David Solomon was such a madman, rigging the foundation of his office with enough explosives to instantly annihilate the entire Temple complex.

Though he had already reached the realm of Martial Arts Grandmaster, he didn't fully grasp the intricacies of explosives; these charges capable of leveling the Temple were inefficient against a Martial Arts Master.

Reaching the Martial Arts Master realm signified an entirely different state of being; otherwise, a Martial Arts Master wouldn't possess power nearly transcending established law.

Amidst the towering mushroom cloud of smoke and dust, several rapidly ascending air currents tore through the seemingly chaotic haze, like rockets launching skyward, ripping through clouds and mist!

David Solomon looked down upon several young martial artists. He abruptly inhaled the surrounding air deep into his lungs, his chest swelling instantly. He raised both arms high above his head, the palms of his hands pressed tightly together, then violently twisted them to the right. A deep violet stream of energy burst forth, as if a small purple sun had materialized in the sky. The dust swirling around his body, illuminated by the purple glow, resembled the faint, colorful mist of dawn.

Purple Haze Divine Skill! Once David Solomon unleashed his internal energy cultivation method, the entire sky filled with vast, surging violet energy. To still achieve the strength of a seventeen-star level while practicing the Purple Haze Divine Skill—a technique not considered among the absolute pinnacle—compelled even Qin Fen to admire the sheer genius of this madman.

The violet energy instantly coalesced into a massive purple battle saber, plunging towards the zenith with the force to pierce the firmament! High in the air, David Solomon’s crazed eyes were wide open. He needed no precise lock; with a rotation of his waist and a sharp pull of both arms, he slashed downward!

"Purple Haze Star-Shattering Slash?" Solomon uttered a low cry as the immense blade energy descended from the sky.

Instantly! Heaven and earth were engulfed in a colossal purple blade-qi, striking down with unstoppable force. Everything obstructing the path of the blade energy vanished without a trace.

No need for excessive technique! A madman fights like a madman. It was merely the extreme condensation of True Qi, followed by its reckless, cost-unconscious spinning, accompanied by the twisting rotation of his body, resulting in the massive blade energy unleashing the most violent strike possible! The Old King Solomon of yesteryear was dismembered and defeated by the Purple Haze Star-Shattering Slash.

Kaiser and the others scattered in nearly every direction. This overwhelming blade energy, imbued with David Solomon’s full-power seventeen-star strike, meant that Feng Mo's blade intent was insufficient defense for a fifteen-star martial artist.

Dodge? Qin Fen also took a deep breath of the foul air. The True Gang Infused in his body instantly bonded together as if encountering water instantly frozen by nitrogen gas. His slightly bronze-tinted skin turned instantly white, rapidly shifting toward transparency, achieving a state between Ice Seed Jade and Glass Seed Jade. From a distance, he resembled a finely carved, superior jade figurine in human form.

Around Qin Fen, air currents spun at high velocity. The compressed True Gang inside him instantly shattered entirely. The Adamantine Suppressing Origin Technique simulated in his Dantian instantly compressed the gathered True Qi. A brilliant light surged from his lower abdomen; if not for his clothes, one might have seen his internal organs shifting beneath his abdominal muscles.

The dust obscuring everyone’s vision gathered around his arms. The deployed Seal of the Gods Scroll attracted the desert sandstorm, causing the gray smoke and dust to coalesce into a giant gray dragon capable of blotting out the sun and sealing the sky!

It roared, it shrieked, lifting its massive head high, opening its mouth brimming with demonic malice, seemingly intending to devour all the purple energy swirling between heaven and earth.

"Seventeen-star level? Damn it! He even has a Bio-Beast! I'm at a disadvantage without a Bio-Beast!"

Xue Tian frowned deeply, muttering curses. Lin Liqiang’s promised Bio-Beast had yet to arrive. In pursuit of the self-evolving Bio-Beast most suited for Ancient Martial Arts, he had repeatedly refused offerings from Martial Venerables and others at the Sacred Martial Hall.

