As Liu Xing moved, slashing his stone blade, shooting his bullets, and trying to occupy Wei Yi and formerly Elder Yang Zhaoyan, he thought about how to proceed with his plan. Obviously, there were two entrances that he could use to get into the giant's stomach, and both of them were unpleasant. The... rear one would probably be unguarded, but if he counted the distance from this entrance to the stomach, the other entrance, which was its mouth, was probably closer to the meatball.

Elder Yang Zhaoyan launched himself from the ground toward him. Liu Xing sent a crescent of purple qi toward him. The elder created a barrier in front of him. The purple qi hit it, exploding it into fragments, but the crescent was also destroyed.

The elder created a platform and jumped again, but Liu Xing had already moved. Wei Yi sent his lasers toward him. He realized that compared to the first attack, the lasers were actually less numerous, which indicated that Wei Yi had a finite amount of qi he could draw from the giant. Though they were fewer, they were actually more coordinated. Some could even bend a little bit.

Upon seeing the lasers, Liu Xing sent several crescents of purple qi toward them, which exploded the lasers but didn't destroy them. Attacking the lasers was like trying to explode or cut a surge of water. That wasn't the optimal thing to do. But when the attacks clashed, there was at least an explosion of light that concealed him for a moment.

Diving down, Liu Xing scanned his surroundings and spotted Yang Suyin, who had finally landed on the Firebird. A wave of relief washed over him; this was good. Still, he needed to keep Wei Yi and Elder Yang Zhaoyan occupied for a while longer, giving Yang Suyin time to distribute Lihuo's remains among the clansmen. Once that was done, he'd have to figure out how to enter the giant's body, and the implications of it.

He spotted the elder standing on a platform in the air, with a body that faced the wrong direction if he was looking for Liu Xing. Liu Xing pulled the trigger and shot a Lightning Palm bullet right toward the elder. The bullet flew through the air, but the whistling sound made the elder snap his head toward the bullet, and swiftly conjure a transparent barrier. When the bullet hit the barrier, an explosion of lightning occurred, and Liu Xing reined in his disappointment since his attack didn't connect.

Moving using his shield to circle the elder, Liu Xing thought that while the current main objective was for him to enter the giant's body, if the elder was not dealt with and he casually decided to enter the stomach of the giant, then the elder as well as Wei Yi would attack Yang Hongyin, the prince, and the rest of the Yang clan members. Even right now, Yang Hongyin and the prince were having trouble fighting the former emperor, so they would surely die if they needed to fight three opponents at the same time.

Honestly, Liu Xing was actually torn with the options in front of him. On one hand, he needed to wreck the inside of the giant as soon as possible, afraid that it would evolve or undergo a breakthrough, but he also didn't want the Yang clan to die fighting three opponents at the same time.

Still, Liu Xing gritted his teeth and came to a decision. He would try his absolute best to kill the elder in one minute. Surely, a minute was more than enough for Yang Suyin to distribute the remains of Lihuo. Then, whether he was successful or not, he would abandon the fight with Wei Yi and Elder Yang Zhaoyan and earnestly try to enter the giant's body. This was quite a hard decision for him. There was a possibility that even if he destroyed the meatball inside, he would come out from the giant with the prince and his clansmen already dead. The amount of time they had spent together was actually very little. But it would be a lie to say that he didn't care for them at all. Those were people that had fought together with him. He already considered them as comrades. Especially the prince, Yang Suyin, and Elder Yang Zhaoyan.

Liu Xing checked the core inside his consciousness. The core was quite big right now, but still far away from splitting into two cores. This meant that he needed to stop sending the qi from the Ethereal Pearl into his consciousness, since the amount of qi in it was less than half, and he needed it to fight the Elder to make sure he had a chance to kill him as swiftly as possible.

