Nine Dragons Saint Ancestor-Chapter 542: Five hundred and forty-two: The ignorant are fearless!

"Heh, a source of trouble?"

Qian Sanyuan, who had thought he could make the black-clad woman back off with some underlying rules, heard a chuckle from her the next moment.

The black-clad woman seemed to have heard an incredibly amusing joke, a rare smile breaking through her icy gaze. Raising her right hand and pointing at Qian Sanyuan, she said, "How could a mere Earth Bending Realm Peak ant possibly understand the true power between heaven and earth?"

"I’ll have you know, even those old fogeys at the Holy Rank of the Nine-layered Dragon Cloud wouldn’t dare speak to me this way!"

Her laughter ceased, and her voice turned cold as she uttered a somewhat enigmatic yet extremely domineering sentence, which undoubtedly heightened the shock in Qian Sanyuan’s heart by several degrees.

Even if these cultivators from the Hidden Dragon Continent have never been to the Tenglong Continent, they still know that the Tenglong Continent’s Middle Three Realms are not the true peak of the Nine Dragons Continent. Above it lies the supremely elevated Nine-layered Dragon Cloud.

"Could the lady possibly hail from the Nine-layered Dragon Cloud?"

Qian Sanyuan’s heart was beset with doubts. If this lady really came from the Nine-layered Dragon Cloud, then he would have to be much more cautious, as even the Meridian Refining Master Association of Tenglong Continent would not dare to offend those big shots of the Nine-layered Dragon Cloud.

"No need to guess. I have nothing to do with the Nine-layered Dragon Cloud. If you want to fight, let’s get on with it, but don’t expect any mercy from me!"

The black-clad woman scoffed, essentially answering Qian Sanyuan’s question. Upon hearing that she was not from the Nine-layered Dragon Cloud, Vice Chairman Qian breathed a huge sigh of relief.

"Miss, I’m not sure what grievances you have with Yun Xiao, but why not speak them out for everyone to hear? Perhaps it could turn swords into plowshares."

Although he no longer had concerns, the black-clad woman still seemed to be a powerful figure suspected to be at the Earth Bending Realm, and Qian Sanyuan didn’t want to burn bridges, thus he directly asked this question.

Even Yun Xiao pricked up his ears. In actuality, even he, the person involved, had no clear idea why this mysterious black-clad woman was doggedly pursuing him, spanning over ten thousand miles.

"What grievances exactly?"

Upon hearing Qian Sanyuan’s question, the black-clad woman couldn’t help but clench her right hand, feeling the slightly cool breath of the star-shaped mark, and a sense of irritability emerged in her heart for no apparent reason.

"Why so much nonsense? If you want to fight, let’s fight; if not, get lost!"

The black-clad woman, irritated, snapped sharply, causing Qian Sanyuan’s face to instantly darken.

As the Vice President of the Meridian Refining Master Association, Qian Sanyuan’s courteous speech was not due to fear of this unfathomable black-clad woman who had appeared out of nowhere. After all, he was a superlative expert at the peak of the Earth Bending Realm.

Such cultivation, even if taken to the Tenglong Continent, could rival figures like the Island Master of Impermanence Island or the Valley Master of Firewood Valley. This impudent young woman really had incensed him.

"With me here today, no one shall harm Yun Xiao!"

A displeased Qian Sanyuan stood in front of Yun Xiao. Although his figure was not particularly burly, in the eyes of the many cultivators of the Hidden Dragon Continent, he was as immovable as a massive mountain.

Yun Xiao, too, relaxed. In fact, he had been truly frightened by the black-clad woman’s two moves a moment ago. He originally thought this woman was just a cultivator who had recently entered the Qi Seeking Realm, but unexpectedly, she was able to defeat Meng Liyang at the peak of the Seeking Origin Realm with a single blow.

Fortunately, with Qian Sanyuan, a peak Earth Bending Realm expert, present, Yun Xiao, like the former, believed that this black-clad young woman could not possibly have reached the Heavenly Rank Third Realm, right?

Because such prodigies, even in the Nine-layered Dragon Cloud of Yun Xiao’s former life as the Long Xiao Battle God, have never existed, so he was extremely confident.

If only Yun Xiao knew, even as the reincarnation of the Long Xiao Battle God, his perspective was too narrow. Just as the Golden Snake Worm had said before, the true pinnacle of power in the Nine Dragons Continent was not the Nine-layered Dragon Cloud but another realm entirely.

"What a stubborn old fool!"

Seeing Qian Sanyuan stand in front of Yun Xiao, the black-clad woman’s brows furrowed slightly, but the onlookers couldn’t help but reveal a strange look on their faces.

Isn’t this what Qian Sanyuan should be saying? Now it’s you, this girl who popped up from nowhere, who is stubbornly set on killing Yun Xiao. Isn’t that the real stubbornness?

"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread, that’s just about you!"

With a resigned shake of her head, the black-clad woman slowly advanced towards Qian Sanyuan, who at that point began to exude rich Meridian Qi, and the ground beneath his feet surged with an immensely powerful force.

