476: The Only Time I step Back is...

The Only Time I step Back is...

"Interesting eh." The old man couldn't help but chuckle, he looked at Mo Xie while the latter did the same, although they were merely sitting comfortably, both of them are gauging each other.2

Then, one person approached: "Chief, how about leave this intruder to us? We can kill him and chase the others."

The old man hearing this chuckled, but he shook his head and waved his hand: "No, I have a feeling that all of you wouldn't be enough."

"C-chief, are you joking now?" The person asked.

The old man shook his head: "He may be a Celestial Phenomenon rank like all of you, but he... he's not ordinary."

That person couldn't accept it, but since the chief had said so, he didn't have a choice but to concede.

The old man smiled at Mo Xie: "So, how do you think we should settle this little problem?"

Mo Xie chuckled, he looked back at the old man: "Well, you all started this problem, hence, I should be demanding some compensation."

The old man sipped a mouthful of wine: "Compensation eh... but since you've trespassed our territory without notice and even breaking the placed formations, surely, it should be us demanding compensation instead."

Mo Xie nodded his head: "You have a point there, but I'm usually a person that does not abide by logic." His gaze turned sharp as he looked at the old man.

The old man's gaze did the same, his smile wicked as he replied: "What a coincidence, so do I."

The two went silent for a while before the old man spoke: "So... how do you think we should settle this account?"

Mo Xie remained seated and sighed: "Well, since we're talking about this in a runabout way, should we settle this with a duel?"

The old man smirked hearing this, he couldn't help but look at Mo Xie and replied: "Well then, I am actually looking forward to this."

He then scanned Mo Xie once more: "For a child not even at the age of twenty to reach such strength, I'm kind of interested."

He stood up and asked: "Then, whatever will I get for winning against you?"

Mo Xie smirked: "You can have anything you want from me."

The old man hearing this covered his body and took a few steps back: "I-I'm not that kind of person, I may be a single old man, but I don't swing that way!"

"Pfft!" Hearing this, all of the people of the village vomited blood, like, some part of them was taken away, their village chief that they had respected so dearly actually did something like that, of course they would've taken a deadly blow.

Mo Xie sighed: "Both of us have no idea of what one has, so, why don't you think what's the best thing you can give if you lose and I will do the same?"

The old man's expression turned serious with a smile: "Oh, then what's the best you have?"

Mo Xie looked at him before answering: "I have here an art that can increase your strength more than ten folds."

The old man felt shocked at first, but then a smile appeared on his face: "Brat, do you even know how strong I really am?"

Mo Xie looked at him with a calm expression on his face and replied without any hesitation: "At a minimum, an initial-stage Divine Origin ranked cultivator, at most, an intermediate-stage Divine Origin one."

The villagers hearing this immediately displayed hostility, after all, their chief's identity is actually a secret and only a few of his friends know of it.

Hearing this, the old man's eyes widened speechlessly, he immediately laughed and asked: "If you already know, you really think you can increase the strength of someone like me? A person at the Divine Origin rank that you're not able to enter?"

Mo Xie glanced at him: "I think... no, well, actually, I know I can."

He paused for a bit before continuing: "You can feel it right? Compared to ordinary Celestial Phenomenon ranked experts, I am stronger than then by more than thirty folds."

Mo Xie has a soul sea forty times bigger and forty times stronger than normal, which means, even this old man know, that no one under Divine Origin rank can defeat this man.

The old man's smile vanished hearing this, his expression turned serious: "Hmmn, if you're really capable of doing that, then, I'll willingly follow you whether I win or not."

"If the villagers and my subordinates want to as well, they can follow me to go under your wing."

Mo Xie glanced at him and smiled: "Then, I guess that's the condition for me winning?"

The old man smirked: "Then, should we start?"

Mo Xie smiled: "I want to see how much my strength can contend against a Divine Origin ranked cultivator, I wish it for you to unleash your seals."

As if expecting his words, the old man unlocked his seal and smiled: "So then, let's begin."

Mo Xie nodded, and at the next instant, the two vanished, completely vanishing from the villager's sight.

This is the second time they couldn't help but be shocked, expression filled with bewilderment.

Bam! Boom! Ddum! Immediately, the sound of their fists colliding and rippling waves from the pure brute force of each other's strikes made the villagers tremble with shock.

The old man chuckled seeing how Mo Xie's able to fight with him: 'This brat... I'm only using 10% of my strength, yet, he could actually keep up...'

'Let's see... 20%' As 

The old man immediately send another powerful palm strike: "Sneering Palm of Asura!"

Mo Xie smirked: 'He increased his strength... I guess me as well.'

Mo Xie increased his strength to 50%, the fight immediately continued with him slashing at the flying palm. Just the sound of slashing caused the palm to be split into two parts and was redirected to different directions.

But then, the old man chuckled, he opened his arms widely like he's about to bear hug someone, but then, he opened his palms quite widely and clapped them: "Asura's Commending Clap!"

The cut-up palm into two formed into two complete palms and immediately directed towards Mo Xie again.

Mo Xie felt quite shocked: "Hooo, well, isn't this quite amusing..."

He immediately used his sword energy and started slashing at the two palms.

The palms still smashed together, but Mo Xie actually created wounds in the palms that would allow him to not be struck.

Seeing this, the old man smirked: "Such pride, you won't even take a step back, eh?"

Mo Xie smirked back at them: "The only time I'll step back is when my wife says so."

The old man: "........."

The villagers: "..........."

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