Amidst his roar, Xue Tian’s upper body clothing completely burst open, revealing a body covered like a hedgehog! Countless blades, large and small, hidden all over his body, vibrated rapidly at the same moment, sounding like the excited clang of metal before battle. They exploded simultaneously, and subtle, almost invisible wisps of energy instantly converged into the Iaijutsu Katana in his hand.

"Brooks, help your sister!"

Clang! The blade in Brooks's hand, capable of cleaving the earth, suddenly let out a mournful, desolate cry and dissolved into dust. The Iaijutsu Katana in Xue Tian's hand shifted, its radiance surging as if millions of blade images in the sky returned into this single Iaijutsu blade.

Ten Thousand Blades Return to Origin, One Slash Cleaves the Void! Xue Tian opened his tightly shut eyes; the blade's gleam merged with the sharpness of his gaze. As he swung his arm, he met David Solomon's Purple Haze Star-Shattering Slash, flanked by Qin Fen’s gray behemoth dragon.

A world-shaking battle ensued. Beams of light shot across the sky. The violent, direct clash stirred up the sound of ten thousand simultaneous thunderclaps, along with a violent gale. The citizens of Athens witnessed the aerial confrontation; fierce winds rapidly expanded outward, ocean tides momentarily rolled back, and countless grains of sand lifted from the ground under the assault of the strong winds.

The three ultimate forces collided, churning, compressing, and exploding! The ascending forms of Qin Fen and Xue Tian paused abruptly, instead plummeting rapidly downwards by a hundred meters, like meteors piercing the clouds.

David Solomon, too, was tossed about like an overturned person, tumbling continuously high into the air before spitting out a mouthful of blood. A gash half a foot long split his chest, and the blood jetted out as if a blood bag had ruptured under immense pressure.

Where had these two brats come from? David’s arms trembled continuously. His mind, governed by crazed emotion, suddenly cleared. He stared at the plummeting duo in utter confusion. Only he knew that at the instant the fight began, his martial instinct sensed danger. Hidden between his rear molars were concentrated Super Berserk Pills and Ironclad Pills—combat elixirs he had purchased at great expense.

The moment the fight started, the Super Berserk Pills and Super Ironclad Pills were activated. Coupled with the Level Three fusion of a Bio-Beast and his seventeen-star power, David Solomon was confident his ultimate move would scatter everyone and allow him to eliminate them one by one!

When David Solomon launched his attack, he never imagined anyone would dare to confront it head-on. With his super drugs, Bio-Beast, and martial star level surpassing everyone else, anyone facing the Purple Haze Star-Shattering Slash should have been instantly shredded by the blade energy.

However, the moment he saw Qin Fen’s surging dust dragon, David Solomon knew that once his strike was launched, he couldn't spare attention to attack others. This young man’s punch, both in intent and momentum, possessed a savagery he had never witnessed. It felt as if the world's largest desert was being laid down from the sky, or as if he were immersed in eons of history, feeling utterly insignificant.

Upon seeing Xue Tian’s blade strike, radiating resolute battle intent, David Solomon felt the urge to curse for the first time. Where had these monstrous anomalies sprung from? One was enough! Now there were two!

The instant the Seal of the Gods confronted the Purple Haze Star-Shattering Slash, entangled between two extreme forces, David Solomon realized this opponent had reached the stage of True Gang Infusion! Furthermore, he was evolving toward the state of Qi Transformation into Essence.

How old was he to already have True Gang Infused? And on the verge of Qi Transformation into Essence? David Solomon's top-tier True Gang Infusion held no advantage against Qin Fen. The Suppressing Origin burst amplified by the compressed essence meant the Seal of the Gods Scroll’s True Qi impact intensity was in no way inferior to David Solomon’s seventeen-star level.

Xue Tian’s blade energy tore through the entangled, exhausted martial forces, piercing David Solomon’s protective divine skill and severely wounding him! As the full force of the strike was unleashed, the explosive recoil from the compression of the three powers sent all parties flying backward.