At the start of the Earth Rank Third Realm, the Qi Seeking Realm, one could harness the Earth Power for one’s own use. And at the highest realm, the Earth Bending Realm, hence called "Earth Bending," signified that the cultivators of this realm possessed strength so formidable that they commanded the Earth Power as a sovereign does his subjects.

At this moment, Qian Sanyuan had undoubtedly reached that realm, so the Earth Power he summoned was thousands of times stronger than the faint Earth Power Yun Xiao had once drawn with his Earth Rank Meridian Techniques.

However, to this Earth Power that made all cultivators feel a sense of shock, the woman in black seemed to sense not even the slightest, still slowly walking towards Qian Sanyuan, or perhaps towards Yun Xiao.

"Be careful!"

Although extremely angry at the woman in black’s ignorance of her own strength, as a Medical Pulse Master, Qian Sanyuan still had a trace of sympathy in his heart, so before he took action, he ultimately shouted out loud.

Boom!

A violent power swept out from Qian Sanyuan’s body, to the point where even those with formidable Power of Soul could sense the solid arena beneath his feet cracking open with huge fissures.

When this majestic Earth Power, combined with the Peak of Earth Bending Realm Meridian Qi from Qian Sanyuan, no one at the scene dared say they could survive the impact of this force.

Whoosh!

Yet in the next moment, everyone’s gaze once again became dumbfounded because Qian Sanyuan’s strike, with the Peak of Earth Bending Realm and majestic Earth Power, had merely stirred a few strands of the woman in black’s long hair as if it was a light breeze, seemingly causing her no harm at all.

"This... this is impossible!"

Aside from the shock of other spectators, Qian Sanyuan, the person involved, knew all too well what this scene meant. Even if he had held back, the final result shouldn’t be like this.

"How can a frog in a well know the vastness of the sky?"

The woman in black, now approaching slowly, said in a light and breezy tone, and then Qian Sanyuan heard another voice, "You old fellow have a decent heart, so I won’t take your life!"

Boom!

As the voice of the woman in black fell, Qian Sanyuan felt as if his body was struck by a giant hammer, spewing out a mouthful of bright red blood, and he stumbled back involuntarily.

Just as a horrified thought rose in Qian Sanyuan’s mind, an invisible force once again fiercely struck him. This time, his soul, which was half a step into the Heavenly Rank, seemed to have received a heavy blow.

"Heaven... Heavenly Rank Expert, and even the Power of Soul has reached the Heavenly Rank, I truly... truly..."

Qian Sanyuan, seriously injured in both body and Soul Power, unable to support himself, fell to the ground, while his face showed an expression of helplessness and self-mockery.

Qian Sanyuan himself was a cultivator at the Peak of Earth Bending Realm, with exceptional Soul Power that had already reached the peak of Earth Rank Advanced, just one step away from breaking through to the Heavenly Rank Low Level.

However, it was precisely such formidable strength. The woman in black’s concealed strike and the invisible Soul Power assault had severely injured both Qian Sanyuan’s body and Soul Power. Could the strength of this woman be more obvious?

But Qian Sanyuan could not comprehend how a young girl who was just sixteen or seventeen could have cultivated both her Meridian Qi and Soul Power to the Heavenly Rank Realm.

This completely overturned Qian Sanyuan’s long-standing cultivation perspective. He believed that even in the Nine-layered Dragon Cloud, such a defy-the-heavens genius was unlikely to appear. Was she even human?

For a moment, Qian Sanyuan thought of Jin Wuli who had died at Yun Xiao’s hands and instinctively considered that the woman in black might be a Strange Spirit; perhaps only this explanation made sense.

While Qian Sanyuan was lost in his thoughts, the central plaza of Baiyue City, both inside and out, was filled with stunned faces because what was happening was the complete opposite of what they had in mind.

Think of the Vice Chairman of the Meridian Refining Master Association of Tenglong Continent; perhaps, in the entire Tenglong Continent, he belonged to the most elite group of people. He was a big shot who could make the Tenglong Continent tremble by just stomping his foot.

But now, it appeared that this Vice Chairman’s fate was no different from that of Meng Liyang and even Xuan Haoran moments ago.

Against a cultivator at the Peak of Spirit Vein Realm, one strike caused serious injury; against one at the Peak of Qi Seeking Realm, still a serious injury with one strike; against an expert at the Peak of Earth Bending Realm, still a serious injury with one strike.

Compared to these cultivators of the Hidden Dragon Continent, perhaps the performance of the woman in black would shock the big shots of Tenglong Continent even more because they knew better just how strong Qian Sanyuan really was.

As for Meng Liyang, who had just been severely injured, for some reason, he felt a sense of balance as even the Vice Chairman Qian at the Peak of Earth Bending Realm couldn’t take a hit from the woman in black, so it seemed that it wasn’t too shameful for him to be injured by her.

However, after even Qian Sanyuan lost his combat effectiveness, there were no more protectors in front of Yun Xiao. When he saw the woman in black’s gaze turn directly to him, his heart couldn’t help sinking to the bottom of the valley.

Even if Yun Xiao had many tricks up his sleeve, even if he had seized the championship of the Countries Hidden Dragon Conference, facing a powerful opponent who could severely injure even Qian Sanyuan with one strike, he truly had no power to turn the tide.