As Liu Xing maneuvered around the red lasers that were trying to pulverize him, he finally deactivated the Flowing Meditation Method. The hole of consciousness that reliably sent qi from his body to his consciousness wavered like a ring of smoke that lost its shape, and then it disappeared without a trace.

Suddenly, as he rotated his body to dodge a red laser as big as his thigh, and Elder Yang Zhaoyang lunged at him, he felt as if the world suddenly became brighter than before, the colors sharper, as if he were a man who had eye problems and tried glasses for the first time, and he felt his vision become wider, as if he had grown eyes on the sides of his head.

Not only his vision, Liu Xing could also feel the qi around him more clearly, could feel the heat from the lasers, and even felt the rustle of the air on his skin, as if his senses had just undergone some kind of breakthrough.

Liu Xing summoned his shield, kicked it, and launched himself toward Elder Yang Zhaoyan while swinging his stone blade.

Suddenly, he could feel the qi around elder Yang Zhaoyan move, as if they were disturbed, and he knew without a doubt that a barrier would materialize in front of the elder. Using his shield, he adjusted his trajectory a little, and when a blue barrier materialized in front of the elder, Liu Xing moved slightly above it, his body mere centimeters right on top of the barrier.

After successfully passing the barrier, Liu Xing stopped his momentum with his shield, rotated his body, and swung his blade as hard as possible, sending out a crescent of purple qi mere centimeters from the elder's head. When the crescent of purple qi hit the elder, he could see the lifeless eyes of Elder Yang Zhaoyan widen a little bit, as if he were actually surprised. The attack pushed down the abomination, breaking the barrier that he used as a platform, and making the elder fall like a meteor.

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Seeing this, Liu Xing rotated his body so he was facing downward, and kicked his shield to launch himself toward the elder, trying to attack him more relentlessly.

The movement he had just made was actually simple. He merely adjusted his trajectory and hit the elder. Yet, it was more profound than that. His movement was efficient and swift, it almost looked like he could see the future and moved accordingly.

As he chased after the elder and charged his stone blade with more qi, he knew that the change in his perception was related to the Flowing Meditation Method. This meditation method was supposedly just merely a way to cultivate while moving, but clearly, there was a hidden aspect of it.

Come to think of it, he had actually maintained the technique since the beginning of the culling, and even though the total amount of time was short, the things he had done in that time were so intense, so numerous, that maintaining the method was actually impressive. He remembered several times the hole wavering, but he stubbornly held it, since it was necessary to absorb the qi from his Ethereal Pearl.

Perhaps this method harmonized his body and his consciousness, so that the end result was the more enhanced and coordinated senses. Or, perhaps this method was like some kind of weight that he didn't realize he was carrying, so when he ceased his control over it, the burden on his mind lightened, and his mind became sharper. Perhaps both were true, perhaps his conjectures were way off. Still, even if he was wrong, the end result was the same.

He had just suddenly become stronger!

Grinning ferociously, Liu Xing swung his stone blade, intending to send a crescent of purple qi to the elder, but when he realized that the qi on the left of the elder began stirring, he deduced that the elder would create a barrier on his side and use it to dodge to the left. Thinking swiftly, Liu Xing filled his gun with Lightning Palm bullets, and as he swung his stone blade, yet held the qi in his blade in a feint attack, he could see a barrier materialize on the left of the elder, and his pale white hands pushed on the barrier, launching himself to the right.

Right at this time, Liu Xing pulled the trigger of his gun six times.

The bullets flew from the gun through the air swiftly like six falling stars. The elder looked up, and the six bullets hit their marks. Four in the face of the elder, while the rest hit the body of the elder. When they hit, ropes of electricity exploded from the bullets, paralyzing the elder in the air.

Upon seeing this, Liu Xing swung his stone blade again.

"Eat this!"

The crescent of purple qi leapt from his stone blade and flew swiftly toward the paralyzed elder. It struck the elder's face, pausing for a moment as if hitting an unyielding surface, before sinking deep, splitting his head in two, slicing through his torso, and severing his hands along the way until it emerged on the other side. The Elder was split in two.

