When Long Di saw them, his sphincter tightened in preparation, as he knew he was in for a hard fight.

“A nine star core martial master.”

****

“That’s right, Long Di! Uncle Jianhuren is the protector of the concubines of Savage Taitan! You are so dead! He’s one of the few nine star core existences within the Nether Immolation War Temple!” Yue Wang sneered at my misfortune.

So that’s how it was. He is a protector of concubines. It’s miscellaneous titles like these that make cultivation novels so memorable.

He had six high-grade cauldrons and three medial grade ones.

Jianhuren launched himself at me with a claw strike. They glistened with a cold light, and I was barely able to dodge it in time.

Bang!

He passed by me with a crash and I could feel a warm stream of blood running down my face.

“So I take it you’re no longer trying to capture me, is that right?” I asked him as I swung the saber to cut him down.

“Hmph!” he snorted as he parried my blow with his bare hands. “You’re much too dangerous to be kept around! My job might be to protect the concubines, but I still have a duty to the sect.”

He fired off a kick after replying, but not before I put up my defences!

Smash!

The blow landed on the saber’s broadside, sending even more webs of cracks spreading across its surface.

“Seems like the bronze saber of the Iron Body Forge Sect lives up to its reputation as a weapon of one seat, even if it’s the lowest of them. Doesn’t seem like it’ll last much longer, though!”

Jianhuren rushed me again after deducing the origin of the saber, unleashing a bevvy of strikes in my direction!

Shu! Shu! Shu!

Bang!

Another hit landed owing to his greater speed! The bronze saber was on its last leg.

Bang!

P-P-Pling!

If that went over anyone’s head, that was the aforementioned leg of the saber. It burst apart in an explosion of flying bronze fragments.

Seeing that I was weaponless put a broad smile on the faces of Yue Wang and Liao Meng.

Even the experts and the further away disciples were watching with an expression of joy as if the very sight of battle tickled their fancy. The freakiness was strong in these people.

“Now die!”

Uncle Jianhuren brought his hand to kill me once and for all.

However, he didn’t expect that I would…

Plang!

His blow landed on and destroyed an orange ranked sword!

“What the-”

He looked at me with an odd expression as I fished out another weapon from my storage rings (I may have corpse-robbed the bodies of the elders and the disciples… I regret nothing).

This time, it was a fan, similar to the one that Zi Yu used.

“No matter!”

He spurred his cauldrons to rotate at a blinding speed as he furiously circulated his somatic essence, which reminded me.

‘Suppression!’

My cauldrons were already out, and they released an unreal level of pressure that burst down on his cauldrons.

They slowed down immensely, which put an expression of shock on his face. I should let it be known that the amount of pressure I’ve been able to put out seems to increase the more familiar I grow doing it.

“To think you’re able to affect me despite my higher cultivation base. I knew it. You’re much too dangerous to be kept alive!”

Shu!

He shot in my direction like a cannonball with an odd hand sign that blazed with somatic essence!

I waved the metallic fan I had in hand since I had no other choice.

Plang!

He destroyed it with a single attack, so I took another one out of the storage rings. I had no idea what it was before taking it out. I could only recognise its vague shadow that signified its hopefully offensive properties.

Another sword!

Pling!

Halberd!

Plang!

Spear!

P-Plang!

Mace!

Ka-Pling!

Buttplug!

Pop!

Flail!

Bam!

“Enough!” Uncle Jianhuren was beginning to lose his patience. “How many weapons do you have!?”

“Haaah, haaah, haah…” I struggled to catch my breath at the sudden respite.

“Oh, I have weapons for days,” I told him.

That was a lie-ish. I was at the end of my rope as far as weapons go. Not that it would matter since he destroyed everything that I threw at him. One of the earlier weapons I used was at the black rank too… I won’t say which one it was.

“Fine, then!” He grit his teeth… I’m assuming in irritation. “Then I’ll just ground down your arsenal!”

Saying this, he executed several hand signs that caused a rune to appear on the back of his hands. They shone with a radiant silver light that induced a feeling of dread in me!

I broke out into a run after him with another weapon in tow, hoping to interrupt whatever it was he was preparing. You see, I am not a certain yellow-haired, monkey-tailed MC.

“Long Di, he’s a Zhu demon! Normal weapons don’t work on him!” Zi Yu blurted out.

“Shut up!” Yue Wang ran up to Zi Yu and slapped her to silence her.