Flying sideways to evade the Purple Haze Star-Shattering Slash, the four fifteen-star young experts swayed like swimming dragons and shot back into the sky. Kaiser, integrating the Seal of the Gods technique from Qin Fen with his own martial arts, created his unique skill, [Imperial Edict]. Carrying irresistible power, he brought his sealed fist down upon David Solomon’s head. The scorching True Qi smashed onto David Solomon’s hastily defended palm, rapidly and violently tearing through the Purple Haze Divine Skill—currently at its weakest defense—and wantonly destroying his meridians.

Brooks flipped his wrist, catching the Iaijutsu Katana dropped by Xue Tian during his descent, and slashed horizontally at the waist with a move called [Heaven Splitter].

In the past, if David Solomon fought Brooks one-on-one, he might not have feared this attack, enduring injury to use his protective divine skill to block it while simultaneously annihilating the overextending Brooks. But now, having absorbed Qin Fen's Seal of the Gods, his arms were weak, and Xue Tian’s blade strike had penetrated his body, severely depleting his power. He dared not rely on internal energy to withstand this Heaven Splitter strike.

His body spun like the wind. David Solomon barely managed to shake off Kaiser’s [Imperial Edict] with his arms and shot up again. A chilling aura attacked from above. He had no time to evade, and his anger flared. He, a majestic seventeen-star tiger, had been wounded and fatigued by a group of mere kittens. Madness surged into his mind again. He gathered the Purple Haze Skill in both fists and slammed them out.

Little Dragon King Yang Lie’s ultimate move suddenly vanished. Facing David Solomon’s fists, his body twisted repeatedly, transforming into a swimming dragon that bypassed the fists and positioned himself behind Solomon, spreading his four limbs to bind David Solomon’s limbs.

This change was too fast and showed no prior warning. Even the usual David Solomon found it hard to discern the truth from Yang Lie's feints. Besieged now, he could hardly analyze or calculate. As surprise flooded his mind, he was already held fast from behind.

Before David Solomon could react further, he found his body spinning rapidly under the Little Dragon King Yang Lie’s control, crashing directly toward the ground.

Dragon Descent! Coiling Dragon! Spinning Dragon Crash!

The Little Dragon King unleashed his three ultimate moves in sequence, slamming violently into the earth under the gaze of everyone watching.

"You…" David Solomon was both anxious and furious. Normally, this kind of juvenile trickery could be shaken off with a burst of True Qi. But now, the limbs holding him were not simply restraining; they were continuously releasing True Qi as cold as ice, rapidly invading his meridians and preventing his own True Qi from moving freely!

Fifteen-star martial artists almost universally possessed Aerial Movement techniques, making such a crash difficult to execute effectively. Yang Lie’s skill neatly addressed this: by freezing the opponent’s True Qi, he disabled their Aerial Movement. At the final moment before impact, Yang Lie launched himself away, sending his opponent crashing into the ground.

The fall completed in an instant. The Little Dragon King Yang Lie released his hold the moment the ground was one centimeter away! He engaged his Aerial Movement and followed up by blasting True Qi from his fists into David Solomon’s back.

Qin Fen and Xue Tian stopped their descent less than a hundred meters above the ground, watching David Solomon plunge into the earth, kicking up massive waves of soil.

The breathlessly tense battle had begun and ended in an instant. Solomon slowly rose from the pit. He watched the churning earth suddenly erupt, sending a plume of dirt ten meters high. David Solomon leaped out, covered in mud and dust, his face a mask of grime and blood, staring fiercely at Solomon, grinding out words through clenched teeth: "Good coordination. Truly perfect coordination."

Solomon stood with his hands behind his back, quietly observing his uncle, once an admirer: "I have returned."

"Returned to seize power?" David Solomon twisted his neck from side to side, his expression tinged with a manic fury. "What beautiful eyes. A pity. If I dug them out, they wouldn't retain that look which excites me so much. Otherwise, placing them on my desk would be quite the enjoyment."

