Invincible Dad-Chapter 674 - 764 - A Single Sentence Will - Part 1
Footsteps came from a young man dressed in pajamas and wearing flip-flops.
He walked between the frozen mountain ranges and cast a glance at the Immortal Binding Rope. This treasured artifact of the Moon Clan, capable of binding even a Nascent Soul cultivator, snapped apart inch by inch.
This scene, witnessed by Mou Yuan and the other elders, made their skin crawl. That was the King’s personal magical treasure!
Did that man break it with just a glance? How is that possible?
Mou Yuan’s eyes filled with terror as he watched the young man approach step by step. However, the man’s gaze wasn’t on him at all, but on the little girl named Xu Yiyi.
"Daddy!" Xu Yiyi cried, feeling wronged as she reached out her hands for a hug.
Xu Lai quickly embraced his daughter.
"Daddy, they threatened me with Mao Dou and Teacher Miao," Xu Yiyi said, her eyes brimming with tears. "I... I couldn’t bring myself to do it. I could only call for you. They’re all bad people."
"It’s okay, Daddy’s here." Xu Lai gently wiped the tears from the corners of his daughter’s eyes.
Those simple words, as if by magic, made Yiyi smile through her tears. "Mmm-hmm."
"Uncle Xu..." Qian Xiao, covered in blood, snot, and tears, tried to cling to Xu Lai’s leg but was kicked away.
"You’re in the early Golden Core stage and you can’t even handle a small scene like this? You got injured all over, so what’s the point of your Cultivation?" Xu Lai cast a sidelong glance at him. "Just stop cultivating. You might as well inherit your family’s business and just be a rich kid."
"..."
Unlike the gentleness he showed Yiyi, Uncle Xu’s strictness left Qian Xiao speechless.
A moment later, Qian Xiao argued, unconvinced, "There were so many of them, and they had leverage! I only got hurt trying to protect Sister Yiyi."
"Getting beaten up constantly, you call that protection?" Xu Lai rebuked. "If you had just killed them all, you could have protected everyone, couldn’t you? If you’re weak, you stand straight and take the scolding. Stop talking back."
Qian Xiao fell into thought. It made sense, and yet, something seemed off about it.
"Senior Xu Lai, you finally saw the message... cough, cough, cough." Tan Chang spoke, his voice incredibly weak, only to break into a fit of coughing.
"What are you doing here?" Xu Lai asked, as if he had only just noticed Tan Chang.
What? Don’t tell me you didn’t come to save me after seeing my message? Tan Chang was dumbfounded.
"Forget it. It’s not important anymore." Xu Lai waved his hand, and Spiritual Energy surged into Yiyi and the others. Their injuries healed at a speed visible to the naked eye. At the same time, the space around them was no longer frozen.
Tan Chang found himself alive again! He stood up with a complicated expression and said, "I owe Senior Xu Lai another life."
"You... You’re Xu Lai!?" Mou Yuan’s heart raced. He couldn’t believe such a coincidence could exist. The father of the girl he’d intended to abduct was none other than Xu Lai—the powerful Human Race warrior from Earth they had come all this way to kill!
"Did I give you permission to speak?" Xu Lai’s gaze was calm. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞
The blood-red palm hovering above Mou Yuan’s head suddenly clenched into a fist and hammered down on him!
SPLAT.
With a sickening crunch, Mou Yuan, a cultivator at the Half-Step Nascent Soul Realm, was smashed into a meat paste by his own Blood Moon Divine Skill.
"..."
The area fell silent.
The fifteen Crescent Moon Clan elders, who had just regained control of their bodies, looked on in utter shock. They knew Xu Lai was powerful before they came, but they had never anticipated that he would be strong enough to control Elder Mou Yuan’s Blood Moon Divine Skill and use it against him.
In the profound silence, Xu Lai looked at Yiyi in his arms and said indifferently, "He was right about one thing. In the Cultivation World, the biggest fist is the only truth."
