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Shi Yiqun was certain that Su Hao was at most at the peak of the Grandmaster level, while her brother was above the Celestial Master level!

Faced with such a huge gap in strength, Su Hao would inevitably be afraid and compromise. With just a little pressure, he could be forced to bow down.

However, Su Hao simply chuckled softly.

Suddenly, a wisp of golden dragon energy emanated from his body. The energy was not dense, just a thin layer, but it carried an invisible wind pressure, forcing Shi Yiqun to involuntarily take half a step back.

"Recognize your ancestors and return to your roots?" Su Hao's voice was calm as still water, yet it carried an undeniable chill.

"When I was still an infant, he personally ordered my execution several times. This blood relation was severed long ago. I'll give you one more chance: go back and persuade Shi Lezhi to hand over all the Shi family's power, assets, and influence in the court. I might spare your lives, so you won't perish."

Shi Yiqun's face instantly turned ashen.

She originally thought Su Hao would give in, but she didn't expect that he would not only be ungrateful, but also threaten her instead!

This was an absolute disgrace to her!

"You're asking for death!" Shi Yiqun shouted angrily, then said no more.

She gathered crimson martial arts energy in her palms, her figure flashing like lightning, and struck Su Hao's chest!

The moves were ruthless and vicious; they were definitely aimed at killing!

However, just as her palm strike reached three feet in front of Su Hao, the powerful protective aura within Su Hao's body spontaneously erupted.

A layer of golden light surged out from Su Hao's body, forming an invisible barrier.

Shi Yiqun's palm strike hit the barrier as if it had struck an unshakeable iron wall!

Then, an even more terrifying power erupted from Su Hao's body.

"Boom!"

A muffled, loud bang was followed by an invisible shockwave that exploded outwards.

Shi Yiqun was thrown backward as if hit by a cannonball, flying seven or eight meters before crashing heavily onto the ground of the bluestone viewing platform.

Her chest heaved with blood and qi, and a mouthful of scalding blood sprayed directly onto her clothes, staining her bright red outfit.

"You..." Shi Yiqun's meridians trembled, and her Grandmaster cultivation almost collapsed. She struggled for a long time, but she couldn't stand up no matter what.

The entire room fell into a deathly silence.

Everyone stared wide-eyed and gaped, as if they had seen a ghost.

Shi Yiqun was a mid-stage Grandmaster, yet she couldn't even break through Su Hao's protective aura and was directly blasted away.

The martial artists affiliated with the Shi family trembled, their faces ashen: "Miss Shi is a true grandmaster... and she couldn't even withstand a single move? Just how terrifying is Su Hao's cultivation?"

Ma Fei and the others were overjoyed; the huge weight on their hearts had finally been lifted.

Gong Chang, a neutral party member, muttered to himself, his voice filled with utter shock: "To be able to repel a Grandmaster with just his aura... he's at least a Celestial Master... This young man is terrifying..."

Su Hao didn't look at Shi Yiqun lying on the ground again.

He glanced indifferently at the four Grandmaster-level guards of the Shi family. Upon being looked at by him, the four involuntarily took a step back, and none of them dared to step forward to stop him.

Su Hao withdrew his gaze and, leading Li Qiuchan, Zhan Xier, and the others, slowly ascended the stone steps towards the main peak of West Mountain.

The mountain path was steep, with more than a thousand stone steps. Countless Shi family guards were hidden in the dense forest on both sides, but Su Hao's steps were calm and firm, as if those potential threats did not exist at all.

Li Qiuchan, Song Xiaoxiao, and the others were worried and followed closely behind Su Hao as they climbed the mountain.

When the group reached a wide stone platform halfway up the mountain, a rustling sound suddenly came from the dense forest in front of them.

Immediately afterwards, more than twenty black-clad hidden guards rushed out of the dense forest, all wearing bronze masks specially made by the Shi family, and their auras were at least at the Grandmaster level.

They moved swiftly and coordinated perfectly, quickly surrounding the stone platform.

The leader of the group slowly walked out, dressed in a black battle armor, with black yin energy surging around him, clearly indicating that he was at the peak of the Grandmaster realm.

He held a long, cold iron sword in his hand, its blade gleaming with a chilling light in the afterglow of the setting sun. It stood across the middle of the mountain path, blocking the only way up.

"Su Hao." The man's voice was cold and hard, devoid of any emotion.

"If you want to reach the main peak and fight Lord Shi, you must first step over my dead body. My name is Xiao Er, and I am Lord Shi's personal bodyguard, trained for decades, with the cultivation of a Grandmaster at the peak. If you can't even defeat me, you are not qualified to face the Lord. If you know what's good for you, immediately turn back the way you came, kneel down and beg for forgiveness, and perhaps you can still leave with a whole corpse."

Xiao Er was full of confidence. He had been practicing the Yin Sha technique for decades and had few rivals among his peers.

Even if Su Hao is a celestial master, he can still drag it out for hundreds of rounds, exhausting Su Hao's stamina. At that time, Master Shi will be able to wait in comfort and will surely win.

Su Hao looked at Xiao Er with a calm and composed gaze.

With his hands behind his back and a relaxed posture, he casually said, "Considering your years of hard training, I'll give you three moves."

Go all out. If you can force me to move even half a step within three moves, I'll voluntarily descend the mountain and forfeit the final battle.

Xiao Er's eyes instantly turned sharp.

Su Hao's words were a blatant insult to him!

He, a grandmaster at the peak of his level, was so looked down upon by a young man in his early twenties.

"Arrogant!" the waiter roared, drawing his long sword and launching the first attack.

He unleashed the Shi family's secret Yin-Yang killing move, Ghost Slash!

The blade energy transformed into a jet-black streak, accompanied by a piercing whistling sound, and slashed down towards Su Hao!