Solomon stood at the edge of the crater, looking down at David Solomon: "Killing my parents and closest kin was meant to spur me to become stronger?"

David Solomon's manic eyes gained a touch of mockery. "Do you think so? If I said yes, would you spare me? Kid, I love killing. That scent of blood excites me immensely! The old man had a sturdy body, he wouldn't die right away, and you said your useless father was stronger than me? The family would have developed better under him. So, I sent them on their way. After killing the old man, I discovered my strength had broken through. I was so delighted by the killing spree that only when you remained did I realize how exceptionally thrilled I was when I killed the old man. That was because I still had feelings for the old man—perhaps that’s why slaying him boosted my star-level strength."

Solomon stared coldly at David Solomon, unsure if his uncle was lying or speaking the truth.

David Solomon ignored Solomon’s gaze, scanning his surroundings with an expression showing faint boredom mixed with a trace of disappointment. "Uninteresting. I thought this bundle of explosives killing my twelve children would bring me a bit of the grief I felt when killing the old man, leading to another breakthrough. But eliminating them brought me nothing."

Madman! Qin Fen frowned slightly. Only now did he understand why David Solomon had shouted in surprise in mid-air after detonating the Temple.

His surprise wasn't that everyone hadn't been killed; it was the shock of why he hadn't broken through. And the source of that surprise was the fact that his own dozen or so children were inside the Temple! To seek a breakthrough, he had been willing to kill all his children at once with a bomb!

Madman! Qin Fen was certain this man was not Du Zhanpeng, who had advanced by provoking Du Peng. Solomon's uncle was a true lunatic!

David Solomon glanced at Qin Fen and the others scattered around, finally looking at Solomon:

"You wanted to do it yourself? So they all teamed up to push me to a level equal to yours? Ha ha ha ha..." David Solomon suddenly burst into laughter, clutching his stomach as if gripped by spasms. "Perhaps killing you will grant me another breakthrough? I've tried so hard to show concern for you all these years; I should have some feeling for you, right? But there are too many people around. If I break through, my injuries won't heal, and I'll still be killed. So, if you kill me, will you also have a breakthrough? At least you would be very happy, wouldn't you?"

Bang! David Solomon's query confused everyone, but in that instant, he abruptly raised a hand and slapped his own crown. The back of his skull exploded, spraying red and white matter outward. A mocking smile remained on his face as he stared blankly at Solomon, as if ridiculing him—even after bringing allies to defeat him, Solomon still couldn't deliver the killing blow himself.

"The only person who can kill me in this world is myself..."

With his brain matter gone, David Solomon uttered his last words purely on instinct, his face fixed in an unbelievable, happy smile, before collapsing heavily onto the ground.

Suicide? Everyone was stunned. David Solomon still possessed fifteen-star power, and he could gamble on integrating a Level Four Bio-Beast. He could have used words to possibly delay, waiting for his subordinates to arrive for rescue. Instead, he chose sudden suicide.

It all happened too fast for anyone to react. A hard-to-define rage flickered across Solomon's cold face. The man he had sought to kill for years had chosen to end it himself at the final moment. Even in death, his face held that bizarre, mad smile from the massacre of his family.

This smile seemed now mixed with mockery—mocking the world where only he killed, and no one killed him.

The violent battle had drawn members of Solomon’s family from the distance. Expensive and sturdy magnetic-levitation vehicles circled the edge of the battlefield. No one dared approach quickly to investigate the outcome.

The power unleashed by battles involving Martial Arts Masters or higher was too immense. If the fight hadn't concluded, any potential flare-up could instantly reduce these vehicles, capable of wrecking urban mobile armor, to scrap metal.

After a moment of silent staring, one magnetic vehicle dared to fly into the center of the battlefield.

"Is that...? The Family Head is dead?"

A cry of alarm instantly transmitted through the communication network to all surrounding magnetic vehicles, followed by waves of exclamations passing from one to another.

"That's... Solomon? Del Solomon's son! He's returned!"

End of Chapter.