“Ptu!” she spit out the blood the slap spilt. “You hit like a bit-”

“Shut up!”

Pa!

“Crap baskets!” I said under my breath. “You couldn’t say this earlier?”

Not gonna lie, I only had ‘normal’ weapons at my disposal, and I can’t use the Breaking Mundane Forging Heaven technique since it puts too much strain on other weapons except the bronze saber and the…

I think my eyes widened.

No way!

A thought came to me in that instant and I switched out the weapon I took out earlier for an old rusty hammer.

“I hope this works.”

Zi Yu paled when she saw what Long Di whipped out. Did he think that if normal weapons didn’t work, then trash would!?

“Hahahaaha!” Yue Wang nearly keeled over in laughter when she saw what Long Di was using to attack Uncle Jianhuren.

This was joined in by Liao Meng, who lost sight of herself and laughed at the joke of a weapon he took out.

“W-Was he knocked around till he turned stupid or something!?”

Even the disciples and experts couldn’t help themselves at Long Di’s choice.

However, Uncle Jianhuren detected a feeling of dread from the old hammer. He hesitated for a second before choosing to stop the execution of the hand signs to defend against Long Di’s attack.

But it was too late. That earlier hesitation gave Long Di all the time.

At this point, he already switched over to using somatic essence and activated the Profound Myriad Heavenseize Physique to pour in the tribulation lightning he had saved within without reserve!

Breaking Mundane Forging Heaven! First temper.’

Shu! Shu! Shu!

The hammer flew in an arc that slammed into several spots on Uncle Jianhuren’s body in an instant, rushing through the first four tempers in a blur!

Long Di’s eyes suddenly twinkled with inspiration. “I got it.”

Fifth temper!

The hammerhead flickered with tribulation lightning before it cruelly landed on Uncle Jianhuren’s face!

Bam!

Uncle Jianhuren flew back at an insane speed!

Boom!

He crashed through the experts that surrounded which sent them flying before he smashed into the wall at the far end!

Yue Wang, Zi Yu, Liao Meng, and just about everyone else that laughed felt their laughter get caught in their throats.

What fresh hell was this?

Was this not a normal hammer? How did it manage to send Uncle Jianhuren flying!?

The rocks fell on top of him into a pile that remained motionless.

“Is he d-dead?”

“N-No way.”

“He can’t be…”

Everyone took a step back in the face of Long Di’s power. He just one shot a nine star core martial master with a broken looking hammer!

He practically murdered common sense while he was at it because there was none of it here.

He then looked at Yue Wang, who took several more steps back in fear.

“G-Get away from me, you monster!”

Long Di wasn’t worried about her. As far as he was concerned, she wasn’t going to escape his grasp.

He then turned his attention to Zi Yu and proceeded to untie her bindings.

She was silent the entire time and stared at his expressionless demeanour with a blank expression of her own.

Her feelings were… complicated. He, a human, stormed the Nether Immolation War Temple for her. She didn’t quite know what to make of this.

She was silent for a while, not knowing exactly what to say, “I-”

Bang!

The previously unmoving rock pile exploded as a figure emerged with a furious expression.

When everyone saw who it was, their expressions finally relaxed. If Long Di really did kill him in one blow, then that would have been way too illogical.

It was Uncle Jianhuren, whose metallic face was smashed in! Silver liquid leaked from several places and grey lightning flickered all over, which caused his face to twitch in those places.

“Booooy!!”

Bam!

He roared at Long Di before launching himself in his direction much faster than before.

“Move!”

Long Di only had enough time to shove Zi Yu out of the way before Uncle Jianhuren was upon him!

“One Thousand Mountains!”

A palm descended with a pressure that caused Long Di’s bones to creak!

‘Crap!’ Long Di cursed in his mind. He had stopped unleashing the pressure of his cauldrons, which allowed this undying cockroach to erupt with his full strength!

The disciples and experts, even the sect’s top powers, watching from the shadows, felt the overbearing weight of Uncle Jianhuren’s attack.

Most of the disciples, Yue Wang and Liao Meng included, had to retreat even further away since they were still being affected by the residual forces at the outer area of the attack’s radius.

This just went to show how much pressure Long Di was under.

However, Uncle Jianhuren wasn’t daunted by this. He just channelled more somatic essence into his palm!

“Die!”

Boom!

An explosion went off at another location, drawing everyone’s attention. When Long Di saw who it was that arrived, he knew his bet paid off.

“Finally.”

“Meow.”