Knowing that this was not enough to kill him, Liu Xing aimed his gun and filled it with Exploding Fist bullets, hoping that this attack would kill the abomination and absorb his qi, but he felt the change of wind around him, and knew that the dozens of red balls of qi in front of Wei Yi would shoot lasers at him.

Without missing a beat, Liu Xing dived down toward the elder, and as he expected, Wei Yi shot lasers toward him. His feet were only several centimeters from the red light, and he could feel the intense heat of it.

Liu Xing summoned his shield and accelerated toward the elder. Both sides of the body were now growing branches of flesh and tangling with each other, like hands that were trying to hold each other. Upon seeing this, Liu Xing swung his blade, but again, held the qi inside it, gauging the reaction of the elder. He could feel several qi spots around the elder, and deduced that he would materialize several barriers around him at the same time, probably anticipating him attacking from different directions.

Liu Xing decided to send Exploding Fist bullets toward a barrier right in front of the abomination. The six bolts flew true through the air.

Not stopping, Liu Xing swung his stone blade and sent a crescent of purple qi following behind the bullets. As expected, several barriers materialized, protecting the elder while he tried to make his body whole again, but as soon as the front barrier materialized, his bullets hit it.

Six explosions destroyed the barrier, shattering it into thousands of fragments. Liu Xing could feel that another barrier would materialize to replace it, but before it could form fully, the crescent of purple qi came. When it passed through the spot, the technique collapsed before materializing, and the crescent of purple qi cut the tangling flesh, splitting his body into two again.

Liu Xing accelerated faster and faster until he arrived right in front of the two parts of Elder Yang Zhaoyan. He had dismissed the gun in his left hand and had sent qi toward his left gauntlet. Right now, there was a ball of lightning the size of a basketball in front of his left hand.

Without further ado, he sent a palm strike toward it, sending a pillar of lightning bigger than him. The lightning pillar swallowed the elder whole. There was no scream, just the whistling sound around the lightning pillar and the silhouette of Elder Yang Zhaoyan inside the lightning pillar. He held the attack for a full second before canceling it, feeling another laser attack would come at him.

As several red lasers came at him, Liu Xing summoned his shield again and kicked it, causing him to fall like a meteor chasing Elder Yang Zhaoyan. At this moment, Elder Yang Zhaoyan was reduced to two charred pieces of flesh. The once pale white arms that had grown around him were now blackened and Elder Yang Zhaoyan's face was entirely unrecognizable.

Several moments later, the two body parts hit the ground hard. When they hit the earth, several charred hands broke from the bodies, as if they were not flesh, but truly dried branches.

Upon seeing this, Liu Xing felt pity toward the elder. He should not have been reduced to something like this, yet, there was nothing he could do about it aside from killing him.

Gritting his teeth, the anger toward Wei Yi blazed more intensely, but he didn't look toward Wei Yi. Instead, he focused his eyes below. The elder looked charred and dead, but there was a chance that he was still alive, and so Liu Xing resummoned his gun to his left hand, filled it with Exploding Fist bullets, and shot six bullets toward one part of the elder's body. Before the six bullets hit their intended target, Liu Xing filled the gun with another six Exploding Fist bullets and shot them at the other side of Elder Yang Zhaoyan. Twelve bullets fell downwards. The six first bullets hit first, then were followed by the rest. Two separate explosions swallowed the body of the elder.

A moment later, Liu Xing landed not far from the two explosions, and he glanced toward the side of his gun.

When he saw six glowing green stripes, Liu Xing clenched his hand around his gun. While there was a little happiness that he had successfully killed one of his adversaries, there was no satisfaction about it.

Liu Xing took a deep breath and bowed his head a little toward the remains of Elder Yang Zhaoyan.

"May your next life be filled with happiness, Elder" Liu Xing said.

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