Chapter 1893: Falling into a Joke

Xu Yang had long suspected that Lan Ling'er was harboring some outlandish ideas. As expected, after witnessing another powerful latent talent in Long Kun, the girl finally couldn't resist trying to persuade Boss Xu Yang to let her have some of his capable subordinates. However, the outcome didn't surprise her in the slightest.

Xu Yang couldn't help but chuckle, looking at the young girl beside him with an amused expression.

"I have a question for you," he began. "If I were to join your Changyun Celestial Sect with these brothers and sisters, what positions would each of us get? You're not planning to have people who haven't even reached the Martial God level manage us, are you?"

Upon hearing this, Lan Ling'er immediately perked up.

"All seven chief elders of our Changyun Celestial Sect's Elder Council are Martial God-level powerhouses," she declared. "Furthermore, my father, the Sect Master of Changyun Celestial Sect, is one of the ten most renowned peak Martial Gods of this generation in the Ancient Martial God Path. Could it be that such a powerful background still doesn't meet with your approval, Sir Xu Yang?"

Xu Yang had only intended to joke with the girl, but he hadn't expected Lan Ling'er to take it so seriously. He had no choice but to find another topic to distract her.

Not to mention that a sect like Changyun Celestial Sect was far too small to accommodate the "great Buddhas" of Xu Yang's team. More importantly, Xu Yang's ambitions lay elsewhere. The Ancient Martial God Path was merely one stop on his journey, far from the ultimate destination of his cultivation path. How could he possibly decide the shared fate of all his team members based on a few words from this mischievous girl, Lan Ling'er?

The Starlight quickly blocked several silver rays shot down from above the city tower, but Long Kun hadn't realized that this was merely a preemptive move by the enemy. A far more intense barrage of arrows was just beginning.

Overwhelming silver rays rapidly covered the area around the tower on the city wall. Long Kun's eyes widened, and he gasped, realizing that such fierce firepower was something he couldn't withstand alone.

The martial arts aura of each arrow reached the peak of the Mahayana realm. Even with his Starlight power activated, which gave him a significant advantage in cultivation techniques and attributes, he still couldn't withstand such a continuous barrage of attacks.

Although his powerful initial attack didn't yield the expected results, which was somewhat embarrassing, it was still far better than being utterly routed by their indiscriminate arrow fire. As the saying goes, "As long as the green mountains remain, there will always be wood to burn."

Long Kun considered the situation below, where Boss Xu Yang was personally overseeing. He decisively stepped into the air, immediately left the void battlefield, and returned to Xu Yang's side.

His retreat also drew dozens of arrow streaks towards the location of Xu Yang's team. After all, although Long Kun had changed his spatial position, his aura had been firmly locked onto by the archers, and the arrows they fired would continue to pursue him until they reached him.

However, as these dozens of streaking arrows flew further, they entered within a hundred meters of Xu Yang's location, which was the archers' true forbidden zone.

Xu Yang sneered, making no visible movement. With just a protective barrier released by his mental power, he directly blocked all dozens of these streaking arrows outside the hundred-meter radius.

"As expected, you are indeed the absolute leader of this team," a voice rang out. "You must be Xu Yang. I came here to spar with you one-on-one. If you can defeat me, I will personally open this city gate for you and your companions to enter the city."

The arrogant fellow seemed to have no intention of giving up on provoking Xu Yang. It was unclear where he got such courage, but he impulsively took a step and flew from the top of the hundred-meter-tall long building to a position about three hundred meters away from Xu Yang.

This was not difficult to understand. After all, he was an archer by origin, best at launching long-range attacks, which was also his proudest advantage.

If he were to clash with a powerhouse of Xu Yang's caliber at close range, he would simply be courting death. Of course, even with enough distance, his act of provoking Xu Yang's dignity was no different from courting death.

With the same motion of drawing his bow and notching an arrow, this time the martial arts aura condensed on the surface of his deep purple bow was far more powerful than when he had attacked Long Kun earlier. Clearly, this fellow was someone who adapted his approach based on the opponent.

He was well aware that the opponent he had chosen this time was undoubtedly incredibly powerful. Even a Golden Robe Martial God-level believer wouldn't dare act presumptuously in front of Xu Yang. The reason this fellow had such immense courage to confront Xu Yang directly was actually due to something else.

Once again drawing his bow and notching an arrow, an incredibly dense essence of purple martial arts aura rapidly condensed and coiled around the arrow, forming the shape of a dragon.

A dense true dragon aura emitted an extremely powerful oppressive sensation during the preparation of his attack. Xu Yang saw this scene and simply snapped his fingers, the smile on his face deepening. The Dragon Vein Totem immediately transformed into a human figure and appeared before him from Xu Yang's soul world.

This was the true progenitor of Dragon Vein power, the personal dragon attendant of Kunlun, the Ninth Human Emperor of the previous generation. Any martial art technique imbued with true dragon aura became utterly insignificant before this dragon ancestor.

However, at this moment, Xu Yang did not let the Dragon Vein Totem reveal its true dragon form. He still allowed it to appear in the sight of others as a human martial artist. It was precisely because of this that the arrogant archer before him had no idea that the attack he was about to unleash would become a joke.

Finally, the powerful archer suddenly released his right arm, and the arrow, charged with his martial arts aura, let out a deafening dragon's roar.

As the dragon's light left the bow, it transformed directly into a soaring purple light dragon, charging fiercely towards Xu Yang's location. The aura of this dragon totem, wherever it passed, plunged all surrounding life forms into an extremely agitated and tense state.

Undoubtedly, the power contained in this arrow could easily obliterate a martial artist at the peak of the Mahayana realm. It was also this fellow's true trump card. However, an awkward scene unfolded in the very next moment.

When this soaring purple light dragon, in its pure martial power form, finally struck fiercely towards Xu Yang, the Dragon Vein Totem, which Xu Yang had summoned in advance to guard him, simply made a very simple waving motion with its palm. The purple light before them vanished into thin air, without even a ripple of aura being stirred.

"How is this possible!"