The aura contains a bone-corroding, insidious power. Once struck, not only will the physical body be severely damaged, but even the soul will be eroded!

Su Hao stood still, motionless.

The blade energy struck three feet in front of him, but was blocked by a layer of golden aura, disappearing without a trace like a mud ox sinking into the sea.

Xiao Er's pupils contracted slightly, but he didn't stop. He immediately unleashed his second move, the Bone-Corroding Yin Wind!

The long sword in his hand spun rapidly, creating a black whirlwind. The whirlwind contained countless fine, hair-like poison needles that rained down on Su Hao!

Each needle is coated with a deadly poison that can kill instantly upon drawing blood; a mere scratch can take a person's life within ten seconds!

Su Hao remained motionless.

The poisoned needles struck the golden aura and were deflected, falling to the ground with a clattering sound.

The waiter's expression finally changed.

He gritted his teeth and unleashed his ultimate technique, the Black Prison Soul Lock!

The Yin energy within Xiao Er's body surged wildly, and he slammed his longsword into the ground. A surge of black energy erupted from the blade, transforming into countless black chains that coiled around Su Hao from all directions.

These chains can not only bind the physical body, but also seal the soul. Once locked, it is as if one has fallen into an endless hell, never to be reborn!

Black chains wrapped around Su Hao layer by layer, forming a huge black cocoon.

The waiter was panting heavily, sweat beading on his forehead. Using three of his most powerful techniques in succession had taken a heavy toll on him.

Once the Black Prison Soul Lock is activated, no one has ever been able to escape!

However, his smile lasted for less than three seconds.

Suddenly, a dazzling golden light burst forth from the inside of the black cocoon.

Then, with a loud bang, the black cocoon exploded, turning into countless fragments that dissipated into the air.

As the smoke and dust cleared, Su Hao was still standing in the same spot.

His feet did not move an inch, and the golden aura around him was as dazzling as the sun, isolating all the sinister sword energy from the outside, and not even a speck of dust touched the hem of his clothes.

"Three moves have passed. Now, it's my turn."

The waiter's face turned deathly pale instantly.

An unprecedented fear surged within him.

This young man is simply beyond his ability to contend with!

The waiter tried to escape, but it was too late.

Su Hao raised his hand and casually slapped out a palm.

This palm strike appears ordinary and unremarkable, without any fancy techniques; it's just a simple palm strike.

However, the pure Yang True Dragon Force contained in the palm wind carried an aura of destructive power that could crush everything in its path!

The palm strike pierced through all the black mist, hitting Xiao Er squarely in the chest.

"Crack!" A crisp sound of bones breaking rang out.

Xiao Er's black armor shattered inch by inch, breaking into pieces like porcelain struck by a hammer.

The Yin energy within him instantly dissipated, and he flew backward like a kite with a broken string, flying more than ten meters away before crashing heavily into the stone wall, creating a human-shaped dent in the hard rock.

"Whoa!"

The long knife in Xiao Er's hand flew out and stuck in the ground not far away, the blade still buzzing.

He slid to the ground, spitting out a mouthful of blood. He struggled to get up, but found that most of the meridians in his body had been broken, and he didn't even have the strength to stand up.

He lost!

A complete and utter defeat!

Seeing their commander defeated, the twenty-odd black-clad guards looked at each other, none of them daring to step forward.

Su Hao glanced at them indifferently, then continued walking up the stone steps.

The hidden guards automatically parted to make way, and not one of them dared to stop them.

"Don't go up there, I'll do it myself."

After Su Hao finished speaking, he passed the hidden guards and continued climbing upwards.

There are only three hundred stone steps left to reach the main peak platform.

Just as Su Hao was about to reach the narrow pass in front of the main peak, a series of deafening explosions suddenly rang out in mid-air!

"Boom!"

The entire mountainside trembled violently, as if an earthquake had occurred.

Countless pebbles and black toxic fumes gushed out from the rock walls on both sides, completely engulfing the entire mountain path!

The explosives contained corrosive and highly toxic miasma. Martial artists below the Celestial Master level would die instantly if they inhaled the toxic fumes, their meridians would be severed.

Even a Celestial Master would suffer severe damage to their foundation and lose more than 70% of their combat power if they were corroded by the shockwave and poison gas from the explosion, completely losing the ability to contend with Shi Lezhi.

This is the Heavenly Punishment Explosion Array that Shi Yiqun set up in advance!

Although she was seriously injured after being knocked away by Su Hao, she still secretly gave the order to activate the ambush.

On the viewing platform at the foot of the mountain, all the bigwigs stood up, their expressions changing drastically.

"The Shi family's actions are so insidious and despicable!" someone cursed angrily.

"Using the pretext of a decisive battle, they set up a deadly ambush! They have absolutely no moral principles to uphold!"

"This is utterly shameless!"

Li Qiuchan couldn't help but shout angrily, "Shi Lezhi! Shi Yiqun! Your methods are dirty; you won by ambushing and sneaking around—it's an unfair victory!"

Song Xiaoxiao's eyes reddened, and her voice trembled with tears: "Su Hao... please don't let anything happen to you..."

Shi Yiqun, who was slumped on the ground in the distance, wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, but there was no trace of shame on her face.

She sneered, her voice carried by the mountain wind to the mountain pass: "In martial arts, the victor reigns supreme! If you can't even withstand this ambush, you're not qualified to challenge my brother! Just bury yourself halfway up the mountain!"

Gong Chang, a neutral party member, shook his head repeatedly and sighed, "The Shi siblings are narrow-minded and use despicable methods; they have lost the integrity of martial artists."

Even the martial artists who were affiliated with the Shi family looked embarrassed, as they also felt that Shi Yiqun's actions were too shameful.