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"Hmm?" Tuoba Zan was quite surprised when his attack missed. He originally thought that even if a Grandmaster came to rescue Xiao Anxun, it would be Lin Zhengying from the Tianwu Sect. However, he did not expect that the person standing in front of Xiao Anxun was an inconspicuous little eunuch.

Upon closer inspection and careful probing with his divine sense, Tuoba Zan quickly discovered something amiss—this fellow dressed as a eunuch was not a real person at all, but a puppet!

Before making his move, Tuoba Zan had already repeatedly used his divine sense to search Xiao Anxun's surroundings, confirming that no Grandmasters were lurking nearby. He had also scanned the puppet with his divine sense, but at that time, the puppet did not possess any unusual aura—no powerful vitality, no surging power fluctuations, and no aura of acquired essence fire or primordial spirit. It looked no different from an ordinary eunuch, which is why he had overlooked it.

Just as Tuoba Zan was stunned, the silver puppet exerted force with both arms and pushed hard! Tuoba Zan felt a huge force coming from the blade and was involuntarily sent flying backward. He barely managed to regain his balance.

"This puppet could easily withstand my full-force attack and even push me away. What astonishing strength!" Tuoba Zan hovered in mid-air outside the city, his heart filled with shock. He never expected that the Xiao royal family would hide such a powerful puppet.

Whoosh!

The silver puppet pushed off the city wall with both feet, its body shooting like an arrow towards Tuoba Zan, who had just regained his footing. Tuoba Zan reacted extremely quickly, immediately swinging his sword to meet the attack. The blade clashed with the spear, producing a piercing metallic scraping sound.

The two then engaged in a fierce battle in mid-air. The Silver Puppet was ultimately just a puppet, lacking any particularly sophisticated martial arts skills—if it were to unleash powerful techniques, the true essence stored in its energy bar, infused by Su Mu, would be insufficient to withstand the depletion.

For it, the best way to fight is through close-quarters combat, where brute force is the key. Its strength is formidable, its defense is resilient, and its speed is swift. Add to that the high-grade Xuan-level silver spear in its hand, and its offensive power should not be underestimated. Overall, its combat strength is by no means inferior to that of an ordinary mid-stage Grandmaster.

Tuoba Zan's strength was not to be underestimated either. His cultivation had reached the peak of the early stage of Grandmaster, allowing him to unleash exquisite movement techniques and enhance himself with acquired essence fire, making him a formidable fighter. Even if he couldn't defeat the Silver Puppet immediately, he wouldn't be defeated quickly either, and the two sides were locked in a stalemate for a time.

What troubled Tuoba Zan was that the puppet was incredibly fast, relentlessly entangled with him, giving her no chance to escape. Like Su Qingshan, Tuoba Zan was unaware that Lin Zhengying was dead. He was constantly worried that the Grandmaster of the Tianwu Sect would suddenly arrive and join forces with the puppet to attack him—if that happened, he would undoubtedly be defeated, and might even lose his life.

However, since the barbarians dared to march south and besiege the capital of the Great Qian Dynasty, vowing to annihilate the Xiao imperial family, they naturally had their own reliance. When Tuoba Zan formulated his plan, he had already anticipated that he might not be able to successfully kill Xiao Anxun on the city wall—after all, the Grandmaster of the Tianwu Sect was protecting the Xiao family.

His original plan was that if he couldn't kill Xiao Anxun, he would lure away the Grandmaster of the Tianwu Sect, leaving Xiao Anxun without the Grandmaster's protection, and then find an opportunity to kill him. Although he hadn't seen Lin Zhengying yet, Tuoba Zan still decided to proceed according to the original plan, fighting the silver puppet while slowly retreating, trying to lure this powerful puppet away from the north city wall and create an opportunity for subsequent actions.

At this moment, Su Mu had already stood up from the rooftop, his gaze fixed on the silver puppet and Tuoba Zan, who were gradually moving away from the north city wall. He was already prepared to make his move. Now that he had successfully lured out the enemy's Grandmaster, there was no reason for him to escape.

Just as Su Mu activated his Wind Leopard Boots and summoned the Four Extremes Golden Thunder Sword, preparing to give chase, an unexpected situation suddenly occurred—another barbarian powerhouse charged straight toward Xiao Anxun on the city wall!

