Starting as a Grandmaster, all of my cultivation techniques are at max level.

After seeing Xia Jin easily crush their poison thorns, the two blood puppets stopped what they were doing and took a few steps back.

Their gazes were fixed on Xia Jin, and a faint dark red light flickered in their numb pupils, as if they were assessing just how strong this suddenly appearing young man was.

Xia Jin gently pushed Mu Qingxue behind her, put her hands behind her back, and casually walked towards the two blood puppets.

"Hmm!? Why aren't you continuing your attack?" Xia Jin's lips curled slightly upwards as her gaze swept over the two blood puppets. "Aren't you blood puppets supposed to be emotionless? Why do I seem to see some fear on your faces?"

The two blood puppets remained silent, but their stiff faces clearly betrayed their true feelings.

One of them, whose body was shrouded in a black robe, suddenly tensed up when Xia Jin spoke, and his previously calm aura became slightly disordered.

"What? Not saying anything?" Xia Jin continued walking forward, now less than ten steps away from the two blood puppets. "Could it be that even after becoming blood puppets, the fear you felt hasn't completely dissipated?"

"Die!! Kill him together!" One of the blood puppets suddenly dilated its pupils and let out a low roar.

The other blood puppet turned its head and exchanged a glance with its companion.

That one glance further convinced Xia Jin of her judgment. These two blood puppets definitely retained simple thought processes.

"Come, let's see what you'll use to kill me!?"

Xia Jin beckoned to them, and at the same time, the two blood puppets moved.

Two dark figures approached Xia Jin from the left and right, closing in on her.

The blood puppet on the left had its five fingers forming claws, and its arm twisted in an extremely eerie arc as it reached for Xia Jin's throat.

The blood puppet on the right had three scorpion-tail-like poisonous stingers flying out simultaneously from beneath its black robe. One stung Xia Jin's face, another pierced his heart, and the last one moved silently along the ground, its target Xia Jin's ankle.

Three poisonous thorns, in three different directions, sealed off all of Xia Jin's space to dodge.

"Senior Brother, be careful!!" Mu Qingxue, still shaken from the earlier incident, hurriedly shouted from behind Xia Jin. If Xia Jin hadn't intervened, she would have definitely died from those poisonous thorns.

"Hmph!! A mere trick."

Xia Jin sneered, casually raising his right hand, and a sword aura as thin as a cicada's wing shot out from his fingertip.

The sword energy didn't seem particularly noticeable.

But the moment it came into contact with those three poisonous stingers, it unleashed a terrifying power.

The three poisonous thorns, capable of withstanding the full force of a second-level Dragon Transformation Realm cultivator, snapped instantly upon contact with the sword energy, as if made of paper.

The cross-section is as smooth as a mirror.

This result caused them to pause slightly.

At this moment, Xia Jin finally moved.

He simply took a step forward and passed directly between the two. At the same time, he casually waved his right hand, and three more sword energies shot out.

The first sword strike severed the blood puppet's outstretched arm.

The second sword strike severed the blood puppet in half at the waist.

The third sword strike severed his head.

"So fast! Did you guys... did you even see how Senior Brother Xia drew his sword?!" Li Piaoxu gripped her longsword tightly. She hadn't seen Xia Jin's movements at all; she only saw Xia Jin seemingly walk past the two men in black robes with ease, and one of them was torn apart by five horses.

Zhao Lingyun, who had been keeping a close eye on Xia Jin's hands, was the strongest among the female disciples.

In that brief moment, she barely managed to make out Xia Jin's hand movements.

At that moment, she truly understood what a gap meant.

"What a monster!!"

As they were talking, Xia Jin smiled and winked at another blood puppet.

Do you think you'll end up like him?

"Go! We have to get out of here right now!" The blood puppet made a move that surprised Xia Jin almost instinctively. It turned around and ran off in the opposite direction.

"Wait a minute, didn't Senior Brother Shen say before that this blood puppet is not afraid of pain or death, and only knows how to die in battle, and is not afraid of fighting at all?" Xia Jin frowned and looked suspiciously at the blood puppet that was rushing away.

"Could this guy not be a complete blood puppet yet!?"

Xia Jin took another step forward and instantly appeared behind the blood puppet.

"Hmph! I didn't say you could leave. Do you think you can leave?"

Four sword energies emanated from Xia Jin's lowered hands, slashing towards the limbs of the blood puppet.

A soft tearing sound rang out, and the other person's four limbs were severed, leaving only a torso lying on the ground.

"Senior Brother Xia is indeed formidable! The person we couldn't defeat even when we all attacked together was easily dealt with by Senior Brother Xia!"

Mu Qingxue and the others breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the battle was over.

However, their expressions changed again in the next moment.

The dismembered blood puppet's severed limbs began to writhe, as if it possessed a life of their own, slowly crawling towards its torso. The blood puppet that Xia Jin had previously cleaved into several pieces was also reassembling itself.

"This...how is this possible!" a disciple of the Glazed Sword Sect with lower cultivation level exclaimed in shock, "Are they immortal?"

Mu Qingxue's expression also turned extremely ugly.

She finally understood why their previous attacks had been ineffective against the two blood puppets.

It's not that we can't defeat them, it's that it's futile to fight them. These monsters aren't even alive; conventional methods simply can't kill them.

"It seems that if an ordinary person in the Dragon Transformation Realm encountered you, there would indeed be no way to deal with them. It's just that you were unlucky enough to run into me."

"Nothing in this world is indestructible!"

"The reason they can't be killed is simply because we lack the power!"

Xia Jin watched the two blood puppets that were slowly reassembling.

His right hand once again formed a sword shape with his fingers together, and this time, a faint gray light appeared at his fingertips.

"The Sword Sutra of No Life - The Sword Qi of Annihilation!!"