gradually faded, the powerful purple-level expert before him stood still, his attack motions ceased, his eyes utterly vacant.

Unbeknownst to them, his soul had already been completely crushed by Xu Yang. He was now merely a puppet with an empty physical shell, no longer a complete person.

"I see that all of you seem to have a very strong desire to fight! Very well, I invite your team to launch your attack now. Otherwise, I will choose to make the first move against you, and at that point, you will have no chance of resisting."

Xu Yang's words, at that moment, were like an irresistible curse, silently enveloping the minds of the top pirate experts gathered on the outskirts of Skull King Island.

Everyone was completely stunned. For a moment, they didn't know what to do, debating whether they should attack Xu Yang and his group.

"Damn it, we have no choice left. Even our boss was inexplicably incapacitated by this guy. If we choose to flee now, we probably won't even get a chance to struggle.

A fight like this might just give us a slim chance of survival!"

Everyone quickly agreed on this idea, and at the same moment, unleashed their most powerful aura fluctuations. Hundreds of blue-level pirates attacking together were indeed not to be underestimated.

However, at this moment, a cold curve appeared on Xu Yang's lips. He then snapped his fingers behind him. Upon receiving this signal, every member of the Glory Team stopped hesitating and ascended into the air simultaneously, launching an assault on the hundreds of pirates, who were, on average, blue-level.

Large numbers of top-tier experts thus fell within a very short time!

Every member of the Glory Team unleashed extremely powerful combat capabilities, and their strength was simply beyond what these leaderless pirates could contend with.

After their purple-level leader lost his soul, these people didn't even know what they were fighting for. They merely sought a slim chance of survival amidst the chaos, but even that chance proved incredibly slim.

The satisfying feeling of unrestrained slaughter unconsciously allowed the members of the Glory Team to reach new breakthroughs.

Currently, all members of the Glory Team, except for Lister, had reached the true peak of the blue level, just one step away from breaking through to the purple level.

As for Lister, his desire for personal cultivation wasn't very strong. Moreover, with two merfolk maidens accompanying and guarding him, he hadn't focused much on cultivation during this time. His strength was still at the initial stage of the blue level's peak, and he was still far from breaking through to the purple level, having not yet grasped the most crucial opportunity.

Under these circumstances, everyone's desire to fight also soared to unprecedented heights. A mere few hundred weaklings were simply not enough for them to clear out.

In the blink of an eye, this group of pirate experts had already been completely annihilated.

Precisely because of this, this conflict outside Skull King Island quickly drew the attention of several other top-tier experts.

"Report! Leaders, those dozen or so individuals calling themselves the Glory Team have attacked the island. Their strength is immense. All the experts we sent out earlier have been wiped out."