This barbarian powerhouse looked very young, around twenty years old, but the aura emanating from him was even stronger than that of Tuoba Zan!

call!

Su Mu flashed and instantly appeared in front of Xiao Anxun—his speed was so fast that the gold that was originally on his shoulder was left on the roof of the five-story building, unable to keep up with his pace.

Swish!

The young barbarian expert was already within reach. Su Mu had no time to set up the Four Directions Sword Formation, so he could only grip the Four Extremes Golden Thunder Sword tightly and sweep it forward to block the opponent's attack.

Surprisingly, this young barbarian powerhouse did not use any weapons or magic treasures. He simply raised a huge fist, which was covered with raging red flames, and smashed it fiercely towards Su Mu's Four Extremes Golden Thunder Sword!

Clang!

The Four Extremes Golden Thunder Sword slashed fiercely at the opponent's fist. The golden sword energy collided with the red flames, unleashing a powerful energy fluctuation.

To Su Mu's surprise, although his top-grade Xuan-level Four Extremes Golden Thunder Sword shattered the fiery red flames on the opponent's fist, it failed to sever the opponent's palm. Upon closer inspection, he discovered that the opponent was wearing a thin glove on his palm—clearly, this glove was no ordinary object, but a defensive magic weapon of considerable quality.

What shocked Su Mu even more was the extraordinary ferocity and domineering power of the opponent's punch. With a single blow, Su Mu felt his arm go numb, and the Four Extremes Golden Thunder Sword nearly flew from his hand. He carefully probed with his divine sense and discovered that the opponent not only possessed a powerful acquired essence fire, but also a clear aura of primordial spirit—meaning that this young barbarian powerhouse was also a Grandmaster!

But Su Qingshan clearly said that the barbarian tribe only has one Grandmaster! Even if the barbarian tribe really has a second Grandmaster hidden, it shouldn't be a young man in his early twenties like this!

As everyone knows, the barbarian tribes have extremely scarce cultivation resources, far inferior to those of the Great Qian Empire and the Heavenly Martial Sect. Even if this person is a martial arts genius who appears only once in a century, it is absolutely impossible for him to reach the Grandmaster realm at the age of just over twenty years old—this is simply too abnormal!

Su Mu and the young barbarian grandmaster stood facing each other, both radiating a powerful aura. The clash of their immense power caused the surrounding air to freeze.

Tuoba Hongzhen's fist was incredibly powerful, causing Su Mu's arm to go numb and the Four Extremes Golden Thunder Sword in his hand to almost fly out of his grasp; while Su Mu's sweeping sword light, carrying immense sword energy, forced his opponent back several steps, and the two were locked in a stalemate for a moment.

With a thought, Su Mu immediately activated the Soul-Suppressing Pearl, unleashing an invisible surge of soul power towards the young barbarian powerhouse, employing a Soul-Suppressing Technique. To his surprise, this move had no effect on Tuoba Hongzhen—either the opponent's soul realm far exceeded his expectations, or his sea of ​​consciousness also contained a high-level soul-type magic treasure capable of resisting soul attacks.

Su Mu thought to himself that even if he forcibly activated the Free Bell, he probably wouldn't be able to shake the opponent's soul foundation, so he simply gave up the idea of ​​a soul attack.

Immediately afterwards, Su Mu raised his hand and threw the Four Extremes Golden Thunder Sword into the air. With a thought, the Xuan-rank top-grade longsword instantly split into four golden thunder swords, which sped off in the four directions of east, south, west, and north, and landed steadily, setting up the array base.

If it were an ordinary Grandmaster, Su Mu wouldn't need to go to such lengths to easily crush him. But this young barbarian Grandmaster was different from all the opponents he had encountered before—in addition to the acquired essence fire and primordial spirit that are essential for a Grandmaster, Su Mu also sensed a clear spiritual aura on him.

Su Mu deduced that the other party, like himself, had likely undergone a transformation and achieved a spiritual body ahead of time. This bizarre origin filled Su Mu with vigilance; the other party seemed to be a powerful figure who shouldn't have appeared in this era. He had to go all out and couldn't afford to be careless in the slightest.