Su Hualin was somewhat puzzled as to why Ye Xiao was standing still, motionless.

However, he had only one objective, and that was to defeat Ye Xiao. If he couldn't achieve this today, it would not be a good outcome for the Su family.

For the sake of the Su family, Su Hualin must make a move against Ye Xiao, and it must be a lethal one.

Just as Su Hualin's foot was about to strike Ye Xiao's chest, Ye Xiao suddenly brought his arms together, and an extremely dense Nine Yang True Qi surged between them.

Boom!

Su Hualin's foot made close contact with Ye Xiao's arms, and with this contact, a deep explosive sound echoed, both Ye Xiao and Su Hualin retreated several steps. Ye Xiao was unharmed, but Su Hualin felt a slight tingling sensation in his foot.

At this moment, standing at a distance, watching all of this, Su Zhengyi understood that Ye Xiao didn't use any offensive moves; instead, he repeatedly defended. The reason was clear: Su Hualin simply couldn't defeat Ye Xiao. Ye Xiao's strength was already sufficient to restrict Su Hualin solely through defense.

Su Hualin stepped back several paces, immediately wanting to attack Ye Xiao again. But at this moment, Su Zhengyi spoke up.

"Wait!" Su Zhengyi said.

Su Hualin was about to make a move, but upon hearing Su Zhengyi's words, he looked at Su Zhengyi with great curiosity.

Obviously, he didn't understand what Su Zhengyi meant.

Su Zhengyi looked at Su Hualin and said, "You are not Ye Xiao's match, you should step back."

Hearing Su Zhengyi's words, thinking of the earlier exchanges, Su Hualin naturally realized this and looked up at Ye Xiao, sighed, and said, "I didn't expect your strength to be so formidable."

Ye Xiao smiled slightly and said, "Uncle Su, I apologize for my disrespect earlier. I hope you can forgive me."

What else could Su Hualin say? In fact, it had always been him continuously attacking, but Ye Xiao either dodged or defended.

Su Hualin didn't say anything and walked to the side.

And at this moment, Su Zhengyi could roughly understand the extent of Ye Xiao's strength.

"Approaching middle stage of Earth Rank, right?" Su Zhengyi said to Ye Xiao.

Ye Xiao heard Su Zhengyi's words but wasn't surprised. Considering who he was—an experienced martial artist of obvious Earth Rank caliber—it was somewhat predictable he would discern Ye Xiao's level of strength.

Of course, Ye Xiao recently cultivated the sixth volume of the Heavenly Book, Yang Gang's Golden Body, naturally enhancing his power further.

Ye Xiao smiled slightly, looked at Su Zhengyi, and said, "Elder Su has keen insight."

"No need for flattery. We are enemies, at least for now." Su Zhengyi looked at Ye Xiao.

For a seasoned martial artist elder, encountering a prodigy like Ye Xiao, frankly, few would genuinely wish to kill him. Many martial artist elders greatly cherish talent.

But today, Ye Xiao crippled Huo Wensong right outside the Su family's gate, forcing the Su family to pursue justice. Because if the Su family didn't, Huo Qinglong certainly would, and then it might become a disastrous situation for the Su family.

"I don't want to hurt you. If you are willing to come to Linghuo Sect with me, I guarantee I won't attack you. Whether you can escape from Linghuo Sect depends on your own fortune." Su Zhengyi said seriously to Ye Xiao.

Clearly, Su Zhengyi wasn't joking. In his view, this was the maximum leniency he could offer this young genius martial artist.

But who was Ye Xiao? He had his objectives. Although Su Zhengyi was Su Yun's grandfather, what Su Zhengyi just said couldn't be more correct: they were enemies, and this truth couldn't change, at least not at present.

Ye Xiao smiled slightly and said calmly, "Elder Su, make your move."

Su Zhengyi looked at Ye Xiao, his brows furrowed slightly, but he didn't hold back. He took a brisk step toward Ye Xiao; if Su Hualin was like a regular adult, then Su Zhengyi was like a track and field athlete combined with a weightlifter.

The difference in strength between the two was substantial beyond mere degrees.

"Ha!"

Knowing Ye Xiao's approximate strength, Su Zhengyi certainly didn't plan to hold back. He swiftly approached Ye Xiao, and with a sudden shout, he threw a punch toward Ye Xiao.

This punch, Ye Xiao had seen before.

It was used by Huo Wensong in their earlier confrontation, the Blazing Flame Fist!

A high-level martial arts of Linghuo Sect.

When Ye Xiao faced Huo Wensong earlier, he could easily grab Huo Wensong's Blazing Flame Fist, but now who was he facing? No less than Su Zhengyi, an Earth Rank expert.

Ye Xiao wouldn't be so arrogant or foolish.

Thus, he naturally wouldn't use his hands to grab but instead manipulated Nine Yang True Qi rapidly throughout his body, transforming his hands into dragon claws in an instant!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Continuous collisions, repeated explosive sounds.

The Blazing Flame Fist and Fire Dragon Claw endlessly clashed.

With each collision, both Ye Xiao and Su Zhengyi could feel the surging wave-like True Qi from each other.

Powerful!

This was the word both felt when sensing the other's True Qi!

In a blink of an eye, they had already fought over a dozen rounds, leaving Su Hualin watching from the side dumbfounded.

In Su Hualin's eyes previously, his father rarely made a move, but when he did, it was definitely sharp and fierce. However, now when his father Su Zhengyi faced Ye Xiao, it gradually entered a stalemate.

What does equally matched mean? At this moment, these two were indeed equally matched.

Su Hualin naturally considered his family's interests, but while watching Ye Xiao fight his father Su Zhengyi, he even had a thought: if his daughter truly united with this young man, what would the future hold?

As a clan leader, Su Hualin naturally had to think of his family's interests, but as a father to a daughter? He would naturally hope for her to marry an exceptional man. And compared to Ye Xiao, Huo Wensong was indeed like a crow compared to a phoenix.

The difference between the two indeed wasn't minor.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The explosive sounds echoed repeatedly.

Su Zhengyi and Ye Xiao were shaken by each other's power, both retreating more than ten meters.

"Elder Su, this isn't all of your real strength, is it?" Ye Xiao smilingly looked at Su Zhengyi and said, "Elder Su, there's no need to hold back!"

Listening to Ye Xiao's words, Su Zhengyi indeed hadn't given his all, but since Ye Xiao mentioned this, it also sent Su Zhengyi a signal: Ye Xiao hadn't gone all out either.

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