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Chapter 450 He is no longer the boy he once was.

Upon hearing this, the Grand Marshal of the Army was so angry that he laughed instead, feeling that he had been humiliated like never before.

Emperor Qi's brows furrowed tightly, and the unease in his heart grew stronger.

Before they could respond, Chen Yi had already made his move.

But then the young man pointed with one hand, seemingly innocuously, in the direction of the Grand Marshal of the Army.

At his fingertips, a ray of dazzling golden light and a ray of pulsating lightning light flashed and intertwined in an instant.

A surge of golden and thunder crystal power, refined to its extreme and belonging to the late stage of the fourth-order body refinement realm, flashed by in an instant, like a fleeting glimpse of a startled swan.

The next moment, this terrifying energy was completely contained, as if it had never existed, leaving only a tiny, barely perceptible point of light at the fingertip.

Then, the boy gently tapped forward with one hand.

That point of light, a fusion of thunder and gold crystals, flashed by silently.

The light instantly pierced through the tens of miles separating the two, seemingly ignoring space and time, and appeared right in front of the Grand Marshal.

Only at this moment did the arrogance and anger on the face of the Grand Marshal of the Army and Cavalry completely freeze, replaced by unprecedented horror.

Before he could react, he felt an immense pressure that defied description.

It's like watching a towering mountain forcibly condense into the size of a finger, and then crash into you at an unimaginable speed.

That wasn't just pure power, but a qualitative crushing, an absolute suppression at the level of rules.

"roar!"

At the critical moment of life and death, he unleashed all his potential, using the full strength of his proud fourth-stage peak body refinement level. He crossed his arms to protect his chest, and his crimson-gold armor emitted an unprecedented light, trying to withstand this apocalyptic attack.

However, he couldn't even withstand the gale-force winds caused by the external pressure accompanying the golden and thunderous light.

A muffled thud.

That glimmer of light didn't even touch him.

The terrifying pressure just three feet in front of that point of light shattered all his defenses with overwhelming force.

He felt as if a star had struck his chest, a sweet taste rose in his throat, and a mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs gushed out. He flew backward like a kite with a broken string.

That sliver of golden lightning crystal essence remained three feet in front of him, never advancing an inch, yet it followed him like a shadow.

It carried with it endless, violent winds, forming a destructive shockwave that pushed the Grand Marshal of the Army and Horses downwards into the clouds. It seemed as if it would knock him down from the Five Heavens all the way back to the earth!

Behind him, the Qi Emperor, who had been standing calmly with his hands behind his back, finally changed his expression when he saw this scene.

The Emperor's expression was extremely solemn. With a flick of his wrist, an ancient longsword appeared out of thin air.

Golden dragon patterns coiled on the blade, seemingly moving slowly as if alive. The jewel inlaid at the hilt exuded imperial majesty. It was the Dragon Pattern Sword, a national treasure passed down through generations of the Qi royal family.

With a low shout, he poured his mid-stage Nascent Soul level mana into the Dragon Pattern Sword without reservation. His meridians bulged due to this immense power, and his robes fluttered and rustled even without wind.

"cut!"

Emperor Qi held his sword with both hands and swung it fiercely at the unstoppable purple-gold ray of light in front of him.

In an instant, the golden dragon pattern on the dragon-patterned sword seemed to be fully activated, emitting a dragon roar that shook the heavens.

A highly refined golden sword aura shot out from the sky, surrounded by a lifelike golden dragon shadow that coiled and swirled around it, exuding a majestic dragon power.

This sword strike not only combined the supreme power of the national treasure, but also pushed Emperor Qi's own magical power to its limit. Its sword energy fluctuations surpassed the peak of the mid-stage Nascent Soul realm and faintly touched the threshold of the late-stage Nascent Soul realm.

This sword energy, carrying the full power of Emperor Qi, arrived first despite being delayed, precisely striking the purple-gold ray of light just before it was about to pierce through the Grand Marshal's last line of defense.

A deafening clang, loud enough to rip eardrums, suddenly exploded!

The sound was no longer a crisp "ding," but rather like two giant metal mountains colliding at an unimaginable speed. The sharp, piercing sound waves transformed into visible ripples that spread out instantly.

The heavens and earth trembled!

The entire Five Heavens' gale force was momentarily halted by this terrifying wave of energy, and then violently torn open by dark spatial rifts, from which violent spatial turbulence surged forth, only to be calmed by even stronger energy fluctuations in the next moment.

However, this earth-shattering blow did not seem to have the desired effect.

The next moment, a scene that terrified the Emperor Qi occurred.

But when the purple-gold ray of light collided with the golden dragon shadow sword energy, it only paused slightly, and its light did not dim in the slightest.

It seemed to regard that late-stage sword energy, which was enough to kill an ordinary mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, as a vulnerable pheasant flying towards it.

The purple-gold light showed no signs of slowing down. In a flash, it shattered the roaring golden dragon shadow along with the sword energy itself, turning it into countless golden specks that vanished without a trace.

Then, with its momentum undiminished, it continued to strike at the already pale-faced Grand Marshal.

At that moment, Emperor Qi's pupils suddenly shrank to the size of pinpoints.

His hand holding the dragon-patterned sword even began to tremble uncontrollably. His internal magical power was violently backfired due to the sword energy being broken. He felt a sweet taste in his throat and almost spat out a mouthful of blood.

An overwhelming sense of horror washed over him like a raging storm.

"How is this possible! It couldn't even stop my Dragon Pattern Sword in the slightest!"

"During the more than one hundred years this child has been missing, what level of cultivation has he reached?"

"His body refinement—his body refinement has actually advanced to the late stage of the fourth level of the Nascent Soul realm?!"

"Doesn't that mean he now possesses top-tier combat strength comparable to a Nascent Soul cultivator?"

One terrifying thought after another exploded wildly in Emperor Qi's mind, leaving him in a state of utter confusion.

At that moment, he no longer cared about the life or death of his Grand Marshal. What swirled in his mind were even more terrifying consequences.

What he was worried about was that if this person was ambitious and wanted to seize the Qi royal family's spiritual vein, even if he used the entire royal family's resources, he probably wouldn't be able to resist!

At that time, even if they are defeated and forced to retreat, losing their country and state will be a minor matter.

If this delays the Demon Lord's important affairs, he himself will likely suffer the fate of having his soul and body destroyed!

At this moment, Emperor Qi's face was deathly pale.

He was acutely aware that the situation here was no longer under his control.

At this moment, the Grand Marshal personally felt that even the earth-shatteringly powerful blow from Emperor Qi behind him could not shake the crystal marrow power of the clashing golden lightning in the slightest.

His last glimmer of hope was shattered, and he fell into endless despair.

He finally realized that with his mere peak strength at the early stage of the fourth level of Body Refinement, he had foolishly provoked a terrifying figure at the late stage of the fourth level of Body Refinement.

To this day, no one has escaped.

He had even given up all resistance, closed his eyes, and his soul trembled under that destructive aura, waiting for the final moment when his body and soul would be annihilated together.

However, just as the golden light formed from the golden thunder crystal broke through all his defenses and was about to destroy his life.

That extremely violent power suddenly subsided as if nothing had happened.

All the destructive power was instantly contained. The purple-gold light hovered just three inches from his brow before slowly and silently retreating back into the gale.