Chapter 1598: Child

"How dare you! Guards, seize this demoness!"

Seeing the girl intercept Luo Xuanqing, the Luo Clan Head on the side finally understood. His face darkened as he roared. If this woman were allowed to take Zhang Xuan today, their Luo Clan would likely not rise, but instead become the laughingstock of the entire continent!

"Yes, sir!"

With a whoosh, as soon as his words ended, dozens of Luo Clan elders soared up, surrounding Luo Ruoxi and the boy beside her in the blink of an eye.

"No..." Zhang Xuan hadn't expected things to turn out this way so quickly, and he was filled with anxiety. But just as he moved, he felt his body tighten. Turning his head, he saw two Luo Clan elders simultaneously make their move, completely sealing off the space around him.

"Demoness, since you've come, you shall remain here today!" With a soft snort, Luo Qingchen pointed two fingers like a sword and struck.

The girl's expression was indifferent; she had returned to her previous aloof demeanor. She raised an eyelid, about to make her move, when she saw the boy beside her step forward. "Miss, let me handle these insignificant opponents. You mustn't dirty your hands!"

"Mm." Nodding, Luo Ruoxi stood still with her hands clasped behind her back, as if completely unconcerned by the Luo Clan's Grand Elder's attack.

"Die!" He hadn't expected the other party to be so arrogant; Luo Qingchen was furious, almost exploding. His sword aura became even more ferocious, whistling as it tore through space.

Just as it was about to land on Luo Ruoxi, the boy smiled faintly and appeared before it, seizing it with two fingers. The sword aura immediately shattered.

"Fall!" After defeating the opponent's sword qi, the boy flipped his palm.

With incredible ease, Luo Qingchen felt as if heaven and earth were overturning; his center of gravity was unstable, and he felt as though he could fall from the air at any moment.

"Attack together!" Unable to hold back any longer, he roared loudly. This boy, who looked only thirteen or fourteen, was unimaginably powerful!

The many elders surrounding them, seeing the Grand Elder at a disadvantage, all dared not hesitate and attacked together. Dozens of elders, all at least at the Saint 9-dan realm, attacked simultaneously, their power like a torrential downpour. In the blink of an eye, a circular halo of light formed in the courtyard, tearing towards the boy.

Cracks appeared in the space around the halo. The moment this power emerged, it shattered the space. In the center, a storm surged, and even a supreme Saint artifact would likely be instantly annihilated if it entered, lasting no more than a breath.

"It's the Luo Clan's Demon Subduing Circle! Even I can't withstand this move..." Master Yang's expression was grave.

The individual strength of these Luo Clan elders was not particularly great, but combined, it was terrifying. Even a super expert like Master Yang, who had reached the Grand Saint Immortal realm, would find it difficult to contend with.

"Heh, interesting!" Facing this move, the boy remained completely unperturbed. He extended his five fingers, which seemed to transform into spreading branches, and lightly tapped the air.

The space trembled, like a stone thrown into a calm lake. As ripples spread, the advancing halo of light shot away to one side in a wavy motion, deviating from its original target, and soared into the sky, vanishing without a trace in the blink of an eye.

"This is... agitating space? What level of power does this boy possess?" Master Yang's pupils contracted, startled. He had originally thought that it would be surprising enough for a mere boy to block Luo Qingchen. He never dreamed that the boy would casually block the Luo Clan's strongest Demon Subduing Circle and even divert its power outward! This was beyond terrifying.

"Agitating space? What's that?" Sword Saint Xing on the side couldn't help but ask. Even he hadn't understood the move the boy had just performed.

"The Demon Subduing Circle is a joint attack formation created by one of the Luo Clan's ancestors," Master Yang explained, his expression grave. "It combines twenty-one experts to form three Big Dipper formations, gathering their power to create a ring that slices through space. If an ordinary cultivator encounters it, no matter how they try to evade, they will be locked by its aura and find it impossible to dodge... This is why I said that even I might not be able to contend with it!

"However, this boy merely tapped, agitating the space, and easily broke the formation. If you imagine space as a piece of cloth with a swarm of ants rushing over it, as long as you're on the cloth, it's impossible to escape. But if you jump off the cloth and then flip it up... the ants will rush somewhere else, and you'll be unaffected... Agitating space is precisely this! By agitating the entire space like a cloth... even if the Demon Subduing Circle can slice through it, it will simply follow the agitated space and continue onward, posing no further threat..."

"This..." Sword Saint Xing trembled. He could also tear space, but this was clearly even more terrifying than mere tearing! If a mere boy was this powerful, who exactly was this woman his son liked?

"I'm done playing. All of you, fall!" After shattering the Luo Clan's combined Demon Subduing Circle with a single move, the boy smiled again and struck down with his palm once more.

Whoosh! Luo Qingchen and the others could no longer resist, and one by one, they fell from the sky, their faces pale, spitting blood.

"Activate the clan's protective formation..." He hadn't expected this person before him to be so terrifying; the Luo Clan Head could no longer hold back. A token in his hand floated into the air, and a violent energy fluctuation surged forth. In the blink of an eye, the sky seemed to be sealed.

As a clan with a heritage dating back tens of thousands of years, the Luo Clan's protective formation was incredibly powerful. Once activated, if no method to break it was found, even Master Yang would be trapped within. The reason Zhang Xuan was able to easily leave the Zhang Clan back then was because he used the Library to find its flaws. Any formation, before him, was like a naked beauty, completely without secrets, and thus posed no threat.

But for others, it was different. With space sealed, many spatial secret arts couldn't be used, and one's strength would instantly drop by seventy to eighty percent. The formation also contained various attacks, making it difficult for even Immortal Realm experts to escape once caught, forcing them into a panicked struggle.

The Luo Clan Head saw that even the combined efforts of the elders couldn't subdue the opponent, so he immediately activated their most powerful hidden formation.

"The Luo Clan's protective formation is not bad, but it's still a bit naive to think it can trap me!" Smiling again, the boy suddenly soared upwards.

With a hum! The formation immediately activated, coiling around him like countless ropes, as if to tear him into dust.

Raising an eyebrow, the boy spread his ten fingers, grabbed out to both sides, and lightly pulled.

Boom! The formation collapsed, and violent energy shot out in all directions. The Luo Clan's protective formation, under his single pull, astonishingly couldn't withstand it, and its spiritual energy dispersed.

"What other tricks do you have? Show them all!" Having dismantled the Luo Clan's protective formation in a single move, the boy stood suspended in the air with his hands clasped behind his back, looking over with an indifferent expression.

Instantly, silence fell.