The Xia Family man's true body grew increasingly suspicious and cautious upon seeing two three-meter-long scorpion claws materialize on Wang Xiaoqiang's arms.

At this moment, he dared not risk his own life and instead ordered his avatar to attack Wang Xiaoqiang from behind.

Having suffered a slight disadvantage under Wang Xiaoqiang's Thunderclap Annihilation Palm, the avatar also grew cautious and hesitated to trade blows with bare fists. Following the command, he immediately summoned an Immortal Sword and held it between his hands, raised it high above his head, and channeled a sword light three feet tall before slashing down.

Wang Xiaoqiang had been on guard against him and had inserted the Invisible Scorpion Tail Sting into his abdomen silently before the avatar's Immortal Sword could strike, injecting poison that instantly caused the avatar, whose Immortal Sword had been charged to the extreme yet not fallen, to stagnate. Simultaneously, his whole body stiffened as if struck by a Body Immobilization Technique, and then, with a thump, he fell to the ground.

He wasn't dead; he had simply been paralyzed by the poisonous venom released from the scorpion tail.

Seeing his avatar fall to the ground without even exchanging blows with Wang Xiaoqiang, a sense of panic began to set in within the Xia Family man's already suspicious heart, making him even more wary.

However, Wang Xiaoqiang took the initiative, swinging the scorpion claws on his arms at his opponent.

As soon as the scorpion claws moved, they generated a gust of wind, roaring like thunder, their power magnificent.

The Xia Family man responded by summoning a fiery red Immortal Sword for defense.

When the Immortal Sword collided with the scorpion claws, the clash was like the ringing of metal. The light from the Immortal Sword flickered chaotically in the violent shaking, and it also caused the Xia Family man's hand to split open, blood oozing out, nearly causing him to drop the sword.

He became even more panicked upon this sight.

He couldn't understand how Wang Xiaoqiang became so powerful, especially with those strange scorpion claws on his arms. He had no idea what type of spell technique it was that managed to suppress his Immortal Sword, which he had cultivated for nearly thirty years, rendering him incapable of counterattacking.

Little did he know that Wang Xiaoqiang was not just at the True Immortal Realm Eighth Stage in his cultivation base, but also a Fifth Layer of Blood Realm master in body refinement, and his giant scorpion arms were a set of extremely mystical Visualization-Type Techniques. Even divine beasts from above the Nine Heavens would have to beware of them; they were simply not something human power could contend with.

"You want to kill me? You think too highly of yourself! Even if you were at the Onefold Body of the Immortal Venerable, let alone at the Fourfold Body, I would still take your life!" Wang Xiaoqiang said, as he drove his scorpion claws into a fierce attack.

With a booming sound, the scorpion claw on his right arm swung towards the Xia Family man.

The Xia Family man had no choice but to muster all his Spiritual Power to command his Immortal Sword to block it.

Crack!

Instead of an earth-shattering noise, the clash between the Immortal Sword and the scorpion claw produced only a crisp snap, the sound of the Immortal Sword breaking.

The Xia Family man's Immortal Sword was actually shattered by Wang Xiaoqiang's scorpion claw!

The Xia Family man was stunned, staring blankly at the broken sword in his hands, stricken with indescribable shock.

That was his life-bound magic treasure, cultivated for decades, to be smashed just like that!

Wang Xiaoqiang sneered coldly, and then with a closing movement, his double claws trapped the Xia Family man in the middle.

The Xia Family man shuddered and then, with a thud, he knelt down before Wang Xiaoqiang. With a trembling voice, he begged, "Young Hero, please spare my life, spare my life. I am willing to present my armor to you!"

As he spoke, the Xia Family man threw away his Broken Sword and took out the number eight armor from his Storage Ring, holding it above his head with both hands, offering it to Wang Xiaoqiang.

Wang Xiaoqiang accepted the armor and, with a thought, stored it into the Sumeru Ring. At the same time, he released Little Qing from the ring.

Little Qing let out a sigh of relief and saw a man at the Immortal Venerable Stage kneeling before Wang Xiaoqiang, his face full of astonishment. On seeing Wang Xiaoqiang again, the reverence in his eyes grew even more intense.

"Young hero...mighty grandfather, please spare my life. I will be at your beck and call, like an ox or horse, and serve you loyally until death!" The man with the Xia surname said as he began to kowtow to Wang Xiaoqiang.

"I was thinking of sparing your life, but you have no backbone at all, kowtowing and calling me 'grandfather.' Someone like you, even to be my underling, would embarrass me. So, you might as well just die!" As Wang Xiaoqiang spoke, his arm's twin pincers clapped together, and with a snap, he crushed the Xia man's head.

With a thud, the head fell to the ground and rolled away like a ball.

A fountain of blood sprayed from the torso.

Little Qing stared at the bloody scene in front of her, dumbstruck. Her wariness of Wang Xiaoqiang intensified.

Wang Xiaoqiang drew the Penglai Immortal Sword and walked over to the corpse of the clone. He decapitated it with a single stroke and then, pointing at the corpses of the Xia man and his clone on the ground, said, "Little Qing, these two corpses and their Dantians are for you. I hope you can use them to level up."

Little Qing's heart leapt with joy at his words, and she promptly said, "Yes, Master, thank you for your favor!"

"Make it quick," Wang Xiaoqiang waved his hand, then turned his gaze towards Liyan.

The woman was still fighting with the Patterned Beast.

The Patterned Beast's realm was closely connected to Wang Xiaoqiang's cultivation base. As Wang Xiaoqiang's power continued to climb, the Spiritual Power of the Patterned Beast also increased steadily. Now, with the Patterned Beast fighting a True Immortal Realm Ninth Stage cultivator, it was not losing ground.

Liyan saw that the battle with the Patterned Beast was going nowhere and grew increasingly impatient, and since she lacked Body Refinement, the longer she fought with the large-bodied, powerful Patterned Beast, the more likely she was to suffer.

Just as she was on the verge of collapse, a voice rang out, "You wretched woman, your Brother Xia is dead! Aren't you going to surrender?"

Hearing this voice caused Liyan's delicate body to shudder. She repelled the Patterned Beast with a sword strike, then drifted back ten meters. Turning her head, she saw the Xia man lying dead on the ground, being consumed by a Thousand Illusion Snake.

Upon seeing this scene, Liyan's legs gave out, and she collapsed to the ground with a plop.

Wang Xiaoqiang strode over to her, came up in front of her, and sneered, "From the moment our team entered the mountain, you looked at me with disdain. Did you ever imagine you would end up in my hands?"

To be honest, Liyan truly did not expect such an outcome; otherwise, she would not have dared to act so brazenly towards Wang Xiaoqiang.

If Wang Xiaoqiang could kill the Xia man, he could certainly kill her.

At this thought, her expression changed drastically, from one of hate and disgust to one of fawning and seduction, and she knelt before Wang Xiaoqiang, pleading, "Big brother, I'm sorry, I was wrong, I am guilty, I deserve to die, please let me off this time, I beg you."

"Letting you go would be letting you off too easily," Wang Xiaoqiang said coldly.

Liyan lifted her face, showed Wang Xiaoqiang a seductive smile, and said, "Big brother, I'll do anything you want..."

As she spoke, she began to untie her waistband.

And pressed herself against Wang Xiaoqiang...(To be continued. If you like this work, please come to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for it, your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)

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