But Mou Yuan’s fist wasn’t big enough. He tried to provoke an existence with a much bigger fist, and so he died. Mou Yuan had thought he was the oriole hunting the mantis, but he never realized that in his opponent’s eyes, he was too weak to even be considered the cicada. Life and death were decided in a single thought. This was the cruel, heartless Cultivation World, where the strong held the lives of the weak in their hands.
"One final sentence from each of you," Xu Lai said, his gaze sweeping over the Moon Clan. His tone was perfectly calm as if discussing some trivial matter.
"..."
The fifteen Moon Clan elders swallowed hard in unison. They were terrified; they were trembling. The resolve they once had, the willingness to die to take Xu Lai down with them, completely shattered the moment they witnessed his true power.
For a moment, no one dared to speak. This man was so outrageously strong that defeating him was simply impossible.
Qian Xiao stared blankly at Xu Lai. His uncle was just standing there, his figure not even as large as his own, yet he seemed like an insurmountable mountain peak, inspiring awe and fear with a single glance.
Qian Xiao suddenly had a small goal. He wanted to climb over that mountain. He wanted to make everyone under the sky hear his voice. He wanted to become even more formidable than Uncle Xu!
"No one has any last words?" Xu Lai cocked his head slightly. "Then you can all be on your way together."
"Xu Lai! We are elders of the Moon Clan, and we were originally here to kill you, but... but would you consider joining forces with the Moon Clan to rule Earth?" one of the Crescent Moon Clan elders blurted out, bracing himself.
BANG!
The instant the elder finished speaking, his body exploded in mid-air into a vibrant mist of blood.
"Xu Lai, you’re taking this too far!" another elder roared in anger after witnessing the death of his kinsman.
His fate, however, was no different from the first, and perhaps even more tragic.
"Uncle Xu is awesome! He said one last sentence, and he’s not letting you say a second!" Qian Xiao shouted at the top of his lungs. "Who else disagrees? I’m asking you, who else?!"
Tan Chang was speechless. He now truly understood the meaning of being a fox borrowing the tiger’s might.
The remaining thirteen Crescent Moon Clan elders seethed with a rage they dared not express, their exchanged glances hinting at a brewing madness. In a single instant, all thirteen elders charged at Xu Lai simultaneously and then self-detonated.
Yes. They didn’t bother with futile attacks or attempts to flee; they chose to self-detonate. They believed that not even a cultivator at the Peak of the Nascent Soul Realm could simply ignore the self-detonation of thirteen cultivators at the Peak of Golden Core.
The rest could be left to Lin Xuzhi of the Yunxiao Sect.
In fact, Lin Xuzhi, a trusted confidant of the Moon King’s avatar, had been observing from the shadows all along. He stood on the rooftop of the abandoned factory, gripping a palm-sized, almost comical-looking wooden sword. He didn’t dare meet Xu Lai’s eyes, terrified of being detected.
The Sect Master was right. The Moon Clan is fearless and unafraid of death. Lin Xuzhi’s scalp went numb. The thirteen members who self-detonated were all powerhouses at the Peak of Golden Core, equivalent to half of the Yunxiao Sect’s top combat strength. Yet, they had sacrificed themselves just to create an opportunity for his fatal strike.
Lin Xuzhi’s gaze was cold. Targeted like this, Xu Lai would either die or be severely injured. A good portion of East Sea City’s inhabitants would be buried with him.
But then, an incomprehensible scene unfolded before him. The self-detonation of thirteen Golden Core powerhouses failed to create so much as a ripple. He couldn’t sense the slightest disturbance in the Spiritual Energy. In other words, the thirteen Moon Clan elders had died for nothing.
How is this possible? Not even someone at the Peak of the Nascent Soul Realm can stop the self-detonation of a cultivator at the Peak of Golden Core. Could it be... that Xu Lai has truly stepped into the legendary... Divinity Transformation Realm? Lin Xuzhi’s pupils shrank rapidly.
At that moment, Lin Xuzhi felt a gaze upon him. He instinctively looked over and saw the young man holding his daughter, who smiled kindly at him.
"You also get one sentence for your last words."
