The court lackeys of the eight-hour workday

Chapter 624 [Silent Photo]

The ripples created by Xu Fu's fingertips tore apart the kneeling bodies around him. Time seemed to slow down; the speed at which the ripples spread, the speed at which blood splattered, and even the speed at which the fear spread across the faces of the crowd on the outside were all slowed to an extreme degree.

Everything slowed down except for Xu Fu.

"Ji Zhao?"

Li Miao raised an eyebrow, attempting to deflect Xu Fu's fingers with his fist, only to find that even his speed had been slowed to the extreme. He clearly sensed that his true energy and strength were still as responsive as his own limbs, but they couldn't keep up with Xu Fu's thoughts at all.

"Yes."

Xu Fu remained candid, jabbing his finger into Li Miao's heart.

“Xuanlan is a method of supplementing life with sex… Therefore, Xuanlan can only connect the three paths of life. All people in later generations, including Bodhidharma, Sanfeng and you, probably instinctively connected the life path the moment they mastered Xuanlan.”

Li Miao completely disregarded the fact that Xu Fu's fingers had already penetrated his body, and simply laughed.

"Isn't that right?"

"Yes, and also wrong."

Xu Fu's wrist sank into Li Miao's chest.

"Using sex to replenish life is indeed the right thing to do."

"When it comes to matters of life and death, it is indeed the right path."

"But there was no precedent to follow when that person cultivated to become a celestial being."

"At that time, there was no such thing as cultivating both body and mind, and no one knew how to walk the path above the heavens and man... So he made an attempt—using sex to supplement sex, connecting profound contemplation with stillness and illumination, abandoning the cultivation of life force, and cultivating the Yang spirit method to seek longevity."

"This was a failed attempt, which is why he has spent a thousand years and still cannot reach the level of a celestial being. But this attempt was not without results."

"Mysterious Observations and Divine Wonders - [Silent Illumination]".

"Your five senses are mine now."

A look of realization dawned on Li Miao's face.

It's not that time has slowed down.

From the moment he achieved the unification of the six paths, Xu Fu had already laid out the [Silent Illumination] enhanced by Xuan Lan without Xu Fu's knowledge... and taken control of Xu Fu's senses.

From that time on, everything he perceived was an illusion created by Xu Fu.

Xu Fu's palm sank completely into Li Miao's heart.

"Let me see what Bodhidharma left you."

She reached into Li Miao's chest cavity and grabbed him.

After killing Li Miao, she still had to fight the River Elder, using the River Elder's cultivation level to deal with herself. Xu Fu didn't think she could succeed at all; she had to find other means.

She wants to seize the legacy of Bodhidharma.

This is also why she didn't choose to smash Li Miao's head immediately, but instead aimed directly at his heart—she didn't know if killing Li Miao would cause the Bodhidharma legacy stored in his body to disappear as well.

With a flick of his finger, Xu Fu unleashed his inner energy, sweeping it across Li Miao's chest. His face lit up with joy as he grabbed what he had found and pulled his arm out of Li Miao's chest.

"found it!"

She glanced at Li Miao, her eyes flashing with murderous intent.

"Then you're useless!"

After saying that, he slapped Li Miao on the forehead.

This palm strike is the real killing move.

[Ji Zhao] has completely mastered Li Miao's five senses, and he is destined to be unable to resist. However, out of caution, Xu Fu still used all his strength and true energy to deliver this palm strike.

Even sound couldn't keep up with this palm strike. As if the process had vanished, in a time shorter than "an instant," the palm was already in front of Li Miao, and he didn't even have time to react. In Li Miao's senses, this palm strike didn't even exist.

His full head of silver hair suddenly flew backward, and his most vulnerable eyeballs were squeezed by the air brought up by his palm, instantly turning bloodshot—in that very instant! Li Miao's eyes snapped shut, and the corners of his mouth curled up!

"caught you."

Bang!
Xu Fu's pupils suddenly contracted!

A fist blocked her palm, stopping the blow.

Li Miao's fist.

"how come!"

"His five senses are still within my [Silent Illumination], so this palm strike shouldn't exist in his senses. How could he possibly block my attack!"

Xu Fu's mind raced. He swiftly deflected Li Miao's fist and struck Li Miao's head with another palm strike, taking in everything on Li Miao's body at the same time.

"True Qi, no abnormalities."

"The strength is normal."

"He really didn't notice my move, he didn't break free from my [Silent Illumination]... Could it be that he was just guessing?"

His palm struck Li Miao's face again, the force of the blow tearing a small wound. The instant the wound appeared, Li Miao abruptly raised his hand and punched Xu Fu!
"How can it be!"

Xu Fu dodged the punch and was about to continue probing when she saw Li Miao suddenly move his feet, turn to the side, raise his shoulder, and charge at her with an iron mountain lean like a meteorite!
"!!"

Xu Fu retreated, but Li Miao relentlessly pursued her, slamming his shoulder into her arm and lifting her toes off the ground.

"wrong!"

Xu Fu, still in mid-air, glanced at Li Miao's shoulder.

"There is no protective inner energy."

Li Miao's shoulder was split open, with skin torn and flesh exposed. It was obvious that the collision had not only failed to cover his body with the [Myriad Manifestations] True Qi, but he had not even used any ordinary external martial arts techniques. When he collided with Xu Fu's arm, which was circulating external martial arts techniques, he was even more seriously injured.

"why?"

Xu Fu used a technique called "thousand-pound drop" to plummet from mid-air. As soon as he landed, Li Miao caught up with him like a hungry tiger, raising both fists and unleashing a brutal and ferocious barrage of attacks as dense as raindrops in an instant!

Xu Fu had no choice but to raise his palm to defend himself.

Clang, clang, clang, clang!

A series of deafening roars, almost forming a continuous line, swept out instantly. The powerful winds cut through the ground, and in just a few breaths, more than a foot of ground within a ten-zhang radius was cleared away, with dust being raised and then dispersed.

Blood spurted out, splashing all over Xu Fu.

After all, she had already reached the realm of six paths combined, so resisting Li Miao's attacks was not too difficult for her, and she even had the leisure to observe the abnormality of Li Miao's body.

Li Miao's eyes were tightly closed, and his body was covered in wounds.

He didn't use any external martial arts techniques, and even withdrew his protective inner energy, relying solely on his well-honed body to relentlessly attack Xu Fu. But with Xu Fu's level of cultivation, his skin, after using external martial arts techniques, was as hard as refined steel—how could a mere physical body withstand such an attack?
In the blink of an eye, a hundred moves had passed. Xu Fu had only suffered a few small wounds, while Li Miao's fist was already completely white, revealing his knuckles.

"what happened……"

Xu Fu thought to himself.

"Could it be that over the past thousand years, the martial arts world of the Central Plains has developed a skill that can counter Ji Zhao's techniques...? No, impossible. Ji Zhao's techniques have been lost, and only the royal family of Da Shuo possesses them. Moreover, I have never heard of any emperor who is a martial arts prodigy..."

"The strange thing is still with him."

"Indeed... truly a hero whose talent surpasses even Zhang Sanfeng's!"

(End of this chapter)